The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-22
BEAUTIFUL GAINESVILLE.
Great Attention Now BEING Given 10
Long staple Cotton and Vegetables.

Great Attention Now BEING Given 10
Long staple Cotton and Vegetables.
Gainesville, Fla, Nov. H.-Leaving Ro-
cfelIe. on the main line Of the Florida
southern, a half hours run through a
most beautiful and picturesque section
brings US TO Gainesville, which stands
among the foremost Of Central Flori-
fa-s solid and substantial towns. The
road from Rochelle TO Gainesville circles
for several miles the famous Pavne's
Prairie or as il is now known, Alachua
lake. This vast body Of water, which
covers thousands of acres, was many
wears ago broad extensive area of dry
land. rlch, ana aILorulng one or the nnest
b8dys of grazing lands TO be found in the
state. on its broad acres thousands of
head of cattle, horses, hogs and sheep
fourished but Of late years the sink or
subterranean outlet of this vast body of
water became closed from some cause,
and q few very wet seasons caused the
waters 10 rise, and now covers the sur
face entirely, making il a beautiful body
Of water. There IS talk Of an effort being
made to again open up the outlet for
this lake, 50 TINS valuable ground viii
again become available for grazing and
AGRICULTURAL purposes, the water having
stood on IL so long u would now be very
T-ch if drained, ana would be OF great
Notwithstanding the prevailing duh
times business is very good in Gaines
immense BUSINESS here handling the sea
island cotton crop of this part OF the
state. The. cotton crop OF sew
most exclusively by them ana they
are doing a great deal toward revivins
this important industry which has, of late
years, given way to a great extent to
The cultivation of garden truck and or
anges The freeze of last winter has OPP
ened the eyes of the people to the fact that
they must not depend again entirely on
the orange for a money crop. Cotton
comes in and takes the place of the or
ange and gives the farmer the ready
cash which he must have. The people of
Gainesville and surrounding country have
not abandoned their orange groves by
any means, but never in the future viii
the people be dependent so much upon
the fruit for their money crop. The acre
age planted in truck is greatly reduced
from last year. The extreme low prices
Of last season have learned the truckers a
lesson. Truck farming, to a certain eX-
tent, pays we'll but the business was bad
~ over done last season, and entailed
heavy loss upon numbers OF those en-
berries are grown on the lowlands around
Gainesville, and they grow here to per-
fiction, and have brought the people of
this locality a great deal Of money.
The Baptists of Gainesville are now in
the midst of a most gracious revival. Rev
l. ID. Geiger, one of the foremost divnes
of this denomination in Florida, ably as
sisted by the pastor here, and the pastors
of the other churches, is carrying on this
work The meetings have grown in in
terest to such an extent that the court
house is used TO hold the large cOngrega-
tons. Great interest IS being manifested
and there is every promise Of much good
being done, Rev. Geiger is a plain but
very forcible speaker.
Gainesville can well boast of her mag
nhcent court house, one Of the finest in
the state, and her churches they could
not be surpassed for the architectural
beauty and the taste shown in their con-
StTuCtiOn.