The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-09-22
SMALL DAMAGE
At MU[AT DONE
BY THE STORM
HAD PREPARED FOR THE BLOW
AND SUFFERED LITTLE-ovER
1900 >.cNGE TREES AT MULAT.

Mulat, Sept. 21.-TAe gale of last
Friday night and Saturday morning
fierce as it was, did comparatively lit
| tie damage here at Mulat Mr.. Otis
| being warned of the coming storm
| had everything about the mill and yard
arranged to withstand the tempest and
| wash of the inrushing tide. The wind
shook to the ground many pecans from
| Mr.. Otis's trees, but he thinks this
has not injured the coming yield, since
the trees were overburdened with fruit
and the thinning out process will en-
sure better matured nuts. In Mr.
Smiths pecan orchard very few nuts
were blown from the trees as they
were not so much exposed to the fury
of the storm, as were those Of Mr..
Otis's. The citizens of Mulat, general
ly, sat up during the long dismal night
Of the storm since they had been
through the terrible experiences of the
frightfu1 gale of September 81, 1906,
and did not Know but that there was
going to be a similar visitation.
The trestle across Mulat bayou
which the tempest weakened some
what, has been repaired with the
heaviest timbers so that the structure
is stronger than ever. The strip of
land between the bayou trestle and
the Escambia Bay trestle-about a
thousand yards long-upon which the
railway track is laid. was washed out
in places. delaying for twelve hours
trains from here to Pensacola on last
Saturday; but these washouts have
been filed and the track made as Sc
rr1vo hafnro
The abundant yield of Mr.. Otis's
onion crop the past season, demon
strates, beyond cavil. that the soil in
| adapted to the culture Of this most
acre potato patch nearly ready to be
dug, which promises a great yield.
1000 ORANGE TREES.
The writer, in mentioning the
orange orchards Of Mulat, stated in
last Sundays Journal, that there
were at three places here, 500 orange
trees. It is now known that. this es-
innate is far below the actual mum
| Der. For, on Mr.. Otis's place alone
there are 1000 orange trees: Mr.. Glen
dye has over 800; Mr.. Smith Lane has
500; Mrs. Smith has 400: Mr.. c. L
Todd has ESQ trees and some of his
are exceptionally fine orange trees:
Mr.. Brown has over 200 orange trees;
Messrs. Herman and Donash have
quite a number of orange trees, but
about how many is not known by the
writer However, 1t is known, that al
Mulat, there are more than 4,OOt
orange trees and this number will be
vastly increased as the years roll on;
for it is believed that orange culture
| here and in this vicinity is a safe and
profitable industry.
Mr.. w. Lewis and wife visited Mil
ton last Tuesday, returning Wednes-
day. Mr. Lewis is the mill wright
here.
Mr.. A. H. Green visited Pensacola
last Sunday morning. He has dear
relatives there, who welcome his visits
Mr.. Green runs the commissary store
of Mr.. Sim Otis and is very valu-
able man in this position.
| Mr.. c. L. Todd, who left here sew
eral months ago for northern chimes
has returned, saying he could not gel
the Florida sand out of his shoes.
which is a homely saying that one viii
return to q favorite spot.
| Miss Nora Tate Of Pensacola, is
visiting her aunt. Mrs. Tate. of this
place.
Mr.. Wiley Crane Of Cantonment
spent today at Mulat. He is in the
| logging business.
| The tug Maggie Of Mr.. otis's went