The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1906-01-19
kosoects of St. Lucie Country
Offers Splendid Opening.
RNf CITRUS COUNTRY
=, ,or,at;oo on the st. luCie River Will
Again be Resumed whe" Inlet
TO Ocean is Opened.

taking trip up lUe pe"uNiu' o''
bcie river in a canoe. but do not think
cause we chose the smallest craft for
trips up the St. Lucie that there
shoals or shadows not by any
pans-for long before the river was
Jared of logs and debris by the Florida
st Coast railway, even back to 1894.
the first settlement of White City.
noe Indian River schooners and several
Banners, among them Capt. Wallis
tel.boat came up to the main street
the then Magic City, and since then
river has been utilized for transpOr-
ion purposes; II freight steamer ran
pularly, connecting with the Indian
yer boats transporting crates of veg
kbles to Titusville for the northern
lrkets, after which better arrang-
ents were made for us by the Florida
Ist Coast railway than previously.
h herein lies a suggestion that ST.
cie river may some day be utilized
transportation and travel when that
n we sometimes hear of, shall have
en built at or near the mouth of the
Luce river, which is only awaiting
cutting of the channel deeper
Iough the coral reef to make a naval
(ton as has been recommended by
val officers as of imperative need, it
ng the only feasible harbor between
" West and st. Augustine for naval
sels to enter i'm stress of weather or
bernecessity. Aside from that, some
divining both the cutting Il deep
nnel and city will follow the canal
t Is to drain the Everglades, in
consummation of which events
Elements will spring up like mush-
ms on the st. l.ucie, But do not
teTtand Us as depending on any more
eate views of the future than the
in facts of to day as reasons why the
heSeeker should settle here.
'uEulng our course in the unpreten-
ns canoe, to take in all the beauties
nature first, and then see what man
leapng from the bounteous soil u and
only so, but take a 70 it. line and
nner along and you can have q fish
IN an hour or so of delicious fresh
ter bass.
We pass, on the east side, several
" set pneries, the largest of which
nat OF DR.. Plat, one may see pines
Isl high only two years old. These
ces however are hid from view ON
river by the density of forest.
put one mile from the Doctors ton
FORT Pierce road is the old settle
At OF County Commissioner Bell.
bell Is type Of the native farmer,
being OF Il progressive nature be-
subject for the citrus fever.
has young and promising orange
Ve' The trees are of various ages in
R"hg progressiveness on the tentative
lalr specimen observed by the
,erwas pomleo or grapefruit budded
ne spring of 1900. 1t bore fruit the
owmg year, though not much-yet
TWO succeeding seasons the YIELD
united to $500. This ought tc
|Siy the most fastiduous and this
'. exceptional, but only a fair show.
VI what the White City trees are
g' Mr.. Bell says it would have
" much better if budded on a soul
cge instead of the lemon.
I'VE miles by water two and hall
'ana brings us to the junction OF
rive and Ten-mile creeks, head OF
sa.'oh to the st. Lucie river. Here
NC farm Of the late Mr.. Thompson
sey four miles from Fort Pierce
.esa young grove doing fairly vel
W" much neglected since Mr.
mpson's death.
40 ~ the limit of the writer's expe
W upstream, but can state on goot
w. y that about six miles by lant
=" 4eh'mlle creek five or six beauti
range groves are to be seen
s,sl'y the Williams grove, which