The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-07-28
CdlDOrnia's Beauty and
Development as Seen BY
Editor Florida Grower

structures in Tampa on his return
Mr.. Gray expressed himself as beinl
amazed at the activity here and yer,
much pleased with the beauties of
all. He was particularly impressed
with the progressiveness of the peo
pie and stated that he wished we hat
more of the push spirit in Tampa. HI
leaves this 4th of July week for point.
north, returning to Tampa by way O.
1.-THE Canadian Rockies.
( Il called at the offic. or the Cali
fornia Fruit Growers Exchange and
met some of the officials | had known
when ! was connected with the Pacific
Fruit World of Los Angeles. met
with a nice reception and was invited
to attend the meeting of the board of
directors and shall avail myself of
that privilege. Orange Salesmanager
Dana King was kindness itself, giving
me letters to sub-exchange and asso-
citation managers and also to the
heads of The several by-products
plants and helping me arrange for
banking facilities Mr. King tells me
that California will ship in Valencias
alone more than the total citrus crop
OF Florida, or about 100000 boxes
and he stated that on July list there
were over 100000 boxes of valen-
cias yet to 60 He says that this is
the best season the citrus growers
ever had. learn that most of the
big packing houses of Riverside and
Redlands are closed down, these be-
ing navel centers and shipping very
few Valencias. Mr.. Powell, lemon
sales manager told me of the large
Of lemon packing houses that
had been built in various parts of
Southern California in the nine years,
mentioning the fact that the Elk
change had a $4,000 house at Fer
nando and that there were also two
other houses there. The lemon in
dustry has been growing immensely
and he says that they have very near
ly driven the Sicily importer out ex-
cept along the eastern border of the
United States, telling me that Florida
was the only state where the import.
er had no competition from Cali
fornia, Florida forbidding the en-
trance of California citrus fruits of
any kind though allowing deciduous
fruits to enter 1t occurred to me
that Florida will be fine field for the
Of home grown lines and
lemons and that possibly large crops
can be sold there of fruits grown
within our own borders.
Our trip across the country from
Florida to California was made at a
time when the thermometer was
high and it was hot most of the way.
We found it warmer in Tennessee
and Kentucky than in Florida. It was
particularly warm in Cincinnati,
where we stopped for two nights. We
found it delightfully."- cool in Chicago
but warm again when we started to
cross the prairie. Very pleasant in
Denver, where we stopped overnight
and where we took an auto ride
through the residential section and
through the parks, was treat The
Royal Gorge of the Arkansas is won
ierful in its scenic beauty and the
mining camps away up on the tops
of the cliffs near Leadville afforded
much interest and caused amazement,
as at first glance 1t would seem an |
mpossibility to get building material
md mining machinery to heights
where an eagle would be at home. We
we're reminded of the Overseas
Railway" of Florida when we left Salt
like City, for the tracks cut through
he great salt sea for miles. We
we're soon out of the desert and it
was hot and dreary ride all that
lay but we were amply repaid the |
lext morning when we entered the
Feather River Canyon, for the seen.
Try here equals that in the Rockies
md for hours we Toasted our eyes on
he beauties of nature as exemplified
n mountains, sweeping curves and a |
flashing mountain torrent, and this
continues almost all the way into