The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1909-09-24
jU(CESS NOW
| ANTICIPATED
|,,,s Exchange Marketing Will
|s,Iurn Old Time Prosperity
pfSSIMIST'S VIEWS
Goodwin Answers Pessimist in His
n, vsio and Then Throws on the
s,h,ed The Light of Optimism

T. Goodwin, Fort Pierce, Fla.
s;.,o nv return to the north, | hav
s !" hosting Florida and the sectio
s"ad 70 pineapple growing especially
S.vs several people interested in tn
'ssOole and trucking industry an
si n hopes to come down this white
make my permanent residence a
!, Pierce and bring some of m,
E.nds down to invest in land there.
II mte that the Florida East Coas
lvay Company is advertising largel.
,hs northwest, and ! cannot under
nd how a country as prosperous al
4 have there, has gone to the bad
l, year the papers were boosting thu
untry to beat the band. Now, un
stand that the pineapple people los
,yiK this year. Why is this, that q
ii As delicious as the East Coast
duet Of pineapples should be loss
he grower?
note that the East Coast shipped q
lion boxes of the fruit.
Surely with population of so, 900,
people you ought to market 1000,
crates of your fruit to advantage,
without loss, | had to pay as much
pineapples here in Minneapolis this
h as ever before and at times more.
/ seems that the railroad people are
giving you square deal and that
have some kind of an association
re to help you adjust matters. Is
he railroads. fault?
Do you think that the commission
rhants are giving you a square
!!
always seems to me to be poor
to do business, to ship your stuff
market far away, to man whom
Do not know. and let him sell your
duct and then send you back what
he pleases as returns, and you
Ne no way to know what became Of
nr fruit nor do you know how much
actually sold it for.
am glad that | have not planted my
land will have to stay up here and
b the cold weather another winter
see what is done down there,
ether you have another ruinous sea-
or not.
hate to admit that | have cold feet
ardlng your proposition last winter
do not feel like investing $40, 600
proposition that means the possible
Of money
egarding a canning factory in your
gnoorhood, that you spoke to me
ut you will satisfy yourself that
plan Is impractible as | did. you
give the matter no further thought.
mlI at $25 per ton means IS cents
crate without the crate and wrap
you will figure out how much your
Will cost and the freight on them
baltimore, then the cost of labor,
ETC., with the return freight on
70 the Middle States, you will
mat the Hawaiian fruit in cans
sgot you beat all to pieces, regard
prices. II you put up a superior
me hawalans are heavy adver-
~ ana they have the markets, and
would have to advertise as heavily
Ny 20 to compete with them.
yOu can get your fruit for nothing,
esa compete, otherwise you cannot.
NV, up the canning proposition.
Masl you will give me all the in
s'lon mat you can as to what is
uOhe there and tell me frankly
you think of the outlook for next
% and in the future.
(s a me posted as to what the asso-
| |Sa does to help you.
sualhg you in advance for all the
a.a.ion you may send me,
'e''a'n' sincerely yours, -
de. ro :! Fierce, Fla, Sept. 20, 1909.
'pyng to yours of recent date, l
s 49,, .1at ! am sorry that you have
h 'o 0Sa ieet' regarding the East
fo, ana the pineapple business, for
no;wnln,g reasons: lam to lose a
sv S;s,enbor that looked forward
I.'; 's near me this winter; Florida
'shu "g her population by four,
ia increasing the profits of every
I m". wnom you would do business,
r,~ Uss me fact that you would be
IA saat;a IN bringing many others
' ~ your tsl $4,000 capital you would
n e !ne prosperity of st. Lucie
|, o ana the State of Florida.
vounty needs such men as you,
soa s'srl, business men, that believe
rss II We had a few more :
~ 1--WE we would not worry over the
I" good roads for we would get
Y ms our population increases it
ir aore taxes collected to make
!. improvements.
AZ "se that the Florida East Coast
~. - advertising extensively to
~ people down here. 1t seems
Rcrs " 9 bad time to advertise and
~ sseekers here and then when ,
aese TO have the people tell