The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-05-28
CLAY BANKS ARE
VERITABLE MINES
WONDERFUL ADVANTAGES AND
RESOURCES OF LAND OF
FLOWERS WILDLY poR.
TRAYEp.

AT the request OF the Clay Worger
for Florida letter. Prof. F. B. Noodle,
in January, 1908, write as follows:
Editor Clay Worker: While Florida
has no great coal or metalliferous ore
deposits, such as copper, lead, zinc
etc-,it has vast gold mines, in better
shape and more available than in
quartz and hard prophyritic rocks, re
curing big stamp mills, cyaniding out
fits, etc. A few years ago It was fan.
cied that apples of gold" could be
grown on trees here in Florida, and
for a period of twenty years or more
there was a great boom. However, in
one night more than one hundred mil.
lion dollars were captured by Gen.
Jack Frost The people then turned
their attention to agriculture and gar
dening, and more recently to stock
raising. The recent state fair neId
here at Lake City demonstrated thai
Florida Crackers" can produce
cheaper cheese, beef, butter, pork,
mules, sheep, poultry, ETC., than other
sections of the United States by so
per cent
The Armours, Swifts and other
great packers have seen this and have
bought large tracts of $4,000 to 100, 900
acres to raise their own meats, and it
is now seen that a few more big
freezes" will make Florida the leading
agricultural and stock raising state.
Gold mine No. 1.
There has never been a geological
survey made of this state, but Incl
dentally, during the last ten or fifteen
years, the greatest phosphate mines
in the world have been developed.
Gold mine No. 2.
Again, incidentally, immense Kaolin
beds have been discovered and several
large plants are now in operation, and
china wares equal to the best importei
are made from Florida kaolin. Gold
mine No. 8.
Again, incidentally, immense beds
of fnller's earth have been discovered,
and to-day Florida produces more than
nine-tenths of this product used in the
United States. Gold mine No. f.
Last. but not least, valuable clay
beds have been discovered ferrous
clays, white, buff and blue, adapted to
the manufacture of white and orna-
mental front brick. Mr. c. X. Weller
of this city, is operating a large plant
about two and one-half miles from the
city, and he had on exhibition ar the
state fair here beautiful specimens OF
workmanship. His plant was, illus
trated and the clap pits described in
the November issue of the Clay Work.
er. "'"'s
Immense beds of these 'clays and
kaolins fuller's-earth haves been dis,
covered, and draulica cement has been
recently discovered near Lake City
and her many railroads branching out
to all the points of the compass. and
within fifty to seyeny-fiye miles of
several, seaportS,. bring an, these gold
mines within easy reach OF all the
world. And it should be borne in
mind by the clayworkers that here IN
Florida elays can be manipulat ed
twelve months in the year, instead of
six or eight in the north, so that the
same investment should yield from
rs to 100 per cent. more in a year.
-Four days ago the writer left Ken
lucky which is comparatively mild in
climate. The last thing observed on
leaving was a score or more of boys
skating on the ice. When he reached
Florida the boys were swimming in