The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-07-20

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The little town Of Alachua is booming.
Several new enterprises have recently
been established. and business Is excep-
tionally good In addition, two new
churches are in course OF construction,
and a new school building is among the
probabilities.
The board of state institutions has
awarded the contract to supply the Chat
tahoochee state asylum with beef for two
years from Aug. !. 1897, to John Sullivan
of Quincy The price to be paid 1924 per
100 pounds. Estimating that ] 800 pounds
will be required each week. the contract
viii amount TO more than $4,000 for the
two years.
The greatest collection Of postage
stamps in Florida is in the possession OF
J. G. Davenport the photographer, Of
Gainesville. He has 3.400 no two of which
are alike. They comprise different issues
of nearly every country on the globe. Mr.
Davenport could sell the collection for a
good sum of money, but would not part
with them.
G. ". Meyer & Son of Cedar Keys have
closed their barrel factory at Gainesville
for the summer. During the three
months they operated in Gainesville they
manufactured many thousand fruit bar
rels, for which they found ready sale. The
force of employees has returned to Cedar
Keys, where the firm have a large fac
tory. Mr.. Meyers will soon locate his Ce-
dar Keys mill in Gainesville.
Tampa Times: one of the most impor-
tant factors on the west coast is the
f,.1r
Tarpon Springs, where large packing
houses have been built, giving employment
TO many men. Here he fleet of 100 schoon-
ers, ranging from ten to twenty-five tons
burden, rendezvous. taking on supplies
and discharging cargOes of sponge. which
are bought up by local sponge merchants
The Peace River Phosphate Mining
Company is running day and night to fill
orders for phosphate There are several
VESSELS lying in Charlotte harbor waiting
to be loaded. This company Is giving en-
ployment to 800 men, none of them being
paid less than 81 a day The mill and
dredges burn eighty cords Of wood day.
The company also does large wholesale
and retail mercantile business. They are
now building dry and wet bin, also
three new dredges.
Hotel Lake Worth, three miles north Of
N''N ann pddths tne Oldest hotel on
Lake Worth, and popular resort for win
ter tourists, was consumed by fire Sunday
morning. The fire originated in a vacant
room over the kitchen, and was discovered
about 3 O'Clock by Capt. H. =. Dye. the
owner who, with his family, was occu-
pying the building at the time The build
ing, furniture and all household effects
OF the Iamlly, We're total loss, estimat-
ed at $4,000, with $1,000 insurance.
Palatka Advertiser: S. J. Kennerly has
the contract TO furnish northern dealers
100000 pounds of vanilla in the leaf He
receives it at his packing house on tbe
wharf from native pickers at the rate of
800 TO 900 pounds a day, for which he NAYS
cents per pound when thoroughly dry.
The weed is packed in press somewhat
resembling cotton compress. the average
weight of the bales being 400 pounds II is
shipped in car lots of sixty bales or "a coo
pounds, and returns to us in the form of
extract of vanilla and as an adulterant in
plug tobacco.