The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1910-05-27
HOW FLORIDA
IS ADMIRED
Correspondent of Chicago Paper
s Pictures Wonderful Future
NATURAL ENOOWMtNTS
f,orida the Index Finger on the Right Hand
of the WorId-Panama Canal Will
Make il the Greatest State

The following able article was writ
ton for Chicago paper by Mr.. Glenn
snt Gore, man who has travelled ex
tensiyeIy and is thoroughly qualified to
EXPRESS an opinion:
There was an old saying among the
Englishmen of the eighteenth century
that if YOU wanted to know something
ahout England you should go to France
and this may be peculiarly applied to
Florida today, for believe that Flori-
IA has ten times as many admirers in
the North as she has within her own
borders.
Today it is chilly and cold in Chicago;
LIGHT overcoats are worn, and some of
the buds on the trees in The parks are
wthered and dead. having been born to
be killed by the frost.
AS rode down on the elevated car
this morning to work, there sat oppo-
site me two men of more than ordinary
appearance, one of whom | knew to be
manufacturer of machinery and man
Of considerable worth and money in the
Central West.
These men were engaged in CONVEX
sation that shows more clearly than
ANYTHING else the regard with which
the North holds Florida. Many portions
Of the state were discussed. and during
the five or ten minutes that | listened
to this conversation | knew | was in the
presence of men who had travelled wide
" over the state of Florida. To give
all of that conversation would be i'm
possible, but this much of it now re-
call:
Florida is state whose value con-
sists in her natural endowments that
is, that geographically she is located in
the most perfect position of this cOun-
try know that to be the truth. Sec
ond. That she has an Incompatible eli
mate; third that the native FlOridian
did not fully appreciate the vastness of
the wealth at their elbows; fourth, that
the influx of people from all parts of
the globe toward Florida would, with
out question of doubt, :mean agreat-
er development for the state. because
Of the multiplicity of ideas and the en-
thusasm of new blood than any single
factor in Florida's present development.
After ! reached my Office began to
look over some facts and figures with
respect to the development of the great
Northwest and the human migratory
movement headed that way. | learned
that the Chicago and Northwestern,
the Hartman and Hill lires, the Grand
Trunk and the Canadian Pacific had
been the means. during the year 1909,
of hauling over their lines approximate
" over 400, 600 people; that the maJOrl.
ty of the people who bought lands in
the Northwest, were compelled to
lay out at once $50 to 500 an acre IN
purchase price and improvements. And
me growing season for the majority OF
this district was ninety six days;ln some
instances, however, it reached a. high
as one hundred and twenty days, and
that the return per acre on this invest
!ment, gross did not nearly reach the in
itlal investment.
! cOntrasted this brief analysis of one
migratory movement with Florida, and
saw at once what everybody sees VINO
has visited both sections. The farmer
IN Florida can geta crop of 500 an acre
at the present time upon an investment
OF less than $25, with work equal to
that of the man who lives in the North
west. He can obtain upon 20 per cent
Of the land results aggregating from
nve to ten times as much as the farm
ers in the Northwest.
After all, Professor Knapp is right
Florida is go per cent climate. 10 per
cent soil and 10 per cent man. Inc
more you can take away from the ell
mate and add to the manor in other
words, the least you depend on the en-
mate and the more you depend on tne
man. the greater will be the results IN
florida.
noticed upon a recent visit to jack
sonvllle, down the east coast and up the
west coast, with journey through tne
central portion of the state, that wnat
Florida lacks, and what she needs the
most, is the spirit of the great North
west. The men who makes up the des-
olate wheat fields of Washington, the
mountain slopes of Oregon and the irrl,
gated sage hush lands of Idaho ana
imo1tana are keenly alive to the posi-
Dilitles of their states and their farms
and, believing in these possibilities;
every locality has some commercial
19ody that is working day and night en-
ut.eavoring to attract worthy immigra'
!ion to its section. These various sec
ions, over the name of these CONNER
c,al clubs, advertise in national maya
Ines. They print costly literature III
ttnree colOrs, trying to convey tne
beauty of the skies and land. and tney
make a free distribution Of this lltera-
lure, which costs sometimes as nign
q fifty cents copy: for these men
ssy that when they obtain a new SCI,
yer that they have that man ana n'S
progeny throughout all eternity, anu