The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1909-08-20

"u.ii ''lOre money invested in Massa.
chusetts than in South Carolina vet
Inere are more spndles in South Caro-.
INA than in Massachusetts, In 1880
tnere were 66S, 200 cotton spindles in
tne South; in 1907 there were 10 5Gl :
ooO. In his speech of December leOs
1he secretary of the Department of
commerce and Labor said: I'm the
iast nVe years the increase in the mann.
iactured products of other parts of the
country has amounted to % percent.
curing the same period the increase of
manufactured products of the fen
southern States has just doubled Sc
per cent. " ~
Speaking especially of Florida's ad.
Vantages and development, the Cover.
nor called attention to the fact that the
iast census showed that Florida's popu-
latlon in the decade had increased "a
percent, which rate of increase exceed.
ed by only six States, and that there is
no State in the Union in which more
money, in proportion to the taxable
property, is collected for public school
purposes than in Florida. He continued.
Your attention is invited to the fact
that Ponce de Leon in vain sought the
fountain of Youth in Florida. Florida
is mining more than one. half of the
phosphate of the United States and
more than one third of the phosphate
of the world, being the Fountain of
Youth for the WORKOUT lands of the
United States. On account of our
climate we are renewing the health of
many people of the United States. We
are furnishing the Fountain of Youth
for the health of many people who
could not live elsewhere. Our State
census report shows the death rate to
be &C per 1000, while in the registra-
tion area of the United States, includ-
ing the New England States, New York
New Jersey, Delaware and the District
of Columbia, the death rate is l7.S per
1000. In the little town in which
live, it, like many others, ships six or
seven million pounds of fish year,
furnishing the main food-the Fountain
of Youth-for the WORKOUT brains of
part of the eastern coast of the United
States.
We have twenty million acres of
timber, furnishing annually probably
as much lumber as any State in the
Union, and furnishing one-half of the
in the United States, thus
a Fountain of Youth in pre-
serving the life of the buildings in the
United States. One town alone in the
last six months has manufactured 49,
600, 900 Havana cigars, whose clouds
all other clouds dispe and wrap you in
their light" We grow one-third of
the sea island cotton of the United
States. This fibre is so fine until it
without their knowing it,
part of the silk of the dresses worn by
the ladies of Spokane and other parts
of the United States. He added,
"While some lands in the West produce
100 bushels of corn to the acre, repre-
senting $500 pounds, still there are
many thousands of acres of land in
Florida which produce over $4,000 high
grade pineapples to the acre, weighing
Ave pounds each, or $4,000 pounds to
the acre. could indefinitely enumer--
ate list of 1000 or 1900 pounds OF
high grade tobacco to the acre; lOO
1uarts of early strawberries, 200 to 500
crates of vegetables, etc. While APP
preciating the fact that the Great West
IS growing and prospecting, yet ! nope
have said enough to convince you that
the Southeastern part OF the country
Is also worthy of consideration,