The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-05-09

4 Florida produces winter grown to
matoes and ships 5000 carloads OF
them, a total larger than that of all
other states combined.
Florida produces 100000 to 15..
c00,000 bushels of corn a year, and
of a quality as fine az that of any
corn on earth.
There are only twenty states in
the Union with more daily papers
thanf Florida has, and our state is
only thirty-third in population. 8
Florida has an everage of fiftYc
seven inches of rainfall annually.
Florida has some of the largest
and most beautiful springs in the
world. Several of them flow at the
rate of 100000 to 10000 gallons a
minute, large enough to floa steam
boats. Silver Springs, near Ocala,
flows $4,000 gallons a minute. it
is believed to be the largest spring
on earth.
Tourists spend $3O,O00,O0O in this
state every year
There is $3O,000,000 invested in
hotelB in Florida. The Royal Poin-
ciani}a at Palm Beach, is the largest
FRAME hotel in the world.
FlSrida has $500 miles of railroads
operhted by thirty different compa.
nies
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
five years
! Florida has local option compul
sorry school law
Florida has several fine institutions
for higher education.
} Key West is nearly 800 miles near
er the Panama canal than is any
other American seaport.
The tarpon, the worlds most noted
game FISH. abounds in the seas con
tiguous TO Florida. Catching it is
one of the most exciting sports
known to fishermen.
Shad, pompano, Spanish mackerel
sheephead, trout, reddish and mullet
are among the many fine food fish
of Florida. Fishing is one of the
great industries of the state.
j There are large deposits of peat
in nearly all parts of Florida.
Flowing artesian wells, some
forcing water as high as twenty feet
above the surface, are found in mary
sections. of the state.
Florida has the only sponge fisher.
les in the Union. Tarpon Springs
shipped more than $1,0O0,000 worth
in 1917.
i Coquina rock, made up mostly of
shells isfound along the east coast.
It was the first stone used in Ameri.
ca for building purposes. Limetone
exists in nearly all parts Of the
! state.
The manufactured products OF
Florida aggregate $1OO,OO0,000 year
The manatee or seacow, weighing
up to 1000 pounds and turtles weigh.
ing up to 200 pounds still are found
in Florida waters
Lee is the largest county in Flor
ida, with 4,641 square miles. 1t IS
1923 square miles larger than
Rhode Island and Delaware combined
and is nearly as large as Connect
cut.
Do not get "skeered" about sn axe
and, alligator stories that may be-
told to you before you come to Flor
ida Turists visit here year after
years and never see anything more
startling than the commercial article
made from the skins and placed on
sale in the curiosity stores.
Ihere are 169 horticultural nurser-
ies1n Florida with home grown trees.
Ninety per cent of the original for
ests of Florida still are wooded. tho
many acres are being thinned annual
lye
More than 5000 different species
Of trees shrubs, eae., grow in Flor
ida.
Florida leads all other states in
producing ful1er's earth and ten times
as many
Florida reported 50,O16 farms in
1910 The state. could contain ten
times as many.
Florida ranks first among all the
states in the Union in the produc
ton Of turpentine.
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