The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-09-29
FLORIDA LETTER.

We are waiting, we are waiting for
the boom, boom of prosperity that was
said to be coming. We are also wait
ing very patiently for several other
great events that we're going to happen
and so it goes Florida is going to
start boom on her own hook, and no
thanks to the DINGHY bill, or Bill.iMc-
Kinley.
The fact that we can beat the world
on tobacco, oranges, cotton. f,frults,
vegetables, camphor, lumber, fish and
climate is going to boom our pan
handle" state for the good reason that
our products are wanted by those able
to pay for them, and the state is be-
ing settled by the very men that are
needed, and are able to push the re-
sources of the state to the very front
seat.
We are going to ship 100000 boxes
of oranges out of the state the present
season. Think of that, and then ere
member the fact that our trees were
frozen down to the ground in Feb
ruary, 1895. The men who have
brought forward their groves in good
shape have little Klondyke OF their
own, yet we have few that have left
the sunny land Of flowers for the gold
fields of Alaska, with aboutl as much
chance of getting back as Andree had
when he set out on his voyage to the
North Pole in his balloon. wa@
The open season for Iquail shooting
will begin November 10, and all the:old
guns, good guns.and all kinds OF guns
are being made ready for the
slaughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Bob White
and their numerous family. or
course the season.for fishing with hook
and line is always open and pretty
soon as the weather gets cooler, there
will be some wonderful battles be-
tween the fisherman, woman or girl,
as the case may be, and the great old
moss back trout that will be found
lurking around the shady hooks of the
beautiful clear water lakes of the
country. Then we have thu National
Editorial Home" or "Editoria" asl it is
called, and the great ship canal, from
the Gulf to the Atlantic, costing $7O
100000, is altogether something else,
but it is sure thing for Florida all
the same. Everybody is happy but not
rich. Yellow Jack is much worse in
the northern papers than it is in the
southern paper, just how! much worse
we don't know for certain, but we
know that four cases in Mississippi be-
came four hundred in the newspapers,
so we judge the story increases as it
gets north If Andree hears of it at
the North Pole he will think America
is swallowed up by the yellow fever.
The facts are that there is not the
slightest cause for Eanyone to worry
over the matter. The doctors are not
yet sure it is the regular yellow fever.
The sanitary conditions of the south
are good, much better than few years
ago, and the chances are very slight
now for cholera OF yellow fever to get
foot hold.
Taking it all around there is no more
danger from contagious diseases than
there is IN the north, and as for the
hot weather we can say that ninety
four was the hottest we have had Out
in the country this year so far. You
in Ohio had it hotter than that, but
our hot weather stays with us much
longer than it does in the north, yet nc
one ever heard of sun stroke in Flor.
ida. A cool breeze is always with US
no matter how hot the sun shines, and
frequent showers render the atmo'
sphere clear.
BUCKEYE.
Mannville, Fla, Sept. IS.