The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-10-16


,Q,7 more than rs cents a pound.
Florida produces winter-grown to.
matoes. and ships 5000 car loads Of
,bem-a total larger than that Of all
other States combined.
Florida produces 100000 to 49,
OOO0OO bushels Of corn a year, and
=, quality as fine as that of any
corn on Earth.
There are only twenty States in
the Union with more daily newspa-
ners than Florida has, and our State
Is only thirty-third in population.
Florida has an average Of fifty-sev.
on inches of rainfall annually.
Florida has come of the largest
and most beautiful springs in the
world Several Of them flow at the
rate of 100000 to 100000 gallons per
minute-large enough to float steam
boats Silver Springs, near Ocala.
flows $4,000 gallons minute. It is
believed to be the largest spring on
Earth.
Tourists spend $3O,OOO,O 900 in this
State every year.
There is $3OO,OOo,00o invested in
hotels in Florida. The Royal Poin-
RAMA at Palm Beach, is the largest
rame hotel in the world.
Florida has $500 miles of railroads,
bperated by thirty.one different COM
banies.
FLORIDA HAS THE LOWEST
DEATH RATE OF ANY STATE IN
The UNION.
The population of Florida has in.
reased 80 per cent within the last
We years.
Florida's banking deposits in
reased 205 per cent within the last
We years. 1t has 201 banking insti-
utons under State control and fifty
bur national banks.
One Florida city sent out to the
Dbacco smokers of the country In
BIG more than 2S7,O00,000 cigars.
The Royal Palm State park, forty
Ne miles from Miami, is the only
be in the Union owned and pro-
boted by the Federation of Women's
Tubs. It contains a wonderful col.
|ction Of trees.
Florida has thirteen Of the sixty.
|ght Federal reservations for the
otection and preservation of bird
e.
Florida has a local-option compul.
Try school law.
Florida has several fine institu-
pms for higher education.
Key West is nearly 300 miles near
the Panama canal than is any
her American seaport.
The tarpon-the worlds most not
game fsh-abounds in the seas
ntiguous Of Florida. Catching 1t
one of the most exciting sports
own to fishermen.
Shad, pompano, Spanish mackerel,
eephead, trout, reddish, and mullet
among the many fine fishes of
prda Fishing is one Of the great
iustries oft he State.
here are large deposits of peat In
erly all parts of Florida.
lowing artesian wells, some fore
water as high as twenty feet
above the surface, are found in
my sections Of the State.
lorida has the only sponge fish.
eS in the Union. Tarpon Springs
pped more than $1,OOO,OOO worth
1917.
oqulna rock, made up mostly Of
u.s. is found along the east coast.
was the first stone used in Ameri-
Tor building purposes. Limestone
S'S In nearly all parts of the
tie.
lghty,fve per cent of the white
lers in Florida operate their own
ns.
evenly per cent of Florida farm
are white.
/ leVen steam boat lines operate in
f1da waters.
Nenty foreign countries have con-
representatives in Florida.
ue Smithsonian Institute, at
Slington, D. c., contains more
l0OO kinds of shell collected
: FlOrida's seacoast.
y average number of persons to
'quare mile in the United States
oVS by the census of 1910.
uas average was 1877 persons to
'quare mile Which shows there
eu'y of room here for more peo-
'ua is one of the very few
IN the Union without a debt
against its State treasury by