The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1911-02-10
SOME IS GOOD
SOME IS POOR
Investors Should Examine Lands
Before They Purchase
DIFFERENCE IN THE SOIL
Soil of Different Sections Is Peculiarly
Adapted To Its Kind of Products In
Fruits as Well as In Vegetables

resources of the state, soil conditions
and products written by Governor
Gichrist and published in the Chicago
Tribune Of January l6. this general in
formation is printed:
In the production of vegetables there
is popularity existing which probably
does not exist in any other state. Some
community will start, for instance, to
raise celery. 1t will become more or
less a speciality for that particular
neighborhood, though there are nun
dreds of other sections in which celery
could be produced just as well. In one
place Irish potatoes are shipped in
trainload lots, though in many other
places these potatoes would grow equal
y as well.
At recent county fair saw on ex-
hibition from 800 and 900 gallons of
syrup produced on one acre. In some
portions of the state tomatoes, egg
plant, peppers, green peas, strawber-
ries, ETC., are more or less exclusively
grown. OF the several trunk lines OPP
Grating in Florida one alone last season
transported $4,000 carloads of fruits
and vegetables, spreading FlOrida's JOY
comfort and sunshine throughout the
various portions of our nation.
In the more southern portions OF the
state oranges, grapefruit, lines ana
lemons are produced in abundance, and
in the far south mangOes and alligator
pears are becoming staple products.
High grade tobacco is extensively pro-
duced in some counties.
Florida is also a great cattle prOduc-
ing country. Many of the farmers are
now raising hogs. At the various coun-
ty fairs as fine cattle, hogs, and sheep
are exhibited as can be raised in other
states.
Pecans are raised in various counties.
In one county alone there are fully g.
900 acres planted to these nuts.
The State is probably better watered
than any state in the union. Streams,
rivers. and lakes abound. Artesian
water can be produced at varying depths
throughout the state.
The land in Florida, however, varies.
Some is good for the production of one
thing and is not good for another.
would advise all settlers to examine
the land before settling. There is
plenty of land in the state on which
settlers could not only make good
living but could become independent.
There are other lands that are not suit
ed for cultivation. Every county has
some fine land and every county has
some poor land
The climate is great asset to the
state Due to it thousands of people
come here to make their homes. The
benefit Of the climate in extending the
lives of worthy men and women ten,
fifteen and twenty years cannot be es-
timated
People are beginning to appreciate
the advantages of Florida. The cen
sus for 1900 showed an increase in pop
ulaton of 35. 5 per cent. The census
for 1910 showed an increase in pOpula-
ton of the United States at large OF
% per cent and of Florida Of AZ. per
cent. Enough ''sed."
The people Of our state are alive to
the advantages of education. There
are six colleges, one university. and
several converts in the State In the
forty-seven counties there are ninety
three high schools, being the ''peope's
colleges" More mileage is assessed
for educational purposes than in any
other state, the milage representing
fully IL mills. During the last two and
a half years and for the coming half
year there has been and will be expend-
ed for school buildings SS44 500.
We are getting to be a great manu-
featuring state. Statistics from the
report of the commissioner of agricul.
ture for the year 1908 show that tee
year 1904 the capital invested in manu-
features in Florida was S42, l57, OSO, and
for 1907 it was $50, 337, 2l5, represent
ing an increase of 20 per cent. The
value of the products manufactured in
1904 was S53, 506, l54 and in 1907 the
value of the manufactured products
was $74,332, l65 being an increase in
three years Of 80 per cent.
We have great state, being second
in size to only one state east OF the
Mississippi. We are more national
than any state, our population consist
ing of the best and most enterprslng
people of all the states. With such
people, with such soil, and such climate
and with the streams, lakes, and arte-
sion water for irrigation purposes where
ever needed, it is difficult even to con-
ceve of what the future will bring
! forth.