The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1909-09-18
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bright at the present time II Is cs-
tlmated that not less than 40O. 900
boxes will be hauled from the Caloof.
ahatchee and Orange rivers the com
ing season. While the estimate OF
the size OF the crop may possibly d.
little high, Il is certain there viii
be a much larger crop than last year,
and the shipments came near reach
ing &c., 900 boxes then So Il Is fair
to say there will be I'm the neighbor-
hood Of fully 100000 boxes the com.
ing season. II Il does reach this
mark Il will be the largest crop by
far that has been handled in this
section.
The advance I'm agricultural dcvel-
opment during the past thirty years,
I'm combination with advanced prices
for products. vastly greater and better
transportation facilities for reaching
markets and the creation of new mar
kets and constant growth I'm demand
in every part of the world, has tre-
mendously increased the possibilities,
probabilities and certainties of amass-
ing fortunes through agriculture.
The Crystal River Experiment Asso-
citation is pushing it's work and will
soon have the celery bed planted. The
judgment of experts is that the soil
of this section is admirably adapted TO
the growth of celery. The associa-
ton shows a public spirit which will
make Crystal River a city of several
thousand I'm a few years.
Judging from the reports from va
will be the largest produced by the
Florida growers IN many years, and
the prices, 1t is confidently expected,
will be the best ever received.
Jacksonville is now taking up avi-
alton as an attraction for the winter
tourists.
work almost encyclopedia i'm its
scope, SO far as the farmers interests
are concerned, is the Year Book of the
United States department of agricul.
ture. II is quite a large volume,
having S22 pages, and is solidly bound
i'm blue cloth. This volume has So
plates, many of them colored, and 20
text figures. table of contents and
full index make it handy of refer
ence.
school house, which is TO contain nine
class rooms, high school room, a
library and an Office for the princj-
pal: also, brick hotel is building,
which promises TO be a credit to the
town. There is prospect that in the
future 1t will have a cigar factory, at
which two grades of cigars will be
manufactured.
The latest rumOr in railroad cir
cles at Thomasville, Ga, is that the
Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Is
preparing to start construction gang
at work on September / on its Tam
pa Northern extension, from Tampa
TO brownsville, work TO be begun at
this end of the line. The surveying
and other preliminary work was all
done on this line a year or so ago,
when it was expected that IL would
be built at once, but the financial
stringency coming on just then pre-
vented.
Frank Is. SHUTS, receiver of the
Fort Dallas National Bank. at Miami,
has returned TO that city from a four
weeks trip TO the north and says
that there is every indication thai
Florida will enjoy one of the most
prosperous tourist seasons in her has.
tory, the coming winter There Is
plenty Of money afoat In the north,
he says, and Florida is the mosttalk-
ed-of place as a winter resort. Add
the great number Of immigrants from
the north who will come down as
soon as the fall is fairly open and
will continue to arrive during the sea.
son, and IL is apparent that the travel
Floridaward will set in early and be
heavy beyond example.
The Palatka city council has made
the license tax for dealers In toy pis-
tolls 800.