The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-02-10

It was the first stone useu ~ f
ca for building purposes Limes'on0
exists in all parts Of the state.
More than 100000 tourists visit
Florida every year.
Flo. .da's rank in the Union is SSra
in population.
The manufactured products OF Flor
ida aggregate $1OO,OOO,OOO per annum
The manatee, or sea cow. Weighing
I'M to a thousand pounds and turtles
I'D to 200 pounds, are still found IN
Florida waters.
Lee county is the largest one IN
Florida, with 4,641 square miles. y
| is 1923 square miles larger than Doth
Rhode Island and Delaware and near
" 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 1900 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 50,016 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 1850, OO0,-
600 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
iginating 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 a 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
crates in year. The largest
plantations are along the East coast, |
10 sand SO pure and white that a
handkerchief can be passed over il
without discoloring il.
Florida sand is productive. Why?
because mixed with it are particles
u mineral matter, carbonate Of limo
rom shells, combined with decom.
'osed vegetation.
rlorlda can be made to produce
'hough sugar to supply most Of tho
'eeds OF America. Sugar cane grows
4 every county. Drained swami land
iii yield 20 tons of cane to the aero
the potential equivalent Of aoco
ounds OF granulated sugar besidas
esidue of value.
ruei and clothing bills are mucn
'ss in Florida than in the co,dar
orth. o'
FLORIDA contains four exne, imeni
."'iouS' established by he Irnited
lates government, to test FIR nso
'he warmer sections of the Union
lie many kinds of useful products NJ.
''ise' out brough. from other COR
aonts. ooh-
florlda will produce all If tho
merican varieties Of t,ba, n,,n.
'auihg slsal hemp, COR which tho |
mon annually pays Yacatap NIL
ms of dollars. '
There are thirteen CITIES ~ NIL,
On 81, with more than 5000 people,
there are 2,916 common a,,,,
,'ooiS ana lO4 high schools in Flo.
'le ~ Ice factories in Flor.
l. We have no ice unless Wa ~.
me alscoverer of artificial ic.,
IS Florida man -'S
FLORIDA has spent more per
recent years for road improyoa, plsa
IN any other state.
florida has 4,15S miles If a,,
, TN ,,,, roads; 6s4 miles of asphalt.
miles of brick; So miles Of ', ~.
tie; 1898 miles of rock oil tra, toa-
= m mes Of shell, and 1914 miles =,
,o,olay' a grand total of 1924 mia ~
more being built, '"''es
per cent of the white
iners IN Florida operate tbo,n -