The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1911-11-10
THE PEOPLES FORUM
Stuart, Fla, Nov. s, 1911

I have read with interest all Of yoIr
articles on good roads in when an
much interested. | have reau MI
Racey's items in your paper also ID 'le
Times. Union, and with reference 10
same. will state that Mr.. Racey Is ms
taken. He certainly has been mlSII'-
formed as to the distance between en-
sen and the Port Sewall route as against
the Jensen via Stuart route, the rear
distance between the two points Delng
less than mile, in favor OF the
Sewalls Point route. -, $1,000,
| also notice that one article ST teS
that the citizens of Jensen ana stuart
are not on speaking terms. Inns Is
wrong. A large number of our clll2ehS
attended the entertainment at Jensen
October 3lst. and were loud in their
praises of the hospitality rendered them
bv the JensenteS We have always
regretted that the two towns could not
he hound close together, such as the
case will be when we have a good
bridge and St. Lucie county hard sur
faces her roads. ,:.
St. Luce county has a vast domain
on both sides of the st. Lucle river eN-
tending from Stuart to White City:
Here is where the future prosperity OF
St. Lucie county lies south of Fort
Pierce. Don't forget to look into the
future. -,
Another misunderstanding, OF Mr.
Racey's is that the waters of Sewalls
Point are always passable and that the
Stuart route will be frequently inter-
fered with by winds and low tides.
We all know that the nearer the mouth
of the river or ocean the stronger the
tide is. However do not care to ar
que these points; | merely want to
throw some light on the subject. The
largest part of Sewalls Point is IN
Palm Beach county, and the largest
number of citizens of st. Lucle county
south of the Jensen-W aveland church,
where the road branches off, live on
the north side of the st. Lucie river,
and the road as it is laid out now runs
along the rear of the farms of these
citizens.
The articles in the papers tend to
make the people believe that there is
bitter fight going on between Jensen
and Stuart but, this is not the case as
Jensen cannot be left out of the main
linz any more than Fort Pierce can.
A few more words about the county
lines. The county line comes across
the Indian river at Bakers Point on the
east side of the Indian river, then it
crosses Sewalls Point close to the
property of Geo. Baker, then it crosses
the st. Lucie river and cuts off few
acres on the south side of the river,
then it continues through the middle of
the st. Lucie river till 1t crosses the
point on the north side of the river at
WaWa. All of the shore line from the
Baker place on the north side of the
river is in st. Lucie county till it reach
es a point about 1875 feet east of the
East Coast Railway bridge. The pres
ent ferry landing is in St. Lucie coun-
ty. We have a hard surface road in
our county from the south line to the
shore Of the St. Lucie on the southern
side.
Stuart has two good hotels, four gen
eral stores, one meat market, two real
estate Offices, two boat building shops,
two churches, large camp, "Pineap-
pie Camp Woodmen of the World, !"
one bakery, two fishing firms, Is the
shipping point for pineapples in Flori-
da. We have the best concrete school
house in the state for the size of the
town. with sanitary improvements and
where we teach Up to the 9th grade.
We have two livery stables and one
public automobile garage lin course of
construction). We have large Com
mercial club and large list Of winter
residents who are property owners and
tax payers.
We don't want to dictate to our
friends in st. Lucie county. Far from
it, but we do want to be understood as
to our situation in the building of good
roads, operating ferries and building
bridges in the vicinity of Stuart.