The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1910-04-01
FAVORED SPOT
OF PINEAPPLES
Half American Crop Produced In
Twenty Miles of St.LuCie County
THE PINEAPPLE RIDGE
Conditions of Nature Make II Free From
Great Damage Most Desirable Location
FOR Prospective Hon, seekers

Standing on the end of the dock tut
ting out into Indian river at Jensen, st
Lucie County, Florida, one realizes that
taking the four points of the compass
under observation. that he sees things,
all taken together, that exists to the
same extent in no other place in the
United States. Standing with your
back to the East, you can see without
the aid of a glass, body of land, on
which is grown, half of the pineapples
that are produced on the main land of
the United States!
Now this is something startling to a
person not acquainted with the facts
but they are facts Just the same, for
from Jensen you can see north to Fort
Pierce and south to Stuart, and this
territory has always, and always will
be the greatest producing center of the
Florida pineapple producing territory.
There is another thing in connection
with the fact that this is the center of
production, and is one Of the potent
factors why it always has and always
will be, and that is, that it has an ex-
emption from cold that other producing
sections lack.
This past winter. which has been one
Of the severest that we have had since
memorial one of lS9l-95, has been some
thing OF a test as to places most exempt
from damaging colds, and while we
! have no desire to boast. we have, after
thorough canvass of the entire section
where pineapples are grown on the
Fast Coast, found that in the territory
above mentioned, there has been
less damage than any where. else.
TO Il person familiar with those con-
| ditions of location and surrounds con-
ducive to obtaining the best results,
this exemption is easily understood, but
to the stranger who is told that sixty or
one hundred miles further south that
the cold damage was agreat deal great
er than here to pineapples an explana-
ton is necessary
First of all, the Department of Agri-
culture, from soil analysis made the
entire length of the pineapple growing
section, has published the fact that, the
soil in this immediate section is the
IDEAL quality for growing pineapples,
and this has been demonstrated for the
past twenty years, and is still on top.
Now let's look at a condition that ex-
ist no where else on the East Coast.
Fort Pierce is sixteen miles north of
Jensen take a buggy and drive down
the public road on the river bank from
Fort Pierce. and you will find that the
and bordering the river has an elevation
bf from ten to twenty feet above the
Eater level. This condition extends to
Stuart, where from there south, to the
JUMPING off place, the land is very much
bearer the water level where pineapples
re grown, and has no water frontage.
Now lets look d little into the questions
u elevation ana water frontage To
he east of fields planted in pineapples--
Fe all know, that elevated lands are
ess subject to damage by cold than
hose which are ower-he nee. any in
ormed man always tries to get on a
lldge or an eleva ed piece of land to
row pineapple, and the territory of
which | have SPOKEN. also that which
extends north Of Fort Pierce. in a
gradually smaller degree for l6 miles
known as "Ihc Pineapple Ridge OF
he Fast Coast
Another feature which distinguishes
ineappe is grown, is the fact that lying
the east of this ridge" is the famous
hd,an river, which is from two to four
piles in witdh. The pineapples grown
trough this section are planted up to-.
M on the river bank, and as all of
pr colds come from the west and north
est, damage is further prevented by
We fact that cold cannot settle on the
md, for the reason that the land is
gher than the water in Indian river,
pa the cold. which always seeks the
west point, goes over the banks OF
ndlan river to the lowest level OF the
ater below this is one of the undls- !
liable facts, that prospective settlers
" better bear in mind. 1t is not in
|nded to DO asserted that the cold has
done any damage here this winter.
II Is fact, that there is by far |
eat deal les than was done any where |
Be on the East Coast, anil when one
seeking location, they had better
We the best.
The conditions above described, are
Ito be found any where else on the
Past, and any one desiring to verify
csc statments can very readily do so
visiting the different sections. and IT
ey can find sixteen mile strip that
show as many pineapples practically
nurt by this winters cold as there are
ough from Fort Pierce by Jensen to
iart, we want to make handsome
sent in fact We feel that we would
sale In offering them their choice OF
best pineapple plantation in the
Elton
lost Of the pineapple south of this