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MARVELLOUS
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FLORIDA'S
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florida mines $1O,OO0.0OO worth @;
phosphate per annum, or 80 per 'ent
Of the total output of the Unit +, |
States.
Orchids-the rare and expensive
beauties of the northern greenhous-
es-grow wild in the forests of Flor
ida.
Florida has more surface water in
rivers and lakes, and also available
underground, besides the heaviest al.
nual rainfall, than any ether safe in
the union.
No state in the union has such ac-
cess to the ocean and the world ny
water as has Florida.
Look at a map of the world, and
you will find Florida is more favor
ably located, relative to facility of ac-
cess to water and world traffic, than
any other American state.
The summer weather of Florida
never prOstrates man o" animal, thu
temperature seldom attaining 100 de-
grees above zero. Sultry nights are
unknown Trade winds constantly
blow over the state from the gulf of
Mexico and the Atlantic ocean.
When the waters of the north are
covered with thick ice you can go fish
ing and boating in Florida waters or
rick blackberries and flowers in FL II
ida gardens.
There are nineteen navigab!a rivers
in Florida.
IT, is estimated that an are OF Flor
id4 water can be made to supply as
much food as an acre of lard.
There are more than $50 varieties
OF fish in Florida waters
Fiorida is not all flat, it having
mary hills and valleys as pretty and
az fertile as any in the union.
! Florida produces 100000 gallons
! Of turpentine yearly. Her turpentine
and rOsin known as naval stores. ;
are valued at $15,OOO,0O a year.
FlOrida's fish, oysters, shrimp. crabs
anG various kinds of sea food bring
| III annually more than $25,000,00O
Florida has some of the largest and
most beautiful springs in the worli.
Several of them flow at the rate OF
! 200, 900 to 100000 gallons per minute
large enough to float steamboats,.
! Silver Springs, near Ocala, flows 375.-
to be the largest spring on earth.
One Florida city sent out to the to-
bacco smokers of the country in 1916
more than 2S7.000,OOO cigars.
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 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
ing water as high as 20 feet above the
surface are found in many sections
of the state.
| The manufactured products of Flor
ida aggregate 800 100000 a year
Florida leads all other states IN pro-
| ducing fullers earth and ball clay.
Florida ranks first among all states
in the Union in the production of tur-
pentine.
Florida has about 500 sawmills. pro-
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lumber. not counting crossties, poles
slaves veneers, tankbark. etc
Florida clay makes good bricks.
Severe windstOrms are rare in Flor
ida. Hurricanes originating in the
southern seas swing around the west
end of Cuba, cross the gulf of Mexico,
and usually strike the coast about
the mouth of the Mississippi river.
florida has sea beaches as extern
sive and as fine as any in the world
National automobile races frequently
are conducted on them in winter
Fuel and clothing bills are muchl
less in Florida states
Florida does or can produce all Of
the American varieties of fiber plants,
including sisal hemp. for which our
union annually pays Yucatan millions
of dollars.