The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1910-07-29
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in bonds for road building.
Another colony has been started in
Polk county by the Southern Land Sc
curties Company, They will open Of
fees in Barlow during September.
j. p. Taylor who lives near Ocala
has corn on his place that is lGI feet tall,
which he says will make 100 bushels to
the acre,
The contract has been let for new
hotel to be erected in kissimmee. 1t
will be- = forty-room structure, built of
concrete.
Fifteen to twenty houses being con-
structed in the vicinity of Winter Ha.
ven is an indication that that town is
enjoying a building boom.
The Florida By-Products Company,
with headquarters in Atlanta, is con-
tempIating the establishment Of fer
tiizer factory in Meadows, fifteen miles
north of Ocala,
In New Smyrna since the first of the
wear about fifty buildings have been
erected and some thirty-fve or more
are vet to be erected, thus showing that
place to be rapidly building up.
Work has commenced on Clea rwater's
new water works plant. A contract
has been let for the boring of one or
more eight-inch wells. The successful
bidder put in a price of 81. Is per foot.
John b. Moody of Tampa recently re-
turned from the cattle country east of
Kissimmee where he spent three weeks.
During that time he branded 95l calves,
besides delivering 500 beeves that had
been sold to pasture owners and finish
erS.
Plans have been completed by the
State Boar,i of Health of a splendidly
equipped laboratory and office building
which is to be located in Jacksonville
on the site formerly used for city Jail
and familarly known as Raspberry
Park.
Forty-six of the promising profess
sional and business men of Clearwater
have organized prominent and flour
ishing Board of Trade. One of the first
undertakings of the new Board of Trade
will be the advertising of Clearwater
and its advantages.
The DeSoto County Tribune publish
ed at Bowling Green. is the latest entry
into the journalistic field in Florida. 1t
is a neatly printed six-cOumn eight
page paper, edited by M. E. Martin,
and it starts out with every prospect of
being success. DeSota county now
has five newspapers.
Judge w. b. Sheppard of the U. s.
District Court, on Saturday, at Pensa-
cola, handed down his decision uphold
ing the Florida Railroad Commission in
ordering reduction Of rates within
this State by the Southern Express
Company. The public certainly needs
relief in this particular
As was expected, Jacksonville's bond
election last Monday was carried by a
large majority. The proposal is to is
sue one hundred thousand dollars for
paving purposes and as the law requires
the abutting property owners on each
side of the street to pay one-third of
the cost, it seems that total OF three
hundred thousand dollars will be spent
to extend Jacksonville's paved thorough.
fartS.
rutnim county has found after a
careful assessment that valuations have
increased nearly $500, 900 within year.
This j. good showing and the county
commissioners are well pleased. No
haa,v increase has been assessed on
special pieces Of property, but the val
ups have advanced generally and the
adard assessments viii bring in about
s. j,'i year to the county treasury,
vithynl any advance in taxes.
To Frank Mathews Of Fort Pierce be-
laugs tie credit of making the first
trip from Fort Pierce to Silver Springs,
near Oca)a. Mr.. Mathews recently
bull, large power launch which he
has named Satan, and in his boat he
has lust completed the trip up the East !
Coast Canal and through the new cut
to the st. Johns River at Mayport.
From there the route is followed up the
St. Johns River to the Oklawaha to Sill
YER Springs. st. Augustine Record.
Within q few days mass meeting
will be called in Miami to prepare for
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