The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-05-16

- 81 90 pEU00SvU0 N . 1sk
Al1er John w. Simont0n bought
- ielsnd from the spaniard, Juan
Junn ?. salas. for $4,000 January
~ 1o13. - many other Johns
eonse into the picture Of its soon
suo-divided ownership that the
sseord leading up to the revelation
q financial worth in the salt
punds 10 bound around with the
SVEN name. John.
John Simonton disposed OF one
un1ivided quarter to John War
~ and John Mountain. The first
90 United States consul to Ha-
vona and the second q CONNER
e1ol agent for our country IN that
et1y. Not long afterwards two
oGhsr quarters were sold to John
Whitehead and John w. G. Flem-
- Tin those days the name was
soulled rleeming). The Warner
- Mountain holding was later
puDchased by Pardon c. Greene. /
Al were Mobile. Alabama, bus
ineus men Of whom the Washing
- Republican. . newspaper Of
- day, subsequently said, They
nuuGht the island for reasons not
Gwloued. Il ID situated off the
0oDnits Al Florida and has a good
e1nnnnel 10 the Straits and q har-
- IN its western shore The
- wss considered good for
snoul half the area" and there
60 'ss0me woodland" The east
esa half was sandy and barren,
- with several salt ponds from
WAtch salt could be taken with a
ppuGit-"
- sveuld Deaks City Knewn'
Manufacture Of salt from sea
user evaporated by the unfailing
~ West sun and breeze was
sunsidered by the original settlers
g NE Island "as the most likely
uusans Of making the place known
- the commercial world"
All brought about through the
JnAns u that far-away day, con-
ssgning whom other writers have
mg0ed the extraordinary repetition
q Ne Christian given name. from
- Old Hebrew moaning, This
-. ~ .srsciosio gift, e Cod" I
~ ~ johls and or Nt(fs s6css
e(nDoss ruuIanek and 1lS6l = we're
\ of-maillee4 IN Tie opesati dns Of
- VESTS first salt .pfodicaion.
L. liupncin1' oirlps IN ~. iI6,qei
oIuke Ns& York Wall Street mould.
90 tickle goddess of success led
- men 10 monetary doom dur
- the course Of the War Be-
tween the States. This doom was
snolsd by the development of me-
e1nnical methods Of manufacture
~ salt which In this modern day
have been comprehended i'm the
sol-embracing word, Technocracy.
The United States Army Bar
Ssrks Il Key West are at the end
q 6outhsrd street one mile north
esst IL the Court House in Jack
- Square. The site Is triangu-
~ and looks out upon the Gulf
q MEXICO across shadows to the
nurth. Time was when water
logged the edge of the parade
oround ~ an Army map. dated
March -. 1867. authorized by one
~ the engineers. Capt. Walter Nc
vsrlsnd. and copied in photostat
fw the writer in the archives at
Washington. clearly indicates.
H1ao1es's 'Tsumho Island
when the dredging equipment
Il NE now vanished Florida East
coast Extension Of Henry M.
HIasler's railway system. began
60 haul up from the floor of the
Gulf the Key West addition now
known rs Trumbo, q section of
Tn i34-acre fill hedged in the
e~st side Of an inlet which pre-
viously had formed o waist" at
The left of the middle Of the is
lad.
Traces of the inlet remain to-
day and It's old southeast margin
h called North Beach.
Near u is the monument to the
New York volunteers who. during
~ Civil War. died on the island
Il yellow fever. The monument