The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1897-11-05
SOUTH FloslDA-.A sslazT-slDz VIEW.

~ uVuoicu ttS popukatlon ana Is still
Some Of the most substan.
Ial citizens of Alachua, Levy and
iarion have struck tents there or in
he near vicinity and all seem pleased
nd some are enthusiastic. The Messrs.
Sorland, White, Dunn and Kells, of
,itra, all experienced orange growers,
rave orange groves on Orange river,
bout twelve miles from the town,
md pronounce the soil about on par
with the admirable soil OF Orange
axe and the quality and flavor of the
Iruit most delicious. One variety,
called the Brazilian, is as fine favored
as we have ever tasted. 1t was inn
ported from Brazil into Louisiana by
Mr. Joseph Jefferson and from Louisi-
ana 10 Myers by the Messrs. Gardner
Besides the introduction Of this fruit
the Messrs. Gardner have established
a canning factory fer the manufacture
Of jellios, Inarmalades, etc., which was
successful from the start and is devel- |
oping into magnificent industry. |
These parties-father, son and daugh-
ter-started with ten dollar outfit |
and now receive orders from some of
the largest houses in the country and
in a small way are coming money.
While we We're there they were filling
a good-sized order for a Philadelphia
firm. They make a superior jelly.
using nothing but the juice of the fruit
and pure sugar, and the demand for il
is constantly increasing. They found |
gnavas growing wild in the streets, on
vacant lots and in the woods, and the
thought instantly occurred 10 them
To make some use of this delicate fruit
so going to waste and the Seminole
Canning Faetory was born of the
thought and we believe is the founda-
ton for a fortune. They also make
fine orange and lemon jelly. The
| Messfs. Gardner are going to prepare
a bulletin for the Florida Agricultural
College on the growing and the man
ufacture Of the guava into jelly.
One Of the winter visitors to Myers
is Mr.. II. O'Neal, one Of the princeiy
merchants of New York. He fell 50
in love with the place and the splend-
ia amusement it affords for tarpon
fishing that he is now building a
magnificent hotel mainly for the en-
tertainment Of his own friends. The
building is furnished with every mod
ern convenience and is to be as COM
Portable IL not as luxurious as any no
tel in Florida. Every room is already
engaged for the season.
Those who desire to visit the beauti-
ful town of Myers and hav'nt a pure
big enough to stop at the O'Neal can
find comfortable quarters at the Inn,
kept by Mrs. Comm, formerly of AL
bon. Her house is small but every
thing is kept deliciOusly inviting.
One Of the principal industries of
South Florida at present is the ship
ment Of cattle to Cuba. About five
hundred week are shaped from
Punta Rassa. The price has advanced
from seven and eight to thirteen and
fourteen dollars per head. The activ-
ity among the cattle men is very
great. IL has reached as far north as
our county, the Nessrs. Ross Oh the
Withlachoochee river, having sold a
bunch of five hundred head last Sat
urday. SPANS soldiers in Cuba and
the insurgent armies must eat, and the
home supply of cattle is about ex-
haustcd. The shipment from now on
from South Florida until the close of
hostilities is going to put great deal
of money in circulation and that is
the great need Of our people. 1t re-
quires war, not peace, to supply this
need. Peace and prosperity are no
longer Synonymous terms. They are
displaced by the now true axioms:
War and prosperity: peace and desti-
tuition.
From Punta GOrda up all through
De Soto county, the groves are looking
as we'll as ours did before the freeze
add the growers are quite active in
shipping. \ number of sales for five
and six thousand dollars for crops on
the trees were reported to US. Col.
Watkins, of Rochelle, sold his crop for
the latter figure. He gave twelve
thousand for the grove the year be-
fore.
The tobacco and tomato industries
promise even to become more import
ant than growing oranges or shipping
cattle to Cuba, so on the whole the
prospects of South Florida are encour-
aging.
The Koreshen community are still
holding together in Lee county, but
have suffered many vicissitudes and
disasters. They believe in a commu-
nifty of interests and all eat from a
common table, but the men live to
themselves, the women to themselves,
aud the children TO themselves, the
boys and girls occupying separate
apartments. There is no marriage or
giving in marriage amongst them. If
children are born 10 the community
it is done by the inspiration of the
holy spirit. No births have yet been
reported. It is strange religion.
1t will become matter of wonder
that there ever have existed those who
thought it admirable to enjoy, without
working, at the expense of Others who
worked without enjoying.-Herbert
Spencer.
RaReW When a man Is
N = ruined and there is
~I% = g no help for IL
N lin - - good wife is the
5zZ4Ak1 y - one stay and COM
| NO. s, "a - fort left 10 him
WPIANlSs a But no man, who
w ' y WssNZ Is a man. wants to
1 II Nix put his wife to this
u Me- & extremity. For
Ez woman in her
" khZ gentle nature suf.
WA fers with the hus-