The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-10-17

Ppad anu i"eS
ether State. It was worth II
more than rs cents a pound.
,orida produces winter-grown to
mos and ships 5000 car loads o.
MA total larger than that Of al
,sr States combined.
r1orida produces 100000 to Is,
1000 bushels Of corn q year, and
q quality as fine as that Of any
m on Earth.
There are only twenty States in
Union with more daily newspa
g than Florida has, and our State
univ thirty-third in population.
v,orida has an average Of fifty-sev
inches of rainfall annually.
Florida has come of the largest
Id most beautiful springs in the
arid Several of them flow at the
te Of 100000 to 100000 gallons per
inute-large enough to float steam
oats Silver Springs, near Ocala,
avs $4,000 gallons a minute. 1t Is
ereyed to be the largest spring on
arth.
tourists spend $SO,0OO,OOo in this
tate every year.
There is $3OO,O00,000 invested in
otels in Florida. The Royal Poin-
lana at Palm Beach, is the largest
|rame hotel in the world.
Florida has $500 miles Of railroads,
bperated by thirty-one different COM
panies.
FLORIDA HAS THE LOWEST
DEATH RATE OF ANY STATE IN
THE UNION.
The population of Florida has in.
creased 80 per cent within the last
live years.
Floridas banking deposits in.
creased 2O5 per cent within the last
five years. 1t has 201 banking insti-
buttons under State control and fifty.
four national banks.
One Florida city sent out to the
tobacco smokers of the country In
| 1916 more than 2S7,000,00O cigars.
The Royal Palm State park, forty.
five miles from Miami, is the only
one in the Union owned and pro-
NOTED by the Federation Of W0men's
Clubs. 1t contains wonderful col
lection Of trees.
Florida has thirteen Of the sixty
eight Federal reservations for the
protection and preservation Of bird
life
Florida has several fine institu-
tons for higher education.
Key West is nearly 300 miles near.
er the Panama canal than Is any
other American seaport.
The tarpon-the worlds most not.
ed game fish-abounds in the seas
contiguous of Florida. Catching 1t
is one of the most exciting sports
known to fishermen.
shad, pompano, Spanish mackerel,
sheephead, trout, reddish, and mullet
are among the many fine fishes Of
Florida. Fishing is one Of the great
industries oft he State.
There are large deposits Of peat In
nearly all parts of Florida.
Flowing artesian wells, some fore
ing water as high as twenty feet
feet above the surface, are found In
many sections Of the State.
Florida has the only sponge fish
cries in the Union. Tarpon Springs
shipped more than 100000 worth
IN 1917.
Coquina rock, made up mostly OF
shells, is found along the east coast,
t was the first stone used in Ameri-
ca for building purposes. Limestone
Exists in nearly all parts of the
State.
Seventy per cent of Florida farm
'rs are white.
Eleven steam boat lines operate in
florida waters.
Twenty foreign countries have con-
ular representatives in Florida.
The Smithsonian Institute, at
Washington, d. c., contains more
han 1900 kinds of shell collected
long Florida's seacoast.
The average number Of persons to
ne square mile in the United States
vas 800 by the census OF 1910.
lorida's average was 1877 persons TO
he square mile. Which shows there
plenty of room here for more peo-
lie.
Florida is one OF the very rev
'tates in the Union without a debt
leld against its State treasury oy
Inside creditors. Our States small
ublic Indebtedness is owed to our
tate public-school fund. In other
lords, or left-hand pocket owes our
ight-hand pocket.
Florida has more than $4O,O9O,OUJ