The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1910-12-02
FELLSMERE

rfe'aps some folks may he disnosot
10 smile, and, perhaps, some of then,
may as the novelist says, smile audi.
o'F' at this caption; but to all such
we would say; Fellsmere not only has
nsWe, hut has also "a local hab;t..
t"n.' By the time this reaches the
eyes o. the gentle reader" four houses
"''' nave been completed, to-wit; The
oraheh store OF w. G, Braddock's Co.
Na"lan Mercantile Co., a section car
'ooSr. large and commodious section
ere" mousse; and last, but greatest.
countless the largest. best, the only
s"nptjonSly finished section boss" res
'"ence On the East Coast Of Florida.
IN addition to these permanent i'm.
pro'ements. We have IA "city of tents"
ana they are Inhabited by numerous
ropoIatlon-one whole family, Mr.. and
MrS' ). {. Rogers, of Fort Pierce. and
ue'r sweet little year-old babe. Then
we have chief civil engineer |. S. Love
with four white helpers, among whom
j. W. LsBrnce is assistant engineer:
besides an adequate number of colored
helpers; the whole force busy every day
surveying the land.
Then there is the force of carpenters
assisting b. +. Hardesty; J. c. Rogers,
already mentioned; A. p. Edge, J. C.
Bush and J. W. Matchett, all of Fort
Pierce; b. A. Rogers, of Eau Galle, l..
{. Stewart, of Sebastian. A. D. Black.
shear and T. J, Cobb, of Mayo.
Then there is that war horse of truck
ers, X. A. Conkling, chief of the "Dem
onstration Farm" and his CORPS of as.
slstants. turning up the virgin soil and
already putting in the seed. b..
So much for Felsmere proper-but
the point of chief present interest IS at
the junction." midway between Sc.
bastian and Felsmere, where. some
things are doing, all of which willinure
to the upbuilding of this city and the
wholesale development of tract of
land destined ere long to be.the home of
teeming population, blessed with such
home advantages in earth's production
az Florida alone can offer to the agri-
cuturist.
What are those things going on at
the Junction." A large force of me.
chanics are making the welkin ring"
and boiling together two enor-
nous excavat0rs from the factory of
the Lidgerwood Machinery Company, of
Chicago. Each of these stupendous
rooters weigh 240, pounds and are
to be followed by two more of the same
in about two weeks!! These
machines, each having
roofing capacity of 1000 cubic yards
day, will begin work about the first of
January, and will be supplemented by
A dredge weighing 275, 600 pounds. This
will begin its work between the first
and tenth Of February. We thus have
a grand total of 1885. 900 pounds OF
steel and iron. that is capable Of equal
ng the Martians in digging canals.
The work of putting these machines up,
md all details of construction are under
The management of W, II. Emory, the
of works.
The guiding spirits Of this combina-
ion of lItantic effort are H. h. Every, |
renerRl manager and j. G. Faircloth,
Who, though he u nookkeeper, is active /,
n superirt-rtlHg the work--two gen
Ieulen OF innoiaticable energy, large |
Jews and boundess courtesy.
L. Nelson Fpliy yice.presideoi OF the ,
1ellsmere Farms Company. came Go"n |
asst weef t. look over the enterprise, /
10 New York Saturday night /,
The present ,ermmns Of the railroad
yll( he immediately abolished ny urn
no 90 degrees north, 4 distance u /
bra. 4u6 nre-haif titles.