The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1907-08-23
FLORIDA TOPICS

llltft are uOOll IZ,OOO acres III plnt
apples ON both sides Of the railroad 70
distance of about 81 miles, north an
south Of Palm Beach.
The county commissioners of Eslam
hja county have called wet ol dr.
election which IS to come of on Octohe
LIST. Iadr will no doubt fail in line next
The first meeting Of the stakeholder
of the Florida Orange Growers Com
pany was held in rlni City last wcck
The organization was completed an'
officers elected,
The Tampa city comet att It's meetinl
held rprcntly pissed a resolution calling
for an election October |, 100, to vote
ON the extension Of the 2orporat" limlt'
Of Tampa scycn-cights Of mile west
ward.
i. piIluN. Of Winter Garden, raised
10 rarload, Of fine Watermcons from
II acres Of land, they brought him a
good price, and he will probably double
the acreage next year and double his
monc, II does seem ~ though Or.
angc county can beat the world for
raising every thing. Orlando Reporters
Star
Sponge merchants in Ney Yves. have
received instructions from their rJuSeS
in the north to make no further pur-
chase Of opongcs at amy price, IN view
of the prominence and Importance Of
this industry in Key West, the order to
stop buying will work a hardship to
many people Of the Island City,
1t is stated by some of the employees
of the Florida East Coast Railway, that
inasmuch as the fleet of dredges and
steamers are being berthed in the Miami
river no great work will be done on the
extension mtilneXt year According to
the reports given out other boats OF the
fleet will be moored in the river shortly
and kept there until operations are com.
menced again.
Tampa fears an oyster famine this
year as consequence Of the late
drought and the large number Of leecheS
on some Of the bars. One man who has
about four square miles Of oyster beds
calculates his loss at $4,000 Some
oystcrmen, however, do not believe the
leeches are so largely to blame for the
destruction Of the oysters, hut attribute
it entirely to the lack of rain. Whether
oyster beds in other parts Of the Flor
ida coast have suffered remains to be
seen.
Revised estimates of the probable
orar &c crop of Florida are more en-
couraging. During the dry weather
men would drive along the roads and
see very little fruit. The rains came
and the observers took heart and all
mitted that there would be something.
Now the fruit is half grown, shows
plainly, and il is established that iew
localities will have less than crop
which means that when picked and
Grated II will measure nearly ~ 70 the
usual standard, We may count upon
about two and 4 half million dollars Of
returns. Tampa 'rimcs
Arrangements have been made by
which the Florida State geographical
survey will cooperate during 1000.
with the nationai geographical survey
IN the Florida work. A report will b,
prepared during the year on the gencr-
al Ccoiogy of the STATE, Information
will also be obtained for report on
the underground water supply. The
national survey has allotted for thi,
work $4,000. The cooperative work on
the part Of the State survey viii begir
at once, The parties from thc nationa
survey are expected TO reach Florida
later in the fall. The work OF the
State survey will be directed NOR
especially TO the study Of the unier
ground water supply.
The disastrous fire occurring Monday
morning at Fernandina between tn,
hours of and 7, while not so wild,
spreading in its awful work of devasta
ton as at first feared, was yet of sucl
magnitude that Fernandina stand
ghast, gazing upon the ruins of it
large phosphate elevator and outly
ing havoc along the railroad and dock
As yet it is impossible to get at the ex
nrt nxinnt Of tho lnsseS involved an