The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1901-07-12
polNcS At MARTIN.


| MAY Lose the Easterlings.
Saturday was pay day for the
Crane Me Mahan Lumber Camp. This
company will soon put ten extra
teams to working here. Manager J.
w. Brown will soon be in position to
give places to a number of cOlored
men. They must be extra large and
strong and suited to logging work.
Paw will be satisfactory TO the right
ones.
Easterling Bros, left here Saturday
with a large number of their men for
Albany, Ga. In the company were ).
r. Easterling, b. l.. Easterling; B. b.
Easterling, superintendent of pack
ers; Gilmore Sims, assistant; ). r.
Allen, Jr., foreman of crate makers
and car packers. Mr.. Stewman, OF
! Lowell. also went. A number of col
ored helpers were taken along. Among
them were Joe Saucer, Rev. John
McDuffy, James Manor, Joe Morris,
Reuben Tucker, Handy Andy and
others.
The Junior member of the firm, b.
L. Easterling, will go on to Barnwell,
| s. c., and put force to work there
within ten days, after which he will
leave for Parkston, n. C., where he
| will harvest two hundred acres OF
cantaloupes. J. R. Easterling, with
the expert packers taken from Flor
| ida, will 20 to Albany and begin gath
[ ering and shipping the crop at that
point at once. The crop at Barnwell
will be harvested by G. Sims and Bar.
ney B. Easterling.
The firm and the help brought here
were shown a mark of honor by the
large number of their employees.
More than a hundred people came to
| the depot to see them off and wish
them a safe trip. There are many re-
grets expressed by workmen and bus
mess people, because the firm will
probably GO to the east coast to make
their next years crops.
The east coast people are trying to
interest the firm, and two or three
members Will return to Florida in
few weeks to make a thorough inspec-
ton of the whole section from st.
Augustine to Miami. Since the spe-
cialties produced by this firm can be
raised on the east coast earlier, and in
view of the special inducements of.
! fered, Martin will probably suffer
great loss by the removal.
One member of the firm said it was
highly probably that large acreage
of watermelops only would be plant
ed on the lands contiguous to Ocala, as
the soil there was so we'll suited to
them.
This firm has certainly taught very
forcibly that in order to get the best
results not only must the earliest mar
kets be sought, but also that only the
choicest melons, in fancy crates, are
worth sending to northern markets.
They send only the finest varieties,
from choice stock, to their customers.
In this way a fine reputation has come
to them. Shipments always bring
fancy prices, while the poorly packed
and badly chosen stock of others is
drug on the market.
J. L. Perkins, telegraph operator,
will leave on the 18th for a new field.
He has served the office in a most
acceptable manner, and has made
many friends.
This section has great possibilities,
if it is more fully developed. The
freight receipts and forwarding bust.
hess here during the past month
amounts to eight or nine thousand
dollars. The amount would have
been more if ears could have been
had to carry off several hundred logs
in the yards belonging to Crane-Me
Mahon Company.
Farmers are raising more corn and
hogs in this section than ever before.
A ready sale. for all pork and corn can
always be had, and the business is
gradually taking the place of trucking.
Watermelons are still being shipped
to northern markets in car load lots.
More than fifty cars are yet to go.
They are being loaded daily on the
switches, both here and at Anthony.
Mr.. Howell and Captain L. H. john
son are experimenting the loading for
the Easterlings. The fifty.acre field
of ''ice cream" melons is very fine.
Shippers and commission houses pro-
nounce these melons to be extra sweet
and quickly salable. Many of this
variety weigh sixty pounds, and few
weigh less thanitwenty.fi five pounds.
The Best Prescription for Malaria
Chills and fever is a bottle of
Groves Tasteless Chill Tonic. Il is
simply iron and quinine in a tasteless