{"1": {"fulltext": "W. David so\\niimiHwiii", "height": "3502", "width": "2232", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "Class _F 3j_(=\\nGopightN\\neOPKKIGHT DEPOSIT", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "THE\\nFLORIDA OF TO-DAY\\nA GUIDE FOR TOURISTS\\nAND SETTLERS\\nBY\\nJAMES WOOD DAVIDSON, A.M.\\nAUTHOR OF THE LIVING WRITERS OF THE SOUTH\\nA SCHOOL HISTORY OP SOUTH CAROLINA THE CORRESPONDENT\\nthe POETRY OF THE FUTURE, ETC.\\nWITH MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS\\nNEW YORK\\nAPPLETON AND COMPANY\\n1889", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3185", "width": "3608", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "Copyright, 1888,\\nBy D. APPLETON AND COMPANY.\\nL^-", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "r\\nCONTENTS\\nCHAPTER\\nPAGE\\nI. History 7\\nDiscoveries\\n1\\nSettlement\\n12\\nCession to Great Britain\\n15\\nKetrocession to Spain.\\nIT\\nCession to the United States\\n17\\nTerritory of Florida\\n17\\nSeminole Wars\\n18\\nState of Florida\\n25\\nSecession\\n26\\nReconstruction\\n26\\nRestoration\\n26\\n11. Geography\\n38\\nIII. Climate\\n33\\nTemperature\\n33\\nHumidity\\n35\\nIV. Divisions\\n41\\nFirst, North Florida\\n42\\nSecond, Semi-tropical Florida\\n43\\nThird, Subtropical Florida\\n43\\nV. Health\\n52\\nMalaria\\n52\\nTornadoes\\n58\\nVI. Geology\\n59\\nIndustrial Features\\n63\\nMineral Waters\\n67", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "4 CONTENTS.\\nCHAPTER PAGE\\nSoils o 68\\nDrainage 69\\nVII. Travel 72\\nOcean Routes 72\\nOverland Routes 73\\nJacksonville 76\\nFrom Jacksonville 80\\nIndian River 88\\nLake Worth 90\\nBiscayne Bay 91\\nLake Okeechobee and the Everglades .94\\nKey West 94\\nCape Sable. 96\\nTampa 97\\nTallahassee 97\\nCedar Keys .98\\nPensacola 99\\nAppalachicola 100\\nWakulla Springs 100\\nSilver Spring 100\\nThe Ocklawaha River 101\\nThe Suwannee River 103\\nThe Caloosahatchee River 103\\nThe Homosassa River 104\\nMounds 105\\nVIII. Population 108\\nPeoples 108\\nOld Residents 108\\nNorthern and Foreign Immigrants .110\\nNegroes 113\\nIndians 117\\nIX. Education 127\\nX. Productions 130\\nOranges 130\\nLemons 136\\nLimes 138\\nOther Citrus Fruits 140", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS.\\nCocoanuts\\nPineapples.\\nBananas\\nPears\\nGrapes and Wine\\nGrand Possibilities\\nYet other Fruits\\nTobacco\\nCotton\\nSilk\\nLumber\\nRice\\nSugar.\\nGrains\\nCattle\\nSheep\\nGoats\\nOther Stock\\nPoultry\\nGardening\\nOpium\\nHoney\\nOut of the Waters\\nXI. Sporting\\nFishing\\nHunting\\nXII. Pests.\\nInsects\\nReptiles\\nLand-Shark?\\nPAGE\\n141\\n144\\n148\\n151\\n152\\n154\\n164\\n178\\n182\\n183\\n186\\n192\\n193\\n194\\n195\\n196\\n196\\n198\\n198\\n199\\n203\\n204\\n205\\n309\\n209\\n21Y\\n223\\n223\\n225\\n226\\nAppendix\\nRailway Routes\\nRiver Routes\\nList of Hotels\\n229\\n231\\n236", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "MAPS AND ILLUSTEATIOlsS.\\nPAGE\\nMap of Florida Facing title\\nMap of Divisions 41\\nThe Banana 51\\nStreet Scene in Jacksonville 78\\nStreet in St. Augustine 83\\nPonce de Leon Hotel 85\\nLooking across Indian River 89\\nA Hammock 92\\nA Scene on the Ocklawaha Eiver 103\\nOrange 181\\nOrange-Trees 132\\nLemon 137\\nLime-Tree 188\\nCoGoanut-Grove 142\\nThe Banana and the Pineapple 149\\nGuava 156\\nMango 158\\nThe Date-Palm .165\\nA Cypress-Shingle Yard 188\\nA Hunter s Camp 218", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "THE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\nHISTOEY.\\nThe early history of Florida its discoveries,\\nconquests, reconquests, cessions, and retrocession is\\nas varied and spirited as a romance.\\nDiscoveries. It is agreed generally among the\\nhistorians that Ponce de Leon was the first of the\\nseveral discoverers. This romantic and enterprising\\nadventurer, hunting the phantasmal Isle of Biraini\\none writer calls it Boiaca with its precious fount-\\nain of yoath, failed indeed to find that, but reached\\nthe coast of Florida just north of where St. Augus-\\ntine now is, on Easter-Sunday, the 27th of March,\\n1512. He landed the 2d of April, and named the\\ncountry, known to the Indians as Cautio, Florida,\\nfrom Pascua Florida, the day of his discovery. Mr.\\nFairbanks, however, states that the discovery was\\nmade on Pahn-Suudaj. Ponce de Leon did little", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "8 TEE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\nelse on that occasion than to land, erect banners, and\\nbaptize the fair land of flowers.\\nFlorida was next discovered by Miruelo in 1516.\\nHe got, it is said, some pieces of gold from the na-\\ntives, which, on his return to Cnba, the general base\\nof operations for the Spaniards at that early date,\\ncreated great excitement among the gold-hnngry ad-\\nventurers of that day.\\nThe next year, 1517, De Cordova led an expedi-\\ntion of Spaniards to the new El Dorado but he was\\nspeedily driven off, and returned to Cuba to die of\\nhis wounds.\\nThe same year Alaminos came with three ships,\\nlanded twice, found no gold, and was soon driven\\naway.\\nIn 1521 Ponce de Leon made another invasion\\nof Florida but he found no gold, was baffled and\\nwounded, and returned to Cuba to die, as De Cor-\\ndova had done.\\nSeven years later the Spanish fortune-hunters\\nbegan to discover and to invade Florida on the\\nwestern side. De ISTarvaez, in April, 1528, led an\\nexpedition of about four hundred men and eighty\\nhorses, which landed in Clear Water Bay. He\\nlanded with three hundred men and the horses,\\nand marched northward along the Gulf- shore, hav-", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "HISTORY. 9\\ning ordered liis vessels to coast along apace with\\nhis marching troops. The arrangement was a fail-\\nure. The ships lost sight of the troops, and, baffled\\nin every effort to find them, months afterward re-\\nturned to Cuba. The three hundred troops were\\nall, in one way or another, destroyed, except four.\\nThese four remained seven years in the El Do-\\nrado, became medicine-men among the Indians,\\nand finally worked their way back, crossing the\\nMississippi Kiver, to the Spanish settlements in\\nMexico. One of these, Cabega de Yaca the veri-\\ntable discoverer of the Mississippi River wrote an\\naccount of these stirring events. While the ships\\nwere yet lying at Clear Water, a Spaniard, Juan de\\nOrtiz, rashly ventured ashore, and was left there a\\nprisoner among the Indians, known then as Mari-\\nannes. He remained there eleven years until the\\nnext discoverer came along and had a sort of John\\nSmith experience with a Floridian Pocahontas and\\nPowhatan. The name of the interesting heroine of\\nthis adventure seems to have perished, but the\\nPowhatan was named Hirrihigua.\\nIn 1539 De Soto, with a thousand men and\\nthree hundred and fifty horses, landed in what is\\nnow Tampa Bay, which he christened Espiritu\\nSanto. Upon landing, he found De Ortiz, men-", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "10 THE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\ntioned above, who acted as his guide but, as it\\nturned out, he knew almost nothing about the\\ncountry. De Soto was in quest of reported great\\nstore of crystal, gold, and rubies, and diamonds,\\nthat lay somewhere to tlie northward. He sent his\\nvessels home, and set out overland to the region of\\ntreasures, wherever that might be. He reached\\nChicora, or Chicola South Carolina, perhaps then\\nturned westward, and passed beyond the Mississippi\\nRiver, which had been discovered years before, and\\nnamed Rio Grande, by De Yaca. De Soto returned\\nto that river, died there, and was buried beneath its\\npaternal waters. Just three hundred and eleven of\\nhis thousand men finally reached Mexico.\\nIn 1545 a treasure- ship sailing from Mexico for\\nSpain, was wrecked on the eastern coast of Florida,\\nand about two hundred persons escaped to the land,\\nand thus unwittingly discovered Florida again. The\\nmost of these were murdered by the gentle Stoics\\nof the woods, and the rest were enslaved. About\\ntwenty years later one of these slaves made his\\nway to Laudonniere s settlement, at the mouth of\\nthe St. John s River, and a few others reached the\\ncolony of Menendez at St. Augustine.\\nIn 1549 four Franciscan friars landed at Tampa\\nBay, with the idea of evangelizing the stoical abo-", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "HISTORY. 11\\nngines, but the noble savages tomahawked three of\\nthem, and thns convmced the fourth brother that\\ntliat kind of a conquest of Florida was impractica-\\nble at that time.\\nTen years later, De Luna set out from Yera\\nCrnz with fifteen hundred adventurers and a large\\nnumber of zealous priests the former to pick np\\nfortunes, and the latter to preach the gospel of\\npeace to the cut-throat barbarians. He landed at\\nthe Bay of Pensacola, then called Santa Maria,\\npitched a camp there, marched into the interior,\\naccomplished the loss of a good many men, and was\\nordered home.\\nIn 1562 Ribault came from France with two\\nvessels and a colony of Huguenots, and made land\\nnear St. Augustine thence coasted northward, dis-\\ncovered the St. John s River, which he christened\\nthe May, and erected a monument of stone engraved\\nwith the arms of France. He soon re-embarked,\\nand proceeded to make a settlement at Port Royal,\\nSouth Carolina.\\nIn 1564 Laudonniere brought a still larger col-\\nony of Huguenots, landed where St. Augustine now\\nstands, but promptly re-embarked and sailed to St.\\nJohn s Bluff, and there built Fort Caroline. This\\ncolony struggled on for a year, and, becoming dis-", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "12 THE FLORIDA OF TO-BAY.\\nheartened, were preparing to return to France,\\nwhen, in Angust, 1565, Eibault arrived with about\\nsix hundred and fifty other Huguenots, some hav-\\ning families.\\nSettlement. The same year brought Menendez,\\nwho arrived in July, 1565, at St. Augustine. Upon\\nhis arrival he heard of Eibault and his Huguenots\\nat Fort Caroline, and promptly pursued his vessels,\\nbut without success. He then returned to St. Au-\\ngustine, and built solid fortifications. Ribault ral-\\nlied quickly, and set out to capture Menendez\\nbefore he could complete his defenses but the\\nFrench were driven south, and finally wrecked near\\nMatanzas. Menendez was equal to the occasion,\\nand, taking advantage of the situation, attacked and\\ncaptured Fort Caroline. He hanged a number of\\nhis French prisoners upon trees, and put this in-\\nscription over their hanging bodies I^on jpoi\\nFranceses^ sino jpor Luteranosr The victor re-\\nchristened the fort San Mateo, returned to St. Au-\\ngustine, there first heard of Eibault s shipwreck,\\nhastened down to Matanzas Inlet, captured Ei-\\nbault s straggling party, and, under the banner of\\nthe cross, butchered them to a man.\\nThis closed the efforts of the French to hold a\\ncolony in Florida proper.", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "HISTORY. 13\\nMenendez held liis post at St. Augustine, and\\nthis doubtless was the first permanent settlement of\\nEuropeans in the United States.\\nIn 1567 a gallant Frenchman, De Gourgues, got\\nup an expedition to avenge the brutal massacre and\\ninsult of his compatriots bj the Spaniards at Fort\\nCaroline. With three small vessels and a hun-\\ndred and eighty-four men he came to Florida,\\nadroitly secured the co-operation of the natives, and\\nwith these combined forces he surprised Fort San\\nMateo the old Fort Caroline and captured the\\nentire garrison. He turned the merciful aborigines\\nin upon the Spaniards, and a few survived. These\\nDe Gourgues hanged upon the same trees that Me-\\nnendez had used for the Huguenots, and on a\\npine board over the corpses he wrote, I do this,\\nnot as to Spaniards, nor as to outcasts, but as to\\ntraitors, thieves, and murderers. The avengement\\nwas complete.\\nSt. Augustine, meanwhile, was held continu-\\nously by the Spaniards; but holding was about\\nall they did, except fighting off Indians. In\\n1647 the city contained three hundred families.\\nIt was twice captured and burned down once\\nby Sir Francis Drake, who was returning from\\na freebooting expedition in the Spanish Main,", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "14 TEE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\nand once, in 1665, bj Captain John Davis, a buc-\\ncaneer.\\nSpain claimed that Florida embraced all the ter-\\nritory as far north as Virginia and westward to the\\nMississippi Eiver in those early Spanish days\\nknown as the Rio Grande. Accordingly, when the\\nEnglish and Scotch began to colonize the Carolinas,\\nthe Spaniards began to fight them as intruders and\\nthe Indians joined whichever side promised them\\nthe most blood. Under this feeling, in 1676, the\\nSjoaniards sent a force to wipe out the English set-\\ntlement at Charles Town, on the Ashley River but\\nthe expedition failed utterly. Again, in 1678, an-\\nother Spanish force was sent for the same purpose\\nand this one murdered many of the English colo-\\nnists, pillaged a few plantations, and did a deal of\\npetty damage.\\nIn 1696 the Spaniards, under D Arriola, made a\\nsettlement where Pensacola is and, where Fort\\nBarrancas now stands, they built their Fort Carlos,\\na church, and some dwellings.\\nIn 1702 the English Governor Moore, of South\\nCarolina, captured and burned St. Augustine, but\\nfailed to reduce the fort and in 1703 he laid waste\\nthe Indian towns in Middle Florida which were\\nunder Spanish protection, so called.", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "HISTORY. 15\\nThe Pensacola settlement was destroyed by the\\nFrench in 1718 and the Spaniards, in 1722, built\\non Santa Rosa Island, where Fort Pickens now\\nstands, and rebuilt Pensacola.\\nThese alternations of colonizing, building, capt-\\nuring, rescuing, burning, rebuilding, reburning, and\\nso on, were kept up between the Spaniards and\\nFrench in animated style for several years. Indeed,\\nnothing else seems to have received any attention.\\nThe banner of the cross of peace waved over the\\nland, and the tomahawk kept the soil moist with\\nblood.\\nSt. Marks was settled by the Spaniards in 1718.\\nSpanish Florida had three aggressive and troub-\\nlesome enemies the English in Carolina and Geor-\\ngia on the north, the French in Louisiana on the\\nwest, and the aboriginal tomahawks all around\\nthem.\\nIn 1713 the English Governor Oglethorpe, of\\nGeorgia, invaded Florida, and offered battle under\\nthe walls of St. Augustine but the Spanish\\nadelantado Montiano, declined to go out, and Ogle-\\nthorpe declined to go in so there was but little\\nbloodshed.\\nCession to Great Britain. The treaty of peace of\\n1718 between Great Britain and Spain closed these", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "16 TEE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\nalternating forays and filibusterings. When this\\ntreaty was broken by the war of 1762, the British\\ncaptured Havana; and in the treaty following, in\\n1763, Great Britain gave Cuba to Spain in exchange\\nfor Florida. Thus Florida became a British posses-\\nsion, and enjoyed a rest from Spain s magnificently\\nlittle conquests of empires that had been going on\\nso long.\\nThe Spaniards, during their two hundred and\\nfifty years of occupancy, had achieved little beyond\\ntheir numerous ostentatious conquests of nothing,\\nmuch bloodshed and brutality, and a profound igno-\\nrance of the country and its resources. At the date\\nof the cession the European population of the terri-\\ntory was about six thousand five hundred and of\\nthese many left the country at the transfer.\\nThe first British Governor, James Grant, took\\nsteps promptly to develop the country. Eoads\\nwere cut, colonization encouraged, and bounties\\noffered for indigo and other productions. Dr.\\nTurnbull and Sir William Duncan brought into the\\nterritory about fifteen hundred Minorcans and\\nGreeks, and made a settlement near l!^ew Smyrna,\\nin Yolusia County.\\nFlorida took no part in the war of secession in\\n1776 known as the American Ke volution, and was", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "HISTORY. 17\\na place of refuge for thousands of loyalists from the\\nbattling States, as it was later for fugitive slaves\\nfrom the adjacent States.\\nUpon the breaking out of war between Great\\nBritain and Spain in 1779, the Spanish Governor of\\nLouisiana invaded Florida and captured Pensacola\\nin 1781.\\nRetrocession to Spain. In 1783, upon the close\\nof the war, Great Britain exchanged Florida for the\\nBahama Islands, owned by Spain, and thus Florida\\nreturned to Spanish rule. The British settlers\\npromptly moved out, and Spanish lethargy settled\\nover the country again.\\nIn 1814, during the late war, the British sent\\na fleet to Pensacola and captured the forts there\\nand General Jackson was sent to oust them. He\\nstormed the forts and destroyed them. In 1818\\nGeneral Jackson again invaded Florida, in order to\\ncheck and chastise the Seminoles.\\nCession to the United States.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 In 1819 a treaty\\nbetween Spain and the United States was concluded,\\nand ratified in 1821, by which Florida was ceded to\\nthe latter power.\\nTerritory of Florida. In 1822 the Congress of\\nthe United States established the Territory of Flor-\\nida, with its capital at an old Indian settlement or\\n2", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "18 THE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\ncamp called Tallahassee, although the first Legisla-\\ntive Council met at Pensacola, and the second at St.\\nAugustine.\\nThe Territorial Governors, with the beginnings\\nof their terms, were Andrew Jackson, 1821\\nWilliam P. Duval, 1822; John W. Eaton, 1834\\nR. K. Call, 1835 Robert Raymond Reed, 1839\\nR. K. Call, 1810 John Branch, 1811.\\nSeminole Wars. It was mainly during the terri-\\ntorial period that the worst of the Seminole wars\\noccurred. These wars were full of stirring and\\ntragic events, and but little variety relieved their\\nbloody monotony. A detailed account of them is\\nwholly unnecessary here. Speaking of the earlier\\nIndian conflicts at the beginning of the eighteenth\\ncentury up to about 1Y20 ^Mr. Fairbanks makes\\nthis comparison In every IS ew England house-\\nhold the story of the sufferings of the Williams fam-\\nily, of the Dustins, and of Miss McCrea, excited\\nthe most tender emotions of pity. The history of\\nthe Southern colonies presents hundreds of such in-\\nstances. If it was hundreds then, it is thousands\\nnow. It is within reason to say that the history of\\nFlorida itself, as a Territory and as a State 1821\\nto 1860, say can give a score of such tragedies for\\nevery one so graphically told in the school-books of", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "HISTORY. 19\\nall the ]^ew England States. But these have not\\nyet been celebrated in song and story. Many have\\nnot been written at all, and are thus far recorded\\nonly in the hearts and memories of this silent South-\\nern people.\\nPeace with these Indians is perhaps an impossi-\\nbility, and had never really existed but the most\\nimportant outbreak, known as the Seminole War, be-\\ngan with the Dade massacre in South Florida in\\n1835, and closed with the so-called treaty of 1842.\\nBut there has been much fierce fighting outside of\\nthat period both before and after. The word mas-\\nsacre fitly describes the destruction of Major Dade s\\nbattalion in Sumter County. After the last man\\nhad fallen, Mr. Fairbanks states, the Indians then\\nrushed into the breastwork, headed by a heavy\\npainted savage, who, believing that all were dead,\\nmade a speech to the Indians. They then stripped\\noff the accoutrements of the soldiers and took their\\narms, without offering any indignity, and retired\\nin a body. The story closes with these words\\nSoon after the Indians had left, about fifty ne-\\ngroes galloped up on horseback and alighted, and\\nat once commenced a horrible butchery. If any\\npoor fellow on the ground showed signs of life, the\\nnegroes stabbed and tomahawked him. Lieutenant", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "20 TEE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\nBasinger, being still alive, started up and begged\\nthe wretches to spare his life thej mocked at his\\nprayers, while they mangled him with their hatch-\\nets nntil he was relieved by death. After stripping\\nthe dead, the negroes shot the oxen and burned the\\ngun-carriages. One man, by something like a\\nmiracle, escaped to tell the story.\\nThere have been several causes assigned for the\\nIndian s hostility to the white man encroachments\\nof the whites, individual wrongs to property, espe-\\ncially cattle, etc. but the great underlying and\\nessential causa causans has been the innate blood-\\nthirst of the savages. The killing is sweet to them.\\nThis has shown itself ever since the Easter-Sunday\\nin 1512 when De Leon, the fountain-hunter, first\\nsighted the blooming shores of Cautio.\\nDuring these wars the savages have times and\\nagain made agreements and treaties so called, only\\nto gain time or to put the whites off their guard, and\\nthen resume hostilities whenever and wherever they\\ncould find a white throat convenient to cut. And\\nyet the whites trusted them again and again. Gov-\\nernor Heed, in 1839, in his message to the Legisla-\\nture, said The close of the fifth year will find us\\nstruggling in a contest remarkable for magnanimity,\\nforbearance, and credulity on the one side, and", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "HISTORY. 21\\nferocity and bad faith on the other. We are\\nwaging war with beasts of prey. The tactics that\\nbelong: to civilized nations are but shackles and\\nfetters in its prosecution. We must fight tire with\\nfire.\\nGallant officers with brave soldiers were sent to\\nquell the brutal work of Indian murder and pillage\\nJackson, CKnch, Dade, Macomb, Belknap, and\\nothers and all were bafl^led. Some of them fought\\nwell, and had edifying talks, and secured excellent\\ntreaties but the Seminole was master of the situa-\\ntion practically, until General Worth went in\\n1841.\\nOur forces had captured Coacoochee, a chief,\\nand several of his braves, and they were en route\\nfor the West, when General Worth sent to JSTew\\nOrleans and had the party returned to him at\\nTampa. The interview between the general and\\nCoacoochee took place on a transport in Tampa\\nBay, on the morning of the 4th of July, 1841.\\nThe general and his staff were seated, and the\\nchief and his companions came forward heavily\\nironed, and sat do^vn on the deck. General Worth\\nadvanced, and, taking the chief by the hand, said\\nto him Coacoochee, I take you by the hand as a\\nwarrior, a brave man. You have fought long, and", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "22 THE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\nwitli a true and strong heart, for jour country. I\\ntake your hand with feelings of pride. You love\\nyour country as we do. Coacoochee, I am your\\nfriend; so is your Great Father at Washington.\\nWhat I say to you is true. My tongue is not\\nforked like a snake s. My word is for the happi-\\nness of the red man. You are a great warrior.\\nThe Indians throughout the country look to you as\\na leader; by your- counsels they have been governed.\\nThis war has lasted five years. Much blood has\\nbeen shed much innocent blood. You have made\\nyour hands and the ground red with the blood of\\nwomen and children. This war must now end.\\nYou are the man to do it; you must and shall\\naccomplish it. I sent for you, that, through the\\nexertions of yourself and your men, you might\\ninduce your entire band to emigrate. I wish you\\nto state how many days it will require to effect an\\ninterview with the Indians in the woods. You\\ncan select three or five of these men to carry your\\ntalk. Name the time it shall be granted; but I\\ntell you, as I wish your relatives and friends told,\\nthat, unless they fulfill your demands, yourself and\\nthese warriors now seated before us shall be hung\\nto the yards of this vessel when the sun sets on\\nthe day appointed, with the irons upon your hands", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "HISTORY. 23\\nand feet I tell jou this, that we may well under-\\nstand each other. I do not wish to frighten you,\\nyou are too brave a man for that but I say what\\nI mean, and I will do it. It is for the benefit of\\nthe white and the red man. The war must end,\\nand you must end it!^\\nThe wily chief made a diplomatic reply, and\\nevidently counted on making his escape. Conclud-\\ning, he said I wish now to have my band around\\nme and go to Arkansas. You say I m.%ist end the\\nwar Look at these irons Can I go to my\\nwarriors? Coacoochee chained! JSTo do not ask\\nme to see them. I never wish to tread upon my\\nland unless I am free. If I can go to them\\nunchained, they will follow me in but I fear\\nthey will not obey me when I talk to them in\\nirons. They will say my heart is weak, I am\\nafraid. Could I go free, they will surrender and\\nemigrate.\\nGeneral Worth knew his man. He told him\\nthat he could not go free, and reminded him that\\nhe had not proposed anything of the kind. He\\nclosed by saying I say to you again, and for the\\nlast time, that unless the band acquiesce promptly\\nin your wishes, to your last wish, the sun, as it\\ngoes down on the last day appointed for their", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "24 THE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\nappearance, will shine upon the bodies of each of\\nyou hanging in the wind.\\nCoacoochee understood aright this time. He\\naccepted the inevitable. He selected five of his\\nmen to carry his talk to his band in the swamps.\\nThe five went accordingly, and they returned with\\nthe entire band of about two hundred Coacoochean\\nSeminoles. They all went West.\\nThis policy of General Worth s availed some-\\nthing. But it w^as arrested midway by another\\ntreaty^ by the provisions of which nearly three hun-\\ndred savages are yet allowed to linger in Florida\\nalmost powerless for serious ill, but a nuisance and\\nannoyance, without any compensating advantage.\\nThe heroes, so called, of this mongrel race,\\ncounting back a hundred years or so, are many\\nSecoffee, Pascoft er, Osceola (As-se-se-ha-ho-lar, Black\\nDrink), Jumper, Micco, Sam Jones, Micanopy,\\nAlligator, Black Dirt, Arpeika, Chitto-Tustenug-\\ngee, Coacoochee or Wild Cat, Emathla, Otulkee,\\nHalleck-Tustenuggee, Aleck Ha jo, Tiger-Tail, Tal-\\nlahassee, Billy Bowlegs, Hospetarkee, and so on to\\na hundred, each and all distinguished for some-\\nthing. One is crafty and silent another, bold and\\ntalkative another, vigilant and far-seeing another,\\nambitious and boastful another, skillful and busy", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "HISTORY. 25\\nanother, vulpine another, feline another, snaky\\nand another, tigerj but all blood-hungry and\\nrevengeful.\\nThese Seminole wars have cost perhaps twenty\\nmillion dollars, and over thirty thousand soldiers\\nhave seen service in them, of whom about fifteen\\nhundred lost their lives.\\nIn IS^ovember, 1843, General Worth estimated\\nthe whole number of Indians in Florida as fol-\\nlows of warriors, Seminoles, forty-two Micco-\\nsukies, thirty-three Creeks, ten and Tallahassees,\\nten making ninety-four warriors and, including\\nwomen and children, three hundred in all. These\\nwere under Holatter Micco as head -chief, and\\nAssinwar and Otnlko-Thlocko as sub-chiefs. In\\n1845 Captain Sprague estimated the aggregate at\\nthree hundred and sixty. To-day, they are reck-\\noned to be two hundred and sixty-nine statement\\ngiven elsewhere so that the race is not self-sus-\\ntaining.\\nState of Florida. Florida was organized as a\\nState and admitted into the Union in 1845.\\nThe State Governors prior to the war of seces-\\nsion were W. D. Moseley, 1846 Thomas Brown,\\n1848; James E. Broome, 1852; Madison Perry,\\n1856 John Milton, 1860.", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "26 THE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\nSecession. An ordinance of secession from tTie\\nFederal Union was passed by a State Convention on\\ntlie 10th of January, 1861 and the State joined\\nthe Confederate States in the struggle for State\\nsovereignty in the war of secession, bearing its\\npart bravely and well.\\nAt the close of the war a State Convention\\nrepealed the ordinance of secession.\\nIn 1865 there w^ere three Governors A. K.\\nAllison, acting Governor; William Marvin, mili-\\ntary Governor; and David S. Walker, elected by\\nthe people, served until 1868, when reconstruction,\\nso called, was regularly ushered in.\\nReconstruction. Under a new Constitution,\\nadopted in 1868, a new line of Governors was\\ninaugurated. Beginning with that date, the follow-\\ning have been the Governors, wdth their dates\\nHarrison Eeed, 1868; O. B. Hart, 1873; M. L.\\nStearns, 1873 George F. Drew, 1877 William. D.\\nBloxham, 1881; Edward A. Perry, 1885.\\nRestoration.-\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The election of Governor Drew\\nin 1877 marks the new era of prosperity in Florida.\\nFrom 1868 to 1877 the reconstruction regime ob-\\ntained. During that period party politics seemed\\nto be the main pm^suit of those having the State in\\ncharge and other industries were dwarfed by mis-", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "HISTORY. 27\\ndirected legislation or overborne hj onerous taxa-\\ntion. The upward and forward impulse given all\\nindustrial pursuits bj the election of Governor\\nDrew, in 1877, was well sustained and increased\\nsuccessively by Governors Bloxham and Perry.\\nThe extent of the rebound from the reconstruc-\\ntional depression, or rather prostration, is clearly\\nshown by Governor Perry in a communication of\\nthe 30th of March, 1888. He says I am glad to\\nbe able to say for my State that its agricultural\\ninterests are marvelously improving, that the num-\\nber and amount of farm mortgages and liens on\\ncrops are decreasing, and that farmers are more\\nprosperous generally. Their lands are yearly in-\\ncreasing in value, and their general advancement\\nis marked. The assessments for taxation for the\\nyears 1870, 1879, and 1887 bear ample testimony\\nto the material advancement of the State during\\nthe period in question\\nFor 1870 $29,700,022\\nFor 1879 32,794,383\\nFor 1887 86,265,662", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "GEOGEAPIIY.\\nFlorida is the largest in area of the States east\\nof the Mississippi River, and it has an area of culti-\\nvable land greater than that of the six New Eng-\\nland States.\\nThe political, judicial, and congressional divis-\\nions of Florida are not matters of special interest to\\nthe traveling public and, in view of the State as a\\nplace to visit or to settle in, thej are not important.\\nIn a general way, again, the State is divided into\\nWest, Middle, East, and South but this division is\\nboth vague and arbitrary, and comparatively mean-\\ningless. To the l^orthern as to the European read-\\ner s mind the State is pretty much a unit and from\\nthis misconception has arisen much of the confusion\\nof thought, conflicting opinions, the seesaw of vili-\\nfication and overpraise, and the general wholesale\\ninaccuracy^ that has been so lavishly written about\\nFlorida for the last twenty years.\\nFor the purposes of these pages to give a cor-", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "GEOGRAPHY. 29\\nrect idea of the country in its salient and diverse\\nfeatures, and to picture it as it is to-day the sec-\\ntions of the State are three, which for convenience\\nmay be called I^orthern Florida, Semi-tropical\\nFlorida, and Subtropical Florida. The basis of this\\ndivision is climate and the three Floridas will be\\ndiscussed as separate in future pages.\\nThe physical features of this State, like its\\neventful early history and its manifold industries,\\nare varied and diverse. The highest point in the\\nState is Table Mountain, in Lake County; and\\nthough the barometric measurements have not been\\nvery close, a presumption is established that the sum-\\nmit is nearly five hundred feet above the sea-level.\\nLouisiana is the only State with a less elevation.\\nThe highest point in the United States is Mount\\nWhitney in California, 14,898 feet.\\nFlorida is a land of water. In addition to its\\n1,148 miles of salt-water coast, it has, scattered all\\nover its surface, certainly 1,200 fresh-water lakes.\\nThese vary in size, from Okeechobee (the word is\\nsaid to mean Eig Water), with its thousand square\\nmiles of area, to the picturesque little lakelet for\\nthere are lakelets both large and small with less\\nthan a hundred square feet. These lakes and lake-\\nlets are nowhere stagnant and unseemly with scum", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "30 THE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\nbut are of waters fresh, clear, bright, smiling, and\\nwholesome, often good enough for general use, and\\neven for drinking. Even the Everglade waters are\\npure and drinkable. This clearness and health-qual-\\nitj appear as well in the chalybeate and the sulphur\\nsprings that are found in many parts of the State.\\nThe word spring, in this connection, has great lati-\\ntude of meaning; and some of the so-called springs\\nare very large, as Silver Spring, in Marion County,\\ntwo hundred yards in diameter, whose brook is a\\nthoroughfare for a line of steamers, and the Blue\\nSprings in Yolusia County, with a basin seventy\\nfeet in diameter and forty feet deep. Of this latter\\na State official gives the following description A\\nhuge bowl, from the center of which a column of\\nblue-tinted water presses upward with such force\\nthat the center of the surface is convex to the ex-\\ntent of perhaps ten inches, and it is impossible to\\nput or keep a boat on this summit, such is the force\\nof the hydraulic pressure upward and laterally.\\nThe stream which this gigantic spring feeds is\\nabout fifty feet wide and of an average depth of ten\\nfeet, with a current of about five miles an hour.\\nThe Indian name of the St. John s River is Wee-la-\\nha^ meaning a chain of lakes. The following are a\\nfew of the largest lakes Okeechobee, Kissimmee,", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "GEOGRAPHY. 31\\nTohopokaliga, Istokroga, Monroe, Apopka, Eiistis,\\nGeorge, Crescent, Orange, Miccasnkee, lamonia, De\\nFuniak, Santa Fe, and Buffum. The heights of\\nthese lakes vary a good deal, Buffum, in Polk\\nCounty, being 138-26 feet above sea-level Ejs-\\nsimmee, 59*06 feet and Okechobee, 20*24: feet.\\nAbout Okeechobee, and mainly southward of\\nit, extend the Everglades, in the counties of Dade,\\nMonroe, and Lee, with an aggregate area of fully\\nseven thousand ^yq hundred square miles nearly\\nas large as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.\\nThe Everglade waters are, like all the waters of\\nFlorida, pure and clear, and vary in depth from a\\nfew inches to several feet, rarely more than ten.\\nTall grass, as high sometimes as eight or ten feet, is\\nvery common, with shrubs, vines, trees, moss, and\\nall sorts of tangle and roots. Islands lie here and\\nthere, with trees and vines on them cypress, pine,\\noaks, palmettoes, magnolias, and a score at least of\\nother subtropical trees. Fish in infinite variety\\nabound everywhere.\\nThe immense extent of sea-shore, almost encir-\\ncling the State, is dotted with islands islands of\\nall sizes, from Santa Eosa Island and Key Largo,\\nthirty to fifty miles long, to a dot big enough only\\nto sun a turtle. Beginning at the mouth of the St.", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "32 TEE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\nMary s Kiver, at Fernandina, with Amelia Island,\\ntwenty-two miles long, on wMch that city stands, we\\nhave an unbroken chain An astasia, opposite which\\nSt. Augustine stands scores of islands and islets\\nalong Hillsborough, Halifax, and Indian Rivers on\\ndown to the Florida Keys, numbering hundreds, of\\nwhich Key Largo is the largest on to Key West\\nand the Dry Tortugas thence northward up the\\nGulf coast, taking in the Ten Thousand Islands on\\nthe coast of Monroe and so on by Charlotte Har-\\nbor, Tampa Bay, and Cedar Keys, to the island-\\ndotted coast of Franklin County and on to the\\nlargest of all, Santa Rosa Island and finally on to\\nPerdido Point.\\nThe rivers of the State are numerous, frequently\\nserpentine, sluggish, and shallow, but rarely if ever\\nstagnant. The principal streams are the St. John s,\\nSuwannee, Kissimmee, Caloosahatchee, Withlacoo-\\nchee, Apalachicola, Ocklawaha, St Mary s, Wakulla,\\nChipola, Peace, Manatee, Alafia, Homosassa, St.\\nMark s, Miami, Ocklokonee, and Ocilla. There are\\nnineteen rivers navigable by steamers, to the aggre-\\ngate distance of over a thousand miles.", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "III.\\nCLIMxVTE.\\nThe climate of Florida, considered as one, is ex-\\nceptional. It is, in some important respects, the\\nfinest in tlie world. Dr\u00e2\u0080\u009e Baldwin, a prominent\\nphysician of Jackson\\\\^ille, maintains that the State\\noccupies a most favorable position in regard to cli-\\nmate for the many modifying influences in oper-\\nation have produced, he shows, a climate that for\\nequability has few if any equals and do superior.\\nTemperature. As regards temperature, contin-\\nued observations in various parts of the State show\\nthat it is not excessive in either direction during\\nthe entire year, the range between winter and sum-\\nmer temperature being only about 20\u00c2\u00b0. The an-\\nnual mean is 70\u00c2\u00b0 that of spring, 71\u00c2\u00b0 summer,\\n80\u00c2\u00b0 autumn, 71\u00c2\u00b0 and winter, 60\u00c2\u00b0. The following\\nis the Weather Bureau s official statement of the\\ntemperature at Jacksonville, for the year 1837\\nAnnual mean 6S 1\\nMaximum lOO S\\nMinimum 21-9\\n3", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "34\\nTHE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\nThis maj be accepted as applicable for tbe northern\\npart of semi-tro2)ical Florida, and approximately for\\nthe whole orange belt.