The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-08-28
THE ROBERTS
AND GONZALEZ
DEVELOP MENT
LIVE EscAM6IA COUNTY CON-
MUNiTY is SCENE OF NEW
SETTLEMENT AND GREAT FARM
IMPROVEMENT.
SPECIAL TO THE JOURNAL

! SPECIAL TO The JoC HNAL.
! Roberts Gonzalez, Aug. y. Will
j liam Fisher has purchased eighty
acres near here and intends to clear
! it up at once and plant oranges and
! pecans this winter. Mr.. Fisher has
a beautiful laying eighty acres. which
! takes In one of the prettiest inland
! lakes in the county. This lake Is about
| two acres in extent with a depth of
about sixty feet. It is Mr.. Fishers
! intention to stock 1t with trout and
Dream. He Is of the firm of the
Fisher Barkdun Farm Agency and
evidently believes in his "own medi-
cine"
Michigan Man Well Pleased.
One of this years newcomers to
this section is J. E. Pedgr1ft from
Michigan, who purchased forty five
acres, has already about % acres of
his place In cultivation and has met
with unusual success this past sum
mer. He is well pleased with the soil.
climate and location and expects this
fall to have a number of milk COWS,
and will, in all probabilities, have A
Silo erected by next year to take care
Of his forage crops. Mr.. Pedgrift is
one Of the enterprising group who in
augurated the Roberts Canning &
Creamery Company.
A PensaeoIian In Our Midst
j. Eggart, whom we all know, or
ought to know, as he has run on the
L. & N. railroad through Gonzalez for
the past twenty years. has purchased
q place just north of A. ]. Mackey on
the hard road and IS now erecting a
pretty bungalow. Mr.. Eggart for a
number of years, has been more or
less interested in the chicken bust
ness and has now arranged to start
in on a large scale at Gonzalez 1t is
Mr.. Eggart's intention to do a large
parcel post business in both dressed
chickens and eggs.
Florida In Preferences to California.
w. N. Thompson, from California,
after spending several weeks in look
ing over the entire Gulf Coast with a
view of starting an orchard and fruit
farm, bought through the Fisher
Barkdull Farm Agency, the Sam Wat
son place at Gonzalez, a farm of 80 |
acres. Mr.. Thompson, who, Is a prac- |
teal fruit grower, says that in a few |
years that this section Of the Gulf |
Coast will be the greatest Satsunaa |
orange and grape fruit district in the |
country. that California has nothing |
on this section, either in soil, climate |
or anything else and that the only |
reason that we are behind in the Gull |
ture Of fruits, etc. is the lack OF en-
eerpr1se and promotion by large |
monied concerns. Mr.. Thompson has |
placed a large order for satsun1a |
oranges, grape fruit and other trees
Tor fall delivery and within a very
short time viii have a producing grove
well worth any ones time to visit.
Evanston Farm.
In February, Of 1914, George w.
Stahl, treasurer OF the Standard Oil
Company, started to improve his 100
acres of land that he purchased the
previous year This $50 acres is To-
Gated near Gonzalez, Florida, and is
extremely well situated for such de-
velopment as contemplated.
Mr. Stahl employed L. w. Hardy as
manager OF this farm and upon the
18th day Of February the clearing was
commenced. Today, or just six months
after the development commenced, Mr..
hardy has over eighty acres in a. high
state Of cultivation, with the most
modern farm buildings, ETC.. in the
county. He has Is acres in Satsuna
grape fruit, peaches, pecans
and other fruit, and the balance of the
eighty acres in various farm crops.
One field in particular that Mr.
Hardy is justly proud of Is ten acres
Of Triumph sweet potatoes planted on
June 20th, and which weer harvested
August 25th. There was 500 pounds
Of fertilizer used to the acre and the
field yielded 200 bushels to the acre
At the present price of potatoes, this