The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1909-08-20
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WORK IS TOLD
4, G;lchrjst Gives Westerners
Rh,ert Lesson on Our Growth
DRAINAGE
.,,A,, the Magnitude Of this Work
aadds Q Fountain Of Youth for Ma
Trial Things as Well as Health

Aida a fountain OF f0uth TOR Ma
trial Things as Well as Health
\. National Irrigation Congress
u hegan its session at Spokane,
q q ast Thursday morning, brought
w. w. number of distinguished men tc
~ citv. Among the prominent
.tsrs was Governor A. W. Gilchrist,
florida, who was given a splendid
. sG and his address, which was
\ lengthy, was given the closest
a"srnor Gilchrist referred to the
',ooriateness of discussing at a Ma,
Irrigation Congress such related
|ttsrs as drainage, good roads, re-
.sting. etc., and stated that he has
honor to be Governor of a State,
chairman of a board which is now
|iuing an area of 7,48S square miles,
M 10 itself represents an area
ater than the total area of the
|ts Of Rhode Island and Delaware,
combined area of Delaware and
kucticut, or, with its contiguous
Flow, would represent an area
ater than that of Connecticut, Rhode
nd and Delaware combined, or of
Ier Of the States of Massachusetts
New Jersey. He stated that the
! bslluvial, underlaid with limestone,
b often many feet deep, and that
State has there four powerful
kes at work operating from diff.
lat points of the compass; that the
|te isdoing the work at present from
proceeds of the sale of alternate
hons Of land, without the assistance
Ihe government, or of any individual
corporation.
Fin some portions of Florida, said
we are realizing the necessity for
sution, especially in the peninsula
Non. Individuals are able to &C.
bpLsh this result in a very inexpen-
manner. In many cases the farm
take big chunk of wood and ham
down q pipe twelve or fifteen feet
b With a 3 or horsepower gaso-
engine water is pumped out. BY
has Of hose it is applied to the
and to vegetation. In many places
esian wells are driven, in some To-
ties the wells being only rs feet
b and in others 26O feet. So far, a
|a'failing supply of water has been
hined. By the use Of piping this
(er IS distributed throughout the
intended to be irrigated.
lhe orange growers and truckers
I realized that a little labor of this
! y we'll repaid in making the crop
plutely certain Unlike your sea-
|nere, the winter months are our dry
|on, and the summer months the
season. Owing to the great num-
Of rivers, lakes and streams, the
Pef Of irrigation is: now in many
solved by the simple use of the
Q and engine, each community, or
u Individual, settles this question
e Governor stated that while Flor.
Poes not need national assis lance in
(ston work, that he favored proper
! \, aid to sections in the West
needing the same.
F!errlng to the great development
p / south ., in the last few years, Gov.
Illchrist offered the following
w Y; evidence, giving credit to the
Eaacturers' Record, Of Baltimore,
Ess!ag compiled most of the data:
Y tne last six months contracts
Yen let in the South for building
o y sSo mills aggregating a cost Of
|W. Our cotton seed are fur
y PROBABLY three-fOurths of the
|. W o. the world, and a large part |
s. A'u you eat. Agriculture is be-
IS e.. more and more diversified
ysss the value of the South's ag-
sl products was 81, zoe, QUO, 900,
- much as the total value of the !
p'v ,ooc of the United States as
M 'W. Comparing it with $770-
~ me ,ns value of the South's agri-
s% ~ iSSO, it shows that in eighteen
4 ae agricultural output has
|r;pa ~ value. The growth Of manu-
'"s = equally remarkabIe; South
N I MI are now turning, out S..
'.w worth of goods 4 year. Out
separate kinds Of industries
came. me scope of the 1906 govern
a asus OF manufactures, 262 we're
4 ' e IN the fourteen Southern
m SHnooowlng nearly six times the
~ worth manufactured in
bo00 oouth's coal outputof over
s ~ IONS year, Is more than
1 Iin lug 9ltuminous coal production
I'M united States in 1880.
ne remembered that the
I'M ol production in 1880 was only |
4 a. ions coH The South's iron out
Nj uU tons, in 1880, is now rep.
o,,sA ~ $500, 600 tons. Since 1867 |
II s aas mined !, SIS, 900, 600 tons
NJ once nan 1859 the South has pro-
iS SSW 0oo barrels Of petroleum.
wv the Ninth ha. n,sx ON mn
~ y 8 70, O lumber, increasing the
bIooo ny ~ COG, 600 feet In 1880 to
VuO u 1907. In the manu- |