The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-08-12
DEVELOPMENT JUST BEGINNING
New Florida Enterprises Developing
With Startling Rapidity.

THE developmcr; of Florida's ac
tivities along many varied lines i!
proceeding with rapidity that is a
most startling" says Tampa Times
Indeed we may say regarding new
projects, in the wLi DIS of Lord Byron
poem, Each day and year bring;
forth a new one" But there Is this
difference, the new Irojetcs brought
forth in this state generally Prov tC
be true ones" wherein they differ
materially from mi ny of the erratit
lords heroes. SO I"pidaly do these
projects materialize and claim tho at
tention of the public that it is difficult
! to keep track of them all. 1t is but
a few years since tho cattle and swine
Industries of the state were the laugh
ling stock Of breeders all over the
land; now, their Importance is gener-
ally acknowledged, ard Florida breed
ers have met the northerners in their
own stock shows and compelled their
admiration ard respect.
stock line that we are making pro
gress. Only a few days back the pa
pers told of tie extraordinary devel-
opment of the c,'rl.HCn wild buckle
berry, by cultivation and intelligent
selection of varieties, into a delicious
and productive berry. Coming after
the close of the strawberry season,
it is bound to be immensely profitable.
There are other berries, the dewberry
and blackberry, fer instance, which
will yet be subjected to the improving
hand Of man. Gre,l es, equal or SUI
periOr to the northern varieties, are
already grown here, and we shall |
soon be Independent of New York or
Michigan for our supply of this deli
,iOus and heathful fruit
Then comes a coterie of inventors
md Investigators, who tell US they
lave devised a process of making /
lewsprint paper from our common
aw grass, waste product of when
We have thousands, perhaps millions,
+ acres, in the state. This news will
@rry JOY and gladlesg to thousands
f harressed publishers, who nave
cen cogiating over the constantly
dyancing costs of print paper, and
Iondering how long they could re- {
l2in in business u1der such an cnor- {
lous handicap. Once the new pro- {
ess gets in full operation publishers {
an snap their fingers ut the paper
rust, for the supply of raw material '
) practically investigation, with s
lGEy defeats and disappointments,
ut the final success will wipe out i
heir memory and bring ample re- f
ard to the persistent investors. &
THE production of sugar is an /
Their line of industry in which Flor i
la is bound to become preeminert.
'ur soil and climate are both par t
,cularly adapted to the growth of {
ane and capital is already making {
eayy investments in land with an III S
innate view to the growth of cane 6
nd the manufacture of sugar. Stat {
Sticians tell us we can with our un. !
walled natural advantages, produce t
ugar enough to supply, the nation !
nth surplus for export. We have I
cen making sugar in a crude and t
way every since the Span
srds first occupied the land and I
rove the Indians to unrequited toll I
/ the cane fields. The remains of a
,eir old sugar mills is still to be
zen in some parts of the state An v
sgregate of thousands of acres OF .
lgarcane are grown in the state t
lch year but We have never attemp- a
d to make anything but syrup, the Y
oderate profits of which have con- il
nted our farmers. Now it will be D
own on big scale, and manufac- D
red into the finest OF sugar with all II
e aids and equipments that science
n suggest. The results will startle D
e world. n
"A few days since we asserted in n
editorial that there was mo waste O.
nd in Florida" Events will yet 8,
owe the truth of the assertion"