The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-03-04
(Key West Journal)

Cape Sable was carefully examined
by a delegation of citizens Of the
community Saturday, Sunday, and
Monday, advantage having been taken
Of the excursion arranged through
Secretary Chase to look into the
claims of this extensive tract OF land
in the north end of the county. The
party reached the Gulf Refining
Dock at 1870 p. m. yesterday and
disembarked from the Halifax laden
with mammoth stalks OF sugar-cane.
and fruits and flowers and other
spoils brought from the Cape. The
party that returned included Virgil
S. Lowe, County Superintendent OF
Schools, F. W. Davis, Oscar 7. Pear
son of Sanford, r. e. Reshore. J..
W. Cargile and Son, Charlie, F. Page
Wilson. H. l.. Chase Of Plant City,
and I. A. Herrick as representa-
tive of the Chamber of Commerce
Captain Hersel Thompson was in
charge, with William H. White in
charge of the power department. A
steward and helper completed the
crew.
A start was made at the Porter
Dock Saturday at 2:30 p. m. The
course around Fort Taylor was taken
and down the east side of the Keys
to the Bahia Honda bridge where the
gulf side was taken. A tieup wa
made here till early Sunday morning
when a straight course was taken tt
the Club House at Cape Sable. This
was reached early in the forenoon
after coffee and rolls and before
breakfast. DR.. Herman Schlege
spoke of the locations and directions
and the visitors set out for little
walk before breakfast Mr. Schlege
ARRANGED to take the party around II
his Buick after breakfast. The star
was made east towards the schoo
house and so interesting wewre al
THE new things to be seen that thu
, stroll before breakfast took everyone
step by step from farm to farm ant
home to home till a point within three
and one-half miles Of the Dade county
line was reached. From time to tim'
the doctor took the party on for {
ways and Mr.. Brentnall comins
along with a mule span advanced TIN
cause quite lot. Word had beer
I sent for Capt. Thompson to move tn
Halifax down to the Roberts place 81
that breakfast could be had on board
II The boat did not come and it wa!
| long after the dinner hour when thu
reason was discovered There was {
| two hours difference in the tide be
| tween the landing dock at the Clul
| House and the Roberts place and thu
Il
| tide was so low that the boa: coult
| not be moved as planned. BY THU
time everyone had reached the hom'
| of Mr.. and Mrs. Stephen l.. Roberts
where was a gathering of many o
the neighbors and friends. Here tn
hungry condition Of the party tina
was without breakfast at noon wa
discovered by Mrs. Roberts and sh
invited everyone present to have din
ner there and she gave them all a
fine dinner as any man ever ate an
lots of kinds of the many things the
are raised successfully in this grea
territory. There were many kind
of everything that everyone had t
try that it looked as though some O
the party had been saving an appetit
= from childhood Just for this day
y From the Stephen l.. Roberts plac
= the Chandler lime grove was visite
, and then some thousand acres of in
] tervale and hammock adjoining
Z we're looked over carefully.
q Mr.. Cargile was the official photos
= rapher of the party and he was fol
u tunate in swapping good number {
z views. Some fifteen places were vii
Z tied, the type of soil, the drainag
Z system, the condition of crops an
4 the natural growths were note
Z The G. H. Funk place had cahbag
- beets turnips and beans up and grow
- ing we'll, though the blowing on tn
place had not been started till we
into December. This place was o
the south side of the country roat
on section s of 1850 It was 50 mile
from Miami and about sixty from Re
West. Here land was shown, a PAL
of other tracts of level prairie, s
continuous and tillable that furo,
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