The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1910-08-19
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of the State

900 in advertising her advantages and
resources. A like amount was spent
for the same purpose by Tampa last
year and good results were obtained.
st. Johns County valuation for the
year show an increase of Sl72,603. II
shows a healthy growth but it will not
compare with the coming year. The
good roads now under construction will
quickly hasten the development of the
county. st, Augustine Record.
The board of county commissioners
of Suwannee county have fixed the tax
levy for 1910 at Is miles, divided as
follows: School, I; outstanding in
debtedness and interest, 4; general
revenue, 81 county roads, ID, and pau
per mill. The State levy is p mills,
and the sub-school district is 3 mills, a
total State county and school tax of
rs. mills.
, St. Augustines taxable valuations
have increased over one hundred thous-
and dollars during the past year. The
actual increase on the assessment books
IL $50, 355. AZ, but as this is based on a
80 l-3 per cent basis it can be seen that
tltotals well over the one hundred thou
sand dollar mark The total upon which
the taxation for the new year will be
computed amounts to 81, 1893, 300.
An Italian colony is to be formed in
/ Volusia county, accorl ling to report
given out by a man from Oklahoma
City, while in Jacksonville recently.
| The promoter, who is in touch with the
Washington Italians. and expects to go
across the ocean and bring his colonsts
over, has secured $1,000 acres of land
in most desirable part of Volusia coun-
ty, and will settle it with about 200
farmers from Southern Italy.
The great curse of the laboring man
is intemperance. 1t has brought more
desOlation to the wage earners than
strikes, or war, or sickness or death
1t is more unrelenting tyrant than
a'grasping monopolist. 1t has caused
little children to be hungry and cold, to
grow up among evil associates. to be
reared without the knowledge of God.
| 1t has broken up more homes and wreck
ed more lives than any other cases ON
the face of the earth. Cardinal Gibbons.
The Palm Beach Farms Company is
to establish an experimental farm on
its lands at Palm Beach. The station
will be in charge Louis DeGottreau, a
man who has had experience in this
line of work. The contract has been
let for buildings, teams, wagons. and
tools have been purchased, and the work
will begin at once. The purpose is to
show what can be raised on these lands,
and the experimental farm will be of
value to all farmers living in this Sec
ZION. lrOplcal sun.
c. C. Strickland, at his farm near
Gainesville, is experimenting with a
new kind of fruit which he calls the
"Garden Huckleberry, Says the Gaines.
vile Sun. The berry in color is very
much the same as our regular wild
huckleberry, but is about four times as
large. The fruit is very rare, only a
few having seen it before. In this fruit
Mr.. Strickland believes he has found
something new and fruit that will in
short time make him quite reputa-
ton.
Publications are that more than two
hundred buildings have been erected
since the first of January in Fort Myers,
says the Press, and then tells of the
efforts it is now making to get up a
complete list of the improvements in
that city during the past year. This is
certainly fine showing and indicates
that Fort Myers will soon be claiming
even more attention. The prosperity
and progress of Fort Myers is creditabe
and excellent and the Press is to be
given due praise for the part that it
has been taken in putting forward the
advantages and attractions of the place.
West Palm Beach may soon be the
terminal of new railroad, says the
Tropical Sun. The plans are all made
and the men who are back of the pro-
ject state that the work is going to be
done. The road will be a narrow gauge
and will be in the nature of an interur-
ban. The projected line of road will
run from West Palm Beach west through
the Okeechobee road lands, and then.
striking southerly course. will 20
through the large land holdings of the
Palm Beach Farms Company. 1t will