The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1909-08-06
UNDEVELOPED
OPPORTUNITY
Fortunes Awaiting to be Picked
in Every Section of This State
PAPER MANUFACTURE
Plenty of Raw Materials in Fruits and
Vegetables and Sea Products to Sue
Cessfuliy Operate Canning Factory

With the tremendous activity in Flor
ida and the centering of all interests in
the business of growing pineapples,
citrus fruits and vegetables other fields
of labor opportunities for making money
are being sadly neglected, and there
are opportunities here for the making
of modest fortunes awaiting for some-
body to pick them up.
This article does not attempt to take
up all of these opportunities, but to
mention one of the principal ones that
is being overlooked, except in few
isolated cases.
What we refer to is the preserving,
canning and putting up of what may
be called waste products. Each year
there goes to waste in the counties of
Brevard, st. Lucie, Palm Beach and
Dade, on the East Coast of Florida.
hundreds of tons of pineapples that are
too ripe to shipto the northern markets,
hundreds Of tons Of tomatoes that are
thrown out of the packing houses be-
cause of over ripeness, and defects that
bar them from the packing crate, but
in no way injure the fruit for the cam
merry, and each year tons and tons of
guavas that would make the most de-
licious Jelly. There rots on the ground
tons and tons of lines from which could
be extracted that delicious summer
drink, lime juice that is so heathful,
and in addition to this there are other
waste products and by products that
are absolut, ly wasted, from which
good money could be made if they were
properly cared for.
In the working up of all these waste
products there is most promising field
in Florida. Few people realize the full
scope and Importance of the pure food
laws of the country now in force for,
like the working of any other measure
passed by congress or by our State
Legislature, we have only time to con-
slider those things which Immediately
concern US in our business. For the
man looking for some place in an agree
able climate the East Coast of Florida
offers lines of business as above sug-
gested, in which a business man can
exercise his talents and invest his CAPT.
lal proftably.
Everything needed to make bust
ness successful is to be found here, and
in connection with the abundance of
material there is everything necessary
for carrying on the business. Sites
for factories can be bought cheap,
plenty of pure water can be had in
abundance, transportation facilities are
unsurpassed, for this section of the
United States is in direct and close
communication with all of the big mar
kets of the country, and labor here is
no more expensive than it is in any
other manufacturing section. In fact,
such labor as would be required for
greater part of the work here is cheap
err than it could be secured in any of
our manufacturing centers.
The people of the United States are
becoming fully awake to the impor-
lance of pure foods that are put up for
them without deleterious authorizations,
therefore the market for pure fruits,
canned fruits, preserves, jellies and
summer drinks is already established,
it only remains for these articles to be
produced and suitably advertised to
find ready sale, and these in Florida
are such as will bear the closest inves-
tigation.
Other than the things above men,
toned there is the great industry of
paper making. Florida is filed with
the raw material for producing paper
of the finest quality, and fibrous plants
that could be manufactured to a profit.
In some instances it is only mater Of
proper machinery, and with the i'm
provements that are being made daily
in machinery adapted to the purpose of
making paper and articles from fibre
is no doubt but that suitable machinery
can be produced that will handle the
raw material of Florida on an economic
and income producing basis.
The resources of this splendid state
are just beginning to attract the atten.
ton of the country and the attention of
men who are far sighted enough to
comprehend and take advantage of the
resources that are lying idle in this
favored state and who get in on the
ground floor, taking advantage of the
present extremely low price of lands,
in those sections Of country containing
raw material, can establish business
here that will make for them valuable
fortunes.
William Jennings Bryan is to move to
Texas. He said so in the course of an