The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-07-08
The
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POST
By
BILL LEE
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Gold is Turing John R. Jack
and James Miller, of Punta
Gorda, who stopped off in Key
West, to Spanish Honduras, they
said while here.
incidentally, / expect to log
2,791 square miles of mahogany
forest while in Honduras" said
Jack. He is the proprietor of sew
eral lumber mills in his section
of Florida, but says he had to
shut down the plants lately be-
cause prices have gone below
production costs.
What I'm really off to Span
ish Honduras for is the search
for gold" added Jack. He and his
friend stopped off to see Tommy
Woods, Key West seaplane OPP
orator, who is an old friend of
both.
Gold is plentiful down
there" Jack continued. The
Indians have no trouble max
ing $40 to SIS day just placer
mining. I'll go after bigger
game. I'll look for promising
location for a mine and then
buy the rights to the metal I
take from it."
Jack flies his own Piper Cub
cruiser equipped with floats. He
got So gallons of gasoline and a
quantity of oil from Woods. From
here he flew to Cape st. An
tonic, Cuba, then across to Co.
zumel, Yucatan, and thence to
Belize, British Honduras. Later
he will take off for Spanish Hon
duras.
1T should be a great adven-
ture for my pals" said Woods
this week, with a gleam in his
eye, as though he, too, woul d
have liked very much to have
gone along. e
X X X
Sam Goldsmith is supervising
the destruction of a house at Du-
val and Eaton streets which was
built by Philip Fontanne in
1912.
For years it was the old john
son homestead. The building
rests on property 100 feet in
Duval and 100 in Eaton. Many
of the timbers in it are as good
as the day thew were installed.
IAN architect visiting in the
.eity told me it was "a shame to
tear down the old building" said
Goldsmith. He. said he would
give anything for tiff it was out
ON the Pacific coast, his home"
- The home is being torn down
to make way for a parking lot.
Later Mrs. William r. Warren
and Mrs. Sam Goldsmith, listed
as owners, plan a large building
there.
X * X
p Presentation of a bill for $3.50
from the the Overseas Road and
Toll Bridge District for passage
of the county engineer through
the gates of the district was cause
for considerable recrimination at
the last meeting of the Monroe
County Commission.
ITS. q crime" remarked Com
missioner Gerald Saunders.
THE engineer goes up the keys
on official business and the
county is billed for payment
of tolls" He snorted.
1T certainly is replied
Commissioner Clarence Higgs.
We'll, we'd better pay the
bill, or the bridge commission
will either fire the gatekeeper or
charge him personally for the
amount" said Commissioner w.
A. Parrish. Give paid the tolls
coming and going about SO times
a year and I,know it doesn't do
any good to kick about paying"
1t was suggested by Saunders
that the state should declare the
bridges free to the public.
Lets start something" he
said. I'm sick of paying tolls"
The commission ordered the
$3.50 bill paid, but took no fur
ther action.
X X X
Clinton Clint rGiese and his
wife. Nancy Jane. have a mo-
tive in deciding to settle in Key
West. They are going to take
motion pictures of underwater
life around the KEYS for event
ual sale to a Hollywood pro-
Queer.
All you have to do, Clint says,
is go out in boat to a point
around Sand Key. dive down
with a waterproofed camera. and
take pictures of the colorful
fishes swimming around near the
bottom of the ocean. Just like
that.
Of course, you have to be able
to hold your breath for from l e
to minutes, for the only under
water equipment they have are
a set of rubber fins for the feet
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