Mexico weekly ledger., 1912-01-25
GEO. KABR|CH
WRITES OF THE
LAND IN FLORIDA

~ the Lfe9cA OF eAiCO MO-
Trip Down East Coat Of Florida.
First IS the Old and picturesque St.
Augustine, with is milllondoliar no
tells and ITS old Cathedral and is
Immense Sea wall. TT. Marion and
the old Slave Market Piaza, and
its four hundred years old dwelling,
its orange and grape fruit groves ard
many other things OF interest
Next Is Daytona; the gigantic live
oak is there, and sea5b1lhiIng and
fishing r. the order OF the day.
Then on to PAIN Beach, The gar
den pot Of Florida, situated on a.
long strip Of groazld between lake.
Worth and the Ocean The country
around Lake Worth aud The ocean
naturally is superb and millions have
been expended thereon, and 1t is
now a paradise on earth. Tropical
plants and trees from all parts Of
the world are gathered here-walks'
bordered With eocoanut palms. hi
biscuit oleander and sweet-per1umed
magnolia, with thousands Of roses.
and other magnificantly blooming
flowers. They look as fresh now as
the Mexico green iitAhse does ~
June,
FISHING. bunting and bathing is
fine for The Northern people. Presl
dent Grover Cleveland came here ia
the winter to fish and hunt.
One can take a trip through the
jungle trail to the forest grove,
Alligator Farm and the rubber and
the magnolia trees in wheel chairs.
Palm Beach is ornamented with
thousands Of cocoanut trees which
We're washed ashore BY the wrecktng
OF the Spanish vessel, Providencia,
laden with eocoanuts, three thousand
years ago.
Here is the Royal %Poinchana, the
largest and finest hotel In the
world. Large truck farms and or
ange groves are I'm this county, but
all produce raised in Florida Is per
ishab'e.
Now ons four hundred and seventy
seven miles to Miami. Here is a
beautiful Ocean city. Great truck
farms and orange groves. some banHan
as. cocoanut, pecanE and pineapple
can be raised here.
The bets part OF Florida is on the
Indian River and near Tampa and up
the 81, johns River to- Sanford;
all these points are pretty fair soil
and the garden spot OF Florida for
trucking and tropical frult. but all
this land has to be fortified every
year. Some parts will take a hun
dred doaIars and some parts three
hundred per acre, which makes a pro
lific growth and pays to fertiltze.
Then take a trip 70 Leesburg and
fish and hunt on Lake Harris and
Lake Griffin; they say 1T is Dine best
shot on earth to fish and lnunt. Az
SO great trucking and tropical fruits
raised here. the soil Is made good
10y fertilizing.
Them ON to The Everglades. Here
is where so many have lost their an
by the land sharks in the North and
East, Water, water here for the last
thousand years, and as " IL but
is inches above the Ocean, can new
er be drained. Suppose 1t was all
drained. ii being but d little above
the Ocean, and d violent w%indstorm
should strike the Ocean; st would
drive the salty waves ten feet high
all over this low land-then what
would become of yotlr truck farms
or your orange groves with this salt
water over them?
Government has done d great deal
Of good for Florida; she has cut four
canals through her state, draining
part Of l1er lakes, which =re 5ss
4uuAAn Oh 4Vidusts It'll Ule NtsVtS
drained quite a number of lakes and
swamps in those canals, Then the
large landowners drained from their
land into the state bitches thus mak-
ing a great deal Of muck lands
which is 8he best soil they have here
but all needs to be enriched every
year.
Keep twenty-five miles from the
Ocean IL yoi don't want all sand
Jacksonville Is twenty-five mes
from the Ocean and there is sand,
and q~uicksand here fortyafeet deep.
Florida is no farming country, no
wheat, oats, rye, corn, barley, clov-
or or timothy or Blue grass, none Of
these grow here. MOI do domestic
fruits. only tropical amid tropical
fruits.
1t rains and Is warm here when
there ID snow in the North. There
are two good things here. health and
climate. There are several parties
here from Mexico. ! have been quite
well the eight weeks | have been
here and have gained ten pounds
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