The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-01-13

More than 100000 tourists visit
Florida every year.
Flo. .da's rank in the Union is 33rt
in population.
The manufactured products Of Flor.
ida aggregate $100,o00.00 per annum
The manatee. or sea cow. weighins
up to thousand pounds and turtle:
up to 200 pounds, are still found IN
Florida waters.
Lee county is the largest one in
Florida, with 4,S41 square miles. II
is 1923 square miles larger than both
Rhode Island and Delaware and near
ly 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,O16 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, O0O,-
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 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
million crates in a year. The largest
Plantations are along the East coast,
in sand so pure and white that a
handkerchief can be passed over II
without discoloring II.
Florida sand is productive. Why?
Because mixed with 1t are particles
OF mineral matter, carbonate Of lime
from shells, combined with decom-
posed vegetation.
Florida can be made to produce
enough sugar to supply most Of the
needs Of America. Sugar cane grows
ia every county. Drained swamp land
will yield 20 tons of cane to the acre |
the potential equivalent Of 5000 |
pounds Of granulated sugar, besides
residue Of value.
Fuel and clothing bills are much |
less in Florida than in the colder
north.
Florida contains four expe imeni
stations, established by The United
States government, to test FOR use
in the warmer sections Of the Union,
the many kinds Of useful products. NOT
native, but brough. from other con-
t,rcnts.
Florida will produce all Of the
american varieties Of fiber plants.
including sisal hemp, !or which the
Union annually pays Yucatan mil
lions Of dollars.
There are thirteen cities in Florid.
ZACH with more than 5000 people.
There are 2,916 common public
schools and 104 high schools in Flo.
da.
There are 70 ice factories in Flor
ia. We have no ice unless we make
t. The discoverer of artificial ice
vas Florida man.
Florida has spent more per capita
n recent years for road improvement
han any other state.
Florida has 4,15S miles of graded
arth roads; 6e4 miles of asphalt;
lSS miles of brick; IS miles of con-
'rete; 1858 miles of rock oil treated:
80 miles of shell, and 1914 miles of
grand total of 1924 miles
md more being built.
Eighty-fve per cent of the white
armers in Florida operate their own
arms.
Seventy per cent of the farmers of (.
florida are white.
Eleven steamboat I;nas ona,..n J..