New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-04-20


nearby town SAID: III you should make an ar
ivins near it woad have chils and fever for
Year but after that the trouble would disappear
Thee be something In the soil or the eli
mate that makes 1t Impossible for the chis to con-
tnue long here.
RED PEBBLE SOIL.
Fertility of soil Is another condition precedent to
the success Of such colony as Fitzgerald, for, al
though tn. booming !ife Of the town attracts mos:
OF the public attention. yet the town must depend
for Its prosperity ana continued existence largely
upon the surrounding country, On casual Inspection
the soil SEEMS 1lscouragingly poor 1t Is unde-
win Struggling vegetation and strewn here and
@ has pine ys he ass ike
that OF Coney Island: In others the action OF The
layer OF. small reddish pebbles. According to the
GnSaI deception ,h pna hs soil y That IS known IN
top, soil with a clay loan subsoil, 1t Yields readily
and abundanty TO systematic culture, and with a
% ay m 5 sa@
miet rice cotton sugar cane sweet potatoes irish
committee's report said of it: The soil is sand
loan varying from six to ten inches and appears
This description Is believed TO be substantially cor.
rect. On being turned with the plough the top soil
cal f in With hat at on Where its ca
pacIy for productiveness has been amply tested and
both places as well as many walnut-szed nodules
OF iron pyrtes the occurrence Of which i said BY
growing But II must be remembered that not ali
s Of %,
potential farms In the 5000 acres Of the Fitzgerald
coonist who has resolved an inferior allotment I'M
less T. were In the single case Of tive-acre tract
'' competent judges say that the colony land be-
yond two miles north Of the city is Of LITTLE or no
aSa e" Whom heard
1veacrs tract IL which the sand {, Is two and half
'fs5 81 the aye gao and al
iotted consisted OF farms which had been tiled for
CHANGED 10 be allotted are In luck. for the others
Ss1 % @ pearl orshsra q . sapSs afow
over near Shacktown shows what this odd land
last Few months have Sc, to work " to make their
wilderness tracts bloom as the rose are not likely
%eh on
the farming tracts haven't had a. fair start yet
not n' awarded until December they are raising
truck, and some have set peach trees out: but the
matted sod. must be ploughed under and allowed
TO rot Also. the ground is sour with the roots
to have very encouraging results from their land
tho first season. Then. too they can't use North;
the hints they can from the natives: and those who
won't why The natives have been accustomed
to plant field peas and plough them under as
nnre or commercia fertizer"is Used At Triton. and
our people may use II too but probably not 10 any
The wire grass, OF which so much is heard here
Is not much OF 1t the town site OF Fitzgerald
june b", before Deu Angus, / becomes s dry and Why
Timothy and clover. II Is said. probably cannot
ns @Hn paS viii
b, success The principal reliance OF the farmers
nu,r rs s'r grows to the height Of aboa, two feet
and Is cut and cured as hay Corn. rye; oats:
and should DO well the new tracts after the latter
shall have been broken. in. Nobody here thinks of
The farm-tract settlers In general have an
ee linz a and are DE deeply deghtsd With the
hs h n. nave w not es LOOSE ene om
their former homes. but have leased their farms IN
porarlly in the care Of II all goes well with
the colony, they VIII stay; II not, there are no
OF them are people OF some little substance. who
can AFFORD 70 try the experiment: although many
Is es.ma,ei that not more than third OF the
persons TO whom tracts have been allotted have yet
fall. Many OF those who have been here all winter.
clearing their land OF timber. have gone TO
home hs s to go 'ne few M to
return no more. some OF them having sold out their
The l paS
about 1000
PENSION MONEY IN THE TOWN
The question arises: II the soil will not be pro-
fuctlve this year. and only small proportion OF the
owners OF tracts here. what is the city going to
going to exist, when everybody wants to sell? There
IS one popular answer to the question I'VE shall
get along on the pension money That suggests
In sight? and the answer to that. the result OF care
hi Inquiry among well-inform~i men, Is an amaZ-
ng one. DR.. Manner. the assistant superintendent
antic Journal" said; The Northern press fumes
rom section OF the North and brought i, t,
Of hi ss so S"ony Ths eGS. month a
outside OF the wealth that Comes into the colony
rom other sources this keeps goodIy amount OF
Lighting us because We have preferred TO come to
;eorga rather than to settle up the wild Western
one estimate OF the number OF veterans here.
10th pensioners and non-pens!oners is 1000 to 100.
ms. no, officially connected with the colony man
gement. judged the number to be little over
fortnight ago 225 members; but there are many
x-sodicrs in Fitzgerald who are not comrades OF
shs cne nd Acute E 't o
my subject TO be obtained here-the total number
u veterans al FITZGERALD drawing pensions does
lace the number AZ low as 20 The average rate
4 pension has been estimated at SIS quarter: that
be TOO w but IN any event ,d the amount Tb 'or
would make $1,000 to $1,000 OF pension money a
considerably less than Or. Manners $4,000 q month
70 a suggestion that the people on the hve-acre |
racts would not be able to raise on those Ute
wn tables, and might not be able TO raise even 80
much this season, much less have surplus produce
D market, a high official In the company replied.
n substance: ''But there's the pension money.
"a ch of those families the tracts win spend from
800 TO 500 year In the stores In the city. ana
ew of the pensioners have large families; they will
aise on their tracts what they need. and viii have
heir money to spend and Will be comfortable
This man said ne didn't know how many tracts OF
ach class there were; he believed there were about
IL many ten-acrc as hve-acre lots ana nall as
many twenty-acre tracts az five or ten-acre Else
where II was said that there were over three
thousand OF the hve-acre tracts ana ABOUT two
and nj the ten-acre.
"But the farming tracts being so small, asked
he writer OF the official referred 10 above,
won't there be need OF more diversified industries
ight here In the cl,y?" Yes" he answered some
actores are to be put up or course We won't
ave any cotton factories, but one man IN August
viii build a planning mill and sash and blind fac
ory the plant 10 cost $4,000 20 $4,000 Another
avs that he will spend equal amount IN build
ng a planning mill. box factory and furniture fac
ory" - J., 49,, ,, =,