The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1910-08-19
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sions arriving at Jacksonville indicates
that the travel to Florida is anything
but dull this summer.
Work on the county road from Jupi-
ter south to West Palm Beach is pro-
crossing nicely. About 100 men and
teams are now engaged on the work
and the grading of four miles has been
completed just south Of Jupiter
Probably the greatest fishing record
yet made has just been reported by
Robert Carroll, at ST. Petersburg who
reports that since April q to July "a,
he has landed l55 tarpon. The largest
fish he had caught weighed l44l pounds.
The Florida Land Syndicate, which
has recently purchased one hundred
thousand acres of land in the southeast
ern portion of Leon county and in Wa
kuIa and Jefferson, will proceed at
once on thorough business lines to the
development of the property. ITALIA
hassee True Democrat.
c. H. Moore, of Chicago. who pur-
chased land in the Turnbull hammock,
north of Titusvile. for an orange grove.
has also purchased 1900 acres of rich
hammock land Mr.. Moore will make
that his future home, and will bring
with him from Illinois and Ohio several
families to settle on the land. East
Coast Advocate.
If the lumberman's combine which is
being organized in Jacksonville by the
milling interests of Florida carries out
its plan of doing away with waste in
handling timber and in conserving the
forests of the State, it deserves strong
support. Florida's forest resources
have been given little attention. and
they are fast being ruthlessly destoyed
The Osceola Journal, new paper for
Kissimmee, of which F. w. Stalker is
editor and proprietor, promises toglve
the news of Osceola county in the best
possible form, fairly and impartially
1.-THE Journal expects to have mind
of its own in public affairs" says Edi-
tor Stalker, land will speak plainly
when it feels that the public good re-
quires it.
The postoffice at Martin was robbed
F riday night, the yeggmen securing
500 in cash besides quite lot of stamps.
The safe containing the cash was car
ried several miles from the postofiice
and broken open by the roadside, where
it was found Saturday morning. Be-
yond the tracks, indicating that there
were four men in the party there, is no
clue to the identity of the burglars.
At Lakeland Tuesday the delegates
to a special meeting called with view
to organizing a South Florida board of
trade decided that they would call the
organization the South Florida Publicity
club. Headquarters will be established
in Jacksonville and literature and ex-
hibits will be displayed and explained
for the information of tourists and home
seekers. Sixteen towns and cities of
South Florida were represented by del
egates at the meeting and the proceed
ings were harmonious and entirely salts.
factory.
The Live Oak Democrat calls atten-
ton to a farmers meeting to be held
at Bowling Park, August II, at which
representatives Of the government ex-
perimentai station will be present to adj
dress the farmers. Farmers from vari-
Gus parts Of the state, besides those Of
Suwannee county, will be there to give
jneir experiences and to hear the results
of experts who have been working at
the experiment station. The meeting
is solely in view Of getting better re-
suits from the soil and should be well
attended.
Detroit, Florida, is the name of
rev settlement that is about to bloc m
on the East Coast, about twenty-eight
miles from Miami. The colony scheme
is being worked out by the Tatum broth
ers, and a large number Of Michigan
farmers and others will soon be on the
ground laying out fields for truck plant
ing on the prairie lands, and building
homes and planting citrus groves in the
pine lands. Detroit will be on the line
of the Florida East Coast railway and
promises to be one of the prospecting
places of the state within short time.
The Hon. A. c. Groom, comptroller
of the state of Florida, in the recent
bankers convention at Pensacola,
sal that the total resources of Florida
state banks has grown from 6,149. 900