\\nThe following table presents results given by\\nthe Signal Service. The figures for Florida are pre-\\nsumably those for Jacksonville, for there are parts\\nof the State where 105\u00c2\u00b0 has not been felt for a hun-\\ndred years. The figures are degrees Fahrenheit,\\nand the table shows the one point of comparative\\nequability\\nPLACE.\\nMaximum.\\nMinimum.\\nDifiFerence.\\nFlorida\\n105\\n105\\n105\\n105\\n100\\n105\\n105\\n110\\n105\\n110\\n105\\n110\\n105\\n115\\n110\\n110\\n115\\n115\\n10\\n05\\n-10\\n-20\\n-20\\n-25\\n-20\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009480\\n-25\\n-35\\n-30\\n-35\\n30\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009445\\n-45\\n-45\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009450\\n95\\n105\\nMississippi\\n110\\nAlabama\\n115\\nWest Virginia\\n120\\nGeorgia\\n125\\nOhio\\n130\\nKansas\\n130\\nConnecticut\\n135\\n135\\nIllinois\\n140\\nNebraska\\n140\\nNew York\\n140\\nIdaho\\n145\\nColo ado\\n155\\nDakota\\n155\\nCalifornia\\n160\\nMontana\\n165\\nAs the public mind naturally expects, and as the\\nCalifornia press have demanded, a comparison of\\nthe two States in the matter of temperature, the fol-", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "CLIMATE.\\n35\\nlowing figures are given from the montlilj weather\\nreview^ of the Signal-Service Bureau, for August,\\n1885:\\nIn Florida.\\nD3g.\\nLimona 98\\nJacksonville 94\\nSanf ord 94\\nKey West 94\\nMerritt s Island 94\\nSt. Augustine 93\\nIn California,\\nDeg.\\nFall Brook 115\\nCollege City 114\\nMurietta Ill\\nRed Bluff 108\\nLos Angeles 106\\nSacramento 105\\nFor September, 1885, the figures from the same\\nreview are these\\nIn Florida.\\nDeg.\\nLimona 97\\nKey West 92\\nMerritt s Island 89\\nSt. Augustine 89\\nJacksonville 89\\nIn California.\\nBeg.\\nFall Brook 110\\nLos Angeles 109\\nMurietta 107\\nPoway 103\\nThese two tables answer the question whether\\nCalifornia is warmer in midsummer than Florida.\\nHumidity. As to the humidity about which so\\nmuch extravagant nonsence has been written, and\\nwhich hasty writers have pronounced excessive\\nand therefore objectionable, Dr. Baldwin insists,\\nand with conclusive reasons, that it is one of the\\nfortunate and favorable features, when consid-\\nered in the light of science. Let it be remem-", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "36 TEE FLORIDA OF TO-BAY.\\nbered, lie writes, tliat the term relative humidity\\nas used by meteorologists is not the same as absolute\\nhumidity and then proceeds to show how this is\\ntrue, in the following way Absolute humidity de-\\ntermines the exact amount of vapor in the air when\\ncondensed into water while relative humidity has\\nrelation to the amount of vapor in the air when it\\nwill be condensed after the point of saturation\\nis reached, and this point of saturation depends on\\nthe temperature and tension or force of vapor\\ndetermined by the barometric pressure at the time\\nof taking the observation. In relative humidity,\\nthe point of saturation is marked 100, and the\\nfigures in the column below 100 are the percentage\\nof that quantity as existing at the time under a spe-\\ncific degree of temperature and tension of vapor.\\nTherefore, the point of saturation is variable as, for\\ninstance, when the thermometer is 50\u00c2\u00b0 and the\\nbarometer marks 30 inches pressure, a cubic foot of\\nair then contains four grains and a fraction of water\\nat the point of saturation, 100. When the tempera-\\nture is 75\u00c2\u00b0 and the barometer the same as before, a\\ncubic foot of the atmosphere then contains nine\\ngrains and a fraction where the air is saturated, but\\nstill marked 100. At the temperature of 100\u00c2\u00b0,\\npressure as before, the cubic foot of air at the point", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "CLIMATE. 37\\nof saturation will contain twenty grains and a frac-\\ntion. Thus we see that the amount of moisture in\\nthe air at different temperatures varies in quantity.\\nTherefore, the percentages given of 100 and the\\ndifferent temperatures must also vary, so that the\\nsame figures, although they may be correct percent-\\nages of 100, do not indicate to us the absolute\\namount of moisture in the atmosphere, unless we\\nknow the temperature which regulates each point of\\nsaturation. Time and space will not permit a more\\nextended exposition of this interesting subject.\\nProfessor Henry, of the Smithsonian Institution, in\\nan article on meteorology, says It is not upon the\\nactual amount of vapor which the air contains at a\\ngiven time or place that its humidity depends but\\nupon its greater or less degree of saturation. That\\nair is said to be dry in which evaporation takes\\nplace rapidly from a surface of water or moistened\\nsubstance. Hence, if relative humidity shows a\\nsmall percentage of 100, the point of saturation in a\\nclimate where the absolute moisture is great, its\\neffect in producing evaporation is the same as where\\nthe absolute humidity is less at the same percentage\\nof 100, indicating saturation there.\\nAccordingly, so far as Florida is concerned, it,\\nwith its so-called excessive humidity, is in that", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "38 THE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\nrespect not less favorably conditioned than those\\nplaces which boast of their dry climates, because\\ntheir absolute humidity is less, and therefore more\\nconducive to health. But the absolute humidity of\\nthis climate is productive of benefit in modifying\\nits temperature. Yapor in the atmosphere regulates\\nradiation of heat from the earth into the voids of\\nspace, thus preventing refrigeration and sudden\\nchanges of temperature, so inimical to the comfort\\nof mankind, and so destructive to vegetation and\\nthe ripening of fruits.\\nProfessor Tyndall says The observations of\\nthe meteorologists furnish important, though hith-\\nerto unconscious, evidence of the influence of vapor\\non the atmosphere. Whenever the air is dry, we are\\nliable to extremes of temperature. By day in such\\nplaces, the sun s heat reaches the earth unimpeded,\\nand renders the maximum high by night, on the\\nother hand, the earth s heat escapes unimpeded into\\nspace, and renders the minimum low. Hence, the\\ndifference between the maximum and the minimum\\nis greater where the air is driest. Wherever\\ndrought reigns, we have the heat of the day forcibly\\ncontrasted with the chill of the night. In the Sa-\\nhara itself, when the sun s rays cease to impinge on\\nthe burning sands, the temperature runs rapidly", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "CLIMATE. 39\\ndown to freezing, because there is no vapor over-\\nhead to check the calorific drain.\\nProfessor Tjndall states the phenomena in ques-\\ntion with further illustration, but the above is\\nenough for this purpose. Dr. Baldwin calls atten-\\ntion to the fact that the cool nights of the sum-\\nmers in Florida, so highly appreciated by all that\\nhave experienced them, attest the fact that the\\n(so-called excessive) moisture in the air does not\\nprevent radiation. And again, during many winters\\nwhen excessive cold has characterized the weather\\nof the North, and the cold polar waves have been pre-\\ncipitated upon these latitudes, the moisture-bearing\\nbreezes from the south meet them, and the moist-\\nure overhead is condensed into clouds that prevent\\nsevere radiation and protect them and their orange-\\ngroves from tlie intense cold that otherwise they\\nshould experience. But if, as has recently been\\ntheir sad experience, those intensely cold winds, re-\\nduced to a temperature below zero, be driven as\\nnorthers down upon Texas and the Gulf and there\\nreflected across to this State, the passage of them\\nacross the warm waters of the Gulf, although modi-\\nfying their temperature, will still leave them cold\\nenough to be destructive in their effects. But these\\npre-refrigerated storms of a foreign origin are rare", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "40\\nTHE FLORIDA OF TO DAY.\\nvisitors to this clime, and do not count as indige-\\nnous elements to this enjoyable climate.\\nTo put this matter of relative humidity in yet\\nanother light, the following table, taken by Dr. C.\\nJ. Ken worthy from official Signal- Service sources,\\ncompares Florida with several other States, and\\nwith two Mediterranean watering-places\\nMean Relative Humidity.\\n2\\nNovem-\\nber.\\nDecem-\\nber.\\nJanu-\\nary.\\nFebru-\\nary.\\nMarch.\\nMean\\ntVir five\\nm mhs.\\nPer ct.\\nPer ct.\\nPer ct.\\nPer ct.\\nPer ct.\\nPer ct.\\nJlcntone Cannes\\n3\\n71-8\\n74-2\\n72-0\\n70-7\\n73-3\\n72-4\\nNassau, N. P\\n1\\n76-1\\n72-0\\n77-0\\n72-6\\n68 4\\n73-2\\nAtlantic City, N.J.\\n5\\n76-9\\n791\\n80-6\\n77-3\\n76-8\\n78-1\\nBreck nridge,Minn\\n5\\nn\\n83-2\\n76-8\\n81-8\\n79-5\\n79-6\\nDuluth, Minn\\n5\\n74-0\\n721\\n72-7\\n73-3\\n71-0\\n72-6\\nSt. Paul, Minn...\\n5\\n10-Z\\n73-5\\n75-2\\n70-7\\n67-1\\n71-3\\nPunta Rassa, Fla.\\n5\\n72-7\\n73-2\\n74-2\\n73-7\\n69-9\\n72-7\\nKey West, Fla.\\n5\\n77-1\\n78-7\\n78-9\\n77-2\\n72-2\\n76-8\\nJacksonville, Fla.\\n6\\n71-9\\n69-3\\n70-2\\n68-5\\n63-9\\n68-8\\nAugusta, Ga\\n5\\n71-8\\n72-6\\n73-0\\n64-7\\n62-8\\n68-9\\nBismarck, Dak.\\n1\\n76-6\\n76-4\\n77-4\\n81-6\\n70-6\\n76-5\\nBoston, Mass.\\n1\\n68-0\\n61-8\\n60-6\\n68-2\\n63-7\\n65-6", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "IV.\\nDIVISIONS.\\ny^ y\\\\ :Sorthem Florida\\n^T^ Semi tropical\\nI Sub-tropical\\nBut in fact there are\\nthree Florid as, three cli-\\nmates, and three hygi-\\nenic problems involved.\\nIn defining these three\\nFloridas, the lines of lati-\\ntude are not the divid-\\ning lines. The east and\\nthe west sides of the\\npeninsula differ in temperature more than a degree,\\nthe east or Atlantic side being to that extent warm-", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "42 THE FLO BID A OF TO-DAY.\\ner in winter. Professor A. H. Curtiss, while en-\\ngaged in a botanical exploration of the State sev-\\neral years ago, was the first to call attention to this\\ninteresting and important fact. He found that in\\nits flora Cedar Keys on the west corresponded with\\nFernandina on the east and in the same way cor-\\nresponded Tampa with Daytona, Charlotte Harbor\\nwith Cape Canaveral, Cape Eomano with St. Lncie,\\nand Chnkaluskee with Lake Worth. Lines con-\\nnecting these places respectively, may be called\\nisofloral lines. Professor Curtiss concluded fur-\\nther that Cape Romano on the western coast and\\nCape Canaveral on the eastern may be considered\\nthe points of demarkation between the temperate\\nand the subtropical vegetation.\\nIn the light of these and other similar facts\\nsince developed, it seems fair to divide the State\\ninto three Floridas, as above intimated, basing the\\ndivision upon climatic conditions. These three are\\n(1) JSTorthern, (2) Semi-tropical, and (3) Subtropical.\\nTaking these in this order, severally, there are\\nFirst, Northern Florida, lying north and west of\\na line from Cedar Keys to Fernandina, or perhaps\\nbetter the tortuous line of the Suwannee, Santa Fe,\\nand St. Mary s rivers a region whose climate may\\nbe designated as southern.", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "DIVISIONS. 43\\nSecond, Semi-tropical Florida, lying south of the\\nabove-designated line and extending to a line from\\nthe month of the Caloosahatchee River to Indian\\nRiver Inlet a reg^ on whose climate is semi-tropi-\\ncal^ and which may be appropriately designated as\\nthe Orange Belt and,\\nThird, Subtropical Florida, or all the region\\nlying south of the semi-tropical orange belt above\\ndefined, embracing the Florida Keys.\\nThese three Floridas are distinct in general\\nfeatm-es, chmates, and productions; but the divid-\\ning lines are in no sense sharp. These Floridas run\\ninto one another, and varying seasons press their\\nlines northward or southward, and many conspicu-\\nous floral features extend over all. But the general\\ndemarkation is distinct, well defined, and easily\\nnoted.\\nIn climate the three are distinctly dissimilar.\\nIn Northern Florida the extremes approximately\\nstated, for illustration\u00e2\u0080\u0094 are, maximum, 105\u00c2\u00b0, mini-\\nmum, 20\u00c2\u00b0 in Semi-tropical Florida, 100\u00c2\u00b0 and 25\u00c2\u00b0\\nand in Subtropical Florida, 95\u00c2\u00b0 and 30\u00c2\u00b0. This in-\\ncrease of equability or decrease of range as we go\\nsouth is at one with the scale covering greater dis-\\ntances as, New York, Virginia, Florida the ex-\\ntremes always coming nearer as we go south. This", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "44 THE FLORIDA OF TO-BAY.\\ndifference is the natural result of the decreased\\nlength of the midsummer day at points farther\\nsouth.\\nThe difference between I^orthern Florida and\\nSemi-tropical Florida apart from and in addition\\nto the difference of latitude ^is largely due to the\\ngreater elevation of the former, and the distance of\\nthe Gulf Stream from it. The waters of the Gulf\\nof Mexico attemper the immediate coast line in this\\nregion, but their effect does not extend far inland;\\nand the obliquity of the dividing line is due mainly,\\nif not wholly, to the warming influence of the Gulf\\nStream in the Atlantic.\\nThe GuK Stream is an immense factor in the\\nclimate of both the peninsular divisions. Coming\\ndirectly from the Cuban waters northward through\\nthe Strait of Florida, pressed close to the shore\\nalong Dade County by the Bahama banks, it flows\\nnorthward this vast body of deep-blue water, a\\nthousand times the volume of the Mississippi Eiver,\\nthirty miles wide, and two thousand feet deep, with\\na velocity of fully -Q.ve miles an hour the year\\nround. The temperature of this enormous ocean-\\nriver is about 84:\u00c2\u00b0 all the time, and thus creates a\\nconstant stratum of warm air that floats over the\\nland. The temperature of the Gulf Stream is fully", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "DIVISION S. 45\\nnine degrees above that of the ocean- waters through\\nwhich it flows, and it loses but one degree every\\nfive degrees of latitude. Sir Philip Brooke reported\\nthe temperatare of the stream as 80\u00c2\u00b0 at the point\\nwhere the ocean-water was 32\u00c2\u00b0. The stratum of\\nwarm air is borne westward across the land by the\\ntrade-winds which blow constantly from the east-\\nward at least nine tenths of the time summer\\nand winter. The stream flows directly along the\\nFlorida coast from the point of contact about 25\u00c2\u00b0\\n20^ to Jupiter Inlet, 27\u00c2\u00b0, at which point it leaves\\nthe land, getting gradually farther out to sea. Of\\ncourse, its influence on the climate of Florida grad-\\nually decreases as it passes northward, but never\\nceases entirely. From the Indian River Inlet the\\nsouthern boundary of Semi-tropical Florida north-\\nward to Fernandina, the whole coast is made both\\nmilder and greatly more equable than the Gulf\\ncoast in the same degree of latitude and this, as\\nelsewhere stated, to the extent of more than one\\ndegree. And purity accompanies equability on the\\nwings of these eastern winds. They strike the land\\nof Florida fresh from the Atlantic, absolutely pure,\\nand sweep across the peninsula, bearing with them\\nwhatever of malaria escapes dilution, absorption,\\nand dissipation, thus putting the Gulf coast to a", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "46 THE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\ndisadvantage so far as these influences extend.\\nHow far thej extend has not been determined, but\\ncertainly not verj far. Long moss is much scarcer\\nalong the Atlantic coast than in most other places\\nin Florida.\\nThus it will be seen, and why, Semi-tropical\\nFlorida enjoys an equability decidedly greater than\\ndoes ]^orthern Florida. This climate is that of\\nI^orthern Florida with its extremes softened a little.\\nThis is the part of the State best known at the\\nJ^orth. The St. John s Eiver region has been so\\nfully and so frequently written up and written\\ndown that readers can not need, here and now, to\\nhear more of this beautiful orange belt. The popu-\\nlar mistake is to confound this favored region with\\nthe two other Floridas the [N^orthern and the Sub-\\ntropical while the difference is considerable.\\nBut the phenomenal effects of the Gulf Stream\\nand the trade-winds are to be found on the Atlantic\\ncoast south of Indian River Inlet; and especially\\nsouth of Jupiter Inlet, where the shore trends west-\\nward and the Gulf Stream bears rather eastward,\\nmaking for a passage around Hatteras. It is this\\nseparation of the Gulf Stream and the shore that\\nreally marks the northern boundary of the sub-\\ntropics. In this eastern side of Subtropical Flor-", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "DIVISIONS, 47\\nida are found the four equalizing agencies at their\\ngreatest to wit, the Gulf Stream, the trade-winds,\\nthe Everglades, with water-surface preventing the\\nland-breeze and its corresponding sea-breeze, and\\nthe zone of high barometric pressure. These\\nagencies conspire to increase the mere latitudinal\\ndifference between Semi-tropical and Subtropical\\nFlorida. Here the midsummer heat that might\\notherwise be 95\u00c2\u00b0, say, is reduced to something like\\n88\u00c2\u00b0 and the midwinter chill that might otherwise\\nbe, say, 30\u00c2\u00b0, is warmed up to something like 40\u00c2\u00b0.\\nThe trade-winds, in bringing to the Subtropics the\\nbreath of the Gulf Stream, hurry off all incipient\\nmalaria into the Everglades, and thus keep pure\\nthe air of that eastern coast. The absence of\\nSpanish moss from this region proves the purity\\nof its atmosphere for, as a rule, in this latitude, if\\nmoss does not mean malaria, it at least raises an\\nuncomfortable doubt in the premises. Here, also,\\nas nowhere else on the earth except in the Island\\nof Formosa, are to be found the most marked\\nresults of these exceptional climatic agencies an\\nequability greater than is to be found anywhere\\nelse in either of the grand divisions of the Ameri-\\ncan continent. As Florida considered as a unit is\\nmore equable, temperate, and healthy than any other", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "48 THE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\nState in the Union, so Subtropical Florida stands,\\nat least in equability, in favorable contrast with the\\nnorthern divisions of the State.\\nIn summary, then\\nThe climate of Northern Florida, while its range\\nof temperature is the greatest of the three Floridas,\\nis still more equable than are the Southern States\\ngenerally. Its greater range has its special charm\\nto many, and its enjoyableness depends upon indi-\\nvidual tastes. For those coming to Florida from\\nhigher latitudes, it is naturally the most attractive\\npart of the State. The frosts are always light, but\\nthey mark definitely the seasons and destroy the\\ninsects, clearing the way for a new spring. Ice is\\nformed every winter, and snow has fallen but once\\nin forty years, and then barely an inch deep. This\\none snow extended over a considerable portion of\\nthe orange belt. This is the land of the Le Conte\\npear, as Semi-tropical Florida is the land of the\\norange, and the subtropics are of the pineapple.\\nThe semi-tropical fruits, almost all, including the\\ntypical orange, can be grown here in E orthem\\nFlorida, and especially near the southern line but\\nthey do not attain the degree of excellence here that\\nthey do in their habitat, either in size or in quality.\\nThe influence of the Mexican Gulf water is consid", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "Divisioys. 49\\nerable on the sontliern border, bnt, as tbe Gulf\\nStream does not reach those waters, the influence\\nis merely that of an ocean-frontage. There are,\\nhowever, the dailv ahernating land and sea breezes\\nwhich render grateful effects. Xorth of the range\\nand reach of these breezes, the different elevations\\nof land, with lakes, rivers, and springs, give pleas-\\ning variety in warm weather, and produce a most\\nattractive Southern climate a climate vastly supe-\\nrior to most of the written-up and classic resorts\\nof the Old World. Messrs. Eeasoner, perhaps the\\nbest-infoi-med nurserymen in Florida, publish a\\nvery carefully prepared and scientific catalogue of\\nfruits for this State. They give, as suiting farther\\nnorth than the semi-tropical fruits, the following\\namong many Pears of several kinds, including the\\nLe Conte and the Keiffer, pecan, Japan plum, and\\ngrapes. These all have Northern Florida as their\\nhabitat.\\nThe climate of Semi-tropical Florida, or the\\norano^e belt, is that of Xorthem Florida, modified\\nby more water frontage, by the partial influence of\\nthe Gulf Stream, especially on the eastern side, and\\nby the slight difference in latitude. The highest\\npoint in the State is well south in tliis division,\\nand the number and variety of lakes in this", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "50 THE FLORIDA OF TO-DA K\\nmid-Florida lake region\u00e2\u0080\u0094 there are three or four\\nlake regions in the State tend to make this\\none of great variety and numberless attractions.\\nAll these and many other delectable features have\\nbeen given to the public again and again. This re-\\ngion is the Florida of the legions of writers that\\nin the last twenty years have lavished their praises\\nand their abuse for the entertainment or the infor-\\nmation of the Northern public. The fruits of the\\nsubtropics will many of them grow and mature\\nhere but the trees of such are smaller and the fruit\\ninferior. The Reasoner Brothers, of Manatee, in\\ntheir list of trees called semi-tropical have these\\nThe whole citrus family orange, lemon, shaddock,\\ngrape-fruit, and lime fig, Cattley guava, pome-\\ngranate, and jujube.\\nThe climate of Subtropical Florida is that of\\nSemi-tropical Florida, modified by a still greater\\nproportion of water-frontage, by the full influence\\nof the Gulf Stream, and by the slight difference in\\nlatitude. It is the most equable in the State. The\\nauthorities named above mention these tropical fruits\\nas suitable for Florida, and it is perfectly fair to as-\\nsume that they can not grow to anything like\\nperfection anywhere north of the subtropics, and\\nsome of them even there are a little too far north", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "DIVISIONS.\\n61\\nThe anonas, such as the cherimoja, guanabena\\n(sour-sop), custard-apple, sugar-apple, the pineapple,\\nsapodilla, cocoanut, niaugosteen, mammee, mammee\\nsapota, Spanish lime, mango, aguacate or alligator\\npear, guava, ti-es, tamarind, and almond.\\nThe Banana.", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "V.\\nHEALTH.\\nGeneeal health depends largely indeed, almost\\nwholly upon climate. Almost all the writing\\nabont Florida health and of the popular kind it has\\nbeen voluminous has been about that part of the\\nState elsewhere in these pages defined as Semi-trop-\\nical Florida and a patient public that has read Dr.\\nKenworthy on the Climatology of Florida, Dr.\\nLogan on Climate-Cure, Dr. Blodget on- Clima-\\ntology, and the more or less able papers of Drs.\\nBaldwin, Lawson, Deuison, Lente, Lee, Johnson,\\nJacques, Wilson, and the rest, can hardly care to\\nhave the matter treated here with any fullness. A\\nbrief summary will suffice.\\nMalaria. A good deal has been written and said\\nabout the picturesque long or Spanish moss as an in-\\ndicator of malaria. It doubtless indicates the pres-\\nence of certain elements moisture and heat, say\\nthat are often present where malaria prevails and\\nit must be confessed that, other things being equal,", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "HEALTH. 53\\nthe probabiKties of perfect healtbfulness are rather\\nagainst the places wherein this banner of the\\nmarshes abounds. But there are many places in\\nFlorida entirely free from this moss, notably along\\nthe Atlantic coast quite near the ocean, as between\\n26\u00c2\u00b0 and 27\u00c2\u00b0 and there are many places where the\\nmoss abounds that are free from the effects of\\nmalaria.\\nMalaria seems to be the great bugbear of the\\npartly informed. The character and quality of\\nmalaria can both be ascertained, approximately at\\nleast, by finding the nature and prevalence of the\\ndiseases caused by it. These diseases are well\\nknown. Even in these, Florida stands better than\\nany of the other States better as to frequency of\\nmalarial fevers, and vastly better as to the severity\\nof such cases. The fevers that are reckoned as\\narising from this cause are always milder, and yield\\nmore readily to treatment, than in most other places\\nwhere they are found, and are almost never fatal or\\neven very severe.\\nA drainage company has been operating with\\nthirty to forty hands, all white, since 1881, in the\\nheart of the Everglades, where malaria is imagined\\nto abound and James M. Kreamer, the chief en-\\ngineer and general superintendent, in 1885, after", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "54 TEE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\nfour years of work there, in his official report, sajs\\nOne of the best attested records as to the contin-\\nued healthfulness of this portion of the State is\\nshown bj the reports respecting the condition of the\\nforce employed by the Okeechobee Drainage Com-\\npany, which has been operating on the line of the\\nrich bottom-lands since the year 1881. Our em-\\nployes come from almost every State in the Union\\nand foreign countries. During this interval [till\\n1885], and after a continuous service, without in-\\ntermission, during tlie summer months, there has\\nnever been a death from any cause whatever and a\\nphysician in a professional capacity has never vis-\\nited our work. The health of our men, not only,\\nbut of the residents throughout this district, is un-\\nimpaired at this time.\\nSurgeon-General Lawson, U. S. A., some years\\nago, in his official report, after making a detailed\\nmention of the comparative health-merits of various\\nplaces occupied by the army, gives this pointed\\nsummary\\nAs respects health the climate of Florida\\nstands pre-eminent. That the peninsular climate\\nof Florida is much more salubrious than that of any\\nother State in the Union is clearly .established by\\nthe medical statistics of the army. Indeed, the", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "HEALTH. 56\\nstatistics of this bureau demonstrate the fact that\\ndiseases that result from malaria are of much milder\\ntype in the Peninsula of Florida than in any other\\nState in the Union. These records show that the\\nratio of deaths to the number of cases of remitting\\nfever has been much less than among the troops\\nserving in any other portion of the United States.\\nIn the Middle Division of the United States the\\nproportion is one death to thirty-six cases of remit-\\nting fever in the J^orthern Division, one to fifty-\\ntwo in the Southern Division, one to fifty-four in\\nTexas, one to seventy-eight in California, one to one\\nhundred and twenty-two in w Mexico, one to\\none hundred and forty-eight while in Florida it is\\nbut one to two hundred and eighty -seven. In short,\\nit may be asserted, without fear of refutation, that\\nFlorida possesses a much more agreeable and salu-\\nbrious climate than any other State or Territory in\\nthe United States.\\nThe sanitary qualities of the Florida climate are\\nimportant. The best informed medical advisers\\nsend at least two classes of patients to this State\\nconsumptives, or those suffering from some disease\\nof the respiratory organs, and those broken in\\nhealth without any well-defined special fonn of\\ndisease.", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "56\\nTHE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\nUpon the former class of these consumptives\\nthe United States census reports give the facts\\nembodied in the following table\\nDeaths from Consum2:)tion in 1,000 Deaths from all Causes.\\nMaine 258\\nNew Hampshire 222\\nYermont 202\\nRhode Island 201\\nMassachusetts 199\\nDelaware 190\\nConnecticut 1*79\\nOhio Ill\\nWest Virginia 174\\nKentucky 1*74\\nMaryland 172\\nNew Jersey I7i\\nMichigan 169\\nNew York 168\\nTennessee 166\\nIndiana 164\\nPennsylvania 142\\nCalifornia 188\\nYirginia 138\\nIowa 137\\nMinnesota 133\\nWisconsin 131\\nNorth Carolina 117\\nIllinois 108\\nLouisiana 97\\nMissouri 97\\nKansas 90\\nSouth Carolina 90\\nMississippi 76\\nAlabama 71\\nArkansas 70\\nGeorgia 68\\nTexas 63\\nFlorida 58\\nThis table is better than a volume of arguments\\nand laudatory generalities, especially when consid-\\nered in view of the patent fact that something like\\nfifty per cent of the deaths from consumption in\\nFlorida are imported cases cases sent thither, too\\noften, when the patients were so far gone as to be\\nbeyond the hope of recovery. It is safe to add that\\ncases of this class originating here are almost inva-\\nriably inherited.", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "HEALTH. 57\\nUpon the other class of cases benefited by Flor-\\nida s sanatory climate ^broken health, or brain-fag\\na few words from Dr. Kenworthy, a man thor-\\noughly acquainted with Florida s sanitary and sana-\\ntory features, may sufiice In this active business\\ncountry we find many persons who have been over-\\nworked and present a breach in the chain of those\\nvital processes whoso continuity constitutes health\\na condition popularly known as broken health. In\\nFlorida, the worn-out man of business, suffering\\nfrom broken health, will find the necessary relax-\\nation from brain-fag, opportunities to take out-\\ndoor exercise, plenty of sunshine, pure and bracing\\nair, and other necessary adjuncts to relieye a condi-\\ntion affecting the many. In this connection I can\\nnot refrain from referring to what I consider an im-\\nportant fact. From my observations in the United\\nStates and in foreign lands, and in hospital as well\\nas in private practice, I have been forced to notice\\nthe infrequency of chronic disease and broken\\nhealth in Florida. In my visits to various portions\\nof this State I have met with many persons, old\\nand young, who live from year to year on improper\\nfood, and who drink water from shallow holes, near\\nmarshes, and yet, singular to say (although such\\npersons are somewhat ansemic), they do not present", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "58 THE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY,\\nany manifest diseased condition. In cities, to^vns,\\nvillages, and rural districts, where residents are sup-\\nplied with proper food and drink pure water, a\\ncase of chronic disease or broken health is seldom\\nmet with. And if we have a climate in which\\nthese conditions rarely occur, are we not justified in\\nconcluding that it will exert a powerful influence in\\nrestoring the invalid to health As most of you\\nare aware, I have at various times visited many\\nportions of the State, and have been surprised to\\nmeet so many persons who have settled in it as in-\\nvalids, and have been restored to health or compara-\\ntive comfort by the climate a large proportion of\\nthem having been sufferers from pulmonary dis-\\neases.\\nTornadoes. In the light of meteorological ob-\\nservation during the past decade or two, it is per-\\nfectly safe to assume that Florida as a whole is as\\nsafely out of the line and sweep of tornadoes and\\nhurricanes as any State in the Union, and rather\\nmore so than some of the I^orth western States and\\nTerritories.\\nSo much for the climate of Florida as a unit.", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "GEOLOGY.\\nThe geology of Florida is full of interest, mainly\\nprospective, although no general survey has yet\\nbeen made. Dr. J. Kost, the iirst and present\\nState Geologist, has issued one report of results,\\nand the public await with profound interest the\\nfurther prosecution of the work. A preliminary\\ninspection is all that has been thus far accomphshed,\\nbut that has afforded glimpses of rich treasures in\\nthe fields of both mineralogy and paleontology.\\nDr. Kost finds the geological formations of Florida\\nto be the equivalent of the Tertiaries of the Paris\\nbasin in France and the vale of the Thames in Eng-\\nland. He reports fossil remains, not only of the\\nmastodon, zeuglodon, and carcharodon, but also of\\nthe rhinoceros, hippopotamus, llama, peccary, leop-\\nard, tiger, hyena, lion, camel, and elephant; and a\\nspecies of bimana. One of the three mastodon\\nskeletons found is of exceptional size and will be", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "60 THE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY,\\nset up for the State Museum and it will be the\\nlargest one of a mastodon on record and, next to\\nthat of the whale, the largest known of any animal.*\\nThe mineralogical scope is also considerable.\\nDr. Kost finds lime, iron, and sulphur widely dis-\\ntributed with silicon galore, and potassium, so-\\ndium, magnesium, aluminum, and phosphorus. Oth-\\ner authorities report lead. Agates of chalcedony\\nand opal are reported as found near Tampa.\\nE othing has been discovered, it appears, lower\\nthan the Tertiary period but this is abundantly\\nand fully represented in all its subdivisions. The\\nEocene is of considerable depth the Miocene and\\nthe Pleiocene, less while over nearly all lies a\\nheavy spread of Pleistocene or Post-tertiary.\\nThe doctors disagree sadly as to the formative\\nagencies that made this peninsula and their pro-\\ncesses. Some years ago^ such men as Agassiz and\\nJoseph Le Conte, after examining the Atlantic side,\\ntold us that this southward-pointing land was un-\\nderbuilt by corals and upraised in successive tiers.\\nLater, Heilprin explored the Gulf coast, and failed\\nto find any confirmation of the coral-reef theory.\\nHe confidently asserts On the contrary, the ex-\\nistence of the heavy fossiliferous deposits about\\nTampa, on the Manatee, along the tributaries of the", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "GEOLOGY, 61\\nBig and tlie Little Sarasota Bays, and more particu-\\nlarly those exposed on the Caloosahatchee, conclu-\\nsively proves that a coral extension to the Southern\\nUnited States, such as has been theoretically set\\nforth, does not exist in fact. Of the coral, he\\nmaintains, the structure is limited and local. Dr.\\nKost thinks it almost absurd to venture upon any\\nstatements concerning the principles of the geologi-\\ncal formation of the State. He adds, however, that\\nwhen the Eocene rocks were in course of deposit,\\nthe Tertiary was reposing at the bottom of the sea,\\nfrom one hundred to several hundred feet deep, and\\nwas, for a time at least, sinking slowly that is, at a\\npace correspondent to the continuous building of\\ncoral reefs. This Eocene deposit, though new geo-\\nlogically, is in secular chronology very old, be-\\ncause it dates back to a time anterior to the up-\\nheaval of the lower half of the Eocky Mountains.\\nIn course of time, the bottom of the sea began to\\nrise, at first slowly. During this period occurred\\nthe Oligocene deposits. Later, the dry land ap-\\npeared, and the Miocene deposits were made and,\\nin the after-age, the land was submerged again, the\\nsubmergence embracing not only Florida but also\\nAlabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana, and parts of\\nTennessee, Arkansas, and Texas the whole to", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "62 THE FLORIDA OF TO-BAY.\\nemerge a second time, and to rise to its present\\nlevel. The State Geologist finds, further, that an\\nextensive anticlinal, of an axis parallel with that of\\nthe peninsula, trends centrally through the penin-\\nsula. There are to-daj indications, especially on\\nthe eastern side, of a rise of the land now in prog-\\nress. Dr. J. Dabney Palmer finds the origin of\\nthis peninsula in the changes wrought by the rise\\nof the Appalachian Mountains, which diverted tbe\\nGulf Stream from its former channel up the Mis-\\nsissippi Yalley. This caused an eddy south of the\\nthen land and sand-bars resulted and sediment and\\ncoral insects followed. And thus it has been go-\\ning on for ages sand-bar and deposit, and coral\\nreef. And thus the building and extension of the\\npeninsula continue to this day. The gradual up-\\nheaval of the land has lifted the northern and cen-\\ntral portions of the peninsula far above the sea-level.\\nThis elevation will probably increase, and the Ever-\\nglades become dry, even if not assisted by artificial\\nmeans. The digging of wells, etc., has disclosed\\nthis great variety of formations throughout the\\nState. It is not infrequent that as beautiful de-\\nposits of coral are disclosed high up in the peninsula\\nand Northern Florida as are to be found on the\\nreefs south of Cape Sable. Should these causes", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "GEOLOGY. 63\\ncontinue, the deep channel of the Gulf Stream may\\nbe closed, Cuba annexed by natural causes, the val-\\nley of the Mississippi be extended, and the Gulf of\\nMexico become a fertile plain. The indications,\\nalong both the Atlantic and the Gulf side, are con-\\nfirmatory of the theory that the land is still rising\\nslowly more slowly, it is confidently believed, than\\nthe operations of the Atlantic Coast and Canal Com-\\npany s dredging corps.