The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1906-01-19
INDUSTRIES
OF FLORIDA
Starts Out the New Year in Most
Excellent Shape.
NEWSPAPERS LEND AID
Every Department Of tndeavOr Shows
Enterprise Some Of the Progress
Being Made by Railroads.

Florida starts out on the New Year
in splendid shape.
Her turpentine industry is in the zen
it'll Of its splendor and is flooding its
patrons with stream of wealth almost
equal to the stories told of Standard
OIL
This is not a fiction of the magma
ton, but the doubling Thomas has but
to open his eyes to see that it is true.
The lumber industry is better than it
ever has been; the demand is ever in
creasing and the prices are satisfactory
The man who owns saw mill and tim
Der lands in Florida has fortune at his
finger tips.
The phosphate industry is now con-
trolled by a few operators, and those
who are fortunate enough to be men,
bers Of the syndicate need not consult a
palmist, for this product is active both
in the foreign and domestic markets,
and the prices remunerative.
More than this, chemical factories are
being erected near the mines for the
manufacture of the product, which will
make the mining more attractive and
profitable.
Railroad building for the New Year
promises to tell a wonderful, almost
fairy-like story, for Flordians.
The Florida East Coast Railroad is to
be extended from the mainland to Key
West. 1t is to buffet the depths, as
well as the waves and tides of the sea-
1t will not only be unique and marvellous
in its construction, but in view Of the
completion of the Panama Canal, will
be entirely practical in its results. 1t
will become the key to trade and traffic
and its daring and picturesqueness will
draw travel from all lands.
Down the west coast the Seaboard
Air Line Railway is being extended to
Boca Grande Pass, the most southerly
point for deep water outlet 1t is said
to be one of the finest harbors on the
coast of Florida, and the extension of
the Seaboard railway to this point will
increase our traffic with Cuba, South
America and other foreign markets.
The orange industry of Florida is
rapidly recuperating and most of her
groves have been rehabilitated since the
great freeze of 1895. No fruit equals
the Florida orange and it will continue
to occupy the front place in the mar
kets.
The pineapple industry continues to
widen its acreage, and the fruit is SO
choice that it enjoys an almost exclusive
monopoly in the markets and is driving
out all competition.
The vegetable industry, while it has
had some severe setbacks, still holds out
attractive inducements to its votares.
If freight rates can ever be equitably
adjusted, the raising of early vegetables
will always be tempting Florida indus
try.
In no department of endeavor is moro
enterprise shown than in her newspapers,
and in this field Florida occupies front
place, and her enterprise in this, as in
all other lines of industry, corrects and
sets at naught the story that her climate
is enervating and her people shiftless.
The population of Florida is increas-
ing; her cities are rapidly building up;
her educational facilities are being en-
larged and improved, and her charities
are not overlooked. -Ocala Banner.