The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-25
FLoRIDA,s PROSPERITY.
Attention Given to Many Other
Crops since the Freeze.

Crops since the Freeze.
Tampa Bay Hotel, Tampa. Fla, Dec.
24-Now that the chimes of Christmas are
drowning the cries of hard times and the
sombre shades of dependency which had
settled over the hearts of our people are
fading fast in the light of happy events,
il Is a beftting time for US to repudiate
the statement that depression rests upon
us. for no section of this entire country
has enjoyed greater prosperity than FLOR
ida. and more especially the Gulf coast
of this peninsula state.
lust why the people have insisted that
hard times" really existed is difficult to
understand. This mythical DOGGY man
succeeded in frightening many, who ued
nm their resources for fear or loss ana
thus endeavored to accomplish what tney
most wished to avoid. In spite OF tnls'
however. this section Of Florida was more
than equal to the occasion, ana she mas
shaken off the shackles with which these
frightened beings wished to ensiave her.
one cannot pass through this section OF
Florida without noticing the presence OF
prosperity, for there are numbers OF per-
sons in this locality who now nave more
money than they have had for the past
tuyentv wears. A prominent citizen or De-
sc oorntv n few days ago said that some
Of his people had really more money tnan
thew knew what TO do whitney had
never nossessed so much before. Ine
enunnerati ton of a few instances OF pros
perity viii demonstrate how nobiy FLOR
ida has done since the severe freezes
which stripped her of her nope put tnree
years ago. ..,4,-.,os u.tor-
,aa RANKED above eighteen other states on
a corn crop during the year ending june
az Although this has never been consld-
cred a crop worth mentioning these STA
tistics assert that the Florida corn crop
ar,o,,nted TO 81, $50 900. Only few years
a,.n the whole effort Of this state was d.
rected 10 the orange crop which amounts
ed 10 only about 1.OOO,VOV IL
T,he Ash industry has assumed sucn pro-
,,ortions that 5000 persons are constantly
engaged i'm Il and the annual eaten yieius
a revenue OF 81 100000, four-hfths OF when
Is shipped from the Gulf coast prlhc'paliy
from Tampa. - 1910. ~ .he
,o,.thern mart of the state will reckon this
80 great year in the calendar OF their
Ityes In previous years they have snip
ne1 10 the various markets, the result
haing that they often came out az the
email end Of the horn, but IL - not nee
essary for them to worry aoou. snipIii nm ll'
tbfs wear. They can stay az nome ana re-
ceive the buyers, who are plentiful IN the
conntrv Offering to buy the fruit on the
trees al from 81 to $2.25 box. It's
regular bonanza.
There is a party in DeSoto county who
nnrchased large grove last winter fol-
which he agreed to pay $1,000, payable In
four years. He sold his crop during the
latter part of November CAST month"; for
Sc 2OO. disposbng of It on the trees and
having no trouble with At. In Polk coun.
~ a man who has q grove, states that
from one large Seeding grape fruit tired
he has picked $3.50 worth Of fruit this sea.
son. These are now bringing from s. e
IS box on the trees. Tangerines are net
ting the growers from $ to $40 per box
In q radius OF forty miles Of this resor
there are about 10000 boxes Of oranges
and citrus fruits which viii readily me-
tho growers 81 per box. while few year
ago oneathird that sum was considered