\\nIndustrial Features. The industrial arts find\\nsome valuable mineral deposits among these roch\\nmaterials. Dr. Kost states that several localities\\nhave been found to have large deposits of rich\\nphosphates, deposits quite as rich in phosphoric\\nacid as are the phosphate rocks on Cooper and\\nAshley Elvers in South Carolina, from which im-\\nmense revenue has been derived. These Florida\\nbeds show phosphates of lime, of silica, of alumina,\\nand of iron. They are indicated by phosphoric-acid-\\nbearing rocks in the counties of Wakulla, Alachua,\\nMarion, Hillsborough, and Manatee. In Wakulla\\nthe State Geologist finds a triple phosphate of lime,\\niron, and alumina, indicating exceedingly valuable\\nbeds, the samples analyzed showing in one instance\\n23 85 per cent in phosphoric acid, equivalent to\\n59 05 per cent bone phosphate of lime (Ca3P208).", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "64 THE FLORIDA OF TO-BAY.\\nShell marl of marine deposit is found in nearly\\nall parts of the State, and inexhaustible fertilizing\\nmarl-beds underlie the soil almost everywhere.\\nLimestone is to be found in nearly all parts of\\nthe State a large proportion of which, however,\\nwill not yield a first quality of lime. The rock is\\ngenerally too silicious, and slacks poorly yet Pro-\\nfessor Pickel, of the State College, found by analy-\\nsis 98*67 of carbi3nate of lime, being equivalent to\\n5246 per cent of quicklime.\\nClays exist, especially in l^orthern Florida, of\\nwhich passably good bricks are made; but the\\npresence of too much either of lime or of sand\\noften prevents the best results in this direction.\\nClays sufficiently fine and pure for pottery are to\\nbe seen at various points, in lower strata, where\\ncoarser varieties occur.\\nKaolin has been found in numerous localities;\\nbut thus far little is known of its quality or quan-\\ntity.\\nIron-ore is found in l^orthern Florida, and in\\nJackson County a rather extensive deposit is\\nreported but nobody seems to believe that it exists\\nanywhere in paying quantities. The ore is of the\\nliraonite variety, and is not the best. It is to be\\nfound in all parts of the State. There are seve^-al", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "GEOLOGY. 65\\nchalybeate springs whose medicinal qualities have\\nbeen tested. Dr. Kost thinks that a large propor-\\ntion of the running water of wells and springs is of\\nthe chalybeate character in springs and wells these\\nare commonly called sulphur-waters, because of the\\npresence of sulplmreted hydrogen occasioned by\\nchemical action. JSTearly all the clays are stained\\nby oxides of iron.\\nCoal is present. Lignite has been unearthed in\\nNorthern Florida. Dr. Kost discovered, in Santa\\nRosa County, a vein about thirty inches thick.\\nThis Tertiary coal is similar to that found along the\\n]N orthern Pacific Railroad and used on that road.\\nAn artesian well, sunk during the present year in\\nMarion County, it is stated, passed through a vein\\nof coal some fifteen to eighteen feet thick, at a\\ndepth of nearly six hundred feet.\\nLimestone, quarried for building purposes, exists\\nin Northern Florida. It is, however, for the most\\npart, soft, porous, and liable to imbibe moisture\\nbut the Union Bank building at Marianna, in Jack-\\nson County, built of this material, has stood now\\nsome forty years, and is to-day in a good state of\\npreservation. Chimneys are frequently built of it.\\nIt has been pretty extensively used in Hernando\\nCounty for both building- walls and chimneys.", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "eQ THE FLOPJDA OF TO-DAY.\\nFlint-rock is available for rough walls, and\\nwill last till the end of time. This is found as far\\nsouth as Sumter County, in Semi-tropical Florida.\\nArrow-heads, spear-points, and rude knives were\\nmade of this flint bj the Indians or their prede-\\ncessors. In j^orthern Florida it abounds along the\\nline of the railroad in Suwannee and Alachua Coun-\\nties. Dr. Kost says: This rock was evidently\\ndeposited from solution by presence of lime and\\npotash, with the silica in the waters of the later Ter-\\ntiary, as the shell remains of the echinoidea, pecten,\\netc., appear with their own shell tissue, often m\\nfull integrity.\\nSandstone occurs in many places. It is soft, its\\ncementing principle being impaired by diffusion\\nof aluminous materials previously oxidized.\\nMarble, of stalactite and stalagmite varieties, is\\nto be found in the caves of Jackson County and\\nsome other localities. Ceilings, floors, and walls of\\nthe caves are covered with this marble. It is in\\nsome instances beautifully white and translucent.\\nCoquina a shell limestone, as the name im-\\nplies exists in many places along the Atlantic\\ncoast. The texture of the rock. Dr. Kost writes, is\\nvery interesting, from the integrity of the shell ma-\\nterial. It dresses moderately well, leaving a corru-", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "GEOLOGY. 67\\ngated surface of rather agreeable aspect. It is very\\ndurable, as is proved bj the integrity of the walls\\nof St. Augustine, those of the old Spanish Fort San\\nMarco, and of the old cathedral at the same place\\nsome of these a matter of two centuries old.\\nCoralline is abundant, especially on the Atlantic\\ncoast south of the coquina region.\\nBut concrete of sand, shells, and lime or,\\nbetter, cement is more easily managed than either\\ncoquina or coralline, cheaper, and doubtless equally\\ndurable so that its use is likely to supersede both\\nthe other hitherto favorite building materials. It\\nhas been used extensively in several places, notably\\nat Cedar Keys and, more recently, in a modified\\nform in the erection of the palatial hotels at St.\\nAugustine.\\nMiueral Waters. The great variety and abun-\\ndance of mineral deposits in Florida naturally give\\nnumerous mineral springs. The mineral waters are\\nin the main solutions of lime, alumina, and iron\\nbut magnesia, soda, sulphur, and potash occur fre-\\nquently, and iodine and bromine somewhat rarely.\\nPonce de Leon s Fountain of Perpetual Youth has\\nbeen discovered a score of times, pretty much all\\nover the State, and the modern wonder is that that\\ngrandiose Adelantcido himself could not find it,", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "68 THE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\nwhen it is so numerous to-daj. Among the mineral\\nsprings conspicuous are the JSTewport Springs, on\\nSt. Mark s Eiver, in Wakulla County the Hamp-\\nton Springs, of Taylor County the White Sul-\\nphur Springs, of Hamilton County the Suwannee\\nSprings, of Suwannee County and the Green Cove\\nSprings, of Clay County.\\nSoils. The soils are usually classed as first, sec-\\nond, and third rate pine or sand lands, high and low\\nhammocks, and swamp lands.\\nOf the pine lands Dr. Kost says The sand\\ndeposits of Florida lands are very generally mis-\\njudged. They are generally estimated by the tour-\\nist by what he has been conversant with in deposits\\nof sand-banks in l^orthern localities, distant from\\nthe sea, which are generally wind-drifts or drifts\\nfrom fresh-water bays or lakes, and the sand is quite\\nliable to be clean and free from earthy or saline\\nmixture. But here in Florida the accumulations\\nare from salt-water bays or sea-coasts, and they are\\nnever free from marine salts, or more especially hav-\\ning the presence of the dust of marine shells, in the\\nform of carbonate of lime from organic forms or\\nshells of mollusca. Hence the sands of Florida are\\nfar more productive as compared to others than are\\nthose not of recent marine derivation. It happens.", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "GEOLOGY. 69\\ntherefore, that tourists who have opportunity to in-\\nspect growing crops on the sandy harrens are\\nnot a little astonished to see respectably good crops\\ngrown on such lands. Similar sand deposits else-\\nwhere that is, in the adverse circumstances com-\\nmonly are found to be almost completely barren.\\nHumus is the general need of the sand lands.\\nHammocks may be defined as hard-wood lands,\\nthe high being either alluvial or clay, the low being\\nof infinite variety both as to wetness and to material.\\nSwamps are either sand or low hammocks in\\nprocess of formation.\\nDrainage. Germane to the matter of soils is the\\nreclaiming of lands. In Subtropical Florida espe-\\ncially there is much overflowed land, and a drain-\\nage company has undertaken to reclaim lands on\\nshares around Okeechobee as a center. Here are, it\\nis estimated, about eight million acres of water-\\ncovered land Lake Okeechobee, of a thousand\\nsquare miles, and the Everglades, more than ten\\ntimes that area. The company began operations in\\n1881. In 188Y the Legislature sent a committee to\\nexamine and report results. They first visited Lake\\nEast Tohopekaliga, and their report states We\\nfind the lake eight feet two inches below its origi-\\nnal level, with a handsome beach of firm white sand", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "70 THE FLO BID A OF TO-DAY.\\nthree or four hundred feet wide, hard and level,\\nwhere formerly was seven or eight feet of water.\\nWe find the surrounding marshes and cypress\\nswamps are dry and ready for the plow. All\\nthese lands are in the highest state of cultivation,\\nwith handsome crops of sugar-cane, corn, potatoes,\\nand various vegetables, all vigorous and thrifty.\\nThe lands are exceedingly fertile, and though but\\nrecently freed from two to four feet of standing\\nwater, are now dry and fit for all crops of a tem-\\nperate or subtropical climate. Sixty-five tons\\nof cane, seventy bushels of corn, seventy bushels of\\nrice, have been raised per acre on these lands.\\nAll this is en couleur de rose certainly.\\nToward the draining of Okeechobee directly the\\nDrainage Company cut one canal forty-six feet wide\\nand ten feet deep from the lake connecting it with\\nthe Caloosahatchee River, which fiows into the Gulf\\nof Mexico. The company seems to have published\\nno report of recent results of this part of its\\nwork but Mr. John B. Hickey, of Fort Myers, on\\nthe Caloosahatchee River, writes that Lake Okee-\\nchobee is now three feet below its normal level.\\nTiie immediate friends of this enterprise appear\\nvery hopeful of early and complete success. Many\\nothers are less hopeful. As Okeechobee is 20*44:", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "GEOLOGY. 71\\nfeet above sea- level, and as tlie Everglades-level at\\nLake Worth is sixteen feet above that lake, and as\\nthe Everglades-level at Miami is 5*5 feet above that\\nof Biscay ne Bay, it does not seem impossible that\\nat least a great part of these Everglades waters may\\nbe drained off. It seems to be a question mainly of\\ncanal capacity.\\nWriters on hygiene maintain that the condi-\\ntions above given removal of water from exten-\\nsive areas of rich alluvial lands and cultivation of\\nthe same must evolve malaria. The healthfulness\\nof this reclaimed region, however, is vouched for,\\nat least for the first four years of the Drainage\\nCompany s operations up to 1885 as appears in\\nits report quoted elsewhere in these pages in treat-\\ning of malaria. It kept nearly forty white men at\\nwork summer and winter for three or four years,\\nand had not a single case of malarial fever. This\\nreport goes far to prove that malaria is not as\\nprevalent as is popularly believed, at least in that\\nEverglade-lake region. What future developments\\nare to bring forth remains to be seen and it is pos-\\nsible that these very operations may change things\\nin that regard but, to-day, assuredly there is no\\ngreat reason to be alarmed about malaria. A very\\nfew more years of draining will settle that question.", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "VII.\\nTRAVEL.\\nTeavel to Florida is increasing from year to\\nyear. Health, pleasure, and profit are the three\\nguiding stars. These motives extend and increase\\nwith the development of the country and health,\\npleasure, and profit seekers rapidly become immi-\\ngrants and home-seekers. Over sixty thousand\\ntourists visited the State during the past season.\\nHow to reach Florida is the tourist s first in-\\nquiry.\\nFrom New England, the adjacent States, and\\nCanada, excursionists for Florida should make JS^ew\\nYork city their common point of departure. In\\nthat city all the great railway and steamship lines\\nhave ofiices, where full information may be got\\nand tickets bought not only for Fernandina or Jack-\\nsonville, but for numerous other points in interior\\nFlorida.\\nOcean Routes. Of the water ways, the Mallory\\nSteamship Line is an exc3llently appointed one and", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "TRA VEL. 73\\nvery popular. Four iirst-class steamers ply between\\nJN ew York and Fernandina, Florida, leaving ]^ew\\nYork every Friday. These steamers are large, safe,\\nand comfortable, bnilt of iron, three thousand\\ntons capacity each, with deep draught and full\\npower.\\nClyde s l^ew York, Charleston, and Florida\\nSteamship Line, ]^ew York, has also four first-class\\nsteamers, two going to Fernandina and two direct\\nto Jacksonville all of them generally stopping en\\nroute at Charleston. They leave New York on\\nTuesdays and Fridays.\\nThe Ocean Steamship Company have a full out-\\nfit of steamers sailing regularly from Boston, New\\nYork, and Philadelphia, to Savannah, where they\\nconnect with the Savannah, Florida, and Western\\nEailway the Waycross Short Line, which leads to\\nJacksonville. These vessels are large, convenient,\\nsafe, and first class in every way. They sail from\\nNew York three times a week, and from Boston\\non Thursdays.\\nOverland Routes. Eailway travel facilities are\\nexceptionally fine. The Atlantic Coast Line is the\\nshortest one from the East and North to Florida.\\nThe line runs three express trains daily each way,\\nthe time between New York and Jacksonville be-", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "74 THE FLORIDA OF TO-LAY.\\ning about thirty hours, and by express train less\\nthan twenty-four.\\nIn addition to these rare facilities of speed and\\nfrequency, this line has during the present year\\ntaken some important steps in advance of ordinary\\ntravel. The recent vast increase of pleasure-travel\\nhas produced two coincident results\u00e2\u0080\u0094 fine hotels in\\nFlorida and sumptuous means of travel to the State.\\nThe tide of fashionable touring and resort-seeking\\nsouthward has set in within the past year or two\\nand the health and pleasure resorts have been made\\nto meet the demands of that class. The summer\\nresorts of IS^ewport, Saratoga, Bar Harbor, Long\\nBranch, and Cape May are beginning to reappear\\nwith at least some of their features and hahitaes at\\nSt. Augustine, Pablo Beach, Rock Ledge, Tampa,\\nTarpon Springs, and Key West, as winter resorts in\\nFlorida. In response to the increase of this class\\nof travel of late, the Atlantic Coast Line has put on\\nregularly running Pullman vestibuled trains be-\\ntween Boston and Jacksonville. These trains con-\\nsist exclusively of drawing-room cars, containing\\neach a library, reading-room, smoking-room, dining-\\ncars, and sleeping-cars. The cars of these trains are\\nso connected by means of vestibules that each train\\nis practically one continuous car, with the conven-", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "TEA YEL. 75\\niences of a well-ordered hotel. The trains through-\\nout are lighted with electric lights depending from\\nthe ceilings. The traveler on these trains may\\nbreakfast in New York one day and dine in Jack-\\nsonville the next.\\nThe Piedmont Air-Line has its advantages as an\\nall-rail route between the North and the South. It\\nruns double daily trains, with Pullman buffet and\\nMann boudoir cars, between Atlanta and Jackson-\\nville, making regular and close connections at At-\\nlanta with Northern trains. The route from the\\nNorth lies through the great battle-fields of Yir-\\nginia, the Shenandoah Yalley, the beautiful broken\\nrolling country of the Piedmont region, which pre-\\nsents some of the finest landscape scenery in Amer-\\nica. This connects also with the East Tennessee,\\nYirginia, and Georgia systems of railway.\\nCincinnati is the starting-point from the North-\\nwest region of St. Paul, Chicago, and Indianapolis\\nand from that point there run through sleeping-\\ncars and double daily trains of the Cincinnati\\nSouthern Railway and of the East Tennessee, Yir-\\nginia and Georgia Pailroad, connecting with the\\nSavannah, Florida and Western Pailway to Florida,\\nmaking the time between Cincinnati and Jackson-\\nville only twenty-eight hours.", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "76 THE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\nSt. Louis is a fit starting-point from the great\\nNorth-lS orthwest, embracing Kansas, Nebraska,\\nIowa, Minnesota, Dakota, Oregon, and the Territo-\\nries thereabout. From that point the Louisville and\\nNashville Railway runs two trains a dav, passing\\nthrough the mountain-regions of Tennessee and\\nAlabama, and connects, by way of Pensacola, witli\\nthe Florida Railway and Navigation Company s\\nroad, passing through Tallahassee and the great\\ntobacco and cotton region of Florida.\\nNew Orleans is the starting-point for the South-\\nwest Mexico, California, Texas, Arkansas, Louisi-\\nana, and Mississippi. There the traveler may take\\nthe Louisville and Nashville Railway, to River\\nJunction on the Chattahoochee River thence, by the\\nSavannah, Florida and Western Railway, through\\nThomas ville and Way cross or by the Florida Rail-\\nway or Short Line, which passes several points of\\ninterest the Olustee battle-ground, the Suwannee\\nRiver, and other attractive scenery in Western and\\nMiddle Florida.\\nJacksonville. Having reached this travel-cen-\\nter, the metropolis of the State, whether by rail or\\nwater, the tourist will pause to consider the outgo-\\ning conveyances from this point.\\nJacksonville itself is altogether familiar to the", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "TEA YEL. Y7\\nreading public, and on tliat account needs but brief\\nmention here. It has a population of 25,000,\\nand is both progressive and aggressive has all the\\nmodern appliances of comfort fine hotels and\\nmany of them, gas and electric lights, telegraph\\nand telephone, daily newspapers, street cars, etc.\\nThe settlement was originally known by its abo-\\nriginal name, Wacca Pilatka, which means Cow s\\nCrossing-over Cowford Oxford Bosporus but\\nit became a whiteman s town in 1816, and in 1822\\nreceived its present name in honor of Andrew\\nJackson. It is largely a Northern city in its spirit\\nand methods at least not essentially Southern in\\nany characteristic sense.\\nThe city has recently become representative of\\nthe State of Florida, by the establishment of the\\nSubtropical Exposition, a permanent institution,\\nthere. It is to be kept open every winter season,\\nand is to exhibit the products and resources of\\nFlorida and the most valuable and attractive exhib-\\nits that can be obtained from the Bahamas, West\\nIndies, Mexico, and South America. Such an ex-\\nposition is new in the United States, and, when it\\nis fully organized and equipped as designed, will be\\nwithout a rival in the world. The intention is to\\nincrease its scope, variety, and quality every year.", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "78\\nTHE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\n-SCENE IN Jacksonville\\nLast season s exhibits were eminently successful,\\nand prove the entire feasibility of the general idea.\\nBy this means the visitor to Jacksonville is, in a\\nway, a visitor to all parts of the State, Suitable", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "TEA VEL. 79\\nbuildings were erected, and these must be extended\\nfrom year to jear. The main building is three\\nhundred and twentj-five feet six inches in length,\\nincluding towers twenty feet at the front end.\\nIts width, including the towers or minarets twen-\\nty feet is one hundred and fifty-two feet. En-\\ngine, dynamos, and other machinery are provided.\\nAn annex, of sixty-four by eighty-eight feet, two\\nstories high, is for an art-gallery, restaurant, and\\nother suppletory compartments.\\nGermane to the spirit, aim, and iinal cause of\\nthe Subtropical Exposition, is the Florida Immigra-\\ntion Association, with headquarters at Jacksonville.\\nThis Association, representing all parts of the State,\\nin the same way that the Exposition will ultimately\\ndo, was organized for the purpose of furnishing full,\\nauthentic, and trustworthy information to those that\\nare looking toward the State with conditional view\\nto making a home there. To carry out this object\\nthere has been established at Jacksonville a general\\nagency for the purj)Ose of inviting correspondence.\\nPrompt attention will be given to inquiries relating\\nto any section, locality, or feature of the State. It\\nis the purpose of this Association to deal only in\\nfacts, and to avoid exaggerated praise, which ulti-\\nmately does the State more harm than unjust de-", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "80 THE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\ntraction. The general agent is E. B. Yan Deman,\\nJacksonville, Florida.\\nFrom Jacksonville. Tliere are four general\\ndirections by railway from Jacksonville: one west-\\nward, reaching Pensacola; one southwestward,\\nreaching Cedar Keys; one southward, reaching\\nPunta Gorda on Charlotte Harbor in the Gulf of\\nMexico and two southward, reaching St. Augus-\\ntine on the Atlantic coast and Titusville at the head\\nof Indian Eiver. These routes are controlled by\\nfive companies. Seven years ago there were 537\\nmiles of railroad in the State, whereas to-day there\\nare 2,180 miles.\\nThe five companies are the Florida Eailway\\nand JS^avigation Company, extending westward 209\\nmiles to the Appalachicola River and to Cedar Keys,\\nand southward to the Wilhlacoochee River, Tavares,\\netc. the Plant System, which reaches southward to\\nTampa and Punta Gorda the Jacksonville, Tampa,\\nand Key West Railway, which extends to Sanford,\\nTavares, Titusville, on Indian River, St. Augustine,\\nand De Land the Florida Southern Railway, from\\nPalatka to Brooksville and Pemberton Ferry; and\\nthe St. Augustine and Palatka Railroad, connecting\\nSt. Augustine with Tocoi and Palatka, Jacksonville,\\nMayport, and Pablo Beach, Pensacola with Mill-", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "TEA VEL. 81\\nview, Blue Springs on the St. Jolin s with Hills-\\nborough on the Atlantic, and Monroe with Tarpon\\nSprings.\\nThe steamboat line De Barj and People s\\nLine from Jacksonville up the St. John s River to\\nSanford and Enterprise, runs passenger-boats every\\nday except Saturday.\\nFrom Jacksonville, accordingly, the traveler can\\nreadily reach any point of interest, and these\\nabound in all directions.\\nExcursions of a few hours may be made\\nto\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\n1. Pablo Beach, sixteen miles from Jackson-\\nville by rail. It is a sea-side resort of growing\\npopularity, on the Atlantic shore, eight miles south\\nof the mouth of the St. John s Kiver. The beach\\nat this point is one of the finest on the Atlantic\\ncoast, being straight, sandy, shelving gently, smooth,\\nand free from rocks and pit-holes. The bathing is\\nperfectly safe. A handsome but irregular little\\ntown has sprung up within the last few years, hav-\\ning now a first-class hotel known as Murray Hall,\\nwith pavilions, restaurants, and other conveniences\\nand comforts an establishment as fine as any on\\nthe Atlantic coast, not surpassed at Long Branch,\\nOcean Grove, or Cape May.\\n6", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "82 TEE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\n2. St. Aitgiistine, the oldest city in the United\\nStates, is thirtj-six miles by rail from Jacksonville.\\nThe city\u00e2\u0080\u0094 population, about 8,500 is noted for its\\npicturesque beauty its crumbling old city gates\\nits odd streets, ten to twenty feet wide, without\\nsidewalks its coquina-built houses its overhanging\\nbalconies, with a scent of days gone by over all its\\ngovernor s palace its unique sea-wall the hoary\\nramparts of its year-laden San Marco its mediaeval-\\nlooking Moorish cathedral and the finest and most\\nstriking hotel in the world.\\nLady Hardy, in her admirable book of travels,\\nDown South, a few years ago, of this gaudily\\nsolemn old city felicitously writes It is like an\\nold-fashioned beauty who has been lying in state\\nthrough these long years, pranked in all her finery\\nof feathers, furbelows, paint, powder, and patches,\\nand now wakes up and walks and talks w^ith us in\\nthe quaint, stilted phraseology of old days.\\nThere is not a step nor a turn in this grand old\\nruin of other days that is not interesting. The very\\nocean seems to roll in an antique sort of a way and\\nthe trade-winds that sweep through the picturesque\\ndate-palms, magnolias, and oleanders, seem to be\\nwhispering in Spanish, or howling in the Cautio\\nvernacular S23oken there four centuries ago.", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "TRAVEL,\\n83\\nStreet in St. Augustine,", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "84 TEE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\nTlie ancient San Marco is now Fort Marion. It\\nwas begun probably in 1565, and is like the pyra-\\nmids of Egypt in being the work of slaves and it\\nis a most interesting fossil of a foreign civilization,\\nrestored by numerous later touches. The moat is\\nnow dried up and overgrown but there are still\\nthe drawbridges, the massive arched entrance, the\\ngray barbacan, the dark nnder-ways, the sullen\\nbastions, and the crypt-like dungeons. The princely\\nhotel recently built, the Ponce de Leon, has an\\nannex or supplementary house, the Alcazar and the\\ntwo, a magnificent unit, unite the old and the new,\\nthe past and the present, with wonderful splendor\\nand effect. The Alcazar is unfinished. The Ponce\\nde Leon revives the style of three hundred years\\nago, and enriches it with all the luxuries of to-day.\\nIt is built in the style of the early Spanish Renais-\\nsance, with its decided flavor of the Moresque.\\nThe material is shell concrete, and the great build-\\ning is a stupendous monolith, and w^as molded, not\\nbuilt. The general complexion is a light mother-\\nof-pearl, with bright salmon terra-cotta ornamenta-\\ntion. The greatest turret height is a hundred and\\nfifty feet. The building is five hundred feet long\\nand covers nearly five acres. A thousand guests\\ncan be accommodated and seated in the dining-room,", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "TRAVEL.\\n85", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "86 THE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\nand this hall is one of the marvels of this immense\\nestablishment. The grand parlor is one hundred and\\nfour bj fifty-three feet, but is practically divided into\\nfive rooms by arches, portieres, and screens. The\\ndrawing-rooms on the first fioor surpass in number\\nand style everything of the kind ever presented to\\nthe public. Besides all these there are splendid\\ncourts, fountains, lakes, tennis-courts, bowling-alleys,\\nbars, billiard-rooms, bazaars, and arcades but more\\nsumptuous than all are the luxurious Roman, Turk-\\nish, and Russian baths. From these access is had\\nto the unrivaled plunge-baths of sea- water, covering\\nnearly half an acre of varying depths from two to\\nsix feet. Back of these is the sea-bath proper\\nwhich may be described as a stupendous cave of\\nsolid concrete, one hundred and eighty-four feet by\\neighty-four feet, and from four to thirty feet dee23,\\naltogether maldng a bath without a precedent in all\\nhistory. The electric lighting of the building is\\nsomething plienomenal, and is in keeping with the\\nsplendor of the whole. The outlay for this com-\\npleted main building the Ponce de Leon proper-\\nis reported as two and a half million dollars and\\nthe Alcazar, it is predicted, will equal the other in\\nboth splendor and cost. During the past season,\\nthis immense hotel was crowded for full two", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "TRA VEL. 8T\\nmonths, Laving a thousand guests frequently the\\ngross income being stated at over five thousand\\ndollars a day.\\nThere are at St. Angustine yet other fine hotels\\nthe new Hotel Cordova, as unique and in most\\nrespects as fine and as well appointed as the Hotel\\nthe San Marco, the Magnolia, the St. Augustine,\\nand half a dozen minor houses.\\n3. Fort George Island, at the mouth of the St.\\nJohn s, has fine tropical scenery, charming walks\\nand drives, and a good hotel.\\n4. Mayport, on the south side of the mouth of\\nthe St. John s, is a pleasant little town of perhaps a\\nhundred cottages, many of these being summer\\nresidences for business men in Jacksonville, The\\nSt. John s was called May by the French, and\\nthence the name of May port. Already popular as\\nan excursion resort, it is growing in popularity.\\n5. Besides the above there are, within easy\\nexcursion distance of Jacksonville, Orange Parh,\\nMandarin, Magnolia, Green Cove SjpTings, and\\nscores of others on the St. John s, all having hotels,\\nand all their special charms. The St. John s region\\nis too well known to need a word at this late day.\\nLonger excursions from Jacksonville lie in all\\ndirections southward and westward", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "88 THE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY,\\n1. Beginning with the east coast, the tourist\\nmay make Indian River his objective point. This\\nregion enjoys a glorious climate, less variable than\\nthe interior and west, has fine rich semi-tropical\\nscenery, and grows beyond doubt the finest oranges\\nin the world. From Jacksonville the traveler may\\ngo by rail direct to Indian River at Titusville, 166\\nmiles, a town reached by telegraph and express.\\nFrom that point he may make the entire tour of\\nthis famous sound, called by universal consent a\\nriver known to the Spaniards as the Rio (TAis\\nfrom Titusville near the head, to Jupiter at the\\nsouthern extremity, a distance of 118 miles, by\\nsteamer all the way. One line of steamers leave\\nTitusville daily, passing JRooh Ledge, with its first-\\nclass hotel, fine scenery, with excellent hunting and\\nfishing; Eau GaUle, with its post-office, store, and\\nhotel, with several residences, and its State Agri-\\ncultural College building, a monument of recon-\\nstruction sham and of Gleason down to Melbourne,\\n39 miles from Titusville, where the flora begins to\\nshow increase of tropical elements and where there\\nis a thriving settlement, largel}^ English, with two\\nhotels, a newspaper, and no end of rod and gun\\nsport. From Melbourne to Jupiter, 69 miles,\\nthere plies a steamer three times a week, passing", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "TRA YEL.\\n89\\nLooking across Indian Eiver.", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "90 THE FLORIDA OF TO~DAY.\\nThe Narrows^ with its acres and islands of oysters\\nSt. Lucie, with its long-famed hunting-grounds and\\nits flocks of manatees Eden, with its famous pine-\\napple fields and fine fishing; on to Jupiter Inlet,\\nthe present end of the telegrapli line, with its\\nlighthouse 170 feet high. Here the tourist is defi-\\nnitely within the subtropics and a handsome,\\nwell-grown cocoanut-tree is Flora s conspicuous\\nsign of a new climate.\\nOnly a few names of places have been men-\\ntioned in this transit from Titusville to Jupiter;\\nbut there are more than a score of delightful places,\\nwith each a hotel and a post-ofiice. The flora and\\nfauna gradually pass from the semi-tropical to the\\nsubtropical as the traveler goes southward. The\\nattempering breath of the Gulf Stream becomes\\nmore and more operative until the traveler reaches\\nJupiter, where the Stream flrst separates from the\\nland in its course northward.\\n2. Or, the traveler may make Lake Worth his ob-\\njective point. He would then, as before, go from\\nJacksonville by rail to Titusville, 166 miles from\\nTitusville to Jupiter by steamer, 118 miles from\\nJupiter by hack to Lake Worth, 8 miles. Once on\\nthe lake which, like Indian River, was originally a\\nsound he can go to any point in boat, either row.", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "TRA TEL. 91\\nsail, or steam mostly sail. Lake Worth is 23 miles\\nlong, about a mile wide, and separated from the\\nAtlantic by a narrow strip of land in some places\\nless than a quarter of a mile wdde. An inlet near\\nthe northern end of the lake connects it with the\\nAtlantic. The water of the lake is less salt than\\nthat of the ocean, by reason of numerous small\\nstreams and a general seepage from the fresh-water\\nlakes above to the westward. The fresh-water lakes\\nare about a mile west of Lake Worth so that the\\nfisherman finds three kinds of water in less than\\nthree miles the ocean, the semi salt lake, and the\\nfresh lakes with their several families of fishes.\\nDeer, turkeys, ducks, and small game of various\\nkinds are abundant as indeed they are almost the\\nentire length of the Atlantic coast, but especially\\nabundant in the more newly settled localities. The\\nflamingo, a distinctly tropical bird, has been seen as\\nfar north as this lake. The cocoanut-palm grows\\nand fruits here, wdiile it is a very uncertain growth\\nanywhere north of this. The tropical fruits that\\ncan be grown north of this region, can be grown\\nhere without protection.\\n3c Or the tourist may make Biscayne Bay, about\\nsixty miles south of Lake Worth, his objective\\npoint. To this beautiful region there are tw^o", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "92\\nTHE FLORIDA OF TO-BAY.\\nroutes. One is, as above, from Jacksonville to Titus-\\nville, to Jupiter, to Lake Worth and there charter\\na boat and sail down the Atlantic coast, from the\\nhead of Lake Worth to Miami, the count j-seat of\\nDade County, 84 miles. From Miami to Key West\\nA Hammock,", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "TEA VEL. 93\\nthe distance is 130 miles. The other route to the\\nEiscajne region is, to go south down the other side\\nof the State that is, from Jacksonville to Punta\\nGorda j rail, to Key West by steamer or sail, to\\nMiami bj sail. This Miami region has the usual\\nAtlantic coast variety of soils pine, hammock, and\\nprairie with the Everglades lying west of it.\\nHere, in the heart of the subtropics, the visitor\\nsees in the flora the difference between semi-tropic\\nand subtropic. The guava, for exam.ple, which\\ngrows sometimes as far up as 30\u00c2\u00b0 and land agents\\nin that latitude advertise the guava as one of their\\nattractions the guava, here in Subtropical Florida,\\ngrows to be a tree twenty or even thirty feet high,\\nwith a delicious and abundant fruit, while in the\\nhigher latitudes it is a shrub about as tall as a man,\\nwith a dwarfed fruit that is hardly flt to eat at all.\\nSo also with the lime and, indeed, with all the\\nrarer and more tender fruits. Fishing and hunting\\nboth have here the best of fields. The Gulf Stream\\nbrings into these w^aters the whole family of tropi-\\ncal fishes, and carries the same up as far north as\\nJupiter Inlet. As to climate, this is, especially the\\nnorthern portion of it, doubtless the most equable\\nin the State and that, of course, means in the\\nUnited States. The equability appears to be pretty", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "94 THE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\nuniform from Cape Florida to Jupiter Inlet the\\nregion touched bj the Gulf Stream and from Jupi-\\nter Inlet to Fernandina the equability gradually de-\\ncreases but the entire Atlantic coast has less varia-\\ntion of temperature than other parts of the State.\\n4. Lake Okeechobee and the Everglades are best\\nreached from Jacksonville by rail to Kissimmee in\\nOsceola County, and thence by boat through the\\nlakes and down the Kissimmee River into Okeecho-\\nbee. A second route is, by rail to Punta Gorda,\\nand thence by boat up the Caloosahatchee River,\\ninto Okeechobee a lake of about a thousand square\\nmiles in area, being about forty by twenty-five\\nmiles. The river and lake travel in these routes is\\nnot generally so delightful in itself as a vestibuled\\ncar; but as a picnic, pleasant and refreshing.\\n5. Key West is in Monroe County, on an island\\nof the name of the city, of about twelve square\\nmiles. It is a Spanish-looking town of nearly\\n20,000 inhabitants, is lighted with gas, runs street-\\ncars, and is reached by telegraph. It is a quaint\\nand antiquely novel city, full of oddities and va-\\nriety. Dr. Henshall says its buildings are of all\\nsizes and of every conceivable style, or no style,\\nof architecture and they are promiscuously jumbled\\ntogether, but are joined or seamed to each other by", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "TRA VEL. 95\\na wealth and profusion of tropical foliage, which\\nsurrounds, invests, surmounts, and overshadows\\nthem, softening the asperities, toning down the\\nharsh outlines, and uniting the separate pieces,\\nwhich merge their individuality in a harmonious\\ntoict eiisemhle. That writer sums up Key West s\\nheterogeneous attractions in these words And so,\\nmansions, huts, and hovels, balconies, canopies, and\\nporches, gables, hoods, and pavilions, pillars,\\ncolumns, and pilasters, are mingled in endless con-\\nfusion, but harmonized by arabesques of fruit and\\nfoliage, festoons of vines and creepers, wreaths and\\nti aceries of climbing shrubs and trailing flowers,\\nand shady bowers of palm and palmetto, almond\\nand tamarind, lime and lemon, orange and banana.