The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1909-10-09

recent meeting. formally accepted the
ofTer Of the Times TO give hand.
some cup for the automobile making
the fastest time on a pathfnding
contest from Tampa 10 Jacksonville,
The contest TO be under the auspices
II The club: aud set the date for the
ain ON November g. Several commu-
mites, have offered additional cash
prizes. provided the winning car goes
through the town Offering the prize
rhe date named is a few days be
,orc the meeting at the new track IN
Atlanta and many of the cars may
continue on TO that city. Il Is evil
dent that this contest will be of con
siderable value TO the towns and cit
les found TO be on the line of the
most direct and feasible route be-
tween the two cities and II will add
TO the interest In good roads in Flor
ida The trip has been made in
little more than fourteen hours.
ssThe first salvage from the strand.
ed Dutch steamship Zeeburg was
brought to Jacksonville on lighter by
The tug Upper, consisting of various
packages of miscellaneous freight.
**Florida farmers will produce more
corn the present year than ever be
fore in the history of the state. In
some sections as much as sixty-fivc
bushels to the acre will be harvest
ed, while a farmer in West Florida
claims that his average yield will be
one hundred and twenty-five bushels
TO the acre.
%Jacksonville's foreign trade for the
fiscal year 1910 starts out well. For
the first quarter the imports footed
up, value of $112,220, and the i'm
ports $764,644-a total for the quar-
ter of $S76,S64. This is more than
half as much as the foreign trade OF
this port for any previous year, and
is more than the entire foreign trade
of any full year prior to 1907. The
trade of each month is larger than
that of the month before, and If the
increase continues at the rate that
the last few months have shown,
Jasksonville's foreign trade by the
end OF the year will reach a total Of
S., 000,0
Congressman ID. II. Mays requests
that the announcement be made that
the government will furnish bulletins
upon the subjects of agriculture, hor-
ticulture, Horticulture, stock-raising,
etc, and that he will gladly procure
any bulletin upon the foregoing sub
jects for anyone who may desire
them.
**At Kissimmee the ladies OF the
town maintain q rest room, and peo-
pie from the country can stop there,
where all provisions are made for
their temporary comfort. This room
10 Wit
children.
*%The development of Duyal county
outside Of Jacksonville is just begin.
ming. The city has been increasing
rapidly in population. The value OF
city property has been leaping up
ward, but until a year or two ago
Duval county was at as complete
standstill as IL il had been a section
without transportation facilities. All
this is changed now, and farming
lands are increasing in value as fast
as city lots.
*SEyery new settler, in the rural dis
tricts especially, means an immedi-
ate and a prospective increase TO
the circulating medium i'm Florida.
The money he brings with him he ex-
Ponds in paying for his land, for his
implements, probably for clearing the
land, for seed and for provisions.
Then, as his crops arc matured, he
brings money into the state which he
also eXpends here. II at all Of
social nature, in the widest sense, he
adds 10 the fund for support of
churches, schools and other neighbor-
hood institutions, whereby the older
residents profit as well as himself
II he Is multiplied some thousands
of times he may add to the represen-
tation OF the state in the national
counsels. These are reasons why
every Floridian should join enthusiasts.
ideally I'm every movement for the
promotion of immigration