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FACTS ABOUT FLORIDA

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lotker State 1t was worth in 1917
more than rs cents pound. Has re
Gently sold for one dollar per pound.
1 Florida produces winter-grown to
matoes, and ships 5000 car lords 81
them total larger than that of all
other States combined
Florida produces 100000 to Is,
i 100000 bushels Of corn year, and
of quality as fine as that of any
corn on Earth
There are only twenty States in
i the Union with more daily newspa-
pers than Florida has. and our state
is only thirty-third in population
Florida has an average tof fiftysev-
en- 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
200,0 900 TO 100000 gallons per minute
large enough to float steamboats,.
Silver Springs, near Ocala, flows
$4,000 gallons minute. 1t is be-
lieved to be the largest spring on
Earth
Tourists spend $SO,OO0.OOO in this
State every year
There is 100000. 900 invested in
hotels in Florida. The Royal Poin-
cianna, at Palm Beach, is the largest
frame hotel in the world.
FLORIDA has $500 miles of railroads,
operated by thirty-one different COM
panies.
Florida has the lowest death rate
of any state in the Union
The population of Florida has in
creased so per cent within the last
five years.
Florida's banking deposits increas-
ed 2O5 per cent within the last five
years. 1t has 201 banking institu-
lions under State control and fifty
four national banks.
One Florida city sent out to the
tobacco smokers of the country m
1916 more than 2S7,000,000 cigars.
The Royal Palm State park, forty
five miles from Miami, is the only
one in the Union owned and promoted
by the Federation of Women's Clubs.
It contains a wonderful collection of
tres
4 Florida has thirteen of the sixty
eight Federal reservations for the pro-
lection and preservation Of bird life.
Florida has a statewide compulsory
school Law.
Florida has several fine institutions
for higher education.
Key West is nearly 500 miles near
er the Panama canal than is any other
American seaport.
The tarpon-the worlds most not
ed game fish-abounds in the seas
CONTIGUOUS of Florida. Catching it is
one of the most exciting sports
known to fishermen.
Shad, pompano, Spanish. mackerel-
Isheaphead, trout, reddish and mullet
are among the many fine fishes Of
Florida Fishing is one OF the great
industries of the state.
There are large deposits of peat in
nearly all parts of Florida.
Flowing artesian wells, some fore
ling water as high as twenty feet
above the surface. are found in man!
sections of the State.
Florida has the only sponge fish
cries in the Union Tarpon Springs
shipped more than s1.00o.0o0 worth in
1917.
More than 100000 tourists visit
Florida every year.
The manufactured products of Flor
ida aggregate $1O0,OoO.0OO year
The manatee, or sea COW weighing
up to 1000 pounds and turtles
weighing up to 200 pounds, still are
found in Florida waters.
There are 100 horticultural nurser,
les in Florida, herbs etc. grow in
Florida
i Florida leads all other States in
producing fuller's earth and ball clay.
4 Florida reported 5O.O16 farms in
1910. The State could contain ten
Zines as many.
/. Florida ranks first among all States
in the Union in the production of tur
/ pentine.
4 FLORIDA has about 500 sawmills, pro
/ ducing yearly 1,25O,OOO,OOO feet Of lum
Der, not counting crossties, poles
i slaves, veneers, tanbark, ETC..
Severe windstorms are rare in
4 Florida. Hurricanes originated in the
Il southern seas swing around the west