The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-21
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I erage Company This means the speedy
/ opening OF large barrel factory. In fact,
/ Leesburg is to have two barrel factories
in operation within the coming month.
Lakeland sun: That two or three hun
! dred thousand dollars 10 come into Lake
/ land from the sales Of Strawberries this
spring Will make our merchants glad. 1t
viii keep our farmers out of debt and
make the entire community prosper.
/ Nolusia County Record: The jury of in
! quest, empaneled to ascertain by what
method the man whose body was found
/ floating in Lake George last week, came
20 his death, has reported, and its verdict
is that the man died from cause I'M
known TO the jury. No clew to his iden-
| tity could be had.
Complaint is heard from many sections
that the cattle on ne ranges in the
southern part of the state are dying in
large numbers from starvation. The grass
has not been as good this season as last
but next season it will be all right. The
| dry season has enabled all the grazing
lands to be well burned off and this will
insure heavy grass crop for the next.
A story comes from Plant City to the
effect That Cleveland Wilson, the 15-year-
old son of G. n Wilson. saw large pan
Their in the swamp near Sweat's mill pond
( The boy shot a it with load of small
shot and the animal ran away. Eight
| months ago the animal was seen in that
locality by other parties, and since that
time farmers have been missing hogs and
| sheep.
Orlando Sentinel-Reporter Numbers Of
cattle have died in the Chuluota district
and many more are ailing, this winter
from peculiar disease similar TO mumps
/ in children The glands under the jaw be
| come swollen, the victim refuses to eat
becomes fearfully poor-reminding one of
the photographs of the famine-stricken
Cubans during Weyler's reign-and finally
die No remedy has yet been given that
will arrest the disease in any of its stages
The orange crop of Lee county is much
larger than expected, and will double itself
next year. Lee county is yet a young
county, SO far as orange culture is COLI
cerned. The cattle trade until the last
few years monopohzed the business and
is yet one of the chief industries. bring
ing in more money. perhaps, than any
other one industry. But the cultivation
OF orange groves, pineapples and vege-
tables bids fair to outstrip the cattle bust
ness in a very short time.
Next Thursday, Jan. %, the Cassava
Convention and meeting of the Florida
State Agricultural Society will be held at
Sanford. Both events are of the grea test
interest TO the farmers and business men.
Thomas H. Rees, captain of engineers,
L. S. A, recently assigned 20 the charge
of harbor improvements at Tampa, has
arrived there. He took possession of the
office Friday. and will find himself per
fectly at home in Tampa. Capt Jervey
who has been in charge since the work
started, win go to the North, taking the
station which had been previously filed
by Capt. Rees.
Tampa Herald Prominent Methodists
Of Tampa make complaint that the Plant
System does not treat them with the lib
erality that the leading men of the de-
nomination receive from other railroad and
steamship lines. For instance, Bishop
Gambler, who is the superintendent of the
work of missions in Cuba and who has
occasion to go to the island three or four
times a year, is passed free by the East
Coast Railroad and Steamship Line while
the Plant people will not even give him
a half-fare permit between Tampa and
Havana, nor make any concessi sion what
ever This in itself nothing special but
it is accompanied by the fact that il does
make the East Coast Line the thor
| oughfare of Methodist travel between the
States and the island. Our Tampa Meth
odists would like 10 have that current go
| through this city.
An important industry is about to be
added to the business of Braidentown. A
| company has been formed 10 promote a
combination of industries in that city. The
| head of the concern, which will be known
as the Lyle Ice Manufacturing Company
| is William Lyle of Barlow. The company
| at Braidentown will run an ice factory
| and cold storage business in conjunction
el,
in the state. Several carloads of ice man
| ufacturing machinery Is being loaded on
| Burton e. Goes lighters in the river for
| shipment 10 Braidentown. The boiler is TO
| be used at the plant is a very large one,
| and viii furnish capacity to carry out sew
| eral schemes which the promoters have
| in view. Machinery will be put in TO man
ufacture oil and fertilizer from the waste
| of the fishing camps along the coast This
| will probably lead to a general fertilizer
manufacturing business in a few months
L. b. Skinner OF Dunedin reports that
| the peninsula portion of the West Coast
| has marketed already 5000 boxes of or
| anges-25, 900 more than were expected
! The groves are now in fine shape and
some of the trees are blooming already
! Although the groves on the West Goa ST
| have withstood the cold weather in the
past in remarkably fine shape, the growers
| in that section have made preparations
to fire them if necessary. They expect
| a tremendous yield next season. On the
| subject of firing as protection against
| cold, NJ. f. Gillett who is at the head
OF the syndicate which has leased a num-
| Der of large groves around Tampa, gave
some valuable testimony. He states that
during the recent cold spell he fired sew
| eral of the large groves on Nebraska ave-
nue.. and although only the alternate piles
Of wood We're lighted the temperature was
| raised 10 degrees in less than an hour. He
4 is quite positive that orange trees can
4 be saved from damage by any cold that
section may have by firing
HALE'S FRUIT PREDICTION.