The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-01-10

ca for building purposes. Limestone
exists in all parts Of the state.
More than 100000 tourists visit
Florida every year.
Flo. ..da's rank in the Union is 33rd
in population.
The manufactured products Of Flor
ida aggregate $10O,0O0,000 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. 1t
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 50,016 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, 000,-
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
liginating 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 q
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 IL.
| Florida sand is productive. Why
Because mixed with It are particles
of mineral matter, carbonate Of linn.
from shells, combined with decom,
posed vegetation.
Il Florida can be made to produce
enough sugar to supply most Of thu
leeds Of America. Sugar cane grow:
II. every county. Drained swamp lane
will yield 20 tons Of cane to the acrt
the potential equivalent of 3,0C(
pounds Of granulated sugar, beside:
residue Of value.
i Fuel and clothing bills are muci
less in Florida than in the colder
north.
Florida contains four expe, linen
stations, established by he United
States government, to test for us'
! in the warmer sections of the Union
: the many kinds of useful products, no
native, but brough. from other con
, tronts.
Florida will produce all OF tn,
American varieties Of fiber plants
including sisal hemp, !or which tn
: Union annually pays Yucatan mil
3 lions of dollars.
r There are thirteen cities in Florida
each with more than 5000 people.
et There are 2,916 common publ
r schools and 1O4 high schools in Flo
ida.
5 There are 70 ice factories in Flor
0 IDA. We have no ice unless we max
G it. The discoverer of artificial ic
: was Florida man.
Florida has spent more per capt.
] in recent years for road improvement
4 than any other state.
Florida has 4,15S miles Of grade
y earth roads; 664 miles OF asphalt
4S3 miles of brick; IS miles OF con
. crete; 1858 miles of rock oil treated
53S miles of she'll, and 1914 miles c
: sand-clay, grand total of 1924 mile
r and more being built.
Eighty-five per cent OF the whit
d farmers in Florida operate their ow
8 farms.
# Seventy per cent of the farmers c
o Florida are white.