The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1909-09-24
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tween Palatka and East Palatka.
The Atlantic Coast Line has completed
its Bone Valley branch into Fort Meade.
The first train from Lakeland via Tiger
Bay to Fort Meade went over the road
Wednesday.
A test of using oil on the streets is to
be m ade by the board of public works
of Pensacola and if it proves success
the system will be generally adopted
throughout the city.
c. II. Tedder, of Hillsborough county
recently issued statistics showing that
the average production per acre of land
in Florida is $li2 80, or about the high
est of any State in the Union.
The Ponce de Leon celebration COM
mittee of st. Augustine are laying
plans for the great 4O0th anniversary
in 1913 1t is proposed to make this
one Of the greatest celebrations in his
tory.
1t is reported that two more power
full dredges will soon be constructed
for work in the Everglades Rumor
has it that Richard Bolles, who pur-
chased over $50, 600 acres of Everglade
lands. has advanced 100000 for their
construction.
Work on the Cathedral School for
Girls at Orlando will soon be started.
The Bishop Gray Hall is to be moved
eastward from where it now stands and
beautiful three story brick and stone
structure will ornament the central
position of the grounds. This will be
an important addition.
Sanford is now enjoying the modern
convenience of electric lights, the cur
rent being turned on for the first time
in that city last Friday night. For the
present nineteen arc lights and forty
Tungstens will be used to light the city.
Friday night the streets were crowded
with citizens who were quite well
pleased over the appearance of the city
by electric light.
One Of the largest land transactions
ever made in Florida has just been con-
cluded by the Atlantc-Gulf Land and
Timber company, wherein 1870, 900 acres
of west Florida land was sold to well
known Florida banker, whom, it is I'M
derstood, is heading western syndicate
for the purpose Of colonizing the pro-
perry purchased. The purchase price
has not been made public, but it is I'M
derstood to be in the neighborhOod of
$3.50, 900.
Duval county takes the lead in the
campaign Tor good roads. With COM
mendable enterprise, the board of
county commissioners has decided to
call special bond election on October
10Th when the property owners will
vote on the proposition to bond the
county for one million dollars, the
money to be used for building roads
and bridges throughout the county.
Verified brick will be used.
Through President J. E. Ingraham,
the Model Land Company has generous
ly offered to the commissioners in Palm
Beach county a splendid site in the city
of West Palm Beach for court house
to he erected within five years and to
cost between $40, 900 and $50, 900. The
commissioners have intimated that the !
county finances will not warrant them
in accepting the offer on the fve-year
basis and have ask ed that the limit of |
time for the erection of the building be
extended to ten years.
A young man named Elliott, travel
ing with the Indian baseball team,
which played Daytona last week, was
arrested on the charge of carrying con-
cealed weapons and confined in the Day.
tona jail. On being arrested, he tele-
z raphed to his father in Georgia of his
troubles, and the old gentleman arrived
in DeLand Tuesday. In the meantime
however, the young man had sawed
his way out of the Daytona lookup and
made a successful getaway. The
family reunion was postponed.
81 am going to make the race for the
United States Senate in the coming
primary, and ! am confident of winning.
have been urged to run by hundreds
of old friends throughout the State, and {
many new ones have, am thankful to {
say, come to my standard. Twill make
a more extended announcement at a {
later date" This positive statement @