The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1911-03-03
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tampa nuIdCIETeIS ulIh W." ~ -
only fifteen cents hundred pounds in
that city.
Wonderful to say, the people Of Brad
ford county have agreed that the ro(iil-
ty shall be divided and will ask the
next legislature to make the division on
the lines alrcady agreed upon.
Crops on the East Coast never look
ed better At this time OF the year than
at present, This Is especially true Of
the tomato crop. The acreage in both
potatoe, and beans will double that OF
last year.
Prospects looks very bright for the
farmers Of the Southern part of the
State and the possibility of a splendid
crop this season is more then evident,
Judging from the reports received from
the different sections,
Fort Myers is enjoying a wave Of I'M
prcccdcnted prosperity 1t is under
stood that a perfect stream of home
seekers have been flowing into that
town for several months in special cars.
All hotels and boarding houses there
are full.
Among the substantial improvements
made in Sarasota in the past few months
the number of buildings completed and
now ia process of construction, are
good evidence of the material growth
of the city; more than thirty having
been completed, and many more con-
templated
The Tampa Tribune announces that
its editor, Col. W. +. StOvall, will soon
retire from active newspaper work and
that his son, Mr.. w. o. Stovall, will
take his place as editor. Col. Stovall
is one of the few men who have sue
ceeded in building up great newspaper
property and richly deserves the success
he has achieved.
Hon. w. A. Blount, who was defeat
ed in the recent primary for United
States Senator may run for Congress
from the Third or West Florida District.
Mr.. Blount has made no announcement
on this subject, but it is understood
that he is in receptive mood. From
the large vote given him in the district
in his Senatorial race, it is evident that
the Pensacolan would receive large
support in his try for lower house
honOrs.
No sensible man expects that the
wealth of a country can be so dis
tributed that all of the people would
share and share alike. Even if such a
distribution were possible, inequality
would at once arise because of the diff
ference of personal temperament, dis
position and ability. But sensible men
do wish to change conditions that work
in favor of special interests with re-
sultant colossal fortunes for few peo-
Pile. and which conditions just as surely
work injustice to the many.
Grant Bell & Company, of Chicago,
are erecting an immense tomato pulp
factory, at Goulds, in Dade county.
The company is the largest manufac-
turers of tomato pull in the world, their
products. which is used for soups and
catsups, being used in all the large
hotels in the United States. They plan
to use not only the culls and ripes of
tomato crop, but later to handle the
waste of all crops of the East Coast.
To induce thi, enterprise to locate at
GouIdS, the large packing concerns and
planters have donated the tomatoes for
this year,
White Springs the pretty little resort
city on the banks Of the Suwannee
river, WAS practically destroyed by the
most disastrous conhagratioH that sec
ton Of the state has ever experienced
last Friday. The tangled ruins of
twenty-sjX buildings marked the path
the flames took in their sweep across
the town in the four hours eapsng
between the time the fire started in
the Baptist parsonage till it had finally
burned until there was no fresh fuel.
-Four hotels, the Normal College and
many residences and business block
destroyed makes a total fire loss of two
hundred thousand dollars.
Flordians will be pleased to learn
that there is probability of Senator
Taliaferro, whose time as senator ex-
pires March I, continuing to hold a
position of trust in Washington, which
will be n credit to himself and his
State if he is selected. The capacity
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