The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-17
We, Wednesdays, and many others are to FOL-

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On next Monday morning at II o'clock
the case of the Florida Central and Pc
ninsular Railroad vs.. the Railroad Cam
MISSION protesting against the introduce
ton of the three per cent mileage rate
VIII be heard before Judge CALI in Jack
sohVllIe. This is an interesting case. as
II eHects a decision Of the Railroad Com
mission whereby a three-cent mileage
rate has been advised by the Commission
ana against which the said railroads are
protesting,
Jacksonville Metropolis: About fifty
mechanics and laborers. all colored. struck
on Contractor w. A. Macduf this morn
ing near the ViaduCt. One of the leaders
OF thls strike was seen by a Metropolis
reporter TINS morning, and from him it
was learned that their grievance is that
laporers are paid only 81 a day for ten
hours work, while other contractors in
ihe city pay $l.25 a day for the same la
Dor. Efforts to have Their WAGES in
creased these men claim have been met
with repeated denals. so they all went
out on strike this morning.
There are plenty of men ana women in
Florida so and 90 years of age, but very
few who were born 100 years ago. 1t,
however, was left for Lee county to break
the record by producing the oldest white
inhabitaut of the state. He got UP to us
years, and to verify this statement the
State Board of Health has received official
notice that James Boyet (white), lis years
of age, died at FIT. Myers, Lee county
Dec. g. 1899. He was born at Ft MYERS
and has resided there most of his life He
had never resided in any other state The
disease that killed him is given as mala-
rial fever.
Leesburg Commercial-Stock raised and
fattened for market on velvet beans and
cassava is one of the coming paying in
dustries of South Florida. The velvet
bean crop now being harvested is larger
than it was last year, and next year it
will be still larger. This years product
is being used in feeding mich cows and
fattening stock for market, and is bring
ing, when sold in the pod, 70 cents per
barrel equal to one bushel of beans when
shelled Barn room for storing the crop
IS being increased, which is an indication
of the value now placed on this crop by
our farmers who let much of the yield
remain in the fields last year. Grow vel
vet beans and fatten hogs and beef cat
tie for market this year.
The Lake Tracy Drainage Company
has a steam dredge at work near Crews
Bluff, and is cutting from 200 to 300 feet
per day. There is also large force of
men at work The company contemplates
putting in a large sawmill in the near fu-
ture and will be fully prepared to cut an
abundance of lumber. If it is successful
in draining Lake Tracy, it will drain a
very large and valuable tract of land.
The East Coast Lumber Company is
building an addition to it's large lumber
mill at Watertown, which will increase
the capacity fifty per cent. The present
capacity is estimated at 10000 feet per
day, and when the addition is finished it
will probably be the largest mill in the
state. 1t is receiving a large shipment
of railroad iron, which indicates the ex-
tension of its road, already about thirty
miles long, and within few miles of the
St. Marys river.