The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-01-15
Facts about Florida

ca lot Dullulu6 pui PoS0c'
exists in all parts Of the state.
More than 100000 tourists visit
Florida every year.
Flo. .da's rank in the Union is SSrd
in population.
F., The manufactured products OF Flor
ida aggregate $10O,0o0.o0o per annum
The msnatee, or sea COW. weighing
up to a thousand pounds and turtles
up to 200 pounds, are still found in
Florida waters.
Lee county is the largest one in
Florida, with 4,S41 square miles. II
is 1923 square miles larger than both
Rhode Island and Delaware and near
ly as large as Connecticut.
There are 100 nurseries in Florida.
with home grown trees.
Ninety per cent Of the origina!
forests Of Florida are still wooded,
though many acres are being thinned
annually.
There are more than 5000 different
species Of trees, shrubs, herbs, ETC.,
in Florida.
] Florida leads all other states in the
production of fuller's earth and ball
clay.
Florida reported 50,O16 farms in
1910. Sh ecould have ten times as
many.
Florida ranks first in the union in
the production of turpentine.
There are some 500 saw mills in
Florida, turning out yearly 1,250, 000.-
900 feet of lumber not counting cross
ties, poles, slaves, veneers, tanbark
etc.
Andrew Jackson was the first gov
ernor Of Florida.
Florida clay makes good brick.
Severe wind storms are practically
unknown in Florida. Hurricanes or
ieinating in the Southern seas swing
around the west end of Cuba and
crossing the gulf usually strike the
coast about the mouth of the Missis-
sippi
Florida has climate allowing the
growth Of crops in every month.
Florida has as large and fine sea
beaches as any in the world. National
automobile races are frequently held
here in the winter.
Florida produces the finest of pine
apples and has shipped as high as a
million crates in a year. The largest
Plantations are along the East coast,
in sand so pure and white that a
handkerchief can be passed over 1t
without discoloring Il.
Florida sand is productive. Why?
Because mixed with It are particles
OF mineral matter, carbonate Of lime
from shells, combined with decom-
posed vegetation.
! Florida can be made to produce
enough sugar to supply most Of the
needs OF America. Sugar cane grows
II. every county. Drained swamp land
viii yield 20 tons of cane to the acre
the potential equivalent Of 5000
pounds Of eranulated sugar, besides
residue of value.
Fuel and clothing bills are much
less in Florida than in the colder
north.
Florida contains four erpe, imenl
stations, established by The United
states government, to test for use
in the warmer sections of the Union
the many kinds Of useful products NOT
native. but brough! from other con.
tncnts.
Florida will produce all Of tho
American varieties of fiber plants.
including sisal hemp, !or which tho
Union annually pays Yucatan mil
lions of dollars.
There are thirteen cities in Florid,
facn with more than 5000 people. :
There are 2,9ls common nuh,;c
schools and 1o4 high schools in F,or
ida.
There are 70 ice factories in Flor.
ida' We have no ice unless we mate
IT. The discoverer Of artificial, H..
was Florida man.
Florida has spent more ner c.n,,,
IN recent years for road improvement,
than any other state.
Florida has Ass miles of graded
earth roads; sSi miles OF asphalt.
4Ss miles Of brick; IS miles Of ~,
crete; l,2sS miles Of rock oil treatsa.
SSs miles Of she'll and 1914 miles AZ
sand-ciay, grand total of 1924 m,,es
and more being built.
Eighty-tiye per cent Of the w,.o
farmers in Florida operate their ow,
farms. '"A
seventy per cent of the farmers Of
Florida are white. y
EleVen steamboat lines operate IN