The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1909-07-02
FLORIDA TOPICS

New Symma is the latest Florida
town to decide on q big Fifth Of July
celebration.
The town of Manatce has issued Sl5,-
600 of bonds for street Improvement,
which were sold to northern bankers.
The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad will
make extensive improvements on their
dock at Fort Myers on the Caloosa-
hatchpe.
4 street railway franchise in Pensa-
cola has been applied for by {. +. Dob
son. {. c. Goodman and Il. o. HOFFMAN,
The me will run on ten streets.
Inr officials Of Palm Beach county
which was created from the northern
half of Dadc by the last Legislature,
will assume their Offices on the first
Monday in June.
The rate payers Of Manatee county
voted on Tuesday last on proposition
to bond the county for $3.50, 600 for the
building of hard-surface roads. The
election carried by about 10 majority.
The board Of county commissioners
of Breyard county have offered re-
ward of $50 for evidence sufficient to
convict any person or persons Of violat-
ing the game or fish laws of that
county,
A new company is being Incorporated
at Miami to carry ona general trucking
and shipping business. w. l.. Burch,
T. f. Cheatham and j. c. Bale have
applied for charter for the Campo
Rico Tracking Company, capital stock,
$4,000.
Announcement is made that the
Southern Steamship Company will es-
tablish a direct line between Philadel-
phia and Tampa The company has al
ready leased considerable dock space in
Tampa from the Henry e. Knight Ter
minal Company.
The Sanford and Everglades Railroad
is being pushed through these days and
the road has now reached Cameron City
the new city on the shore of Lake Jessup
This will give the new railroad about
seven miles Of track ready for operating
before the fall crops are planted.
The large new terminals of the Sea-
board Air Line on Grassy Island, Tampa.
are almost completed and business is al
ready being handled from the commo-
dious new dock. The phosphate ele-
vator, with capacity of two thousand
tons day, is said to be the largest in
Florida.
1t is expected that work will begin
on a proposed large tourist hotel at
Lakeland in less than month. The
building is to cost $40, coo, and of this
amount $4,000 is being put in by
North Carolina capitalists while Lake
land business men have subscribed the
remaining $4,000.
The enterpy!sing citizens Of West
Palm Beach are making arrangement
for the building OF a new city pier ex-
tending GU, into Lake Worth Z distance
of $50 feet and having a width of IL feet
On the pier head, to be $50 by % feet,
it is planned to erect a two-story club
house for the use of visitors, to be fur
nished with I'll modern conveniences.
The Titusville Advocate says: John
T. Hammond, formerly one of Orlando's
prominent residents ane capitalists,
but now of New Smyrna, where he is
president of the bank, has purchased
about $4,000 acres of land in the Del.
espine Grant, just south of Titusville,
which will be settled and developed by
farmers. The land is in Brevard coun.
ty, and is said to be we'll adapted for
fruit and vegetable growing. 1t is
very advantageously situated, being
near the Florida East Coast Railway
on the east and the St. Johns river on
the west; and for cattle raising the
land is claimed to be excellent. 1t is
stated that the land will be divided in.
to small tracts Of five, ten and twenty
acre lots, and that many practica,
western farmers will till the soil.
The orange growers of the state OF
Florida will again meet in their full
strength at the Tampa Bay Casino, in
Tampa, on July 2lst, following meet.
ing on July Goth Of the executive com.
mittee of the Florida Citrus Exchange,
to be held at the Office of Colonel