\\nThe population is mainly Cubans and Conchs, but\\nthere are also Englishmen, Frenchmen, Germans,\\nSpaniards, Italians, negroes, and Americans. Eng-\\nlish immigrants from the Bahamas are called\\nConchs, and settlers from the United States are\\ncalled Americans. The island is rich in tropical\\nbeauties and fruits and the city is noted for its\\nunique and picturesque features, Spanish tone, and\\ncigar manufactures. In this one industry it employs\\nover three thousand operatives, and handles five\\nmillion dollars a year. It can be reached, as above", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "96 THE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\nstated, from Jacksonville by rail to Cedar Keys,\\nTampa, or Piinta Gorda and from either of these\\npoints by steamer to Key West direct. Or, on the\\nother side of the peninsula, from Jacksonville by\\nrail to Titusville, thence by steamer to Jupiter\\nInlet, thence down the coast by Lake Worth to\\nMiami in Dade Connty, and thence one hundred\\nand thirty miles, by schooner, to Key West.\\n6. Cape Sable and the entire southern coast of\\nLee, Monroe, and Dade Counties are well worthy a\\nvisit. Here the subtropical sometimes threatens to\\nbecome the tropical. Cocoanut groves are here and\\nthere, and the royal palm is to be found here, the\\nonly place in the whole country. The tourist, in\\na paradise of Nature, may select any one of a\\nscore of attractive points for his visit and tempo-\\nrary sojourn. Around the coast runs a horse-\\nshoe of fertile land, not many miles wide at any\\nplace, and backed by the Everglades, which center\\nin the great Okeechobee. That part of this horse-\\nshoe attempered by the Gulf Stream, the part\\ntoward the east on the Atlantic side, is especially\\nattractive. All this region can be reached readily\\nby schooner or other boat from either Key West\\nor Miami and such boats are on hand all the time,\\nespecially at Key West.", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "TRAVEL. 97\\nY. Tampa, some 24:0 miles from Jacksonville by\\nrail direct, is a typical Florida city, of nearly 2,000\\ninhabitants. It is interesting for its history, scenery,\\noranges, fish, and mounds. It is reached by tele-\\ngraph and express. One writer claims that Tampa\\nis probably older than St. Augustine, and explains\\nthat, in the same year that Menendez founded the\\nlatter city, his deputy, De Eeinoro, was in charge\\nof Tampa. Menendez sent a hundred laborers, in-\\ncluding fifteen women, to Tampa to teach spinning\\nto the squaws. Padre Kogel, a Catholic priest,\\nwas in charge of ecclesiastical interests at that\\ntime, and the following year Menendez made a\\nSpanish peace between the Tago and the Tampa\\ntribes at Tocobayo. But no records of that his-\\ntory appear to have come down to this day. It\\nwas in Tampa Bay that General Worth persuaded\\nCoacoochee to go West with his tribe, as narrated\\nelsewhere in these pages. It is a few miles south\\nof this city that a very large and old orange-tree\\nwas said to be still living that had borne over ten\\nthousand oranges in one year.\\n8. Tallahassee, the capital of the State, is an\\nideal Florida city, and one of the loveliest in the\\nSouth and a most charming community, homo-\\ngeneous, hospitable, and essentially Southern. It\\n7", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "98 THE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\nlias a population of nearly 3,000; lias excellent\\nhotels, telegraph, express, ice-factory, and is reached\\nby rail direct, 165 miles from Jacksonville. It is\\nthe center, too, of many attractive points to visit\\nhistorical homesteads, landscapes, lakes, and so\\non. Two miles from Tallahassee stands Belle vue,\\nthe Murat homestead, which was occupied by the\\nwidow of Murat, the marshal and King of Naples.\\nThe prince spent the last years of his life upon his\\nestate in Jefferson County. He and his widow\\nwho survived him many years lie side by side in\\nthe Episcopal Cemetery at Tallahassee, with quaint\\nand interesting inscriptions over the graves.\\nNear by, too, is the site of the old Spanish Fort\\nSt. Luis, with noteworthy fragments of ponderous\\nbut decaying remains.\\n9. Cedar Keys is by railway direct 127 miles\\nfrom Jacksonville. It is on Way Key in the Gulf\\nof Mexico, four miles from the mainland. It has\\nthree or four thousand inhabitants, two news-\\npapers, two good hotels, a telegraph-office, and an\\nexpress-office. It is a port of entry, and has\\nshipped as much as $695,000 worth of exports a\\nyear, principally lumber, fish, green turtle, and\\noysters. Imports, about $5,000. A regular line of\\nsteamers ply between this port and the West In-", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "TRA VEL. 99\\ndies. The Eagle and the Faber Pencil Companies\\nhave here each a factory for preparing the cedar-\\nwood for lead-pencils. It is a fine field for all\\nkinds of fishing.\\n10. Pensacola, 326 miles by rail from Jackson-\\nville, 161 miles west of Tallahassee, was fonnded by\\nthe Spaniards in 1696, and has had an eventful and\\ncheckered history. The harbor is described as one\\nof the finest in the world, having an area of about\\ntwo hundred square miles, is thirty miles long, with\\nan average width of at least seven miles and a depth\\nof from thirty to thirty-five feet of water. The\\nentrance is half a mile wide, with twenty-four feet\\nof water. There are immense quantities of lumber\\nand fish shipped, also some coal from Alabama.\\nThere are several newspapers, churches, and hotels\\na fine opera-house, an express-office, a telegraph-\\nofiice, and all the conveniences of a well-appointed\\ncity. In that region are the Pensacola E avy-Yard\\nand the Lighthouse, Fort Barrancas, Fort Pick-\\nens, and Bayou Grande. Pensacola is a rapidly\\nprogressive place, and one having many attract-\\nive features for both the sight-seer and the home-\\nseeker. Its climate is all that could be desired,\\nhaving all the advantages of the Korth Florida\\ntier of counties.", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "100 THE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\n11. Appalachicola has many points of attraction.\\nIt is about 210 miles by rail from Jacksonville, and\\nhas some 2,000 inhabitants. It is an important\\nlumber-port, and sends out also oysters, sponges,\\nand fish. It has one newspaper, good hotels, and\\nan attractive enioui age.\\n12. Wakulla Springs, sixteen miles from Talla-\\nhassee, is the source of the Wakulla River. It is\\nnearly circular, four hundred feet wide and a hun-\\ndred and six feet deep, brightly clear, green of\\nmany shades, and intensely interesting. The river\\nthat flows from it is two hundred and fifty feet\\nwide at the outset, and deep enough to bear large\\nvessels. This spring is in some respects more\\nremarkable than the famous Silver Spring in\\nMarion County.\\n13. Silver Spring.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 This phenomenal body of\\nwater is in Marion County, and is now accessible by\\nrail, and enjoys the advantages of telegraph and ex-\\npress. It is described as a vast circular basin, six\\nhundred feet in diameter and nearly fifty feet in\\ndepth; is the source of a river known as Silver\\nSpring Run, navigable for small steamers, and\\nwhich flows into the Ocklawaha River, about nine\\nmiles distant. Notwithstanding its great depth, the\\nwater is so clear that the smallest object a nickel", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "TRA VEL. 101\\nor a nail, for example can be seen on the bottom.\\nThe place can be reached by rail direct, or by rail\\nfrom Jacksonville to Palatka, and thence by boat\\nup the Ocklawaha River to Silver Spring Run.\\nThis and the Wakulla Springs are beyond doubt the\\nmost wonderful things of their kind in the world.\\nAn excellent ronte for the tourist in quest of\\ncharacteristic Semi-tropical Florida scenery is this\\nTake the day-boat up the St. John s River to San-\\nford thence by rail to Orlando, through the lake\\nregion of Orange County, via Tavares and Lees-\\nburg on Lake Harris thence down the Ocklawaha\\nRiver by steamer to Silver Spring and thence\\ndown the river again to Palatka, and on to Jack-\\nsonville.\\n14. The Ocklawaha River is comparatively little\\nvisited, but is richly worthy a special visit. For\\nthe river alone, a good plan would be to go to Lees-\\nburg by rail, and thence take river-steamer to Pa-\\nlatka, taking in Silver Spring as part of the route.\\nThe Ocklawaha is perhaps the most meandering of\\nall Florida s serpentine streams, and they are many.\\nIt flows, in its winding way, through cypress low-\\nlands not elsewhere equaled in their wild and\\ntangled luxuriance. The stately stems of these\\ntrees rise sometimes sixty or seventy feet without a", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "102\\nTHE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "TEA VEL. 103\\nknot or a bend, and they seem to be as much as\\nfour feet in diameter in some instances. The night\\ntrip on these boats is especially striking tlie glar-\\ning head lights, the deep and whirling shadows, the\\nconfused glimpses of gloom and grandeur, the pol-\\ning the grounded boat off shore, the unique signals\\nand shoutings of the crew, ths night cries of startled\\nbirds and beasts all these things, varied every min-\\nute or two, make up an experience to be found no-\\nwhere else, probably, in the world.\\n15. The Suwannee River known in classic negro\\nminstrelsy as de Swannee ribher is full of interest\\nfor its scenery. It is of easy access from Jackson-\\nville by rail direct.\\n1 6. The Caloosahatchee Elver is one of the most\\nstriking in the State. The canal that connects it\\nwith Okeechobee Lake adds to its interest, and\\nmakes it the outlet of the lake to the Gulf of Mex-\\nico. It is the only river of any considerable size in\\nthe Subtropics. Its flora is specially rich and at-\\ntractive. Tropical trees appear and semi-tropical\\ntrees attain greater size than they do farther north.\\nCocoanut-palms thirty years old are to be seen here.\\nFor thirty-five miles from its mouth this river has\\na depth of eight feet, and a width generally of a\\nmile. The banks are covered w^ith thick set tropi-", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "104 THE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY,\\ncal vegetation oak-trees festooned with long moss\\nand air-plants, palniettoes of several kinds, and\\ntangled mangroves. Now, that the canal leads\\ninto the lake, steamers may enter the river at its\\nmouth and reach Kissimmee in Osceola County,\\nsome 400 miles. At the mouth of the Caloosa-\\nhatchee is Punta Kassa, the great transfer shipping-\\npoint for Key West, which lies 160 miles southward.\\nCattle for the Southern markets, mainly Key West,\\nhas been the great export from Punta Rassa. The\\nCaloosahatchee Valley has a history too. Bloody\\nwork was done there in Seminole-war days. FortES\\nmark centers of military operations. Fort Myers,\\nwith its surrounding town, stands conspicuous.\\nMounds point back to prehistoric times and to a\\nhistory before the Seminole disgraced humanity and\\nbefore De Leon and the other swaggering A delan-\\ntados had discovered and conquested this Flowery\\nLand. A distinguished veteran traveler, after hav-\\ning seen all parts of Florida, said of this beautiful\\nvalley that, if he w^ere a young man beginning life,\\nit is here that he would settle and make his home.\\nA higher compliment than this it would be difficult\\nto pay any one place where attractive places abound.\\nIT. The Homosassa River is midway between the\\nsubtropical Caloosahatchee and the minstrel-famed", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "TRA VEL, 105\\nSuwannee in floral and climatic features. These\\nfeatures are doubtless equally beautiful and interest-\\ning, in their three several ways and in this sense\\nit is idle to make marked discriminations in compar-\\ning the separate attractions of a State beautiful\\nfrom end to end.\\n18. Besides and beyond all these and scores of\\nplaces of equal interest, there are yet other scores\\neach one of which is known to a select circle as the\\nflnest spot in Florida the Eden of garden-spots\\nthe one Paradise of the earth the none-such and\\nonly original heaven on earth and so on. And\\nmost of them are very lovely and attractive places.\\nThe land-sharks and the paper-town men, with the\\nprofessional boomers, have exhausted the vocabulary\\nof commendation and bankrupted the dictionary in\\nlaudations over their moss-covered gall-berry swamps\\nand desolate third-rate wet pine-barrens, until the\\nconscientious chronicler of sober truth fears to tell\\nwhat he knows to be true of scores of fine places\\nall over this beautiful land with its glorious but lit-\\ntle understood anomalies of climate and its rare san-\\natorial advantages.\\n19. Mounds. The excursionist with antiquarian\\nproclivities will find attractive objects to visit all\\nover the State, in the ancient mounds. There are", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "106 THE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\nfully two hundred of these. They are of many\\nshapes, heights, and areas. The shapes are oblong,\\ncircular, rectangular, and irregulai The heights\\nvary from three to thirty feet, with diameters\\nfrom ten feet to eight hundred feet and the\\nareas from a hundred square feet to half an acre.\\nThey are in all parts of the State, but are perhaps\\nmost abundant on the Gulf coast Anclote, Dune-\\ndin, Pinellas, Tampa but everywhere. The mate-\\nrials are mostly shell, sand, and other soils some of\\nthem shells and sands alternating in layers eight to\\ntwelve inches thick. The uses for which these\\nmounds were built are little understood, various\\ntheories having been put forth. Some hold that\\nthey were for tombs merely and the presence of\\nhuman bones in many of them clearly suggests this\\nbut the absence of all traces of such bones in others\\ntends to throw doubt on the tomb theory. The\\nskeletons found generally lie on the right side,\\nranged radially with the head toward and near the\\ncenter. Others hold that the mounds are palace\\nsites for the residence of the sachems and saga-\\nmores. Others hint at religious uses, sacrificial\\naltars, and the like. Others regard the mounds as\\noutlooks or sentry-towers for the tribe sentinels on\\nguard, to watch against invasion in canoes. Others", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "TRA VEL. 107\\nyet maintain that the mounds are merely accmnula-\\ntions of shells, bones, and soil, brought together by\\ngrand feasts or communistic boarding-houses. Some\\nclaim to find evidence of cannibalism and cremation\\nin these bone-piles. Most writers assume that these\\nmounds are the work of the aborigines found in the\\ncountry by the Spaniards but the Indians are said\\nto claim that the mounds were there when they\\ncame to the country. This, however, is worth YQrj\\nlittle as evidence, although it is doubtless true of\\nthe Seminoles of to-day. The finding of a pair of\\nscissors, fragments of a looking-glass, and glass\\nbeads, in one mound, indicates that some of the\\nmounds at least have no very great antiquity. On\\nthe contrary, however, the presence of old trees on\\nthe mounds, as large as those of the adjacent forests\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094at Pinellas and Dunedin notably point to a\\npretty early day and date. Whatever their age,\\nuse, or origin may be, they are objects of interest,\\nand the inquiring mind anxiously awaits revelations\\nand developments. There are several valuable pa-\\npers on these mounds in the Smithsonian Heports\\nof some ten years ago.", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "vin.\\nPOPULATION.\\nThe history of Florida, its physical features, and\\nits population, are singularly alike in having ele-\\nments that are exceptional, many, and diverse.\\nPeoples. The population of to-day is made up\\nof at least four peoples the old residents, with\\nwhom the Southern immigrants readily coalesce\\nthe Northern and foreign immigrants the ne-\\ngroes and the Indians.\\nOld Residents. These, mainly British, lived in\\nthe northern part of the State, west of the Suwan-\\nnee River. In that region, in ante-helliom days,\\nwere large and profitable cotton-plantations, stately\\nold residences, luxurious homes a cultured, well-\\nread, refined people, proud, self-reliant, self-sup-\\nporting, courtly, exclusive in a way, but withal hos-\\npitable, liberal in spirit, religious, conservative, and\\ncharitable. Slavery an institution in its main\\nfeatures distinctly patriarchal furnished organ-\\nized labor and wealth, with its ease, leisure, and", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "population: 109\\nother advantages and amenities, marked a com-\\nmunity of noblemen without rank. The descen-\\ndants of that day and generation are to-day the\\nold residents, the old-timers, the Bourbons of the\\nState. With these, and in fact of these, is a com-\\nmunity of earnest and energetic men, less wealthy\\nand less cultured, but withal of the same spirit\\nand the same civilization, and forming one with\\nthem in all the essentials of character. The\\ncracker may be defined as the poor man that pre-\\nfers ease to hardship, content with little, jealous of\\nintrusion into his unkempt life, shrewd, narrow, un-\\ncouth, unlettered, homely, conservative.\\nThese, in short, are the old residents the\\nwealthy old-timers, the yeomanry, and the crack-\\ners all in their several ways Southern and Bour-\\nbons all.\\nThe immigrants from the old slave States,\\nwhere a like spirit prevailed and similar classes\\ngrew up, readily and naturally blend with the\\nabove, and the two are essentially one. There are\\nsettlers from every Southern State, and these of\\nall the classes and varieties. In 1880 the percent-\\nage of natives born of all colors was fifty-eight\\nand of Southern immigrants, twenty-nine.\\nThese Southern people of Florida look with in-", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "110 THE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\ntelligent interest at the incoming tide of immigra-\\ntion, and welcome it heartily. They wish to see\\nthe State developed in that way. What they may\\nresent with some ardor, and doubtless do often re-\\nsent, is the missionary spirit that seeks to change,\\nasking them to discard the old and adopt the new\\na tone of infinite superiority that some persons\\nuse, that offends the inherent conservatism that\\nmarks this people. But the straight-forward man\\nthat means business is always cordially welcomed.\\nNorthern and Foreign Immigrants. These classes\\ncoujprise a large body of very miscellaneous materi-\\nals. All classes of almost all countries are repre-\\nsented. The IS ortherners come from every l^orth-\\nern State and Territory except Alaska. There are\\na great many of them earnest, industrious, thrifty,\\nintelligent, and progressive men. Some bring capi-\\ntal and improved appliances in the industries some\\nbring brain and brawn only; and some bring the\\nworst qualities of the sharper, the adventurer, and\\nthe tramp. They are as varied as are the motives\\nthat bring them to this old-new country. Much of\\nthe push and energy and the resultant success of\\nthe State is due to the better of these workers.\\nNot all the boomers, blow-hards, and paper-city\\nhumbugs are importations. Native talent has con-", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "POPULATION. Ill\\ntributed a share of these. Upon the quality and\\ncharacter of Northern immigrants, Mr. O. Mo\\nCrosby, a native of New England, gives this well-\\nconsidered testimony As a rule, settlers in Florida\\ncome from the class of well-bred Northern persons\\nwho have been unfortunate in the scramble for\\nwealth and position, or have bodily ailments which\\na balmy climate is expected to cure. Another class,\\nthat can hardly be called settlers, represents those\\nwho own orange-grove villas or cottages, occupying\\nthem only during the winter, as many do their cot-\\ntages for the summer at Northern sea-shore resorts.\\nPersons of the first-mentioned class are often vision-\\nary, -fluent with the pen, and unpractical, while\\nthose who reside only a portion of the year in Flor-\\nida are hardly to be considered among the effective\\npopulation and to a smaller third class of poor,\\nmake-a-living toilers belongs nmch of the credit\\nof Florida s practical advancement. These are they\\nwho have brought Northern energy and common\\nsense together, and what they have achieved is\\nworth all that has been written by those who have\\ntheories yet untried, but who are anxious to get\\nthem into print. The Northern settler at first is in-\\nvariably hampered by his conceit. He will show\\nthe slow-going natives a thing or two, and it is", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "112 THE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\nusually after he has sunk most of his available capi-\\ntal that he is ready to admit that these natives can\\nteach him. Usually a compromise in methods is\\nthe result. It is a trifle humiliating to the average\\nYankee settler to And that the largest and most\\nproductive orange-groves are often owned and culti-\\nvated by native Floridians or Southerners, whom in\\nliis superior wisdom he had considered as lacking\\nin successful methods.\\nIf the miscellaneousness of the American con-\\ntingent is striking, that of the foreign settlers is ne-\\ncessarily more so. They come from British Ameri-\\nca, Mexico, Cuba, Central America, and South\\nAmerica. The Europeans come from England, Ire-\\nland, Scotland, Wales, Austria, Belgium, Bohemia,\\nDenmark, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Italy,\\nLuxemburg, Norway, Poland, Russia, SjDain, Swe-\\nden, and Switzerland. There are Asiatics from\\nChina and India, Africans, Australians, Sandwich-\\nIslanders, and Atlantic-islanders.\\nIn such a variety of nationalities there is, of\\ncourse, a vast diversity of characters, talents, mo-\\ntives, and results. While, in such an agglomera-\\ntion, there must be mach riff-raff, there are at the\\nsame time experts in some of the best and most\\npromising industries as the wine growers of", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "POPULATION. 113\\nFrance, tlie silk-growers of Italy, the tobacco-\\ngrowers of Cuba, and the tropical -fruit growers of\\nSouth America.\\nNegroes. The negroes of Florida are mainly\\nresident freedmen, with some politicianal additions\\nmade during the period of muddle known as recon-\\nstruction. The former make up the great collective\\nbody of this people, and they preserve the tradi-\\ntions and the genius of their race with excellent\\nfidelity. The fortunes of war gave them freedom,\\nand citizenship has followed through means simi-\\nlarly summary. A recent Northern writer, with\\nstriking frankness, says that the newly enfranchised\\nslaves lost no time in deserting the great army of\\nproducers to engage almost en masse in the more\\ncongenial vocation of politics the production of\\nthe staple crops ceased almost entirely the planta-\\ntion was deserted for the town and the cross-road\\nrendezvous. During the period between 1865 and\\n1876 these slaves worked faithfully in the planta-\\ntion of politics; but at the latter date a second\\nemancipation changed their status slightly, and\\nsince then they have been working somewhat more\\nand voting rather less, and are doing vastly better\\nin all important respects. So also is Florida pros-\\npering. The future fortunes of the negroes are\\n8", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "114 THE FLO BID A OF TO-JDAY.\\nlargely in the hands of the controlhng race, and\\nthey themselves will probahly have little to do in\\nshaping it and doubtless the less they have to do\\nwith it the better.\\nA Northern writer elsewhere quoted Mr. O. M.\\nCrosby, author of Florida Facts makes the fol-\\nlowing pointed remarks upon this matter Outside\\nof the old slave-owning settlements negroes are\\nscarce, they preferring as a rule to work for their\\nold masters rather than to be driven by the impetu-\\nous ]^ortherner, who they suspect wishes to get\\nmore work out of them than is agreeable to their\\nindolent nature. While the African is as necessary\\nin clearing away forests and in hard manual labor as\\nthe Irishman is at the North, now that he is free he\\nhas no idea of working more than is barely necessary\\nto keep him in pork and grits. His rations cost at\\nmost but a dollar a week, and he sees no reason in\\nworking six days out of seven, when three or four\\nprovide for his own wants and those of his family.\\nThere are few colored men that will agree to work\\nfaithfully by the month, or, if they do so agree, they\\noften excuse themselves when most needed with an\\nI reckon I won t work to-day, boss, that is aggra-\\nvating to the new settler, anxious to get his grove\\nplanted at the right time, and who is nsed to having", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "POPULATION-. 115\\nhands whom, after hiring, he can command. Con-\\ntractors needing one hundred men nsually employ\\none third more, to keep the ranks Ml, and then are\\noften left with but a few, especially after pay-day,\\nor until the men begin to get hungry again. Few\\ndarkies are providential enough to lay up enough to\\nlast them from week to week, and, as their sense of\\nhonor is low, they can not be trusted at the stores.\\nEmployers are usually dunned every day for\\nmoney, for rations, or baccy. Withal they are so\\nthoroughly good-natured, with a don t-care-for-to-\\nmorrow air, that the driving employer soon finds it\\nnecessary to be more easy with them, realizing that\\ncrowding will cause them to leave him unceremoni-\\nously. The same writer further says The\\nnegro problem will assume a new form, to even the\\nmost rabid abolitionist, after a residence in Florida.\\nIf he employs colored help, paying promptly, feed-\\ning well, and treating humanely, he will naturally\\nexpect the return and obedience he would from\\nlaborers at the N^orth, and will be surprised to learn\\nhow utterly shiftless and devoid of all honor the\\naverage Southern darky is, and will soon find out\\nthat the latter would much rather work for his old\\nowner than for him.\\nThe amount of property acquired by the negroes", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "116 THE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\nis encouraging and it is a very suggestive fact in\\nthis connection tliat their greatest progress and\\nahnost their only material progress ^has been made\\nsince 1876.\\nAs to the negro s freedom in voting there could\\nhardly be a better witness than Mr. Hamilton Jay.\\nThis writer of himself says I am a Northern man\\nby birth and education, and came to Florida in\\n1871. For nearly ten years I was prominently\\nidentified with the Eepublican party in Florida,\\nboth in a journalistic and official capacity. In the\\nnational election of 1876 I had charge of the\\nIJDited States soldiers at the polls in Jefferson\\nCounty, and during the work of the returning-\\nboard at Tallahassee I was editor of the Daily\\nUnion, a stalwart Eepublican newspaper, then\\npublished at Jacksonville. Of negro voting Mr.\\nJay says; I state most solemnly and truthfully\\nthat I have never seen a negro intimidated by a\\nSouthern white man in his exercise of the elect-\\nive franchise. On the contrary, I have on more\\nthan one occasion seen Southern white Demo-\\ncrats go with negroes who hesitated to approach\\nthe polls, and stand by their side while they voted\\nthe ticket they desired to vote, the Eepublican\\nticket.", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "POPULATION 117\\nIndians.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Indians of Florida are called\\nSeminoles. The original Indians\u00e2\u0080\u0094 after the ab-\\noriginals had risen, fiourished, built their mounds,\\nand disappeared\u00e2\u0080\u0094 appear to have been Miccosu-\\nkies. With these subsequently mingled many fugi-\\ntives from the Carolina and Georgia Mnscogees or\\nCreeks under Secoffee, a noted chief who invaded\\nFlorida and settled there in 1750. These fugitives,\\nit is stated, were first designated as Seminoles\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nmeaning refugees, runaways, vagabonds and finally\\nthe remnants of many tribes that remained in that\\nregion first endured and then embraced the name.\\nWhatever tbe etymological facts in the case may be,\\nthe prowlers, numbering nearly three hundred, now\\nliving in Subtropical Florida and gadding about the\\ncountry, look the name perfectly. In addition to\\ntbe general mixture of Indian bloods, hundreds of\\nrunaway negroes have been absorbed and the half-\\nbreeds on the white side bave a pretty low grade of\\npale-face blood to boast of.\\nThe latest Government reports state the number\\nof Seminoles as about two hundred and sixty-nine,\\none third of whom are of fighting age, and living\\nin the counties of Lee, Monroe, Dade, and Bre-\\nvard, principally in the Everglades. But the Indian\\nevades the census-taker as he would the plague;", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "118 THE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\nand will lie without stint, with no motive higher\\nthan to circumvent the white man.\\nThey live in shifting settlements, called villages,\\neach one under a chief. The old-time wigwam has\\ngiven place to the modern house, cottage, or shanty,\\nbuilt of lumber, rough but hewn or riven. Piazzas\\nand windows begin to appear. But the dwellings\\nof the many are shanties. These consist of upright\\nposts driven into the ground the roof, a thatch of\\npalmetto-leaves tied to cross-poles the floor, on\\nshorter posts about a yard from the ground; the\\nsides of the one-roomed houses being open or but\\nslightly protected with palmetto-leaveSo In the day-\\ntime when at home they sit on the floors, and sleep\\non them at night, the beds so called being rolled up\\nduring the day. Their lighter social or domestic\\ngatherings around the evening yard fires are to\\nput it mildly informal, and the individuals are\\ndiversely occupied. Mothers fondle their papooses,\\nand shell beans, pound hominy in mortars, or pull\\nbuckskin, or do some other hand work. The chil-\\ndren and dogs roll and tumble about together in\\nplay. The men repair their arms and other imple-\\nments or accoutrements, mold bullets, look on, talk,\\nand smoke. The sages old men always lapse into\\nsages, it seems stare into the flre and grunt mono-", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0128.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "POPULATION 119\\nsyllabic responses to those around them. The\\nfamily pot for next day s feed is boiling over the\\nfire, while some matron gives it her attention from\\ntime to time, adding water, salt, and onions, as her\\njudgment dictates, and a precious mess of nau-\\nseous stuff it generally is In the ashes potatoes\\nare roasted. They crawl away to bed, one after\\nanother, as the spirit moves.\\nYoung men and spinsters are not expected, nor\\nindeed allowed, to talk to white visitors, while the\\nold men are near. The young must affect not to\\nunderstand English on such occasions.\\nNear each village there is always a public\\ncam/pus^ with a tall pole in the center. Here their\\nfestivities all are held. These are their stated\\ndances, the most important of which is the green-\\ncorn dance a sort of annual worship of Ceres.\\nThe celebration consists of dancing around the pole,\\neating green corn, and drinking whisky {wy-o-mee)^\\nwhich of late years is the most important feature.\\nThey grow corn, rice, potatoes, sugarcane,\\nmelons, and some fruit, and keep hogs, cattle, a few\\nponies, and poultry.\\nThe men usually wear a calico shirt, middle\\nwrap, a shawl, and a turban, and on some special\\noccasions, as when visiting the white settlements or", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0129.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "120 THE FLORIDA OF TO-BAY.\\nhunting in the scrub, pantaloons or leggings, and\\nmoccasins. The turban is a conspicuous and pict-\\nuresque affair, and quite Oriental in its effects. It\\nis sometimes nearly two feet in diameter, and four\\nto six inches high. It is made of shawls or wraps\\nof some kind, the outside layer being often a showy\\nbandanna. It is a heavy affair, and seems to require\\na conscious effort to keep it in balance. The chiefs\\ndistinguish themselves, especially on occasions of\\nstate, with something no matter what showy,\\nexpensive, and oidrS often a highly fancy hunt-\\ning-shirt with broad collar and fringes all over,\\nand tawdry stripes and ribbons. The children,\\npopularly laiown as pickaninnies, not papooses,\\nabout their homes generally wear nothing but\\nwhen traveling they often wear loose wrappers,\\nespecially in winter, and during youth wear but\\nscant apparel.\\nThe turban is for a toga virilis of the males, and\\nis assumed between eighteen and twenty. Every\\nbrave has a gun, generally a rifle, the Winchester\\nbeing most common. The traditional bow and\\narrows are now the toys of children.\\nThe children are cheerful, active, and full of\\nplay, eager to learn to shoot, to sail boats, to read,\\nto write, and other like things of the outside world", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0130.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "POPULATION. 121\\nbut the older folks are glum, seK-satisfied, secretive,\\nconceited, and proud of their ignorance.\\nThe wonaen wear calico skirts and jacket, or a\\nplain frock, and beads, and thej generally go bare-\\nfoot. Their beads are absurdly piled up sometimes\\nas many as iif ty strings of cheap, colored glass beads\\nare piled up around the neck and shoulders. The\\nold women tie up the hair in a knot on the back of\\nthe head, while the spinsters wear it loose, banged,\\nand, on rare occasions, braided. The old squaws\\nare hideously hard-featured, and formerly they did\\npretty much all the house and kitchen drudgery\\nbut of late years the men, boys, and girls join in the\\ngeneral work.\\nThe following account of a very recent visit to a\\nSeminole camp on the Miami River in Dade County\\ngives a fair idea of subtropical savage life in 1888\\nAt length we came to a trail or path which led to\\nthe Indian camp. This camp is composed of several\\nhuts, having no siding, only floors of rough-hewn\\nboards, black with dirt, raised about two feet above\\nthe ground. Roofs of palmetto-leaves are all the\\nprotection they have against the inclemency of the\\nweather. They had no furniture of any kind, no\\ntable, chairs, not even stools or benches to sit on.\\nA few pots and pans stood around, which were used", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0131.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "122 THE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY,\\nfor cooking in, but we did not see any dishes; all\\nmust eat out of one pan, using their fingers.\\nEverything was in confusion clothing, bed-\\nding, beads, vegetables, and cooking-utensils. They\\nhave strings of small turtle-shells, with some kind of\\nseeds, which they fasten around their knees when\\nthey dance, the seeds rattling like shot in a glass\\nbottle with every movement of the wearer. Dried\\nskins of bears, wild cats, deer, and other animals\\nwere scattered promiscuously about. Lean-looking\\nblack pigs roamed at large about the premises. An\\nold hen sat complacently on her nest made of a new\\ncalico dress skirt which lay on the floor. Here and\\nthere were large pans filled with potatoes, vege-\\ntables, and venison. Biscuit weighing about a\\npound apiece, and fish cooked whole with head and\\nscales on, stood ready for any one whose appetite\\ncould be tempted by such dainties.\\nWe saw none of the Indian men in camp\\nthey must all have been in the field at work. But\\nsquatted under one of the roofs was a pickaninny,\\na boy about foui or five years old, and three pretty\\nyoung squaws, daughters of Billy Harney. The\\nyounger one of the squaws was really handsome,\\nwith large, beautiful dark eyes, mild and fawn-like\\nin expression, her dark cheeks glowing with health,", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0132.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "POPULATION. 123\\n8S slie moved about in a graceful, gliding manner\\npeculiar to the race. All wore calico skirts fanci-\\nfully trimmed and small shoulder-capes, which\\nbarely reached the skirt-band, answered for waists.\\nSeveral pieces of bright tin, about the size and\\nshape of a silver dollar, were fastened at the bosom.\\nSome eighty or a hundred strings of various col-\\nored beads were wound around their necks nntil\\nthey reached nearly to their chins.\\nOne of the squaws was sewing, using a thim-\\nble, and the sewing would do credit to many a\\nwhite woman. They talked in their own dialect\\namong themselves, in a low, almost inaudible tone.\\nWe could not make out anything they said,\\nalthough I think they understood us pretty well,\\nas they seemed pleased if complimented.\\nThe Indians frequently visit the white settle-\\nments, to sell hides, venison, turkey, potatoes, etc.,\\nand to buy guns, ammunition, sugar, coffee, cloths,\\nand whisky always whisky. Their words are few\\nfor the whites in-cah, good ho-le-iva~gus, bad\\nwy-o-mee, whisky they need few others. Letters\\nthey call talk-paper.\\nThese Indians often live to a great age. Several\\nare believed to be past a hundred.\\nThe Seminoles of the present generation are bet-", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0133.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "124: THE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\nter than those of the last were, albeit the progress\\nis passing slow. Those old fellows that toma-\\nhawked children and cut women s throats while\\nJackson was Governor in 1821 are in no mood to\\nforgive anybody to-day. It is not the Indian s\\nrevelation to have merely an eye for an eye and a\\ntooth for a tooth but his ethics demands every-\\nthing for anything, and his worship is carnage and\\nhis sacramental wine is blood.