The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1915-04-28
Minnesota Beats
Southern Sister
So Says w. HI. Gold After SPEND
ing Winter Months at
Miami, Florida
is GLAD TO GET BACK
Conditions in South Not So Good
as in More Stable
North

w. H. Gold, who with Mrs.
Gold and their two youngest
daughters, returned last week
from spending the winter at
! Miami, Florida, says, cts fun to
be home" and says it exactly as
though he meant it. Mr.. Gold
adr its that Florida has charm
all her own, that the winter
climate there is enhancing, and
that the past months there were
delightful. However, he never
falters in his loyalty to Mime
sofa as the best place in the
world for the whole year round.
Its fun to be home"
M. Gold carefully watched
conditions while in Florida and
believes that the present condi-
ton is not healthy, although it
can hardly be called panicky. But
the northern capitalists are not
investing money in Florida at
present, real estate is at stand
still and money is being held at
| 80 and up. While Miami, city,
Of 10000 people, is seeing bit,
of a building boom Just now, due
in part to the fact that five null
tl-millionaires are putting up
palatial residences there, there
is some danger of the town
overbuilding which would have
positive disastrous effects.
The tourist crop, which is
Florida's Big Business, has been
big one during the winter
months. Railroads claim to have
carried $4,000 people in and out
Of the state-and Miami claims
that most of them paid her a
visit. While this has meant
wealth to hotel men and mer-
chants, it has not meant much
money to real estate men, nor
compensated the citrus fruit
grower for the failure to find a
paying market for his crop. In
spite of the heavy crop of these
fruits, the market, in the north
and abroad, was such as to make
the crop a financial loss to fruit
growers.
The vegetable crop, says Mr..
Gold, is a feast and famine prop
osition. Three separate frosts
killed the vegetables throughout
the state except in a small Sec
ton just south Of Miami. Here
the growers Of small vegetables
are making fortunes from their
tomatoes and other garden truck.
But crop conditions are uncer-
tain, and now that the winter
tourist has fitted back north it
is very probable that money will
be a bit snug and tight during
the coming summer.
Mr.. Gold believes that the
wise northern investor will
show his wisdom by keeping out
of the Everglades until they
prove themselves. An effort
has been made to grow vege-
tables there. This has not
proved successful, and now the
attention of interested men is
being directed toward the turn
ing Of these wastes into grass
and grazing lands. Here lies the
probable solution of the Ever
glades, but Mr.. Gold believes
that the average man who in
vests in this property now will
not live long enough to receive
the profits from his investment.
The Miami schools made a
strong appeal to Mr.. Gold as
good schools always do. He tells
of splendid new buildings with
perfectly equipped gymnasium
and eight tennis courts and then
rather conceitedly remarks,
'These splendid school condi-
lions are due entirely to the
Northern people who spend all
or a part of the school year
there"-which makes his listen
ers almost wish some of these
Northern people would remain
at home and make a few "splen-
did school conditions" there.