The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1911-03-31
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the forty-fou national banks in Florida
are apparently in a healthy financial
condition They have loans and dis
counts amounting to 500, 459, 55i35;
capital stock $3.50, 600; surplus fund
50, 344 300; individual deposits $2S, 2S2,-
sol. SO.
New river, the deepest river on the
East Coast. is destined in the near
future to freight more of the Florida
products than any river in the State.
With the movement on here now. moth
ing can prevent the rapid growth OF
Fort Lauderdale and the sure develop :
ment of the rich lands extending along
the river and canals will make the
growth permanent. Fort Lauderdale
Sentinel.
For the week ending Saturday Tam
pa shipped 6,50O,000 clear Havana
cigars or half million more for the
week than would be necessary to make
the average for each of the six work
ing DAYS an even million. The ship
ments for the week are 725,0)O more
than for the week ending March 4, this
year. All the factories in the city are
employing large forces but many more
cigarmakers can be Accommodated
DR.. Boozer. of Ocala is doubling his
premium offers to corn growers and
the contestants at the next Marion
county fair will have fine chances of
winning gold and renown. One of the
offers is novel and it declares that 500
will be paid, in gold, to the farmer
making the most corn on an acre of
Marion county soil, the same amount
to the boy making the record, and an
additional $50 for the boy, if his corn
crop is larger than that of the man who
wins first money.
st. Augustine wants to be the capital
of Florida, and will petition the legis-
lature to pass joint resolution grant
ing the people the right to vote on an
amendment of Article XVI of the Con-
stitution so as to read as follows:
"Section l. The seat of government
shall be in the city Of St. Augustine, "
The same shall be submitted to the
electors of Florida at the next general
election. st. Augustine may succeed
in both events, but she certainly has
begun big undertaking.
Claiming amounts due for coal, agY
gregatng 81. 523 80 the Standard Fuel
Supply Company, a corporation exist
ing under the laws of Georgia, has
libelled the steamship Fannie c. Hart.
Request is made in the libel that the
steamer, whose home port is Miami.
Fla, be sold in order that the claim of
the fuel company may be settled. 1t
appears that the libellant, whose chief /
office is at Savannah, supplied coal at /
various times to the Fannie C. Hart |,
while that steamer was lying at jack |
sonville. The first fuel furnished was
go, 900 pounds of steam coal at 81 per
ton, the total cost of which was $3.50. |
The coal was delivered aboard the
vessel This was on December q, 1910 !
-Jacksonv lille Metropolis.
At eighty two years of age Henry
NJ. Flagler has, within two or three !
days, signed a contract for the con.
structon of an extension of his rail-
way system from Palatka, Fla, to a
point about $50 miles south. Mr.. Flag
Ter wrote his signature mechanically,
trusting sol ely to fingers and thumb,
which have for sixty years subscribed
his name to business documents, some
of which involved millions. His eye
sight is greatly impaired. The curtain
which has now for some years been OBJ
scuring his vision has almost complete
Iy fallen over his eyes. He can still
distinguish objects family, as though |.
they were in fog, but he is compelled
to ident ify friends by their voices, and
he relies in business transactions upon
his still acute hearing.
Ten thous and dollars in currency was
stolen from mail pouch in transit be-
tween Tampa and Clearwater last
Thursday night, The theft was dis.
covered when the mail pouch reached
St. Petersburg having been carried by
its destination, Clearwater. The pouch
had a slit in one side eight inches long.
The registered package had been torn
open, the money extracted and the
casing pushed back in the mail bag.
The money was shipped from Tampa
Thursday afternoon by the Exchange
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