\\nThose old fellows believe that no civilization has\\never equaled theirs and they have but a contempt-\\nuous idea of the Big Chief at Washington, albeit\\nthey have learned ^from pedagogues like Worth\\nto have a certain respect for the United States sol-\\ndiers that come near them. These sages refuse fre-\\nquently even to confer with the United States\\nagents sent to them of late years. Old Chipco\\nsaid to the agent a few years ago that they did\\nnot want to hear any Washington talk. Spe-\\ncial Agent Wilson in 1887 was sent to buy lands for\\nas many of them as would settle and remain set-\\ntled on the lands. He had an interview with Old\\nAlleck, as he is called, the centenarian chieftain\\nof a cluster of shanties and may be a score of so-\\ncalled braves, and in his official report gives this\\naccount of it", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0134.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "POPULATIOK 125\\nThe old fellow is bent and shriveled with age\\n(he told me he was one hundred years old, and I\\nincline to beheve he is older), his sight and hearing\\nare both badly impaired, and as he sat conversing\\nwith two other old veterans not many years his\\njunior, I then beheld what to my mind was a group\\nof typical aborigines.\\nI made known my business to Old AUeck\\nthrough my interpreter, who listened very courte-\\nously to all I had to say, and then gave vent to the\\nmost derisive and sarcastic laugh I ever heard, after\\nwhich he proceeded with a long harangue, not a\\nword of which was intelligible to me because of his\\nhoarse guttural style of utterance, but I was told by\\nmy Indian friend that he would not accede to any\\nof my propositions.\\nA fairly illustrative picture of Seminole charac-\\nter, spirit, and civilization of the past generation, at\\nits best, is the row raised by the sainted Osceola,\\nwhen the agent at one of our stations issued an\\norder forbidding the sale of ammunition and arms\\nto the Indians. This order was issued after re-\\npeated proofs that the Indians were arming them-\\nselves for further treachery and greater butchery.\\nOsceola, the gentle martyr and ideal Stoic of the\\nwoods, was denied the privilege of purchasing pow-", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0135.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "126 TEE FLORIDA OF TO-BAY.\\nder to shoot more women and cliildren with and,\\nbursting wdth rage, gave vent to his noble feelings\\nin these words Am I a negro a slave Mj\\nskin is dark, but not black I am an Indian a\\nSeminole The white man shall not make me\\nblack I will make the white man red with blood,\\nand then blacken him in the sun and rain, where\\nthe wolf shall smell of his bones and the buzzard\\nlive upon his flesh", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0136.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "IX.\\nEDUCATIOK\\nTheee is little to note in regard to education in\\nFlorida, except that it lias fully kept pace with the\\ngeneral progress.\\nThe common-school system is popular, well\\nsupported, efficient, and eminently successful in\\nvery few of the States, indeed, more so. Beyond\\nthis, the details of its operation will not interest the\\ngeneral reader. Superintendent A. J. Kussell, to\\nwhose ability this success is largely due, gives the\\nfollowing in his latest report\\nThe whole number of schools reported for the\\nscholastic year 1886-87, ending September 20,\\n1887, is 2,103. The total enrollment for the year\\n1887 is 82,453 pupils. The total average daily\\nattendance is 51,059 pupils, which is 67 per cent of\\nthe total enrollment. The increase in daily attend-\\nance over preceding year is 6,246. The total num-\\nber of teachers employed is 2,318 1,739 white and\\n579 colored. Total funds expended for school pur-", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0137.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "128 THE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\nposes, raised by State and counties, $449,299.15\\na jper capita of the total enrollment of $5.45 a\\nyear, and of the average daily attendance, $8.80\\na year.\\nIn addition to the common schools there are\\nseveral important institutions for higher and special\\neducation, such as\\nThe Florida Agricultural College at Lake City,\\nendowed by the United States, where students of\\nthe State may receive a foil collegiate course and a\\nthorough practical course in agriculture free of all\\nexpense, except for board at a very moderate charge.\\nStudents not desiring to take the literary course\\nmay take a special course of six or twelve months at\\noption in agriculture.\\nThe East Florida Seminary, at Gainesville, a\\nlarge military and normal institution, with a fine\\ncorps of teachers.\\nThe West Florida Seminary (Seminary West of\\nthe Suwannee River), at Tallahassee, similar to the\\npreceding; the two seminaries having a joint en-\\ndowment fund of $92,300, affording a revenue of\\n$5,695, which is divided equally between them.\\nThe Florida University, at Tallahassee.\\nAn Institute for the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind,\\nrecently established by the State at St. Augustine.", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0138.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "EDUCATION. 129\\nBoth races are admitted, the buildings for thern\\nbeing separate.\\nEolUns College, founded in 1885, at Winter\\nPark, Orange County, with an endowment amount-\\ning to $114,000.\\nDe Land University, at De Land, Volusia\\nCounty, chartered in 1887, had been for some years\\ngrowing up from the De Land Academy. It has\\nfour departments in successful operation.\\nA State E ormal College for each race was or-\\nganized and opened during the past year. The one\\nfor whites is at De Funiak Springs, Walton County\\nand the one for colored students is at Tallahassee.\\nBoth are in operation to-(\\n9", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0139.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "X.\\nPKODUCTIONS.\\nThe productive industries of Florida are numer-\\nous, varied, important, and to a considerable extent\\npeculiar. The variety of products is greater than\\nin any other State.\\nProminent among these, and altogether the best\\nadvertised of all, is the growing of citrus fruits.\\nOf these fruits there are six well-known kinds\\nthe orange, lemon, lime, shaddock, grape-fruit, and\\ncitron. The statement has been made that there\\nare two hundred and fifty varieties in all in the\\nState and nursery-men advertise about half that\\nnumber.\\nOranges. The orange is by far the most im-\\nportant of these citrus fruits, and its culture has\\nbeen longest before the public. It is stated that\\nthere are $10,000,000 invested in orange-groves,\\nwith room for five times that amount. The crop\\njust gathered, according to actual returns of the\\ntransportation companies, aggregates 1,126,799", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0140.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "PRODUCTIONS. 131\\ncrates. Tlie average price net lias been about $1.62\\na crate the net valne of the crop being, accord-\\ningly, $1,825,414 Upon this as a basis, it is safe\\nto reckon the aggregate crop at 1,250,000 crates,\\nOrange (^Citrus aurantium).\\nand the net valne at more than $2,000,000. The\\ncoming crop is estimated by Captain A. M. Ives, of\\nthe Florida Fruit Exchange, at from 2,000,000 to\\n2,500,000 crates, and no better authority than he\\ncan be cited.\\nThe oldest and most widely known grove in the\\nState, probably, is the Dummitt grove, on Indian\\nKiver, near Canaveral. It was started about 1850,\\nand has now some 3,000 trees. ]N ear by, on the", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0141.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "132\\nTHE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\nwest shore, is the Spratt grove. The most produc-\\ntive and the largest bearing grove in the State, and\\nprobably in the world, is that of J. A. Harris, on\\nOrange Lake, in Marion County, covering 185 acres.\\nOrange-Trees.\\nand having 30,000 bearing trees. The last crop\\nfrom this grove was 32,000 crates, which sold for\\n$65,000. It was stated that the crop of 1885- 86", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0142.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "PRODUCTION S. 133\\nbrought $90,000. Contiguous to this grove lie\\nseveral important ones, aggregating about 500 acres,\\nall being in or near bearing. One of these, owned\\nbj the Dunn Brothers, is valued at over $100,000.\\nThere are also the Matthews grove, the John\\nChurch and Company, and several others. This is\\ndoubtless one of the most important orange centers\\nin the State. The younger grove of J. Hart l^orris,\\nat Spring Garden, Yolusia County, 200 acres, in\\npartial bearing, is also an important one. So is the\\nBishop grove. The Spear grove, near Sanford,\\nOrange County, has only four and a half acres, but\\nthe trees are large twenty-five or thirty years old\\nand the yield is from 10,000 to 15,000 crates a year.\\nJ^ear Sanford also is the Belair grove and farther\\ndown the St. John s Kiver is the Hart grove, which\\nyields about $10,000 a year. All through these\\ncentral counties, from the Atlantic to the Gulf,\\ntil ere are hundreds of valuable and rapidly advanc-\\ning groves, altogether too numerous even to mention\\nby name, much less in detail.\\nThe claims, or pretensions, as the case may be,\\nof different regions are very conflicting and confus-\\ning; but to one not interested in any way in the\\norange business it seems to be by general agreement\\nsettled outside the Belt that the Indian River", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0143.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "134 TEE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\nregion lias some advantages over all others, and can\\ngrow and has grown the finest oranges in Florida,\\nand in Florida means in the world. The St.\\nJohn s region, however, and the interior counties ly-\\ning west of that, are unquestionably doing a heavier\\nbusiness than the paradise along the ocean-coast is\\ndoing thus far. Bnt all over the Orange Belt, and\\nnorth of it in IN orthern Florida, and south of it in\\nSubtropical Florida, the orange grows and thrives\\nwith more or less success, though its habitat is in\\nSemi-tropical Florida the Orange Belt proper. In\\nI^orthern Florida, except along the water-protected\\nGulf coast\u00e2\u0080\u0094 and occasionally there there is con-\\nsiderable risk of losing crops by frost and in the\\nsubtropics, lying south of the Orange Belt, the\\norange is crowded out by more profitable fruits of\\nthat climate, and it is possible that the bracing of\\nwinter is needed to bring the orange to its best.\\nAs many as ten thousand oranges, it seemo, have\\nbeen gathered from a single tree in one year in sev-\\neral instances; one near Waldo in Alachua Coun-\\nty, and one near Tampa in Hillsborough County.\\nNo tree, it is stated, dates back beyond the freeze of\\n1835. The backset given to this industry by the\\ncold snap of 1886 operated but shghtly and only for\\na time to arrest the enthusiasm in the business.", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0144.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "PRODUCTIONS. 135\\nThe cause for depression is already gone, as the\\nlarge crop jnst gathered proves that being the\\nlargest ever grown in the State.\\nAs to California s claim to be the great orange-\\ngrowing State, a few facts will show the emptiness\\nof such claim. Professor Budd, of the Iowa Agri-\\ncultural College, has recently examined that Pacific\\nregion and he reports that in the entire State of\\nCalifornia the area adapted to the production of\\noranges does not exceed 85,000 acres. Dr. Ken-\\nworthj has recently published the statement that\\nthe one county of Hillsborough in Florida contains\\nfully 40,000 acres of land better adapted to the cult-\\nure of oranges, lemons, limes, grape-fruit, shad-\\ndocks, and citrons, than the California lands above\\nreferred to and that in the same county are ten\\ntimes as many as 35,000 acres on which oranges\\nmay be successfully grown, without having to re-\\nsort to the expense of some $15 an acre for irri-\\ngation. ]N ow there are fully fifteen counties of\\nFlorida within the Orange Belt. If Hillsborough\\nCounty has ten times as much orange-land as all\\nCalifornia, and there are fourteen other counties\\nin Florida s Orange Belt, the rivalry between Cali-\\nfornia and Florida can not be very damaging to\\nFlorida. It is elsewhere shown that the climate", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0145.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "136 THE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\nof Florida suits the orange better than does that\\nof California.\\nThe varieties of the orange best suited to the\\nvarious soils, climates, and cultures of Florida may\\nbe learned from the books on Orange-Culture,\\nmention of which is made elsewhere in these pages.\\nYery positive preferences will be found there.\\nThe mandarin varieties deserve careful attention\\nand trial, and some have been already approved by\\ngrowers. The Tcumquat, also, or Citrus Japonica^\\nseems to have qualities that commend it to the at-\\ntention of the culturists of the Orange Belt.\\nLemons. The lemon stands in popular thought\\nnext to the orange, although not a great deal, com-\\nparatively, has been done in that direction in this\\ncountry this mainly, perhaps, on account of the\\ninferiority of the earlier varieties planted. More\\nrecently the old Spanish rough-coated lemon has\\nbeen giving place to better fruit. Five finer va-\\nrieties have been tried, some with fair but none\\nthus far with phenomenal success but time prom-\\nises the very best results. The Yilla Franca, Bel-\\nair Premium, and Genoa are the favorites of the\\nimported kinds and all are vastly superior to the\\nold monstrosity of other days. The Sicily and the\\nEureka are earnestly advocated by some. But", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0146.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "PRODUCTIONS. 137\\nthere are doubtless a score of varieties that will\\nbe found to do well.\\nThe lemon is a shade less hardy than the or-\\nange, and it can not be grown as far north as can\\nLemon.\\nthat sister fruit. The southern half of the semi-\\ntropics and all the region southward of it are well\\nsuited to the lemon and, within that safe and lim-\\nited area, it is a question if it be not the more\\nprofitable of the two in the future. The Yilla\\nEranca was but shghtlj if at all Imrt near Sanford\\nby the cold snap of 1886 while north of that, in\\nall unprotected localities, there was more or less", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0147.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "138 THE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\ndamage done to the lemon-trees, tliongh in gen-\\neral it was temporary.\\nLimes. The lime seems destined to take the\\nplace of the lemon in many nses, but as yet it is\\nnot half so well known. The fact that its area of\\nproduction is far more limited than that of the\\norange, and even of the lemon, will give it some\\nadvantage when it reaches its legitimate place in\\nthe fruit-market. It is the tenderest of the citrus\\nLime-Tree.\\nfamily, and is confined pretty closely within the sub-\\ntropical region, although several fine and success-\\nful trees have been grown as far north as 28\u00c2\u00b0 on the", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0148.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "PRODUCTION S. 139\\nGulf and 29\u00c2\u00b0 on tlie Atlantic side. The lime has\\nnot hitherto been grown for the obvious reason that\\nits habitat has not been settled long enough jet.\\nAnywhere north of the line just indicated, 28\u00c2\u00b0-29\u00c2\u00b0,\\nthe lime is very liable to damage from cold nearly\\nevery winter, the testimony of land agents to the\\ncontrary notwithstanding. The counties of Marion,\\nDade, and Lee embrace nearly all the territory\\navailable for safe lime-culture. The growing of\\nthis fruit has been thus far mainly experimental,\\nvery few acres having been planted anywhere and\\nbut little marketing done but the success of a few\\nindividuals, in the region where the lime can grow,\\nhas been phenomenal, and prices realized corre-\\nspondingly great. On Lake Worth, in Dade\\nCounty, Captain E. I^. Dimick has a lime-tree of\\nthe fruitage of which and the sales he has kept a\\ncareful and separate record and reckoning. The\\ntree, of the variety known as the Mexican or Flor-\\nida lime, was planted in 1877 and at the age of\\nnine years in 1886-87 it bore more than 12,500\\nlimes. These were sold in Jacksonville and yielded\\nthe handsome sum of $37.72 net. The tree is, of\\ncourse, an exceptionally fine and favored one but\\nthe results are important as indicating possibilities.\\nThe frait matures nearly every month in the year.", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0149.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "140 THE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\nThe trees may be planted a hundred to the acre,\\nor even closer, as they are much smaller, even in\\nthe subtropics, than the orange or the lemon. The\\nfruit begins to appear in the third or fourth year\\nfrom the seed. The Tahiti is the most tropical of\\nthe varieties now grown in Florida; but the Im-\\nperial and the Persian are preferred by some. Still,\\nthe common or Mexican lime, brought into the\\nState by the Spaniards from Mexico, is for general\\neconomic purposes perhaps equal to the best. This\\nvariety grows well and is exceptionally free from\\nthe diseases so common in the citrus family. A\\nsub-variety of this common kind, left on the east\\ncoast by the missionaries of the older days of the\\nSpanish domination, known there to-day as the\\nMission lime, is the very best of the older kinds.\\nThe fruit of this is larger and of smoother peel.\\nProfitable crops have been gathered in Dade County\\nfrom trees five years old.\\nOther Citrus Fruits. The other members of\\nthe citrus family are but little grown for sale the\\ngrape-fruit being most often seen in our American\\nmarkets, where, however, it is growing in favor.\\nThe shaddock also is rarely seen. This fruit has\\nbeen known to measure twelve inches in diameter.\\nThe citron is still scarcer in the cities, except in the", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0150.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "PRODUCTIONS. 141\\nform of preserves. It grows on a tree the most\\nirregular and shrubby of all the citrus tribe. All\\nthese grow well, along with the orange, in the semi-\\ntropics, all. being hardier than the lime and the\\nlemon.\\nValuable information and guidance, both prac-\\ntical and theoretical, on orange-growing especially\\nand citrus-growing generally, are to be found in the\\nbooks devoted to those subjects. All the essential\\npoints on these fruits soils suitable for them, best\\nvarieties to cultivate, times to plant, diseases, draw-\\nbacks, fertilizers, and all that pertains to this fasci-\\nnating and sometimes disappointing pursuit may\\nbe found in the books Moore s Orange Culture\\nin Florida, Mannville s Orange Culture, Davis s\\nOrange Culture, Spaulding s Orange Culture\\nId California, Garey s Orange Culture in Califor-\\nnia, Galesio On the Orange, and Helen Har-\\ncourt s Florida Fruits and how to raise them.\\nThese, and several others that the reader will read-\\nily find upon inquiry, w^ill give all the help that\\ncan come from books and, beyond that, practical\\nexperience is all-important.\\nCocoanuts. The cocoanut has been for several\\nyears now attracting attention in the subtropics.\\nThere are few chroniclers that have the hardihood", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0151.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "142\\ntllE FLORIDA OF TO-BAY.\\nto assert that it can live and fruit well anywliere\\nnorth of that favored region. The only serious at-\\ntempts to grow cocoanuts have been in Monroe,\\nDade, and Lee Counties and in the northern part\\nof this section as at Jupiter Inlet, on the Atlantic\\nCOCOANUT GeoVE.\\ncoast, and south of the hue 27\u00c2\u00b0 the fruiting is not\\nvery satisfactory. On the Florida Keys in Monroe,\\non the coast of Dade, are the extensive groves of\\nJohn Lowe, 1,500 trees, of which 600 are in bear-\\ning of E. O. Locke, 25,000 trees, of which 100 are", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0152.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "PRODUCTIONS, 143\\nin bearing of Williams WaiTen, 25,000 trees\\nand numerous others of from 1,400 up to 18,000,\\nmore or less in bearing. On tlie west coast of Mon-\\nroe there are James A. Waddell s grove of 30,000\\ntrees, and two or three other extensive groves. Set-\\ntlers in the Caloosahatchee River region, in Lee\\nCounty, are planting extensively and gratifying\\nresults are confidently expected in the near future.\\nJames Evans, at Fort Myers, in that valley, has\\na number of sporadic now finely bearing trees\\nabout thirty years old. In Dade County there are\\nat Lake Worth about 25,000 trees, the oldest plant-\\ned in 1878, of which perhaps 2,500 are in bearing\\nand, south of that, Field Osborne have planted,\\nwithin the past four years, about 330,000 nuts.\\nThus the aggregate number of trees in the three\\nsubtropical counties is something over half a million\\nplanted and probably living, of which may be 5,000\\nhave reached the nut-bearing age or stage. The in-\\ndustry is a new one. The most productive trees are\\nreported to bear 365 nuts a year; but 100 nuts a\\nyear to the tree is considered a good average for\\nbearing trees, although 200 to the tree, as single\\ntrees, is not infrequent One writer estimates that\\n$1,500 a year to the acre can be realized from co-\\ncoanuts.", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0153.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "144: THE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\nThere are two varieties of the cocoanut the\\ngreen and the yellow found in Florida. They\\ngrow only near salt water and in the salt atmos-\\nphere. Limestone soils, coral sands, and mold\\nhammocks, are all said to be favorable for these\\ntrees. They bear nuts at from seven to ten years\\nunder favorable circumstances. The oldest trees in\\nthe State were planted at Key West in Marion\\nCounty, at Miami in Dade, and at Fort Myers in\\nLee, in or near 1845. There are trees in Key West\\nnearly eighty feet high. Yery little cultivation is\\nthought to be required. A hundred trees to the\\nacre is the usual spacing. If it is true, as is confi-\\ndently claimed, that the cocoanut-palm (the Cocos\\nnuG^fera of the botanists) will not endure frost,\\nthen its growing may be safely assumed as marking\\nthe frostless region and, that point conceded, men\\nneed not bother, wrangle, and fleer about the frost-\\nline, so called.\\nPineapples. This fruit will bear a little, but\\nvery little, more cold than the cocoanut but, by\\nmeans of special protection, pineapples may be\\ngrown, with moderate risk, up to the middle of the\\nsemi-tropics, the quality of the fruit being poorer\\nthe farther north. They have now been cultivated\\nmany years with fair success, though on a very lim-", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0154.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "PRODUCTIONS. 145\\nited scale, in the subtropics, especially upon tlie\\nkeys in Monroe Conntj. The area is enlarging, and\\nnow embraces all Monroe, Dade, and Lee Connties.\\nIt is estimated that fully 500 acres are in cnltivation\\nat this time. The hardier and less valnable varieties\\nhave been grown in parts of IN^orthern Florida, but,\\nas a crop, they can not be grown there. In Semi-\\ntropical Florida, esjDecially in the southern half of\\nit, south of 28\u00c2\u00b0 or 2S\u00c2\u00b0 30 they can be grown with\\nonly an occasional killing by frost but in the north-\\nern half of the Orange Belt protection of some sort\\nis indispensable and the crop exceedingly uncertain,\\nvaporing assertions to the contraiy notwithstanding.\\nThey are doubtless, in their legitimate area, and un-\\nder suitable conditions, one of the most paying crops\\nin the State.\\nThere are many varieties but the one most\\ncommonly grown is called the Red Sx3anish, and\\nthis with proper cultivation in the extreme south\\nis a most excellent fruit, and weighs ordinarily\\nfrom two to four pounds, frequently going higher.\\nReasoner Brothers, in their Catalogue, state that\\nthe following are synonyms of Red Spanish Straw-\\nberry, Scarlet, Cuban, Havana, Key Largo, and\\nBlack Spanish. Pineapple-growers, however, are\\nbeginning to experiment with finer kinds, such as\\n10", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0155.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "146 TEE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\nthe Pernambucos, Porto Picos, Cuban Garden Pines,\\nEgyptian Queens, and others of the larger and finer\\nvarieties.\\nThe Red Spanish may be planted from 10,000\\nto 12,000 plants to the acre. Growers expect to\\ngather about seventy-five per cent of the plantings.\\nMany gather less, and some get more. It depends\\nlargely upon the cultivation.\\nSandy soil suits all kinds of pines best; and\\nfiner, tenderer, and more richly flavored fruit is\\ngrown on sand or sandy loam than anywhere else.\\nThey should be planted high and dry, and watered\\nfreely duriug drought. Suckers yield fruit fre-\\nquently in one year, but the ordinary slip needs\\ntwo years to fruit after setting out. With reason-\\nable attention and skill an acre may yield $1,000 a\\nyear net; and with the finer varieties, when these\\nliave been successfully introduced, much larger\\nprofits may be reasonably expected. Florida can\\ngrow finer fruit and of better flavor and quahty than\\nmost if not all other competitors in the American\\nmarkets, for the reason that home-grown fruits may\\nbe allowed to ripen more fully, because the time of\\ntransportation is less and fruit ripened thus natu-\\nrally is vastly superior to that cut green and cured in\\ntransit or in the markets. And, further, the equa-", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0156.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "PR0DU0TI0X8. 147\\ntorial countries get their fruits into our markets\\nduring April, May, and June, after wliicli they be-\\ncome scarce. Florida sends her pines to market in\\nJune, July, and August so that, being later, they\\nfind a demand mainly after the tropical supply is\\nexhausted. There need be no doubt that the trop-\\nics produce a fruit both larger and finer than the\\nsubtropics can hope to do. The Pernambuco pine,\\nfor example, whose habitat is within 10\u00c2\u00b0 of the\\nequator, attains there a weight of eighteen or twen-\\nty pounds, according to some trustworthy authori-\\nties w^hereas it is not to be hoped that more than\\nhalf that weight, under present cultivation at least,\\ncan be achieved in our country.\\nIt is not practicable to get full returns, or even\\ntrustworthy reckonings, of the latest crop of pine-\\napples but the area planted and the production are\\ndoubtless more than doubling every year. Mr. Eich-\\nards, of Eden, on lower Indian River, near the north-\\nern boundary-line of the subtropics, reports that up\\nto the first of July last there had been shipped from\\nthat point about 1,000 barrels or barrel-crates of\\npineapples. Mr. Knight, of Sebastian Eiver 27\u00c2\u00b0\\n48 and Mr. Horsch are engaging somewhat large-\\nly in the raising of this fruit.\\nThe European markets have been tried with", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0157.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "148 THE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\nvery limited sMpments of pines, and these mainly\\nof the finer kinds. A prominent London firm of\\nf rnit-dealers publishes the fact that they have sold\\nFlorida pines at twenty-five shillings sterling that\\nis, over six dollars apiece but they do not mention\\nthe variety nor the size and weight of the fruit so\\nsold. Another authority states that a pine weighing\\nfifteen jpounds was sold in that city for three pounds\\nsterling, about fifteen dollars, or a dollar a pound\\nBananas. The banana will grow in both the\\nsemi-tropics and the subtropics but the surer crop\\nand the finer fruit belong to the latter, as with all\\nother tropical fruits. The kind most planted on\\nthe keys and on the east shore generally and wher-\\never winds are strong and frequent is known as\\nthe dwarfbanana^ which stands from six to eight\\nfeet high. This is known to botanists as the Musa\\nCavendishii. The Reasoner Brothers consider this\\nto be the same as the Chinese, called also dwarf Ja-\\nmaica or Martinique hanana. The yield of fruit is\\nenormous, sometimes as many as two hundred or\\nthree hundred in a bunch, and the flavor excellent.\\nProfessor Whitner states that only the coarser varie-\\nty known as horse-hanana can be relied upon above\\nthe subtropical region. In this country the distinc-\\ntion between banana and plantain is kept up, the", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0158.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "PRODUCTIONS,\\n149\\nThe Banana and the Pineapple.\\nlatter being the coarser and hardier kind but\\nin India, pomocnlturists have abandoned the name\\nhanana altogether, and treat all varieties of both un-\\nder the name of jplantain. Of bananas in Florida,\\nthere are two varieties, commonly known and called", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0159.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "150 THE FLORIDA OF TO -LAY,\\nyellow and red respectively, from the color of the\\nripened fruit. The plantain, so called, is very rare.\\nThe banana is propagated from bulbs and suck-\\ners and these fruit the second year, never the first\\nseason.\\nMoist soils, very rich, suit the banana best, and\\nfrequent rotation some Spanish authorities say\\nevery three years ^is necessary but higher lands\\nyield fairly well with abundant rains and very tine\\nqualities, of limited size, have been grown on sandy\\nloam, well molded and moist but the richest of low\\nhammocks are the best for this fruit. Still, the ex-\\nperiments thus far, as to soils, are by no means com-\\nplete or final. The lands suitable for the banana as\\na crop of profit are quite limited in area, in the\\nproper climate, and the crop is generally felt to be\\na rather risky one. From a thousand to twelve hun-\\ndred to the acre is as close as the plants should be\\nput out. Bananas are grown extensively by Mr.\\nBaugh, on Sebastian Biver, in Brevard County.\\nThe bananas grown in Dade County have sold,\\nseveral years ago, on the ground, as high as a dollar\\na bunch but about half of that is considered a very\\ngood price.\\nThis fruit is very nutritious as food, and the\\npoor in some tropical countries notably the semi-", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0160.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": "PRODUCTIONS. 151\\nsavages of Mexico it is said, make bananas a cliief\\narticle of food. Humboldt is quoted as affirming\\nthat an area of land that would grow wheat enough\\nto feed but one man would produce in bananas\\nenough to feed twenty-five men.\\nProfessor Whitner, in his Gardening in Flor-\\nida, gives the curious piece of information that the\\nSpaniards at one time supposed the banana to be\\nthe original forbidden fruit mentioned in Genesis,\\nand, from the fancied resemblance to a cross found\\nin the marks on a transverse section, they claimed\\nthat in eating it Adam had a glimpse of the mys-\\ntery of redemption by the cross.\\nPears. The Le Conte pear grows in great luxu-\\nriance in Northern Florida, throughout the splendid\\ntier of counties between Jacksonville and Pensacola.\\nSeveral other kinds the Bartlett, Lawson, Japan,\\nand some others\u00e2\u0080\u0094 have been tried in the State, but\\nnone has found the conspicuous success of the Le\\nConte. This pear was introduced into Liberty\\nCounty, Georgia, in 1856, by Major John Le Conte,\\nwho bought it, as Professor Whitner states, of some\\nISTorthern nursery-man for a seedling of the Chinese\\nsand-pear. It turned out, however, to be utterly\\nunlike the Chinese fruit, and very appropriately\\nreceived the name of its introducer, Le Conte.", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0161.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "152 TEE FLORIDA OF TO-BAY.\\nFurther cultivation and development by Captain\\nYamadoe, of Thomasville, Georgia, made this pear\\nwhat it is to-day, the best pear in the South. It is\\na hybrid, and must therefore be propagated by\\ncuttings or slips. The tree begins to bear fruit at\\nfour or ^YQ years of age, and at ten sometimes\\nstands twenty feet high, and bears ten to fifteen\\nbushels of pears. The orchard-spacing should allow\\nnearly forty feet between the trees. The pears sell\\nat from $2 to $5 a bushel- crate.\\nAll along the line of railroad running westward\\nfrom Jacksonville, and notably around Tallahassee,\\nthe visitor will be struck with the superb groves in\\nall directions, rivaling both in picturesque beauty\\nand prosaic profit the splendid orange groves of the\\nsemi-tropics farther south. E orth Florida may well\\nafford to forego the romance-invested orange-groves\\nof the Orange Belt in view of these equally splendid\\nLe Conte pear-groves.\\nGrapes and Wine. The experiment of growing\\nfirst-class grapes for wine has been made in Florida,\\nand with complete success. Mr. E. Dubois, an\\nexperienced wine-grower from France, has made a\\ncareful, full, and systematic trial of the soil and\\nclimate of ]S~orthern Florida with wine yielding\\ngrapes, and the very best results have rewarded", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0162.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "PRODUCTIONS. 153\\nhim. He had prospected in several other parts of\\nthe United States before deciding npon his present\\nplace. In 1883 he began vineyards with a few\\nacres in Leon County, near Tallahassee, and to-day\\nhas thirty acres planted in vines, mostly Cynthiana,\\n^Norton, Elvira, and Missouri Riesling. In 1887 he\\nhad ten acres in bearing, and gathered twenty tons\\nof grapes and made 2,500 gallons of wine claret,\\nhock, Santernes, and port which to-day sells\\nreadily at from $1.25 to $2 a gallon. This year\\nhe will make at least 4,000 gallons. When the\\nthirty acres reach the bearing stage, he can safely\\nreckon on turning out from 8,000 to 10,000 gallons\\na year, and that means $12,000 or $15,000 a year.\\nLess pronounced but still very satisfactory re-\\nsults were reached by the late Colonel M. Martin in\\nGadsden County twenty years ago. In 1869 this\\nearlier experiment was begun. The vineyards still\\nyield large crops of grapes Hartford Prolific, Ives,\\nConcord, Delaware, Martha, and Cynthiana from\\nwhich first-class wines are duly manufactured.\\nBesides the above-mentioned varieties, the Scup-\\npernong and that family of grapes have been grown\\nin various parts of the State with varying results.\\nIn the southern half of the State several of the\\ngrapes mentioned have been tried with entirely", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0163.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "154 TEE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\nsatisfactory results. Just which varieties will suc-\\nceed in the subtropics has not been fully settled yet,\\nbnt it seems certain that J^orthern Florida is better\\nsuited to the grape generally than the two more\\nsouthern sections. Future efforts, however, may\\nfind varieties well suited to all sections.\\nGrand Possibilities. There are many tropical\\nfruits yet on trial, as it were, in Subtropical Florida,\\nof which the future is more or less undefined and\\nundeterminable at present, but which may be de-\\nfined as grand possibilities.\\nProminent among these possibilities are these\\nthe guava, mango, mangosteen, mammee, mam-\\nmee sapota, sapodilla, and most of the large Anona\\nfamily. These fruits, all fine in their separate ways,\\nare grown with perfect success perhaps only in the\\ntropics, and they are well known to books and\\ntravelers. They are now on trial in Subtropical\\nFlorida, and a few of them have attained success.\\nThey are of course but little known, except by\\nname, beyond the subtropics, on account of the\\nimpossibility of getting them to market in good\\ncondition with existing means of transportation.\\nThey are mainly saccharine-acid fruits, and need to\\nripen on the stem in order to develop their best\\nqualities. Hence, there is not time after gathering", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0164.jp2"}, "165": {"fulltext": "PRODUGTIOI^S. 155\\nto reach distant markets. Even railroads could not\\nget them to Northern markets, for the reason that\\nthe agitation of the rail movement would, as in the\\ncase of new sugar, cause the fruit to decay rapidly\\nby deliquescence or some similar process, unless the\\ntemperature be kept too low for that destructive\\nprocess. What is wanted, accordingly, is either the\\nrefrigerator-car, or water-movement by steam, with-\\nout transshipment between the producing groves and\\nthe consuming markets. With either of these and\\nof these the refrigerator seems by far the better,\\nbut experiments must decide their relative merits\\nmost, if not all, of these delicious fruits can be put,\\nin excellent condition, into the I^orthern and pos-\\nsibly into the British markets.