The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-01-17
Facts about Florida

Florida every year.
Flo. .da's rank in the Union is 33rd
in population.
! The manufactured products OF Flor
ida aggregate s1OO.ooO.ooo per annum
The manatee, 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 4,641 square miles. II
| is 1923 square miles larger than both
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 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 50,016 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 il
Florida, turning out yearly 1850, OO0,-
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
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 tie
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 year. The largest
Plantations are along the East coast
in sand so pure and white that :
handkerchief can be passed over il
without discoloring IL,
Florida sand is productive. Why,
Because mixed with it are particles
OF mineral matter, carbonate Of Inns
from shells, combined with decom-
posed vegetation.
Florida can be made to produce
enough sugar to supply most Of thu
needs Of America. Sugar cane grow:
II. every county. Drained swamp lanG
will yield 20 tons of cane to the acre
: the potential equivalent of 3,Oc{
pounds of granulated sugar, besides
residue of value.
Fuel and clothing bills are much
less in Florida than in the colde,
/ north.
: Florida contains four expe, imenj
stations, established by The United
States government, to test for use
in the warmer sections of the Union
the many kinds of useful products. no,
native, but brought from other cor.
, tinents.
Florida will produce all of the
American varieties Of fiber plants
Including sisal hemp, Tor which the
Union annually pays Yucatan mil
, lions of dollars.
There are thirteen cities in Florida
each with more than 5000 people.
There are 2,S16 common public
. schools and 1O4 high schools in Flo~.
ida.
There are 70 ice factories in Flor.
IDA We have no ice unless we make
it. The discoverer of artificial ica
was Florida man.
Florida has spent more per can't,
in recent years for road Improvement
than any other state.
Florida has Ass miles of graded
earth roads; 664' miles of asnbaIt g.
4S3 miles of brick; So miles of con.
crete; 1,26S miles of rock oil treated
F3S miles of shell, and 1914 miles If
sand-clay, grand total of 1924 miles
and more being built
Eighty-five per cent of the white
farmers in Florida operate their own
farms.
Seventy per cent of the farmers If
Florida are white.
Eleven steamboat lines operate IN
Florida waters.