\\nThe guava is widely known through its jelly, so\\ndeservedly popular; but the fruit itself is little\\nknown beyond its habitat. The common guava\\ngrows easily and abundantly, reaching fully twenty\\nfeet in height sometimes, all through the subtropic\\ncounties, and in fact will live and bear fruit in both\\nthe subtropics and the semi -tropics but ]Mature s\\nrule is inflexible the farther north it is planted the\\nmore uncertain is its growth, the smaller the tree or\\nshrub, and the scarcer and poorer the fruit. Its\\nsuccess in Monroe, Dade, and Lee is not at all", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0165.jp2"}, "166": {"fulltext": "156\\nTHE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\nproblematical. Tliere it ripens some seven or eight\\nmontlis in the year, from May till January, say,\\nbut most abundantly in\\nsummer.\\nTwo varieties are quite\\ncommon, and are called\\nthe sweet and the sour or\\nacid. The former is the\\nkind most commonly eat-\\nen, while the latter alone\\nwill make jelly of the first\\nquality, unassisted with\\nculinary aids. The shape\\nis that known as 7yhali-\\nforme, although it is more\\nnearly that of a lemon\\nthan of an apple. It is of this guava the Psidium\\ngua^ava\u00e2\u0080\u0094thsit the Eeasoner Brothers say: The\\nguava has become a necessity to South Florida is\\nto South Florida what the peach is to Georgia.\\nThe Cattley guava was introduced from China by\\nan Englishman who gave it his name. This is\\nmore hardy than the common, is more a shrub,\\nand will stand the semi-tropical climate doubtless\\nvery well, although it has not been yet very thor-\\noughly tested.\\nGuava.", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0166.jp2"}, "167": {"fulltext": "PRODUCTIONS. 157\\nThe mango lias been tried with a measure of\\nsuccess in the extreme south and as far north as\\nthe mouth of Tampa Bay not far from 28\u00c2\u00b0 it is\\nreported to have done well, but even there it is\\nrisky. One tree of the apricot variety in that\\nregion, owned by Mr. Neeld, of Pinellas, at eight\\nyears old bore 8,000 mangos one year. The freeze\\nof 1886 proves that this is rather far north for this\\ntropical fruit. The tree usually bears fruit in five\\nor six years from the seed. There are two kinds\\nplanted in Florida, and it is yet on the experimental\\nlist, except on the extreme south coast and the\\nFirminger, writing of the large Maid a mango in\\nIndia, its habitat, says, To those who have never\\npartaken of it, no words can convey an idea of this\\nexquisitely luscious fruit and another apprecia-\\ntive writer says that the pulp of the choice varieties\\nis of the consistency of blanc-mange, so as to be\\neaten with a spoon, and rivaling if not excelling any\\nfruit in the world for deliciousness of flavor. This\\nis what Northern consumers may hope to get should\\nthe growing and transportation prove a success in\\nFlorida; and it contrasts sharplj^ with the pitiful\\ngreenish, shriveled, turpentine-flavored little mangos\\nsometimes, but luckily not often, found in Northern", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0167.jp2"}, "168": {"fulltext": "158\\nTHE FLORIDA OF TO-BAY.\\nmarkets. The mango is often as large as a goose-\\negg. The Eeasoner Brothers say We can not\\nspeak too highly of this delectable fruit, destined,\\nwe hope, to become as plentiful in South Florida as\\nthe orange. In productiveness and rapidity of\\ngrowth it surpasses any fruit-tree we have ever seen,\\nMango,\\neither temperate or tropical. Some trees in Central\\nAmerica latitude about 16\u00c2\u00b0 are described as hav-\\ning trunks four feet in diameter, the trees standing\\nsixty feet apart, and yet the branches touch. In the\\nsubtropics, of course, these tropical trees fall corre-\\nspondingly short of such proportions; but Florida", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0168.jp2"}, "169": {"fulltext": "PRODUCTIONS, 169\\ncan already boast several well-grown trees. The\\nGuatemala mango in Florida ripens as early as\\nMarch, but the regular season is later than that. Of\\nthe Cuban varieties an excellent authority considers\\nthe lobed apple the best. The subtropical nursery-\\nmen offer twelve varieties, and all of these will in\\ndue time be fully tested. Lots of Florida-grown\\nmangos have sold at forty cents a dozen. Trees\\nshould have about thirty feet space ordinarily.\\nThey do best in high, well-drained land.\\nThe mangosteen^ it is claimed, has been tried\\nwith success in the extreme south, but there is doubt\\nas to the genuineness of the variety. The true\\nmangosteen the Garcinia mangostana is being\\nplanted in Monroe and Dade Counties, and a few\\nyears more will decide and many persons have\\nlarge faith in the success. The fruit is probably\\nsuperior to the mango, which is praised so enthu-\\nsiastically by tropical writers, and is about the size\\nof an orange.\\nThe mammee is a handsome tree, somewhat like\\nthe Magnolia grandiflora. Its success in Sub-\\ntropical Florida is well assured, having been grown\\nsome years on the keys. How far up it can grow\\nremains to be proved, but the probabilities are\\nagainst it above the subtropics. The fruit some-", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0169.jp2"}, "170": {"fulltext": "160 THE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\ntimes called the mammee-apple, and among the Span-\\niards known as the mamey is round and brown,\\nthree to six inches in diameter, containing one to\\nfonr seeds, as large as walnuts, surrounded bv a\\nyellow, juicy pulp, most delicious, and needing no\\nacquired taste to be enjoyed. The taste is not un-\\nlike the apricot or summer peach. The tree is a\\nnative of the Caribbee Islands, and in Jamaica is\\nsaid to be one of the largest and most valuable tim-\\nber-trees.\\nThe mammee sapota is remotely like the mam-\\nmee, but is different in most respects. The fruit of\\nthis is oval, its longest diameter from three to six\\ninches. It has one large, long seed in the center.\\nThe pulp is of a rich saffron-color and is described\\nin terms of extravagant praise it is called natural\\nmarmalade, from its resemblance to marmalade of\\nquinces. The tree is known in some localities as\\nthe marmalade- tree. It is the Achras mammosa,\\nand is native in Central America. It is reported to\\nhave fruited successfully on the southern keys;\\nbut more time is needed to confirm the probability\\nthat it will succeed in Florida.\\nThe avocado pear corrupted into alligator\\npear, and by the Spaniards popularly called the\\nagiiacate is a native of the West Indies, and has", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0170.jp2"}, "171": {"fulltext": "PRODUCTIONS. 161\\nbeen successfully grown a number of years in Sub-\\ntropical Florida. It is pear-shaped, and from that\\nalone appears to have received its misnomer of pear.\\nTropical-sea sailors call it midshipman s butter.\\nThe tree is known to botanists as the Pei sea gra-\\ntissima. The taste for the fruit is generally an\\nacquired one but, as in the case of most such\\nfruits, the partiality for it is intense. It is a stone-\\nfruit, large, greenish-brown in color, with pulp of a\\nbright yellow color, and taste unique and of decided\\ncharacter. The tree is propagated from the seed,\\nand will usually fruit in about five years from the\\nplanting. The freeze of 18S6 interfered with the\\ntrees down to the boundary-line of the subtropics\\nproper. It may be planted with safety anywhere\\nwithin that subdivision.\\nThe sapodillcc is a native of Jamaica, and grows\\nwell on the Florida Keys and on the adjacent main-\\nland that is, in the subtropics. It is the AcJiras\\nsapota, and is called by the Spaniards sapote. It is\\na handsome tree, and is propagated from the seed,\\nfruiting in six or seven years from the planting.\\nThe fruit is round, rusty brown, two or three inches\\nin diameter, the taste being that of a rich, sweet,\\njuicy pear, with granulated pulp and almond- shaped\\nseed. The quality of the fruit is very high, equal\\n11", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0171.jp2"}, "172": {"fulltext": "162 THE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\nperhaps to tliat of the mango and it is preferred\\nby many to that fruito It is very hard to transport,\\nfrom the fact that it needs to ripen on the stem in\\norder to be at its best. The 1886 freeze proved\\nthat the sapodilla can not be safely grown anywliere\\nnorth of the subtropical strip. It thrives at Lake\\nWorth in Dade latitude 26\u00c2\u00b0 40^ and was not\\nhurt by the cold of 1886.\\nOf the numerous family of the Anonas four\\nappear to have proved eminently successful in Sub-\\ntropical Florida, and some of them well up into the\\nsemi-tropical region. The four are the guanabena,\\ncherimoya, sugar-apple, and custard-apple.\\nThe guoMobeiia, popularly called sour-sop, is the\\nAnona Tmbvicata.^ a native of the West Indies. The\\nfruit is described by the Keasoner Brothers as a\\nlarge, green, prickly fruit, six or eight inches long,\\ncontaining a soft, white, juicy pulp, which in fresh,\\nwell-ripened specimens is delicious. Mr. Gosse\\nsays it is lusciously sweet and of a delightful\\nacidity; often larger than a child s head; covered\\nwith prickles. It is the tenderest of the Anonas.^\\nand can live only in the extreme southern rim of\\nFlorida and on the keys. The frait sometimes\\nweighs fonr pounds, and retails in the Key West\\nfiuit-stores at sixty cents each.", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0172.jp2"}, "173": {"fulltext": "PRODUCTIONS. 163\\nThe cherimoya is the Anoyia cherimolia^ and\\nin Key West is frequently called the Jamaica ap-\\nple, and sometimes dieriinoyer. The frnit varies\\nin size from that of an orange to six inches in di-\\nameter. It is a native of Peru. It will thrive only\\nin the subtropics, Dr, Seemann, as quoted by Pro-\\nfessor Whitner, says: The pineapple, the man-\\ngosteen, and the cherimoya are considered the finest\\nfruits in the world. I have tasted them in those\\nlocahties in which they are supposed to attain their\\nhighest perfection the pineapple in Guayaquil,\\nthe mangosteen in the Indian Archipelago, and the\\ncherimoya on the slopes of the Andes and if T\\nwere called npon to act the part of Paris, I would\\nwithout hesitation assign the apple to the cherimoya.\\nIts taste, indeed, surpasses that of every other fruit,\\nand Haenke was right when he called it the master-\\npiece of l^ature.\\nThe sugar-apple is known to some as the sweet-\\nsop^ and to others as the hulloclc^s heart. Professor\\nWhitner calls it the Anona reticulata, while the\\nReasoner Brothers catalogue it as the Anona squa-\\nmosa. It is mnch grown in Key West, and has\\nfound its way into subtropical regions generally.\\nThe tree is a shrub frequently, of very large size\\ngenerally in the extreme sonth, but smaller farther", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0173.jp2"}, "174": {"fulltext": "104 TEE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\nnorth. Professor Whitner sajs the fruit looks much\\nas a raspberry would of the same size, with its de-\\npressions as if quilted. It sometimes grows to be as\\nlarge as a man s two fists, and is of a dark-brown\\ncolor. The pulp is of a reddish-yellow color, about\\nthe consistence of custard, and exceedingly sweet\\nsome think it too sweet. It is the most difficult of\\nall these fruits to transport and refrigeration is\\npsrhaps the only way in which they can ever be\\ngot to the markets of the outside world.\\nThe custojrd-ajpple the Anona reticulata is\\nnot to be confounded with the A. glabra^ or the\\nwild ;po7id-apple of South Florida. The former is a\\nfine fruit, while the latter is utterly worthless. The\\ntrue custard- apple is larger than an apple, or nearly\\nas large as an orange. In India it is prized very\\nhighly and cultivated with care and for experiment\\ncare should be taken to get the true fruit.\\nYet other Fruits. Besides the above-mentioned,\\nthere are a good many others that are on trial in\\nFlorida, many of them with reasonable chances of\\nsuccess. Of these, some have a much larger area\\nthan this State some are too tropical to stand its\\nclimate; and some are of questionable utility.\\nThe date-jpahn is a stately tree, handsome. Ori-\\nental, and reaches, under the most favorable circum-", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0174.jp2"}, "175": {"fulltext": "PROLTJGTIONS.\\n105\\nstances, about eighty feet. It is equal in landscape\\neffects to the cocoaniit. It is the Phoenix dacty-\\nThe Date-Palm.\\nlifera of the botanists, and bears fruit in about\\neight years. The matured tree is said to yield\\nfrom three hundred to five hundred pounds of fruit", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0175.jp2"}, "176": {"fulltext": "166 THE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\na year. There are date-palms in the monastic gar-\\nden of Bordigliera, Italy, said to be over a thousand\\nyears old. Yon Mtiller states that trees from one\\nhundred to two hundred years old continue to pro-\\nduce their annual crops of fruit. The Reasoner\\nBrothers write that this common date-palm has pro-\\nduced fruit on Cumberland Island, Georgia, and in\\nSt. Augustine for many years, and is well adapted\\nto the soil of Florida. It ordinarily reaches the age\\nof ten to twenty years before producing fruit, but\\nrare instances are know^n of trees producing fruit at\\nthree to four years. Some trees on Lake Worth, in\\nDade County, bore fruit at seven years. The mar-\\nket value of the date in Florida is yet to be deter-\\nmined. The family of pahns is a numerous one.\\nThe tamarind is from both India and Africa,\\nand is raised easily from seed. The Reasoner Broth-\\ners consider it more hardy than the guava and in\\nKey West it is a common street tree. It has foliage\\nlike the acacia, the fruit being a legume or pod in-\\nclosing a pleasant acid pulp and the seeds. The\\npulp is excellent for preserves, cooling drinks, and\\nmedicine, being rich in formic and butyric acid, and\\nis pleasant to eat as fruit. The tree sometimes at-\\ntains the height of eighty feet and one tree over a\\nfoot in diameter near Manatee, in Manatee County", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0176.jp2"}, "177": {"fulltext": "PRODUCTIONS. 167\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094about 27\u00c2\u00b0 30 Gnlf side\u00e2\u0080\u0094 was killed by the\\nfreeze of 1886.\\nThe fomegrmiate the Punica granatum doubt-\\nless is about the size of a peach-tree. The fruit of\\nthe sweet variety is pleasant to eat, while the sour is\\nmore commonly used in making cooling acid drinks.\\nThe newly imported variety known as the Spanish\\nEuby is said to be the finest of all the Punicas.\\nOne writer says, Of all the fruits we have ever\\ntasted in our temperate climate, the Spanish Ruby\\npomegranate and the Adriatic fig are the two finest.\\nThis is a good grower and bountiful bearer; and\\nthe fruit ships well, ripening in December. It will\\ndoubtless do well all over Florida.\\nThe Spanish lime is not of the citrus family at\\nall, but is the Melicocca hijuga and the Spaniards\\ncall it momonGillo. The tree grows to the height\\nof about tliirty feet in the West Indies, and would\\ndo well, no doubt, in Subtropical Florida, but not\\nnorth of that region. The fruit is like a plum, yelr\\nlow, with pleasant pulp and central seed and the\\nseed is edible, somewhat like a chestnut. The tree\\nis hard to make live, and at first grows very\\nslowly.\\nThe loquat the Eriobotrya japonica, said by\\nsome to be the same as the Mesjoihcs japonica", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0177.jp2"}, "178": {"fulltext": "168 THE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\ngrows to be about fifteen feet higli. It will grow\\nin ail parts of Florida, tliongli in some places it\\ndoes but moderately well as a fruit-bearer. It grows\\nreadily from tlie seed. The fruit is in clusters, and\\nis about the size of a plum, w^ith a thick skin of a\\ndull reddish color. The leaf is tough, lanceolate,\\nhaving a bright-green top and a brownish velvety\\nunder side. It is sometimes called the Ja pan med-\\nlar.\\nThe Japan pershmnon^ or date-plum, is the\\nBiospyros Icahi, and is grown in all parts of\\nFlorida. The tree bears fruit frequently at one\\nyear of age. The fruit is about two inches in di-\\nameter, and has the general appearance of a smooth\\ntomato, being of a bright-red color, delicious taste,\\nand ripens in the autumn. The stone in the center\\nis somewhat like an almond. The tree is best prop-\\nagated by budding or grafting. The tree has been\\nsuccessfully growm now so many years that its stand\\nis well assured.\\nThe alcee is a native of Africa. Botanists know\\nit as the Blighia sapida. In Africa and India it\\nseems to be a large tree, but in Florida rarely gets\\nabove ten feet in height. One writer describes the\\nfruit as of the size and form of a small lemon, some-\\nwhat ribbed, and, when ripe, of a beautiful ver-", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0178.jp2"}, "179": {"fulltext": "PRODUCTIOXS. 1G9\\nmilion color. In the West Indies, where it grows\\nwell, it ranks with the nectarine in quality of fruit.\\nIn Jamaica it is used as a vegetable, and cooked by\\nparboiHng and frying and, thus prepared, is popu-\\nlarly known as vegetable marrow.\\nBread-fruit is a blundering name applied by the\\nignorant to perhaps half a dozen different and dis-\\ntinct fruits. Professor Whitner thinks the Arto-\\ncarj)us incisus of the Pacific islands entitled to the\\nname. Kingsley describes the tree in these words\\nThat awkward-boughed tree, with huge green\\nfruit and deeply cut leaves, oue foot or more across,\\nis a bread-fruit tree. The fruit is oval, sometimes\\neight inches in diameter. There are no seeds, and\\nthe farinaceous pulp may be eaten fresh, when it\\nresembles bread made with eggs. When fully\\nripe it becomes sweet and resembles clammy cake.\\nAn Englishman writing from India says that sliced\\nand fried it seemed to him hardly distinguishable\\nfrom excellent batter-pudding. Hartwig informs\\nhis readers that there are whole islands in Polynesia\\nthat de23end for food upon this bountiful bearer of\\nfruit-vegetables for several months in the year. In\\nHonduras the leaves are said to be by actual meas-\\nurement two feet wide by three in length. In\\nFlorida this wonderful tree, with its more wonder-", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0179.jp2"}, "180": {"fulltext": "170 THE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\nfill frait, has not jet been grown with full success\\nbut nursery-men are ofiering it for sale, and experi-\\nments now in progress will assuredly settle the ques-\\ntion within the next few years. It is, however,\\nuseless to spend time with experimenting above the\\nsouthern subtropics.\\nCacao was so highly esteemed by Linngeus that\\nhe gave it the striking name of Theobroma food\\nfor a god. The Mexicans call it chocolate whence\\nthe English word chocolate. It is found in most\\ntropical countries and Professor Whitner holds that\\nit is highly probable that it will succeed in the sub-\\ntropics of Florida. The American Cyclopsedia\\ndescribes the cacao as an evergreen, producing fruit\\nand flowers throughout the year. If unchecked it\\nattains a height of about thirty feet, and resembles\\nin size and shajDC a black-heart cherry-tree. The\\nleaves are smooth and oblong, terminating in a sharp\\npoint. The fruit resembles a short, thick cucumber,\\nAve or six inches long, and three and a half inches\\nin diameter. It contains from twenty to forty\\nbeans. These are arranged in a pulp of a pinkish-\\nwhite color, in five rows. Their size is about that\\nof a sweet almond, but thicker. In Central America\\nthe fruit is much larger, being from seven to nine\\ninches in length and three to four inches in diame-", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0180.jp2"}, "181": {"fulltext": "PRODUCTIONS. 171\\nter, and contains from forty to fifty seeds. In the\\nWest India Islands and in Demerara it is so small\\nas to contain only from six to fifteen seeds. The\\nrind of the fruit is smooth, thick, tough, and taste-\\nless. The pulp which incloses the bean is a sweet,\\nsKghtly acid substance, something like that of the\\nwater-melon, and is used for food. The fruit ma-\\ntures in June and December. The beans when\\nseparated from the pulp and dried in the sun\\nare ready for market. The shell is of a dark-\\nbrown color, and furnishes the cocoa-shells of com-\\nmerce. The seeds yield by expression an oil that\\nis very nutritious, and acts as an anodyne. All\\nthe cacao-land in Florida lies, doubtless, in Mon-\\nroe County.\\nThe durian is a native of the Malay peninsula,\\nand in its habitat grows to be eighty feet high and\\nit is very doubtful if it can be successfully grown\\nanywhere in Florida, although some have faith in\\nthe experiments now making with it. The fruit is\\noval in shape, and ten inches in its longest diameter.\\nIt has a thick rind, covered with strong and hard\\nprickles. It is divided into five cells, each contain-\\ning from one to four seeds, as large as a pigeon s\\n^gg and surrounding these is the edible pulp,\\nwhich is delicious, and of a cream-color\u00c2\u00bb A full-", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0181.jp2"}, "182": {"fulltext": "172 THE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\nbearing tree will produce two hundred durians a\\nyear. It is propagated from seed.\\nThe jack-fruity or yachfruit^ known to botanists\\nas the Artocarpus integrifoliits, is from India and\\nits success even in extreme South Florida is by no\\nmeans yet assured. Firminger, speaking of this fruit,\\ncalls it one of the largest in existence, and an ill-\\nshapen, somewhat oval-formed, unattractive-looking\\nfruit. The interior is of a soft, fibrous consistency,\\nwith the edible portions scattered here and there.\\nBy those who can manage to eat it, it is considered\\nmost delicious, possessing the rich, spicy scent and\\nflavor of the melon, but to such a powerful degree\\nas to be quite unbearable to those unaccustomed, to\\nit. The situation of the fruit is said to vary with\\nthe age of the tree, being first borne on the\\nbranches, then on the trunk, and in old trees on\\nthe roots. Those borne on the roots, which discover\\nthemselves by the cracking of the earth above them,\\nare held in highest estimation.\\nThe liuronda^ w^hich is the Carissa carandas,\\nis somewhat like the damson-plum. The tree is\\nsmall, and the fruit contains a number of small\\nseeds. The fruit in India, the habitat of the tree,\\nmatures in August and September. It has not been\\ntried in Florida, and some hope for its success there.", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0182.jp2"}, "183": {"fulltext": "PRODUCTIONS. 173\\nThe lichee NejpTieliitm lichi is an East India\\ntree, and fruit-growers in South Subtropical Florida\\nmean to give it a trial there. The fruit is of the\\nsize of a large plum, and grows on a shrub. It is a\\nspring frait, ripening in May. One admiring writer\\nsays of the pulp of the lichee that it is as delicious,\\nperhaps, as that of any fruit in existence, and re-\\nsembles the white of a plover s Qg^^ containing a\\nstone in the center. The tree is propagated from\\nthe seed.\\nThe jpapaw, botanically called Carica 2)ct2Mya,\\ngrows well generally throughout Subtropical Flor-\\nida, but does not rank as a first-class fruit. The\\nwild variety, indigenous in the State, is not to be\\nconfounded with the finer variety grown for its\\nfruit. The stalk it is not a tree attains the height\\nof twenty -five feet at its best and in the extreme\\nsouth, but it often bears good fruit when less than\\nten feet high. It has no branches, but a crown of\\nleaves, among which the papaws grow. The fruit is\\na good deal like a musk-melon, with a diameter of\\nfrom three to six inches, ribbed on the outside, of a\\ndull orange color, having a rind thick and fleshy,\\nwith a mass of black seeds inside. It is eaten raw,\\nand tastes remotely like a musk-melon. The stalk,\\nProfessor Whitner states, abounds with a milky,", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0183.jp2"}, "184": {"fulltext": "1Y4 THE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\nbitter juice, which contains j^Jrm, a principle which,\\nwith this sole known exception, belongs to the animal\\nkingdom. A few drops of this jnice mixed with\\nwater will in a few minutes, it is said, render tough\\nmeat very tender. The same effect is produced bj\\nwrapping the meat up in a leaf and keeping it so\\novernight.\\nThe nutmeg has not been fully tried in Florida,\\nbut many believe that it will do well there. It is\\nthe Myristlca fragrans and the tree grows to\\nthe height of twenty or thirty feet, and looks\\nsomething like a pear-tree. The leaves are five\\nor six inches long and pointed, in color of a\\ndeep, dark green. The fruit is described as pear-\\nshaped, about the size of a peach, consisting of a\\nfleshy pericarp, which, on ripening breaks open into\\ntwo nearly equal valves, exposing the seed and its\\nappendages. This exterior part of the fruit is\\nabout an inch thick, yellowish brown, with an as-\\ntringent juice. In collecting the crop this is thrown\\naway. The tree bears in eight years from the\\nseed, reaches its full bearing in fifteen years, and\\nwill continue bearing about eighty. The average\\nyield of a tree is five pounds of nutmegs and one\\npound and a half of mace the substance envelop-\\ning the seed.", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0184.jp2"}, "185": {"fulltext": "PRODUCTION S. 175\\nCoffee the Coffea Arahica is recommended by\\nProfessor Wliitner for trial in Southern Florida. It\\nwas planted several years ago on the Manatee Kiver\\nby Mrs. Atzeroth, and on Lake Worth by Mr. Spen-\\ncer. The former shrubs were killed to the ground,\\nby the freeze of 1886, but have sprouted up again.\\nThe latter were not hurt by the same freeze. Both\\nplantings have yielded fruit or berries but they\\nhave not taken coffee from the list of not-demon-\\nstrated productive crops for Florida. It is propa-\\ngated from the seed. The fruit when ripe is red\\nand resembles a cherry, and the flesh surrounding\\nthe two seeds is sweetish and rather palatable.\\nTea has been grown in J^Torth Florida for a\\ngood many years. It will grow in several of the\\nSouthern States.\\nThere remain to be mentioned yet others\\nThe olive, which is on trial and is expected to\\nsucceed.\\nThe fig, which grows and fruits in great lux-\\nuriance in all parts of the State, but notably in the\\nnorthern tier of counties.\\nThe peach, which does well in Northern Flor-\\nida, especially the Peen-To and Honey, which will\\nprobably do well all over the State 2,000 crates\\nshipped from Waldo this year.", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0185.jp2"}, "186": {"fulltext": "176 THE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\nThe quince, some varieties of which, especially\\nthe Chinese and the orange, do well.\\nThe ajpple, a few varieties of which have proved\\nmeasurably successful in ]N orthern Florida and,\\nThe jujiibe the Zizyjphus jiijuba a whole-\\nsome fruit from India, which ought to be tried\\nmore thoroughly than has yet been done.\\nIn addition to all these there are the nuts, many\\nof which have a degree of commercial importance.\\nAmong these are the pecan, the almond, and the\\npistachio-nut.\\nThe pecan has been grown successfully now\\nS3veral years in l^orthern Florida, and is on trial\\nin both the other sections and in a few years\\ndoubtless it will appear that it will thrive in all\\nparts of the State. It is the Carya olivcBformis,\\nthe best and most prolific variety of which, for\\nFlorida cultivation, seems to be the large Texas;\\nbut the paper-sliell meets the wishes of many.\\nThe tree is a large, handsome one, and wants a rich,\\nw^ell-drained soil.\\nThe almond\u00e2\u0080\u0094 gwQn by the Reasoner Brothers\\nas the Terminalia catappa is common in Key\\nWest and on some of the other keys adjacent. A\\nfew good specimens have been grown as far north\\nas Manatee and Lake Worth, and they promise well.", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0186.jp2"}, "187": {"fulltext": "PRODUCTIONS. 177\\nThe pistachio-nut is the Pistachia t era, which\\ngrows in England in sheltered places and in favor-\\nable portions of France which ought to do well in\\nthe Southern States generally and especially in\\nJ^orthern Florida. The tree is twenty to thirty feet\\nhigh when well grown, the fruit being a stone-fruit\\nor drupe about the size of an olive. The seed or\\nnut is about an inch long, of a greenish color when\\nfresh.\\nThe strawberry may not be more prolific and\\nfine in Florida than in some other States, but the\\nfact that it matures there earlier than anywhere\\nfarther north makes it an important article among\\nthe fruit productions of that State. The most profit-\\nable results can be got by strawberry-culture in the\\nsubtropics, for the reason that the berries can be\\nripened there before those from higher latitudes\\ncan reach the markets. The subtropical fruit can\\nbe put into the E ew York market fully a month\\nearlier than can that from the northern parts of the\\nState but, at the same time, fewer varieties will\\nthrive in the extreme south. Subsoil irrigation is\\ndestined to work important changes in this crop.\\nAt Daytona, in Yolusia County, on the Atlantic\\ncoast latitude 29\u00c2\u00b0 10^ this irrigation has been\\ntried with phenomenal success and the indications\\n12", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0187.jp2"}, "188": {"fulltext": "178 THE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\nare tliat in this way all tlie drawbacks in the south\\ncan be overcome, and the berries grown and ma-\\ntured at the will of the grower ^in December as\\nwell as in February. With present appliances,\\nstrawberries can be gathered in January, anywhere\\nin the subtropics, and a fortnight to a month later\\nin the higher regions. Subsoil irrigation can m.ake\\nboth appreciably earlier, maturing the very earliest\\nfor market in December if desired. All kinds of\\nthe berry, it seems, do well in the northern tier of\\ncounties. For the extreme south horticulturists\\nrecommend the JSTunan or CharleFton Seedling, and\\nperhaps the Bidwell, as least likely to bnrn. On\\nthe St. John s Kisser a common return is about\\n2,000 quarts to the acre, while in Clay and Gads-\\nden yields of from 6,000 to 8,000 quarts to the acre\\nhave been reported. Strawberries have frequently\\nsold for $2.50 a quart in l^ew York in winter, and\\nin early spring for $1 a quart. From Mandarin\\non the St. John s last year there were shipped North\\n50,000 quarts, and these sold at from $2 to 20\\ncents a quart, the net average of the whole being\\n25 cents a quart.\\nTobacco. This crop has for many years in\\nfact, ever since its beginning in 1829 claimed a\\nfair measure of public attention; but in the last", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0188.jp2"}, "189": {"fulltext": "PRODUCTIONS. 179\\nfew years a great deal has been done in this di-\\nrection. In 1850 the tobacco crop was 998,614\\npounds, the greater part of which was grown in\\nGadsden County. The crop increased gradually\\nuntil the war, and then fell off rapidly, and re-\\nmained very small until the incubus of reconstruc-\\ntion was lifted from the State in 1876, since which\\ntime a quickening of this industry with most oth-\\ners has set in. The Florida Tobacco Plant pre-\\ndicts that the present year s planting will be 4,000\\nacres, and that the crop will he probably between\\n1,000,000 and 1,500,000 pounds of the hnest tobac-\\nco this mostly in Gadsden, Columbia, Leon, and\\nSuwannee Counties, Gadsden still ahead of all oth-\\ners. A prominent business man now engaged in\\ntobacco culture predicts that there will be in a few\\nyears 100,000 acres planted.\\nA company has been formed recently the Flor-\\nida Tobacco Producing and Trading Company\\nand its agents have bought lands in Gadsden Coun-\\nty. They planted last spring a thousand acres, put-\\nting out about six million tobacco-plants. Some of\\nthe varieties planted yield 600 pounds of fine to-\\nbacco to the acre, and others will yield from 1,000\\nto 1,500 pounds.\\nAnother enterprise is starting in Columbia", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0189.jp2"}, "190": {"fulltext": "180 THE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\nCounty. A Mr. F. A. Gonzalez has been three or\\nfour years engaged in growing fine tobaccos there,\\nand decides that Florida is better than Cuba for the\\nbusiness. The experts with their families are ex-\\npected soon to occupy the place. Beyond doubt\\nthere are fortunes in this business, especially thus\\nconducted by experts in all its branches. These\\nmen have all the advantages of generations of\\nskilled business men men equal to those cultivat-\\ning the famous Yuelto Aba jo district in Cuba, who\\nbid fair to transfer the fame of that favored region\\nto E orthern Florida. Cuba has proved herself, as a\\ntobacco-producing land, equal to Sumatra and now\\nFlorida bids fair to snatch the crown from both.\\nMr. Gonzalez has been offered sixty cents a pound\\nfor the tobacco just grown, but declines to sell, and\\nproposes to manufacture it.\\nThe soils in Florida especially suited to tobacco\\nare comparatively limited in area, however and\\nthis fact must be kept in mind.\\nThe phenomenally large yield of fine tobacco in\\nFlorida is the best assurance that that is a vitally im-\\nportant field for revenue. The average yield is over\\n500 pounds to the acre, and 1,500 pounds to the\\nacre is counted as possible. More than this figure\\nhas been grown in Florida. Now, when 600 pounds", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0190.jp2"}, "191": {"fulltext": "PRODUCTIONS. 181\\nof tobacco, worth from forty to sixty cents a pound,\\ncan 1)6 grown as an average crop, surely a grand\\nfuture is before the tobacco-culturist.\\nThe manufacture of tobacco in Florida is an in-\\ndustry well established and developing w^ith re-\\nmarkable speed. The climate is exceptionally well\\nadapted to cigar-itiaking. There are now between\\n200 and 300 cigar-factories in Florida, nearly all\\nusing Cuban leaf but when Florida can grow the\\nleaf as well as manufacture it, the profits will be\\nvastly increased. The number of cigars now manu-\\nfactured in the State is just 87,20-1,335.\\nEecent experiments in Dade and Lee Counties\\nprove beyond question that the extreme south is\\nvery well adapted to this industry. One writer\\nclaims that in these counties 1,200 pounds to the\\nacre can be produced.\\nIt is obvious, accordingly, that the above facts\\nand considerations show that both Northern Florida\\nand the extreme south are well, and equally w^ell,\\nsuited to the growing of first-quality tobacco prove\\nbeyond all reasonable doubt that the whole State is\\nadmirably adapted to the cultivation of the weed.\\nThere are claimed to be nearly 200 factories in\\nKey West, employing 3,000 operatives, and doing a\\nbusiness of $5,000,000 a year. Some experts are", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0191.jp2"}, "192": {"fulltext": "182 THE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\nsaid to make $200 a month. The amount disbursed\\nby the factories alone is given as $2,5005000 a year.\\nCotton. Among the productions of the State,\\ncotton ranks second, kimber being first in value.\\nThe cotton is both long-staple or sea-island, and\\nshort-sfaple or upland. The former is by far the\\nmore important.\\nOf this long-staple, the Florida crop of 1887 was\\n30,991 bags, while that of Georgia was 6,411, and\\nthat of South Carolina was 7,735 an aggregate\\nAmerican crop of 45,137 bags. These are the esti-\\nmates of Alexander Co., and show that Florida\\nproduces more than two thirds of the American\\ncrop. The bag weighs about 350 pounds. Texas\\nat one time tried the crop, but gave it up, leaving\\nnow but tlie three States named producing this cot-\\nton. The main markets for the long-staple are Sa-\\nvannah and Cliarleston. At the close of the war\\nGreat Britain manufactured practically all the crop\\nbut to-day the American mills spin nearly a half of\\nit; that is, 20,515 bags against 25,216. Florida\\ncould easily double its present crop if the means\\nand resources were properly directed. A large\\nmanufactory established at home and such a one\\nis under consideration by practical busmess men\\nwould speedily develop this maximum capacity, and", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0192.jp2"}, "193": {"fulltext": "PRODUCTION S. 183\\nat the same time enhance the prices of the ma-\\nterial.\\nThe short-staple or upland cotton of Florida\\namomits to about 30,000 bales of 500 poimds. This\\nwill be the rival of tobacco, as the region growing\\nthe latter is the same as that of the former, to a\\ngreat extent at least the ]N orth Florida country.\\nOne advantage that Florida has over the other\\nshort-staple producers is that of having earlier sea-\\nsons, and consequently earlier crops, which come\\ninto market while prices are better. Another ad-\\nvantage is the superior quality of the more southern\\nfiber.\\nThe aggregate value of the cotton crop has been\\nestimated at nearly $4,000,000.\\nSilk. In the list of the textile fabrics of Florida\\nsilk follows cotton, not so much for what has been\\nactually accGmplished as for the well-assured future\\nthat seems before it. As in the case of grapes for\\nwine, the experiment in silk has been carefully,\\nintelligently, and successfully made by a competent\\nexpert from abroad. Mr. C. G. Contini, an. Italian\\nsilk-grower of ability and experience from Lom-\\nbardy, known to silk-business men as the best center\\nfor silk in the world, came four years ago with his\\nown variety of worm-eggs, settled in Florida, and", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0193.jp2"}, "194": {"fulltext": "184 THE FLO BID A OF TO-DAY.\\nhas grown silk of the first quality and in such quan-\\ntity as to indicate quite clearly that Florida is one\\nof the best places in the world for silk-culture this\\non account of both soil and climate. He finds\\nalready in Florida, and easily propagated to any de-\\nsired extent, the best mulberries for this purpose\\nthe white mulberry or Morus alba, and the Morus\\nmulticaidis, which has a history in America. Mr.\\nContini holds that the alba is far better than the\\nothers, especially for the southern counties, because\\nthe summer leaves are tenderer. These trees are\\nthe ones used in Lombardy. They should be\\nplanted not closer than two hundred to the acre.\\nOther mulberries are used to feed silk-worms, such\\nas the Russian with small leaves, the Morus jajpon-\\nica, and the black or wild mulberry but the silk\\nyielded is stringy and colorless. In Ohio osage-\\norange leaves, and even white salad and lettuce, are\\nsometimes fed to hungry worms but the cocoons\\nthus fed are of no value.\\nThe climate of Florida is equal to that of Italy,\\nand better than that of France, in being more equa-\\nble and temperate the south of the State being\\nbetter than the north of it for the same reasons.\\nThe number of crops a year increases with the\\nbetter climate. Perhaps two crops a year north of", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0194.jp2"}, "195": {"fulltext": "PRODUCTION S. 185\\nSanford and three south of that line may be grown\\nbut experiment has not gone far enough to establish\\nany very definite rule upon that point.\\nIt takes intelligent and persevering efforts to\\ncommand success in this as in all other undertakings\\nbut with these Mr. Contini holds that sericulture\\nmay be made the most profitable industry in the\\nState better than orange-growing, in yielding more\\nprofit with less watching, risk, and expense the year\\nronnd. It takes two to four years to get well\\nstarted, however. Feebler hands can do most of\\nthe work, too and a man with a growing family\\ncan make from $1,000 to $1,300 a crop, six weeks\\nto a crop, and make two or three crops a year,\\naccording to locality and latitude, and the current\\nexpense need not be above a third of that income.\\nA company has been organized in Jacksonville\\nto push forward this attractive industry. They pro-\\npose to grow silk, and to buy in all that produced\\nthroughout the State and, as soon as the industry\\nis on its legs, establishments for the manufacture\\nreeling, spinning, and weaving of silk fabrics will\\nbe started. They are planting out some 300 acres\\nin Morus multiGaulis, that being accepted as the\\nbest the most largely silk-producing for that\\nlatitude and climate. In the manufacturing depart-", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0195.jp2"}, "196": {"fulltext": "186 TEE FLORIDA OF TO-BAY.\\nments there will be improved macliinery, beginning\\nwith the reeling and ending with the completed\\nfabric.\\nThe single thread of an ordinarily good cocoon is\\nabout a mile in length. It takes about five pounds\\nof cocoons to produce one pound of reeled raw silk.\\nThe thread of good silk is very strong, and the\\ncolor a deep straw shade.\\nFollowing silk, with a long interval, however,\\nare\\nRamie which as raw fiber is worth in Florida\\n$80 a ton.\\nSisal heinj)^ one of the agaves, toward the culti-\\nvation of which only spasmodic efforts have been\\nmade, and next to nothing has resulted.\\nJiite^ merely among the possibilities of the\\nfuture and\\nYucca, a native ornamental feature which may\\nhave an economic use when scores of other veins\\nhave been exhausted.\\nLumber.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 By all odds the most important pro-\\nduction of- Florida industries, reckoned in dollars\\nand cents, is lumber. It has been reckoned at five\\ntimes the value of the cotton-crop, or nearly\\ntwenty million dollars, but that is manifestly ex-\\ncessive.", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0196.jp2"}, "197": {"fulltext": "PRODUCTIONS. 187\\nThe cb-ief item is the yellow pine, next cjprecs,\\nand then cedar, oak, walnut, cherry, jnniper, mag-\\nnulia, hickory, beech, willow, bay, and so on to the\\nend of the chapter. Of yellow pine there is an\\narea of some 20,000 square miles. The superiority\\nof this over all other pines as lumber is well known\\nto builders and houses covered with winter-cut\\nshingles of cypress will last forty years, and for\\nmany other building purposes this wood has won-\\nderfully staying properties. The cedar-factories at\\nCedar Keys yield immense supplies in the way of\\npencil-wood.\\nProfessor A. H. Curtiss, as botanist under the\\nGeneral Government, explored the State and made\\nsome very valuable and interesting reports embody-\\ning bis best results. He classes as trees all plants\\nhaving solid, woody stems as much as four inches in\\ndiameter, growing erect or nearly so, and without\\nsupport. The number stated he finds to be forty-\\nseven per cent of all the trees of the United States,\\nand a half more than found in any other State. He\\ngives a list of uses, with the trees adapted to each\\nrespectively. This list embraces about one half of\\nthe Florida trees given in his general catalogue.\\nProfessor Curtiss s list here follows, consisting of\\nthirty-five uses and about one hundred trees", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0197.jp2"}, "198": {"fulltext": "188\\nTHE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0198.jp2"}, "199": {"fulltext": "PRODUCTIONS. 1S9\\nAgriGultiiral Imjylements. Ked and pig-nut\\nhickory, wliite and green ash, white, overcup, and\\nchestnut oak.\\nBaskets. Eed hickory, pig-nut hickory, tough\\nwhite oak, swamp chestnut-oak.\\nBroom-Handles. White bay, tupelo.\\nBuilding.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 For general construction a large\\nvariety of woods may be used, but pine is found\\nmost convenient, economical, and generally satisfac-\\ntory. For all work that is exposed to the weather,\\neither long-leaved yellow or pitch pine should be\\nused. The latter serves almost as well for framing\\ntimbers, but for sills is not so durable. For sheath-\\ning and inside work generally short-leaved yellow\\nand loblolly pine may be used.\\nCabinet-work and Furniture. Poplar, mag\\nnolia, white cypress, curly pine, birch, beech, chest-\\nnut, white oak, black walnut, red bay, white and\\ngreen ash, sweet-gum, cherry, red and sugar maple,\\nholly, loblolly bay, china-berry, and many of the\\nsubtropical woods. For cheap furniture, silver ma-\\nple, hackberry, sycamore, linn, and pine are used.\\nCanes. Orange, crabwood, princewood, torch-\\nwood, palmetto, royal palm.\\nCooj^erage. Bitter-nut hickory, white elm, mul-\\nberry, dogwood, sassafras, box- elder, cypress, juni-", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0199.jp2"}, "200": {"fulltext": "190 THE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\nper, and various oaks, namely, the white, post,\\nchestnut, scarlet, black, and red.\\nEngravers^ Blocks. Dogwood.\\nFencing. For posts or rails the following trees\\nare preferred Black cypress, red cedar, juniper,\\nyellow pine, post-oak, chestnut- oak, white oak,\\novercup oak, willow, hornbeam, cbestnut, catalpa,\\nmulberry, honey-locust, sassafras, slippery elm,\\nhackberry.\\nFloats. Tupelo.\\nFlooring. Probably no wood is equal for this\\npurpose to the long-leaved yellow pine. Where\\nthis is not obtainable, white elm, sugar-maple, etc.,\\nmay be used.\\nFuel. Most of the pines, oaks, and hickories\\nafford excellent fuel also beech, sugar- maple, mag-\\nnolia, black titi, etc. In Southern Florida the\\nwoods most used for fuel are the butt on- wood,\\nJamaica dogwood, crab wood, and torch wood.\\nGun-Stocks. Red maple, black walnut.\\nInterior Finish. The kinds of wood best\\nadapted to inside ornamentation are curly pine, red\\nbay, white and green ash, sugar-maple, cherry, box-\\nelder, black walnut, white oak, juniper, magnolia,\\nand poplar.\\nLevers. Hornbeam, iron wood.", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0200.jp2"}, "201": {"fulltext": "PRODUCTIONS. 191\\nMedicinal Barhs. These are afforded by the\\ncherry, dogwood, white bay, willow, sassafras, Geor-\\ngia bark, prickly ash, poplar, slippery elm, white\\noak, and by a number of the subtropical trees.\\nOars. White and green ash.\\nOx-Yokes. ^^Black-gum, sassafras, black birch,\\nsycamore, bitter-nut hickory.\\nPaijer-Fulp. Cotton^vood, linn, box-elder.\\nPencils. Red cedar.\\nPiles. Palmetto, yellow and pitch pine, black-\\ngnm, mangrove.\\nRailvKtij Ties. Black cypress, juniper, yellow\\npine, chestnut, post-oak, white oak, slippery elm,\\nmulberry, catalpa.\\nBoilers and Bearings of Machinery. Black-\\ngum, dogwood, sourwood.\\nSaddle-Trees White elm, sugar-maple.\\nShingles. Cypress ranks the best, jumper sec-\\nond, and yellow pine is largely used.\\nShip and Boat Building. White, overcup, and\\nlive oak, yellow pine, cypress, juniper, poplar, mul-\\nberry, white elm, sugar-maple. Of South Florida\\nwoods: Jamaica dogwood, mahogany, mastic, wild\\ntamarind, and inkwood, are favorite kinds.\\nShoe-Lasts. Sugar-maple, persimmon, beech.\\nShuttles. Persimmon.", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0201.jp2"}, "202": {"fulltext": "192 TEE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY,\\nTanning Barh. The mangrove affords most\\ntamiin, but the kinds most used are the black and\\nred oaks, and the tan or loblolly bay.\\nTobacco-Boxes. Sycamore.\\nTool-Handles and Plane-Stocks. Hornbeam\\nand ironwood, red and pig-nut hickory, beech, per-\\nsimmon, sour wood, sloe, sparkleberry.\\nWagons and Carriages. White and green ash,\\nred and pig-nut hickory, poplar, and linn white,\\npost, and overcup oak.\\nWheel-Stock. White elm, slippery elm, and\\noaks of various kinds hubs being made of red elm,\\nblack-gum, dogwood, and honey-locust.\\nWooden Shoes. Tupelo, black birch.\\nWoodenware. Linn, poplar, white bay, juniper,\\nblack birch, tupelo, tupelo-gum, box-elder, red\\nmaple.\\nRice. Both varieties ^lowland and upland are\\ngrown in various parts of the State, but mainly for\\nhome use. Seventy bushels to the acre is a good\\ncrop, but a hundred bushels has been reported\\nwhile twenty-five content some of the thinner-soil\\ncultivators. The Okeechobee country yields very\\nfine crops when conditions are favorable. Some\\naccount of the crops in the newly drained region\\nwill be found in the pages on Drainage. The", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0202.jp2"}, "203": {"fulltext": "PRODUCTIONS. 193\\nU. S. Census of 1880 gives Florida credit for rais-\\ning 1,291,677 pounds of rice. Professor Curtiss,\\none of the best informed men in the State, writes\\nWe take it that rice production in Florida may be\\nregarded as a promising but undeveloped industry,\\nand therefore a latent source of wealth. So far as\\nwe know, there is nothing needful to bring it into\\nfavor and render it a staple crop in every county,\\nexcept facilities for ^milling it, so that it may,\\nwithout too much expense, be placed on the market\\nin prime condition. To this he adds The fact\\nthat Florida has no rank in the market as a rice-pro-\\nducing State signifies nothing. Seven years ago\\nLouisiana did not produce for export a bushel of\\nrice. Seven years ago the first rice-mill was built\\nin that State. Yet the statistics show that Louisi-\\nana s rice-crop for the season of 1886- 87 was one\\nhalf greater than the combined rice crop of South\\nCarolina, North Carolina, and Georgia. May it not\\nbe said of Florida seven years hence that her rice-\\ncrop exceeds that of all the other States That un-\\ndoubtedly is among the possibilities.\\nSugar. Sugar-cane grows well in all parts of the\\nState, especially in the south the farther south the\\nbetter. Sixty tons of it has been grown to the\\nacre. On the Caloosahatchee River a farm of fifty\\n13", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0203.jp2"}, "204": {"fulltext": "194 THE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\nacres has grown cane eight years, the cane rattoon-\\ning every year, and has netted $300 an acre for sev-\\neral years. Fan* lands will produce from 1,500 to\\n2,000 pounds of sugar a year and rich lands, thor-\\noughly fertilized, will yield from 2,000 to 4,000\\npounds. The draining of the Okeechobee region\\npromises to furnish a large addition to the sugar-\\nlands of the State.\\nUpon the matter of rattooning, Mr. Barbour, in\\nhis Florida for Tourists, Invalids, and Settlers,\\nsays, I am informed that on the lands of Indian\\nRiver has been raised the nineteenth crop of cane\\nfrom the same planting, and on the shore of Lake\\nWorth cane is now growing which has not been\\nreplanted since the early Indian wars. This readi-\\nness to rattoon makes the crop far less expensive, so\\nlong as good returns continue.\\nGrains. Florida can hardly be considered a\\ngrain country, although some of the grains do\\nvery well there but, generally, in such places\\nother crops do phenomenally well, so that there\\nis no special object in developing the grain in-\\ndustries.\\nGrain does better in Northern Florida than it\\ndoes in the extreme south. Corn does excellently\\nwell in the former region. The yield upon poor", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0204.jp2"}, "205": {"fulltext": "PRODUCTIONS. 195\\nland, with cracker cultivation^ is from ten bushels\\nup to twenty perhaps but intelhgent and judicious\\ncultivation can always make good yields. Governor\\nDrew is reported to have raised 130 bushels of corn\\non common pine-land in 1878.\\nWheat, oats, and rye are grown in Northern\\nFlorida very much as they are in the Southern\\nStates generally. Very little is sown. Barley is\\nseldom seen.\\nCattle. The stock business is carried on mostly\\nin the south Semi-tropical and Subtropical Flor-\\nida below 29\u00c2\u00b0 but cattle are raised and do well\\nall over the State, Brevard County taking the lead\\nboth in number and quality of stock.\\nThe aggregate number of cattle is put by Mr,\\nP. O. Knight, of Lee County, at 250,000, and the\\ntotal value at $1,250,000. Mr. J. Selwin Tait, of\\nSt. Augustine, author of The Cattle-Fields of the\\nFar West, in a paper recently published, puts the\\ncattle of Florida, exclusive of sheep, at 613,515\\nhead, and their value approximately at $6,000,000.\\nThe annual sales he reckons at 147,000 head, real-\\nizing, at $11, over $2,000,000 a year. He thinks\\nthat Florida has, in this cattle business, ready at her\\nhands, the means of quadrupling her revenue, and\\nhe points out the ways and means. The larger", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0205.jp2"}, "206": {"fulltext": "196 THE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\nherds tlie subjects of tlie cattle-kings range in\\nnumber from 10,000 to 15,000 cattle.\\nIn IN ortliern Florida finer breeds of cattle Dur-\\nham, Devon, Ayrshire, Jersey, and Alderney have\\nbeen liberally introduced, within the last ten years\\nespecially and great improvement in the quality of\\nthe cattle generally has been the gratifying result.\\nIn the lower counties, however, where the greater\\nherds are to be foiind, very httle has been done thus\\nfar to improve the breeds.\\nSheep. l^orthern Florida is the best part of the\\nState for sheep. The pasturage suits them better,\\nand the burs and spurs are not so likely to damage\\nthe fleece as in the lower and pinier regions. But\\nburs and spurs must not be neglected anywhere.\\nThe industry of sheep-raising in Florida is old but\\nnot extensive. Bermuda grass is one of the best for\\nsheep; and, when properly confined within good\\npasture-limits, they do anywhere very well but\\nthe extent of the business and the size of the flocks\\nare necessarily quite limited. A flock of 300 is\\nlarge.\\nGoats. Experiments with goats have not been\\nvery extensive, but the outlook for them seems to\\nbe quite as good as that for sheep, if not better.\\nAngoras, Cashmeres, and finer-fleeced goats gener-", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0206.jp2"}, "207": {"fulltext": "PRODUCTION S. 197\\nally might succeed better than the common; but\\nthe conditions of fine success would necessarily be\\nvery much the same as for sheep.\\nColonel Dennett, of Louisiana, says Goats\\nthrive well in the pine-lands of the South, and\\nmore attention should be paid to raising them in\\nthese States. Goats are cleaner and more healthy\\nanimals than sheep they are more sagacious, have\\nmore self-protection in them, and live and thrive on\\nbrowse all winter. Sheep have so many infirmi-\\nties, and need so much nursing and attention, and\\npeculiar kinds of ranges, and convenient watering-\\nplaces and good water, and so much care and pro-\\ntection, that few can spare the time and labor needed\\nto preserve the flock and make it prosperous. Dogs,\\nhogs, buzzards, eagles, all prey upon sheep and\\nlambs, and they are liable to nasal catarrh, scab, foot\\nand liver rot, diarrhoea, and numerous other dis-\\neases and frailties from which goats are almost en-\\ntirely free. Considering the healthfulness of goats,\\nand the loathsome diseases that prey upon sheep,\\nwe would always prefer fat kid to lamb or mutton.\\nThe Angora has been raised successfully in the\\nState of Coahuila, Mexico, which is in the same\\nlatitude as Florida, 24\u00c2\u00b0 to 30\u00c2\u00b0. Mr. W. Broderick\\nCloete, of that State, has the largest and, consid-", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0207.jp2"}, "208": {"fulltext": "198 THE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\nering its size, the finest Angora flock in JS^ortb\\nAmerica. He has just made, so the Texas Stock-\\nman states, a large shipment of mohair to Eng-\\nland. He has recently added 9,000 Angoras to his\\nflock, bj purchase from a herdman in Texas. If\\nthe Angora succeeds so well in Texas and Coahuila,\\nthere seems to be no reason to fear failure in\\nFlorida.\\nOther Stock. The native boa:, bke the native\\ncow and pony, seems to be rather run out. All\\nthese are better in JSTorthern Florida than in the\\nextreme south. With properly improved breeds,\\nhog-raising in Northern Florida may be as success-\\nful as anywhere in the United States but the gen-\\nuine native, razor-back hog of Florida, wherever\\nhe may be found, can not be fairly ranked a first-\\nrate animal as a porker. All these runts\u00e2\u0080\u0094 hogs,\\nhorses, cows seem to be the old Spanish importa-\\ntions, neglected and left to run wild for two hun-\\ndred years, and so run down. But improved kinds\\nof all these are being introduced and all will do\\nwell, especially in E^orthern Florida.\\nPoultry. All kinds of poultry do well in all\\nparts of Florida, and there is almost everywhere a\\ngood local market for both poultry and eggs. The\\nclimate is all that could be desired, and especially", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0208.jp2"}, "209": {"fulltext": "PRiWUCTIONS. 199\\nfine for the Asiatic and Italian breeds Brahmas,\\nCocMns, Leghorns but the Plymouth Eocks do\\nequally well. The natural enemies of the chicken\\nin South Florida are the wild cat, opossum, and\\nskunk; while in l^orth Florida it is the colored\\nbiped mainly, with the quadruped prowlers as in-\\ncidentals occasionally, that makes poultry raising\\nrisky.\\nGood local prices for poultry and eggs are well\\nsustained in all parts of the State. In the subtrop-\\nics, eggs sell at twenty-five cents a dozen the year\\nround. A settler on Lake Worth latitude 26\u00c2\u00b0 40\\nreports, the present season, 961 eggs from four-\\nteen hens in three months an average of twenty-\\nthree eggs a month to the hen. And many if not\\nmost parts of the State, with equal management,\\ncould probably do as well.\\nTurkeys, geese, and ducks thrive everywhere,\\nbut the abundance of wild turkeys and ducks ren-\\nders the raising of domesticated birds unnecessary.\\nThe man that can shoot a brace of ducks any hour\\nin the day need not bother with raising them, un-\\nless he prefers the domestic varieties.\\nGardening. This is fast becoming a leading in-\\ndustry in all parts of the State and, as the State is\\nsettling up and developing southward, new products", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0209.jp2"}, "210": {"fulltext": "200 TEE FLORIDA OF TO-LAY.\\nand new conditions are lending their attractions\\nc0ntimially. Gardening or truck-farming is excep-\\ntionally attractive in the subtropical counties, on\\naccount of the important fact that most vegetables\\ntomatoes, celery, cucumbers, egg-plant, potatoes,\\nand pretty much all the market spring vegetables in\\ndemand in the E orth can be matured in that cli-\\nmate from two to four weeks ahead of even the cen-\\ntral and middle parts of the State. As illustrative\\nof the wonderful scope of that subtropical region,\\nthe following hst of vegetables and fruits actually\\nripened and used on Lake Worth, in Dade County\\nlatitude 26\u00c2\u00b0 40 during the month of December,\\n1886, is given. It was prepared by a resident of\\nthe place at the time, and is as follows\\nVegetaUes. Beets, cabbages, cassava, celery,\\ncucumbers, egg-plant, lettuce, onions, parsley, pota-\\ntoes, pumpkins, radishes, snap beans, squashes, sweet\\npotatoes, tanyahs, tomatoes, turnips, and water-\\nmelons.\\nFruits. Bananas, citrons, cocoanuts, figs, gua~\\nvas, lemons, limes, oranges, papaws, plantains, pine-\\napples, sapodillas, and sugar-apples.\\nThis list does not give the scope of vegetable\\nand fruit productions, but what were actually on\\nhand during the midwinter month of the year of", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0210.jp2"}, "211": {"fulltext": "PRODUCTION S. 201\\ntlie great freeze. There is nothing invidious in\\npresenting this special list of one region, for the\\nwhole State teems with vegetables and fruits all\\nthe year round, varying with the soils, cultures, ele-\\nvations, and latitudes but everyw^here and always\\na rich and royal abundance. Its own special prod-\\nuct is shipped from every locality in the State\\nand in ten years from to-day these shipments will\\ndoubtless be in the aggregate ^yq times as great as\\nthey are now.\\nMr. W. D. Chipley, of Pensacola, in his Facts\\nabout Florida, gives the following facts in regard\\nto the yields in J^orthern Florida A man in\\nTallahassee had prepared his acre of land, and\\nplanted it in Irish potatoes in January, 1884. In\\nApril he planted corn between the rows of potatoes\\nand dug the potatoes in May, which gave the last\\ndressing to the corn. In July he planted between\\nthe corn-rows sweet potatoes, which he harvested in\\nl^ovember, and he counted up his yield as follows\\n96 barrels of Irish potatoes, worth $la barrel, $384\\n40 bushels of corn, worth, with the corn-shucks for\\nfodder, $40 and 300 bushels of sweet potatoes,\\nworth $150 a total of $574 from a single acre of\\nordinary farm-crops. Had the acre been set with\\npears, peaches, figs, olives, or Japanese persimmons,", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0211.jp2"}, "212": {"fulltext": "202 THE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\nwith less labor and less outlay for manures, lie miglit\\nhave realized even greater profits and in garden\\nproducts still more would have been realized.\\nThese facts do not need comment.\\nAn extensive truck-farmer of Florida may be\\nquoted as giving the following estimates of what as\\nan average crop can be grown on an acre\\nTomatoes, 200 bushels cucumbers, 200 bush-\\nels snap beans, 100 bushels Irish potatoes, 50 to\\nY5 bushels green peas, 75 to 100 bushels cab-\\nbages, 50 to 150 barrels; melons, 500 to 1,000;\\nstrawberries, 2,000 to 4,000 quarts.\\nA gardener s calendar of what to plant and\\nwhat to gather each month in the year would give\\na fine exhibit of Florida s horticultural resources\\nbut ^it would be too long for these pages.\\nBesides the vegetables generally produced in\\nthe Southern States, there are some whose area is\\nlimited. Among these may be mentioned the tan-\\nyah, cassava, and comptie. The tanyah is the Co-\\nlooasia esculenta, according to Professor Whitner,\\nand the Calladium esoulentum^ according to others,\\nand is much eaten in the Sandwich Islands. It is\\nremotely as to its roots like the sweet potato, with\\nmore starch and less sugar. Its large and handsome\\nleaves are familiar to most readers. It grows best", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0212.jp2"}, "213": {"fulltext": "PRODUCTIONS. 203\\nin moist rich lands almost without cultivation. Cas-\\nsava has been a good deal written about, and is far\\nbetter known. It will yield more tubers to the acre\\nthan any other of the edible-root family. One\\ngrower reports 56,000 pounds, or a thousand bush-\\nels, to the acre and others report as high as 80,000\\npounds. Analysis shows the cassava to be exceed-\\ningly rich in merchantable and nutritive elements,\\nyielding about 30 per cent of glucose or sirup, 40\\nper cent of starch, and 10 per cent of the residuum,\\ntapioca. It is very valuable as stock and poultry\\nfood, and properly prepared is an excellent article\\nfor the table. It is easily propagated, from the\\nstalk and branches cut into pieces and will grow in\\nany soil, but yields most in the best soils. Comptie\\ngrows wild in the subtropics. In Dade County the\\npeople for many years have been manufacturing\\nfrom it starch and a species of arrow-root, for the\\nKey West and local markets, and for home use.\\nOpium. The making of opium from the poppy\\nhas been tried with fair measure of success. One\\nindividual reports fifty pounds made by him at one\\ntime and at City Point on Indian River about\\nlatitude 28\u00c2\u00b0 22^ intelligent experiments have been\\nmade through several years and, under the stimu-\\nlus of a new process, put forward by Mr. W. W.", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0213.jp2"}, "214": {"fulltext": "20i THE FLORID A. OF TO-DAY.\\nWinthrop, of extracting the morpliia directly from\\nthe poppy instead of the old process of extracting\\nit from the gum-opium, it is likely that a new and\\npractical impetus will be given to poppy-growing.\\nMr. Winthrop says of his process I extract the\\nmorphia, so to speak, from the plant direct, without\\nmaking it into gum-opium first. In other words, I\\nextract the morphia from the meconate state in\\nwhich it is held. This will be an immense saving,\\nbut it will require considerable capital to build up a\\nfactory, etc., to manufacture morphia in quantities.\\nThe chemists extract the morphia from the gum,\\nand it is as morphine that most of it is used. The\\nsame writer thinks that $700 an acre is not a large\\nestimate for poppy-growing. The time to plant in\\nthat latitude is March and April. Farther south\\nthis time would be a little earlier, and farther north\\na little later.\\nHoney. The bee works in every latitude, and\\nhas ample materials everywhere. In far south cli-\\nmates the honey-bee, like the human bee, having all\\nthe year before him in which to work, works more\\nleisurely and his stores have to be plundered ju-\\ndiciously in order to encourage his perseverance in\\nstoring liberally. Little has been done at bee-rais-\\ning in Florida beyond supplying home needs of", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0214.jp2"}, "215": {"fulltext": "PRODUCTIONS. 205\\nhoney, but the indastry could be extended vastly, if\\nthere should be occasion but, where there are so\\nmany attractive and remunerative directions of\\nlabor, it is not to be expected that everything can\\nbe pushed forward at the same time.\\nOut of the Waters. The waters yield seven mer-\\nchantable products fish, oysters, turtles, sponges,\\nshells, corals, and alligator spoils.\\nA writer in Key West states that the fish busi-\\nness in South Florida amounts to $800,000 a year\\nand even Cuba is supplied with fish from these\\nwaters. From the everywhere-present and always\\nexcellent sea-mullet to that prince of fish the pom-\\npano, all the edible fishes are fine and sell well.\\nThere are fisheries all along the 1,200 miles of\\nshore, and Northern Florida exports fish in large\\nquantities. Appalachicola, Pensacola, and Cedar\\nKeys, all ship large quantities of fish. The sport\\nof fishing is discussed on other pages.\\nOysters abound in most parts of tlie State.\\nScores of boats engaged in this fishery business cen-\\nter at Key West and all the way up the Gulf coast\\nand the whole extent of the Atlantic coast, from\\nFernandina southward at least to the 2Tth degree of\\nlatitude, oysters planted by ]^ature abound. Many\\nprivate plants are now being made, especially on the", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0215.jp2"}, "216": {"fulltext": "206 THE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\nSouth Atlantic and GiiK coasts, notably in the\\nCedar Keys region. Canning has been begun, with\\nconsiderable capital employed.\\nTurtles. Four or ii^e kinds of turtle are very\\nplentiful, especially on the south Atlantic and\\nsouth Gulf coasts. Of these, the green turtle\\nChelonia mydas is perhaps the most prized but\\nthere are also loggerheads, hawkbills, and trunk-\\nbacks. They weigh from a few pounds up, it is\\nclaimed, to 1,200 pounds each. The turtling busi-\\nness is varied. The turtles are captured mainly\\nwith nets, but are also caught while on land, and\\ntrapped in various ways. Turtle-turning is a sport\\nfor the boys as well as profit-pursuit. The turtle-\\nboats spend frequently two months on the turtling-\\ngrounds, and the business, it is said, is worth some\\n$400,000 but such estimates are vague approxima-\\ntions merely.\\nTurtle-eggs^ of which the turtles lay from 100\\nto 300 in each nest, are also valuable as food, and\\nin their season make an appreciable item in the\\nprovisioning of the far south pioneer settlers. In\\nKey West the beef and the turtle markets stand\\nside by side, and many prefer the latter as a\\nregular meat-suppl3^ Turtles are shipped alive\\nto the I^orthern markets from Key West, Lake", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0216.jp2"}, "217": {"fulltext": "PRODUCTIONS. 207\\nWorth, Biscayne, and several points on the GnK\\ncoast.\\nA species of tortoise or terrapin, that bnrrows in\\nthe sandy soil, and popularly known in this State as\\nthe gopher, is commonly eaten and considerable\\nshipments in a retail way are made from the Gulf\\ncoast to the Key West markets. Gopher calij^asTi\\nis a popular dish in some neighborhoods.\\nIt is a somewhat singular philological fact that\\nthe animal here called gopher is known in the\\nWest as the salamander; while the burrowing rat\\nthat in the West is called gopher is here known as\\nthe salamander. The derivation of the word gopher\\nfrom the French gaufre (honey-comb), doubtless led\\nto the confounding.\\nSponges are gathered in several parts of the\\nState, especially in the far south regions. Appala-\\nchicola, Rio Carabelle, St. Mark s, and Cedar Keys,\\ndo a good deal in that way. Key West claims to\\nexport 600,000 pounds a year, the bulk of it going\\nto Paris. There are a hundred and fifty sponging-\\nboats that center at Key West. The sponge-trade\\nof the State is stated by some tropical writers as\\nfully $1,000,000 a year, but this is probably some-\\nwhat over the mark. The sponges are taken in\\nwaters from five to twenty feet deep. They are", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0217.jp2"}, "218": {"fulltext": "208 THE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\ndislodged from tlieir beds with hooks, taken ashore,\\nand lodged until life is extinct then beaten, cleaned,\\nand dried altogether a most unsavory work. Some\\nspongers make as much as $1,000 in a month of\\nthe sponge season. Manj of the fine and expensive\\nMediterranean sponges sold in our Northern mar-\\nkets are gathered in Florida, shipped to Paris, re-\\ntouched, and exported thence to America to dem-\\nonstrate the superiority of European wares\\nShells of divers kinds and corals are gathered in\\nmany places the farther south, the richer and more\\nnumerous they are. Groing southward, these prod-\\nucts of the sea increase in color, size, and value.\\nAlligators from their amphibious domain con-\\ntribute teeth and hides, and these have been much\\nsought of late years. The shooting of alligators\\nceased a few years ago to be a sport worthy a re-\\nspectable sportsman, and is now a legitimate busi-\\nness pursuit, but not very extensively pursued, be-\\ncause not easy nor very profitable.", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0218.jp2"}, "219": {"fulltext": "XI.\\nSPORTIXG.\\nFishing. Writers on sporting, whether in the\\nfield of fin, fur, or feather, agree almost unani-\\nmously in pronouncing Florida a paradise for sports-\\nmen although, as between land-sports and fishing,\\nthe latter is unquestionably the finer. One of the\\nablest and best-informed writers of to-dav, Mr. S. C.\\nClarke, of Marietta, Georgia, widely known as an\\nangling naturalist, holds that the coasts of the\\nPeninsula of Florida afford a greater variety of spe-\\ncies of fish, and probably a greater variety of valu-\\nable food-fishes, than can be found in any one region\\nin the IJnited States. Dr. Charles J. Kenworthy,\\nof Jacksonville, the Al Fresco^ of the sporting\\njournals, a leading authority in sporting matters\\nin Florida, bears ample testimony to the supreme\\nexcellence of that State s piscatorial advantages.\\nHer 1,200 miles of salt-water coast, added to her\\nfresh-water bodies lakes, rivers, ponds, springs,\\nhavens, and bayous give both variety and diversity\\n14", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0219.jp2"}, "220": {"fulltext": "210 TEE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\nof field, and supply a variety and diversity of fishes\\naltogether exceptional. Our knights of the rod find\\nhere some migratory fishes that are common on the\\nNorthern coasts, such as the striped bass, sea-bass,\\nblue-fish, sheepshead, and weak-fish others that do\\nnot usually range farther north than Delaware, such\\nas the black and the red drum others that are local\\nin their habits and range, such as the groupers and\\nsnappers others again of a more tropical character,\\nthat appear on the Florida coast only in warm\\nweather, and whose home is the more tropical lati-\\ntudes, as the tarpum, cavalli, and the lady-fish. All\\nalong the ocean and Gulf coasts, where the fresh-\\nwater lakes are near the sea, there are to be found\\nwithin a mile or two both salt and fresh waters,\\nwith their separate and distinct families of fishes.\\nIn other places, notably at Lake Worth, in Dade\\nCounty, there are three classes of waters the ocean\\nwhich is salt, the lake which is semi-salt, and the\\nlakes inland which are fresh all within less than\\nthree miles thus affording three classes of fish.\\nNowhere, says Mr. Clarke, in our broad coun-\\ntry can the angler find greater variety of game or\\nmore or better sport than on the coasts of Florida.\\nIn an experience of more than fifty years as an an-\\ngler, reaching from Canada to Florida and from", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0220.jp2"}, "221": {"fulltext": "SPORTING. 211\\nMassachusetts to Colorado, the writer has found no\\nregion where fish were so abundant as on this [the\\nEast Florida] coast.\\nAn exhaustive list of the fishes of this State\\nwould cover the whole scope of Southern waters,\\nboth temperate and tropical, and both salt and fresh.\\nDr. Henshall, in his racy book on Florida, gives a\\nlist of one hnndred and twenty species found by\\nhim in these waters. Of course, the fish vary with\\nthe latitudes, the southern waters having more kinds\\nand larger fishes, and the sportsman that wants the\\nfinest sport in this line will go to the far south,\\neither Gulf or Atlantic side.\\nThe most attractive fishes, taking the common\\nground of both fun and food, seem to be the fol-\\nlowing\\nT\\\\iQ 2)ompaRO is generally known by that name,\\nalthough the early French settlers in South Caro-\\nlina called it the crevalle. It is the most valued\\nfood-fish of the Southern waters, and in the JN^ew\\nOrleans markets it ranks first. It is a bottom-fish,\\nand the angler that expects to hook it must be alert.\\nMr. Joseph B. White, of New York, writing from\\nLake Worth Inlet, in Dade County, reports, during\\nthe present year, his capture of a pompano weigh-\\ning twenty-one pounds. He used a bass-hook with", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0221.jp2"}, "222": {"fulltext": "212 THE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\nconcli bait. This is probably the largest pompano\\never caught in Florida waters. The usual average\\nweight is perhaps less than half that.\\nThe sheejpshead ranks close to the pompano as a\\nsport-fish, and is somewhat more easily and more\\nfrequently caught.\\nThe channel hass is called red drum in Yir-\\nginia, spotted bass in South Carolina, and red-\\nfish in ]New Orleans. It is considered one of\\nthe best game-fish in these waters, a strong and\\npersistent fighter, and sometimes weighs forty\\npounds, and on the line feels as if it weighed\\ntwo hundred.\\nThe salt water trout or spotted trout the\\nCynoscion maculatum of the books is easily\\ncaught with hook, weighs from three to fifteen\\npounds, and is an excellent food-fish.\\nThe red gro%i])er is a bottom-fish, of fine qual-\\nity, strong, wary, and is best caught with mullet-\\nbait and when hooked generally makes for his\\ncovert under the roots and rocks, whence only the\\nsmaller sizes say five-pounders can be hauled by\\nordinary man- power.\\nThe cavalli frequently weighs ten to twelve\\npounds. It is finer as a game-fish than as food,\\nand will take almost any bait, but will fight to the", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0222.jp2"}, "223": {"fulltext": "SPORTING. 213\\ndeath before it will leave the water, and dies as\\nsoon as landed.\\nThe mangrove snapper is a secretive and shy fish,\\nlike the grouper, and is caught in the same manner.\\nThe Spanish mackerel in its season is a prince\\namong fish and many consider it superior to the\\nPompano, and it is much less frequently caught.\\nThe lady-fish^ or skip-jack as it is sometimes\\ncalled, is the most agile and acrobatic of all these\\nSouthern fishes and, while almost useless for the\\ntable, gives her captor sport galore.\\nThe harracuda the Sphyrcuna harracuda or\\njncuda is a strong fish, of good quality, and a\\ngreat favorite with anglers. The smaller sizes usu-\\nally caught are excellent for food, but the large\\nones are unmanageable on the line and rather\\ncoarse sometimes.\\nThe tarpum or tarpon is a herring-shaped fish,\\noften five or six feet long, of giant strength, and\\ngenerally takes the tackle with him into the ocean.\\nIt weighs from a hundred pounds up to several\\nhundred, and is too coarse ordinarily for food, but\\nalways attractive to adventurous anglers. The Jew-\\nfish also is a large fish so also are the sharks\\nalbeit anglers do not usually care to cultivate or to\\ntackle either of them.", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0223.jp2"}, "224": {"fulltext": "214: THE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\nThe mullet swarms in most Florida waters, and\\ncan be caught best with cast-net or seine, for it re-\\nfuses all kinds of bait. Fishermen frequently catch\\nthe mullet with, cast-net or dip-net, and use it as cut\\nbait. The mullet is fair food, but the netting for\\nthem of course injures the fishing at that place.\\nThe silver or white mullet is the one that abounds\\nin Florida.\\nThe Uue-fish is first-class game, and also ex-\\ncellent food.\\nThe drum is a rather coarse fish, and in the\\nextreme south is not commonly eaten, although\\nabout St. Augustine its quality is better. The\\nlargest sizes weigh as much as forty pounds, and\\ncan pull like a horse. The red drum^ called in\\nEast Florida the channel bass, is perhaps the Sglce-\\nnojys ocellata of Gill. It is an omnivorous fish,\\nbold, strong, and intelligent, weighing sometimes\\nfifty pounds but this size is not often pulled in\\nwdth an angle line. The habits and fighting meth-\\nods of the drums are similar to those of the sheeps-\\nhead, and it takes both skill and strength to land\\neither quickly.\\nA fine fish of the flounder or the sole family\\nhas been caught on the Atlantic shore of the sub-\\ntropics, but it is by no means common.", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0224.jp2"}, "225": {"fulltext": "SPORTING, 215\\nBream is in miicli favor, and is very abundant.\\nBesides these tliere are scores of fishes more or\\nless common as the moon-fish and the sun-fish,\\nthe pike, the bonito, red-fish and whiting, snapper\\nand snool^, gag and gar, sucker, eel, grunt and por-\\ngee, the dainty needle-fish, the wonderful flying-\\nfish, the formidable sword-fish, saw-fish, and sharks,\\nthe hateful rays and stingarees, cat fish, and hog-\\nfish, angel-fish and devil-fish, anchovy, menhaden,\\nsailor s choice, and minnows.\\nA list of the fishing-grounds of Florida would\\nembrace almost every place situated on water and,\\nin view of the extent of coast, number of lakes, and\\nmultitude of islands and keys, it is evident that the\\nnumber of such places is rather large. Dr. Ken-\\nworthy undertook several years ago to make a list\\nand he na .ned over thirty places, scattered from\\nFernandina round to Pensacola, and all through the\\nnumerous lake regions and meandering rivers. The\\nfact is that, while some places are better situated\\nfor fishing than others, there is hardly anywhere\\nthat good fishing can not be had. Other things be-\\ning equal, the best grounds can not be expected\\nnear cities and large towns, where steamers and\\nvarious sailing-craft frequent and scare away the\\nfinny game nor in waters wliere the cast-net, the", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0225.jp2"}, "226": {"fulltext": "216 THE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY,\\ndip-net, the gill-net, and the seine are industriously\\nplied. Business interferes with pleasure, liock\\nLedge, St. Lucie, Lake Worth, Biscajne Bay, Cape\\nRomano, Charlotte Harbor, Tain pa Bay, Cedar\\nKeys, and so on every port, bay, river, lake, and\\nbayou, from the St. Mary s to the Perdido are\\nall, with the if above named, fine fishing-grounds\\nand each several one (some enthusiastic dweller\\nthere will confidently assure you) is the fisher-\\nman s paradise whatever that is. But it is true\\nthat wherever the sportsman may please to go, at\\nthe proper time for fishing there be it ocean, gulf,\\nbay, bayon, channel, sound, river, lake, or spring\\nthere he will find interesting sport. He may have\\nangle, net, seine, gig, or barb in boat or from the\\nshore\u00e2\u0080\u0094 by day or with torchlight whether he is\\nfishing for fun or for fish and he will find on this\\ncontinent no better theatre for his piscatorial feats\\nthan these Florida waters.\\nWith regard to tackle. Dr. Ken worthy says that\\nthe game-fish of Florida are uneducated, and make\\nno distinction bstween a mist-colored leader and a\\nclothes line. The great desideratum for Florida\\nfishing is strength of tackle stout lines and large\\nhooks. A heavy bass-rod is all-important; if fly-\\nfishing is indulged in, the rod should be not less", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0226.jp2"}, "227": {"fulltext": "SPORTING. 217\\nthan eight ounces. As the fish are not particular,\\nexpensive flies need not be used. For hand-line\\nfishing, resident experts use cable-laid cotton and\\nbraided cotton lines.\\nHunting. Game is plentiful in most parts of\\nFlorida, though less so than fish, and both are\\nmore abundant in the sparselj-settled south than in\\nthe older regions farther north.\\nThe best game seems to be deer, duck, turkey,\\nbear, panther, wild cat in that order and lastly\\nsmall game. In this class may be named the hare\\nor rabbit, opossum, raccoon, squirrel, quail, and the\\nhost of birds.\\nThe deer abounds especially in the far south\\nand experienced sportsmen have written up several\\nlocalities St. Lucie and Eoek Ledge on Indian\\nKiver, Lake Worth, the Caloosahatchee Yalley,\\nIvissimmee, Clear Water Harbor, and so on. The\\nhunting is generally without dogs and the hunter\\nor party of hunters, having reconnoitred the field,\\nmoves cautiously through the woods, standing at\\nselected points, and thus finds the animal without\\nalarming it. This is the Indian method; and the\\nIndians are always successful hunters. The deer\\nhas certain hours to feed, to drink, and to take\\nsalt and is easily found by those that study these", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0227.jp2"}, "228": {"fulltext": "218 THE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0228.jp2"}, "229": {"fulltext": "SPORTING. 219\\nhours carefully. The moon affords favorable light\\nat certain periods, and showers direct the game\\nto certain pastures. The hunter that heeds these\\nlittle indicia, apparently trifling though they seem,\\nneed rarely return home gamelqss anywhere in the\\ngame region. But the visiting sportsman will fre\\nquently bring with him his own special code of\\nfield-ethics, and is likely at the outset to despise\\nthe simpler and more primitive tactics of the resi-\\ndent hunter. But, whatever be the ethics or the\\ntactics, the main point and purpose of hunting will\\nbe the same abundance of game.\\nDuck-shooting is a science at least an art of\\nthe expert that calls for no special discussion. In\\ntheir seasons these birds abound in countless hosts\\nin certain localities, and these localities are almost\\neverywhere that w^ater and shore present good con-\\nditions. Dr. Hen shall found seventeen species of\\nducks in Florida. His list embraces the canvas-\\nback, mallard, three teals the black, the w^ood, and\\nthe pintail.\\nTurkeys exist generally with the deer and,\\nw^hile they are scarcer than deer, they afford excel-\\nlent sport to those fond of that kind. The common\\nwdld turkey Meleagris gallojpavo A7nerica?ia\u00e2\u0080\u0094is\\nthe only species reported by hunter-naturalists.", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0229.jp2"}, "230": {"fulltext": "220 THE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\nBears are getting scarce, except in the deep re-\\ncesses of the southern unsettled country, and even\\nthere bear-hnnting is comparatively rare of late\\nyears.\\nPanthers and wild cats are hardly legitimate ob-\\njects of sport-hunting. They are generally hunted\\nby the residents in order to rid the country of dep-\\nredators, and directly in the interests of poultry-\\nyards and pig-pens. But the hunter for other\\ngame sometimes encounters one of these pronounced\\ncharacters, and the amount of fight and run gen-\\nerally the run precedes the fight is ample to at-\\ntract considerable attention.\\nIn addition to the above-named, the fur game\\nincluding pests and prowlers of Florida embraces\\nthe following Lynx, wolf, fox, mink, skunk, otter,\\npolecat, salamander, rat, mouse, and mole. In Al-\\nlen s Mammals and Winter Birds of East Florida\\nmuch valuable and interesting information in this\\ndirection may be found also in Henshall s Camp-\\ning and Cruising in Florida.\\nThe feathered tribe, besides the bird game above\\nmentioned, is very numerous, fine -plumed, and\\nsweet-voiced. There are the blue-bird, the black-\\nbird, and the cardinal-bird the thrush, bobolink,\\ncat bird, oriole, and the polyglot mocking-bird the", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0230.jp2"}, "231": {"fulltext": "SPORTING. 221\\ntitmouse, wren, and humming-bird; the sparrow,\\nlark, snipe, do7e, kingfisher, and jaj the vireo,\\nshrike, cherwink, grackle, woodpecker, w^oodcock,\\nand plover the crow, eight species of hawk, owl,\\nking-buzzard, and vulture the paroquet, willet,\\nsandpiper, godwit, stilt, marsh-hen, and rail a va-\\nriety of cranes, eight species of herons, the flamingo,\\nbittern, gallinule, gannet, curlew, and ibis the limp-\\nkin, pelican, cormorant, and water-turkej the gull,\\ntern, egret, skimmer, and the gnat-catcher the\\nwarbler, killdeer, whip-poor-will, and chuck-wilFs-\\nwidow. These are permanent residents and win-\\nter brings some seventy-four other tourist birds.\\nWithout being game in the ordinary sense of\\nthat word, the alligator, which abounds in all the\\navailable fresh- water streams and lakes in the State,\\nis extensively hunted, and that too for mere sport,\\nas well as for hides, teeth, etc. That is, in addition\\nto being an industrial pursuit, alligator-killing is a\\nsport, and pursued by a certain class of tourists for\\nthe mere fun of murdering the creatures.\\nThe same is true, to a very limited extent, how-\\never, also of the manatee. This monster amphibian\\nis strictly subtropical. It is found, on the Atlantic\\nside, as high up as the St. Lucie Eiver, near lat-\\nitude 27\u00c2\u00b0. The younger ones have flesh that is", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0231.jp2"}, "232": {"fulltext": "222 THE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\ntender and wholesome, and these calves are said to\\nbe much sought by both Indians and whites. The\\nmanatee is sluggish and clumsy, sometimes twelve\\nor fifteen feet in length, and ten or twelve feet in\\ngirth and when well grown will weigh a ton. One\\nwriter gives the maximum weight as 3,000 pounds.\\nIt has two hand-like flippers, small eyes, and a head\\nvery remotely like a cow s. It is pachydermatous,\\nof dark-brownish color, and has sparse hair is a\\nharmless and docile beast, and is usually caught, as\\nturtles are, with a strong rope seine. It is also shot\\nor harpooned.\\nThe grampus is much rarer than the manatee.\\nThis monster has been captured, or killed, and\\nlanded on the Gulf shore, in Hillsborough County,\\nand perhaps in other places.", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0232.jp2"}, "233": {"fulltext": "XII.\\nPESTS.\\nInsects. Mncli exaggerated nonsense has been\\nwritten about the insects of Florida. It is tme that\\nthe earth, the waters, and the air there teem with\\nlife, as they do in all southern climates. But it is\\nalso true that the insects are not aggressive in pro-\\nportion to their number. Human life is naturally\\nshaped so as to offset the natural surroundings and\\nno civilized man need succumb to so trifling an\\nenemy. The same means that suffice to keep off\\nmosquitoes in ^N^ew Jersey will keep them off in\\nFlorida. The mosquito season is longer in the\\nSouth, but these insects can be kept at bay more\\neasily in the South for the reason that much greater\\nattention is paid to appliances for that purpose.\\nHouses are constructed so as to exclude them and,\\nwith windows and doors properly wire-netted or\\nclosed with gauze of suitable texture, and beds\\nproperly protected with netting, there need be no\\ngreat annoyance from mosquitoes. When they get", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0233.jp2"}, "234": {"fulltext": "224 THE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\nfoothold in a room, a spoonful of insect-powder\\njpyrethrum, of several varieties ^burned will expel\\nor kill them. It can be grown there. Smudge-fires\\nto windward will always banish the mosquitoes.\\nFleas abound in some places, mostly where hogs\\nand dogs live about the place but these can be\\nreadily kept away with pennyroyal and several other\\nplants, easily cultivated there.\\nGnats, flies, and that class of pests, seem to be\\nabout the same as elsewhere. Where there are little\\npests, there are usually larger enemies to them to\\nkeep them down. A large insect known as the mos-\\nquito-hawk destroys countless thousands of gnats, as\\ndo also the spiders, birds, and lizards.\\nThe red-bug annoys those that hunt him up in\\nthe jungles and tangles of weed and undergrowth\\nbut nobody need hunt up such pests.\\nThe cockroach about the house is an annoy-\\nance, but borax or some similar drug insect-pow-\\nder, for example will drive all roaches away. The\\nsame is true of ants.\\nSand-flies are very annoying in places, but no-\\nwhere constantly. They come and go, and are gen-\\nerally so near the water s edge that it is compara-\\ntively easy to keep away from them. These pests,\\nas well as all mosquitoes, gnats, and air-flies, may be", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0234.jp2"}, "235": {"fulltext": "PESTS. 225\\nkept at bay with smoldering fires, popularly kiio\\\\vn\\nin Florida as smudge- fires, built and burned to\\nwindward of the spot to be protected. Materials of\\npleasant-odored smoke abound everywhere, and a\\nspoonful of insect-powder will insure the desired\\neffect.\\nReptiles. There are three kinds of snakes in\\nFlorida that are poisonous the rattlesnake, the\\nmoccasins, and the adders, there being two varieties\\nof the moccasin and two of the adder. These all,\\nespecially the rattlesnake, flee from man and years\\nof life in Florida have been passed without ever\\nhearing of a case of bite from any of these snakes.\\nThe habitat of these reptiles is the jungle, the\\nswamp, and the thicket, places that it is rarely neces-\\nsary to visit. The hunter and the fisherman will\\nnaturally provide themselves with protection against\\nsuch dangers, and deserve to be bit if they do not.\\nThere are several snakes that are wholly innocu-\\nous the king-snake, the bull or gopher snake, the\\nordinary black-snake, the coach- whip, the ground-\\nsnake, and indeed all except the rattlesnake, the\\nmoccasin, and the adder.\\nFrogs, toads, and the like, serve their several\\nuseful purposes, as they do elsewhere, and should\\nbe protected and cultivated intelligently.\\n15", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0235.jp2"}, "236": {"fulltext": "226 THE FLORIDA OF TO-BAY,\\nLand-Sharks. It is difficult to classify these\\npests, as thev are not strictly insects, nor reptiles, in\\nthe herpetological sense of that word. They must\\nbe tolerably known to the intelligent reading public\\nof to-day although, like Proteus, they assume new\\nshapes with wonderful facility.\\nThe boomer is one variety of these sharks. He\\nhas a wonderful vocabulary of adjectives, both laud-\\natory and abusive the former for his one little\\nEden where his lands are to sell, and the latter for\\neverywhere, everything, and everybody else.\\nThe paper-town shark is one of the most recent\\nevolutions. He is multiform and irrepressible and\\nthe public would better think twice before reading\\nhis wonderful circular. The drop-game of the\\nlast generation, and the saw-dust trick of this, are\\nneither of them so beautiful and attractive as this\\nstupendous sell of Florida. While there may be\\nhonest and truthful boomers of the paper-town\\nracket, and doubtless there are, the public needs\\na volume of admonition and advice and that vol-\\nume is faithfully condensed in the one word Be-\\nWAEE.\\nAs the tourist and prospector for a home in\\nFlorida goes on in his tour of inspection, he needs\\nto weigh well the testimony he receives. If he do", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0236.jp2"}, "237": {"fulltext": "PESTS. 227\\nnot, lie is likely to settle in the first community lie\\ninterviews for every one of these seems to feel\\nunder obligation to belittle every other community\\nthat lies ahead and in this behttling there is too\\noften a deal of belying. The traveler arrives at\\nJacksonville, and looks about him. He there is\\nlikely to get the impression that the civilization\\nand refinement of the State center there and that\\nevery step into the interior is a step toward the\\nbackwoods and barbarity, discomfort, malaria, and\\ngeneral nothingness. His first step is into the St.\\nJohn s Eiver region and there he is in like manner\\nplied with the idea that he is in the center of prog-\\nress, culture, and happy exemption from all the ills\\nthat lie so heavy on the benighted lands to the\\nsouthward. His next step is to Indian River and\\nthere he gathers in the comforting idea that he is in\\nthe genuine original center of civilization, where\\nK ature is at her best, where real progress is burst-\\ning out, and where there are none of those disgust-\\ning and discouraging drawbacks that curse all the\\nland that lies south of that paradise the subtropics\\nof Lake Worth and Biscayne Bay, where there can\\nbe nothing but insects, vermin, mud, malaria, In-\\ndians, desolation, abomination, discomfort, disease,\\nblack death, and poverty where nothing will grow", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0237.jp2"}, "238": {"fulltext": "228 THE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\nbut comptie and mangroves, and where nobody lives\\nanyhow.\\nBut the traveler should listen at Jacksonville,\\nlisten on the St. John s, listen on Indian Eiver, and\\nlisten in the subtropics. One disillusion ought to\\nopen his eyes. Generally it doesn t. But three or\\nfour disillusioniDgs will suffice for all, save the fool\\nand he would better stay at home.\\nThis is not intended to mean that all men are\\nliars but that the explorer is likely to encounter\\nin any community enough of that entertaining class\\nto give him just that set of ideas. It means more\\nto wit, that that class of meddling romancers is just\\nthe one to hunt up, pursue, and persecute the tour-\\nist and stranger with theii* hoarded treasures of lies\\nabout the country. These misrepresenters are fully\\nequipped with all the resources of their trade the\\nsiippressio veri, the suggestio falsi, the innuendo,\\nand the lie out of whole cloth. They are irrepress-\\nible, effusive, plausible, unescapable, intolerable.\\nThe Ancient Mariner was passivity itself in compar-\\nison with these. The tourist must hear them. Let\\nhim listen, and go on.", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0238.jp2"}, "239": {"fulltext": "APPEE DIX\\nEAILWAY ROUTES.\\nA. FLOEIDA CENTEAL AND PENIXSULAE EAILEOAD.\\nCekteal Division. Beginning at Fernandina, the Florida\\nCentral and Peninsular R. R. extends directly across the State\\nto Cedar Keys, on the Gulf coast (154 miles), crossing at Cal-\\nlahan the Savannah, Florida and Western R. R. (Waycross\\nBranch). Baldwin, at the crossing of the Western Division\\nfrom Jacksonville to Chattahoochee, is 47 miles from Fer-\\nnandina, 20 from Jacksonville, and 107 from Cedar Keys.\\nWaldo is 84 miles from Fernandina, at the junction of the\\nSouthern and Central Division. Gainesville (98 miles) is the\\nprincipal town on the line of the road. It has 5,000 inhabit-\\nants, four churches, four hotels, and two newspapers. Cedar\\nKeys is the Gulf terminus of the railway. From Cedar\\nKeys a steamer sails on Mondays and Thursdays for Tarpon\\nSprings, at the head of Anclote River, a voyage of eight\\nhours. Eighteen miles west of Cedar Keys, the Suwanee\\nRiver, navigable to Ellaville, enters the Gulf; and the Withla-\\ncoochee River, 18 miles south.\\nSouTHEEN Division. This division of the Florida Central\\nand Peninsular R. R. diverges at Waldo in a direction nearly\\nsoutheast, crossing at Hawthorne the track of the Florida\\nSouthern R. R. Citra and Anthony are passed on the way\\nto Silver Spring junction, whence a branch two miles long", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0239.jp2"}, "240": {"fulltext": "230 THE FLORIDA OF TO-BAY.\\nleads to Silver Springs. Sixteen miles south is the Lake\\nWeir country, and 10 miles farther is Wildwood (whence a\\nbranch line runs to Leesburg), to Plant City, where connec-\\ntion is made with the South Florida E. R. At Tavares (22\\nmiles from Wildwood) is the terminus of this division, where\\nconnections are made with Sanford, on the St. John s Eiver,\\nand Orlando.\\nWestern Division. From Baldwin this branch runs to\\nthe Chattahoochee River, River Junction being its western\\nterminus. It passes through Olustee, Lake City, Live Oak\\n(where it intersects the Florida branch of the Savannah,\\nFlorida and Western E. R.), Ellaville, Madison, Tallahassee,\\nthe capital, Quincy, and other towns. It connects at Chatta-\\nhoochee River with the Louisville and Nashville R. R. for\\nPensacola and New Orleans.\\nB. JACKSONVILLE, TAMPA AND KEY WEST EAILEOAD.\\nThis line, starting from Jacksonville, follows the course of\\nthe St. John s River, passing through Orange Park, Magnolia,\\nGreen Cove Springs, Palatka, Seville, Astor Junction, De\\nLand Junction, and Enterprise. The main line crosses the\\nSt. John s River by a bridge 3,500 feet long to the terminus\\nat Sanford. The St. Augustine division connects Jackson-\\nville and St. Augustine by an air-line road of 36 miles. The\\nDe Land branch connects the main line, at De Land Junc-\\ntion, v^ith De Land, a town of 3,000 inhabitants. The\\nIndian River division extends from Enterprise Junction to\\nTitusville, the largest town on Indian River. At Palatka the\\nmain line connects with the Florida Southern Railway for\\nGainesville, Ocala, Leesburg, Pemberton Ferry, and Brooks-\\nville. Connection is also made at Palatka with the St. John s\\nand Halifax road for Ormond, Daytona, and Halifax River.\\nAt Orange Junction the main line connects with the Blue\\nSprings, Orange City and Atlantic R. R. for Orange City,\\nLake Helen, New Smyrna, and Hillsborough River; at Mon-", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0240.jp2"}, "241": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX. 231\\nroe with the Orange Belt R. E. for Oakland, Apopka, Brooks-\\nville to Point Phiellas, on the Gulf; at Sanford with the\\nSouth Florida R. R. for Winter Park, Orlando, Kissimmee,\\nBartow, and Tampa, where are met the Cuban mail-steamers\\nOlivette and Mascotte, of the Plant Line, for Key West and\\nHavana.\\nC. SOCTTH FLOEIDA EAILEOAD.\\nFrom Sanford this line passes Belair to Maitland, a colony\\nof Northern families, and the rising resort, Winter Park,\\nbeautifully situated on Lake Osceola, live miles in circumfer-\\nence. Passing Orlando, with 3,500 inhabitants, the road\\nreaches Kissimmee City, skirts Lake Tohopekaliga, and con-\\ntinues through Lakeland and Plant City to Tampa.\\nD. FLOEIDA SOUTHEEN EAILEOAD.\\nThis line extends from Palatka, crossing the Florida Cen-\\ntral and Peninsular R. R. at Hawthorne to Leesburg, where\\nit connects with the St. John and Lake Eustis branch. From\\nLeesburg it is continued to Pemberton Ferry, Lakeland, and\\nBartow, where it meets lines from Sanford, Orlando, and the\\nSt. John s River. From Bartow trains run to Punta Gorda,\\non Charlotte Harbor.\\nRIVER ROUTES.\\nTHE ST. JOHX S EIVEE.\\nThe town of Mayport the quarantine post and anchorage\\nof Jacksonville lies on the left of the river at its mouth.\\nOpposite is Pilot Town and St. George s Islani. Daily boats\\nrun from Jacksonville.\\nJacksonville is 21 miles from Mayport. At this point the\\nSt. John s, after flowing north for 300 miles, turns eastward\\nand empties into the Atlantic. Its whole course, which lies\\nthrough an extremely level region, is about 400 miles, and\\nthroughout the last 150 miles it is little more than a succes-", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0241.jp2"}, "242": {"fulltext": "232\\nTHE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\nsion of lakes, expanding in width from 1^ to 6 miles, and\\nhaving at no point a width of less than one half mile. Its\\nbanks are lined with a luxuriant tropical vegetation, handsome\\nshade-trees and orange-groves, and here and there are pict-\\nuresque villages. The steamers of the Do Bary and People s\\nLine leave Jacksonville daily at 3.30 p. m. for Sanford and\\nEnterprise. Time, about eighteen hours fare, $4.50 round\\ntrip, $8. Eeturning, leave Sanford at 2.15 p. m., and reach\\nJacksonville next morning. Others make a daylight run,\\nleaving Sanford at 5 a. m., and arriving at Jacksonville at\\n6.10 p. M. The following is a list of places on the St. John s.\\nThe distances are from Jacksonville:\\nMiles.\\nEiverside 3\\nBlack Point 10\\nMulberry Grove 11\\nMandarin 15\\nFruit Cove 18\\nHibernia 22\\nEemington Park 25\\nMagnolia 28\\nGreen Cove Springs 81\\nHogarth s Landing 36\\nPicolata 45\\nTocoi 52\\nFederal Point 60\\nOrange Mills 64\\nDancy s Wharf 65\\nWhitestone 66\\nRussell s Landing 69\\nPalatka 75\\nRawlestown 77\\nSan Mateo 80\\nBuffalo Bluff 88\\nSatsuma 100\\nWelaka 100\\nMiles.\\nBeecher 101\\nOrange Point 103\\nMount Royal 109\\nFort Gates 110\\nGeorgetown 117\\nLake View 132\\nDrayton Island 135\\nVolusia 137\\nOrange Bluff 140\\nHawkinsville 160\\nDe Land Landing 162\\nLake Breresford 165\\nBlue Spring. 172\\nShell Bank 193\\nSanford 199\\nMellonville 200\\nEnterprise 205\\nCook s Ferry and King Phil-\\nip s Town 224\\nLake Harney 225\\nSallie s Camp 229\\nSalt Lake 270", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0242.jp2"}, "243": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX. 233\\nFourteen miles above, on the east bank, is Mandarin, one\\nof the oldest settlements on the St. John s. It is the winter\\nhome of Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Magnolia (28 miles),\\non the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West R. R., is situated\\non the west bank. A little to the north of the point Black\\nCreek, a navigable stream, up which small steamers make\\nweekly trips as far as Middleburg, empties into the St. John s.\\nThree miles above Magnolia are the Green Cove Springs, oue\\nof the most frequented resorts on the river, but now more\\neasily reached by rail from Jacksonville. The spring dis-\\ncharges about 3,000 gallons a minute, and fills a pool some\\nthirty feet in diameter with green ish-hued crystal clear water.\\nThe water has a temperature of 78\u00c2\u00b0 Fahr. contains sulphates\\nof magnesia and lime, chlorides of sodium and iron, and sul-\\nphureted hydrogen; is used both for bathing and drinking;\\nand is considered beneficial for rheumatism, gouty affections,\\nand Bright s disease of the kidneys. Attached to the springs\\nare comfortable bathing-rooms, and close by are several hotels.\\nAbout 10 miles above, on the same side, is Picolata, the site\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2of an old Spanish settlement, of which no traces now remain.\\nTocoi (52 miles) is of some importance as the point where\\nconnection is made with the St. John s Railroad to St. Au-\\ngustine, 15 miles distant. Palatka occupies a fine, high pla-\\nteau with a wide-reaching view up and down the river. It\\nis the head of navigation for steamships, 75 miles from Jack-\\nsonville by the river and 36 by railroad. It has railway\\nconnection with Gainesville and Ocala ma the Florida\\nSouthern R. R. It has a population of nearly 5,000. In\\nthe vicinity are many old, productive, and valuable orange-\\ngroves; and on the opposite side of the river, reached by\\nferry, are the famous groves of Colonel Hart. Palatka is\\nsteamboat headquarters for the upper St. John s and its\\ntributaries. Steamers run from Palatka up the Ocklawaha\\nRiver to Silver Spring, and a railroad the St. Augustine\\nand Palatka Railway offers facilities for reaching the sea.", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0243.jp2"}, "244": {"fulltext": "234 THE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY,\\nAbove Palatka the vegetation becomes more characteristi-\\neallj tropical, and the river narrows down to a moderate-\\nsized stream, widening out at last only to be merged in\\ngrand Lake George, Dexter s Lake, and Lake Monroe. The\\nsteamers make the run from Palatka to Sanford in about\\ntwelve hours. Welaka (25 miles above Palatka), above the\\nentrance to Dunn s Lake, and opposite the mouth of the\\nOcklawaba Eiver, is the site of what was originally an\\nIndian village, and afterward a flourishing Spanish settle-\\nment. Just above Welaka the river widens into Little\\nLake George, 4 miles wide and 7 miles long, and then\\ninto Lake George, 12 miles wide and 18 miles long, one of\\nthe most beautiful sheets of water in the world; many isl-\\nands dot its surface. It is 1,700 acres in extent, and con-\\ntains one of the largest orange-groves on the river. Yolusia\\n(5 miles above Lake George, 137 miles from Jacksonville) is\\na wood-station, with a settlement of considerable size back\\nfrom the river. Thirty-five miles above Yolusia is Blue\\nSpring, one of the largest mineral springs in the State. It is\\nseveral hundred yards from the St. John s, but the stream\\nflowing from the spring is large enough at its confluence with\\nthe river for the steamers to float in it. Pursuing its voyage\\nto the south, the steamer speedily enters Lake Monroe, a\\nsheet of water 12 miles long by 5 miles wide. On the south\\nside of the lake is Sanford, the metropolis of South Florida,\\nsituated at the head of navigation for large steamers on the\\nSt. John s. On the opposite side of the lake from Sanford is\\nEnterprise, a popular resort.\\nxllthough Sanford is the head of large steamboat navigation\\non the St. John s, there is for the sportsman still another hun-\\ndred miles of narrow river, deep lagoons, gloomy bayous, and\\nwild, untrodden land, abounding in game, while the waters\\nteem with fish. Small boats can be obtained to run during the\\nwinter through Lake Harney to Salt Lake, the nearest point\\nto the Indian River from the St. John s; and a small steam-", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0244.jp2"}, "245": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX. 235\\nboat makes frequent excursions througli Lake Jessup to Lake\\nHarney. The trip to Lake Harney and back is made in twelve\\nhours. Lake Jessup is near Lake Harney; it is 17 miles long\\nand 5 miles wide, but it is so shallow that it can not be entered\\nby a boat drawing more than three feet of water. The St.\\nJohn s rises in the elevated savanna before mentioned, fully\\n120 miles south of Enterprise, but tourists seldom ascend\\nfarther than Lake Harney.\\nINDIAN EIVEE.\\nFrom Titusville the steamer Rockledge makes daily con-\\nnection for City Point, Merritt s Island, Cocoa, Eockledge,\\nEau Grallie, and Melbourne, whence connecting steamers con-\\ntinue the trip to The Narrows, St. Lucie, Jupiter Inlet, and\\nLake Worth. (See pages 88-90.)\\nTHE OCKLAWAHA.\\nThe Ocklawaha boats start from Palatka at nine o clock in\\nthe morning. The trip occupies all of one day and one night,\\nand until an early breakfast-hour of the second day. The first\\nthree hours of the trip are occupied in going up the St. John s\\nto Welaka, a point just opposite the mouth of the Ocklawaha.\\nAbout midnight the boat passes through The Gateway of the\\nOcklawaha, as it is called. This is formed by two immense\\ncypress-trees, growing so close to each other that scarcely\\nenough room is left to allow the boat to pass. About day-\\nlight the boat turns suddenly to the right, and the celebrated\\nRun is entered. Here the stream becomes a river one\\nhundred feet in widtli, and runs with a swift current, against\\nwhich these diminutive steamers make laborious way for nine\\nmiles. The bottom is of white sand, and so transparent are\\nits waters that mosses and grasses growing on the bottom,\\none hundred feet below, can be seen distinctly. At the end\\nof the Run the boat crosses the Silver Spring and\\nanchors at a wharf on its farther shore. A row-boat awaits", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0245.jp2"}, "246": {"fulltext": "236 THE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\nthe tourist for the purpose of exploring the wonderful sprin\\nat leisure. (See page 101.)\\nLIST OF HOTELS IN FLORIDA OPEl^^ AS WINTER\\nRESORTS.*\\nAltamont, Orange Co. Altamont House, Frank A. Cofran,\\n$3.50 to $4.00.t\\nBelleview. Marion Co.: Hotel Sanitaria.\\nBrooksville, Hernando Co. Hernando Hotel, $2.50 to $3.00\\nGrand View Hotel, $3.00 to $2.50.\\nCedar Keys, Levy Co. Suwannee Hotel, $2.50 to $4.00.\\nConant, Sumter Co. Hotel Conant, $2.00 to $3.00.\\nCrescent City, Putnam Co.: Grove Hall, $3,00; Putnam\\nHouse, $3.00.\\nDaytona, Volusia Co. Ocean House, $2.50 to $3.00 Pal-\\nmetto Hotel, $2.00 to $2.50.\\nDe Funiak Springs, Walton Co. Hotel Chautauqua, $2.00 to\\n$3.00.\\nDe Land, Volusia Co. Carrollton House, $2.50 to $3.00\\nParceland Hotel, $2.50 to $3.00 Putnam House, $2.00\\nto $3.00.\\nDe Leon Springs, Holmes Co.: De Soto House, $2.00 to\\n$2.50.\\nEau Gallie, Brevard Co. Eau Gallie House, $2.50.\\nEnterprise, Volusia Co. Brock House, $4.00.\\nEustis, Orange Co. Eustis House, $2.50 to $3.00 Ocklawalia\\nHotel, $2.50.\\nFernandina, Nassau Co. Egmont Hotel, $4.00.\\nFort Mason, Orange Co. Lake View House, $2.50.\\nFrom the United States (official) Hotel Directory and Railroad\\nIndicator, known as the Hotel Red-Book. Travelers Publishing\\nCompany, New York.\\nf Rates given are by the day.", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0246.jp2"}, "247": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX. 237\\nFort George, Duval Co. Fort George TTotel.\\nGains ville, Alachua Co.: Arlington Hotel, $2.50 to $3.00;\\nEochemont House, $2.60 to $3.00.\\nGulf Hammock, Levy Co.: Gulf Hammock Hotel, $2.50 to\\n$3.00.\\nGreen Cove Springs, Clay Co. Clarendon Hotel, $4.00 St.\\nClare Hotel, $3.00 to $4.00; The Pines, $3.00; Morganza\\nHotel, $1.50 to $2.00.\\nInterlachen, Putnam Co. Hotel Lagonda Interlaclien Hotel,\\n$3.00.\\nJacksonville, Duval Co.: The Everett, $4.00; St. James,\\n$4.00; The Carleton, $3.00 to $4.00; The Duval, $3.00\\nto $4.00; Hotel Oxford, $3.00; Hotel Togni, $3.00; Fre-\\nmont House, $2.50 to $3.00; The Glenada, $2.50; Wind-\\nsor Hotel.\\nEey West, Monroe Co. St. James Hotel, $3.00 Kussell\\nHouse, $2.50.\\nKissimmee, Orange Co. Tropical Hotel, $3.00 to $4.00.\\nKismet, Orange Co. Hotel Kismet.\\nLady Lake, Sumter Co. Lady Lake House, $3.00.\\nLakeland, Polk Co. Fremont House, $2.50 to $3.00.\\nLake Helen, Volusia Co. Harlan Hotel, $2.00.\\nLeesburg, Sumter Co.: Grand Central Hotel, $3.00; Lees-\\nburg House, $2.00 to $2.50.\\nLive Oak, Suwannee Co. Ethel House, $2.00 to $2.50 Live-\\nOak Hotel, $2.00 to $2.50.\\nLongwood, Orange Co. Waltham Hotel.\\nMadison, Madison Co. Central Park Hotel, $3.00.\\nMagnolia, Clay Co. Magnolia Hotel, $4.00.\\nMaitland, Orange Co. Park House.\\nMayport, Duval Co. Atlantic Hotel, $2.00 to $3.00.\\nMonticello, Jefferson Co. Madden House, $2.50 The Monti-\\ncello.\\nNew Smyrna, Volusia Co. Ocean House, $3.00.\\nOak Hill, Volusia Co.: Oak Hill Hotel, $4.00.", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0247.jp2"}, "248": {"fulltext": "238 THE FLORIDA OF TO-DA Y.\\nOcala, Marion Co. Ocala House, $4.00 Aldred House, $2.50\\nto $3.00 Montezuma Hotel, $2.50 to $3.00.\\nOrange City, Volusia Co. De Yarman House, $2.00.\\nOrange Springs, Marion Co.: Globe Hotel, $2.50 to $3.00.\\nOrlando, Orange Co. Charleston House, $3.00 Magnolia\\nHouse, $2.50 to $3.00; Wilcox House, $3.00; Windsor\\nHotel, $3.00.\\nPablo Beach, Duval Co. Murray Hall Hotel, $3.00 to $4.00.\\nPalatka, Putnam Co. Putnam House, $4.00; Saratoga Hotel,\\n$3.00 to $4.00 Hotel Phoenix, $3.00 Hotel Palatka, $2.50\\nto $3.00 Graham House, $2.50 to $3.00.\\nPensacola, Escambia Co. Continental Hotel, $3.00 to $4.00.\\nEavenswood, Orange Co. Naylor House, $3.00.\\nRock Ledge, Brevard Co. Hotel Indian River, $4.00 Tropi-\\ncal House, $2.50 to $3.00.\\nSt. Augustine, St. John s Co. Hotel San Marco, $4.00 Hotel\\nCordova; Magnolia Hotel, $3.00 to $4.00; Florida House,\\n$3.50 to $4.00 Ponce de Leon Hotel Carleton House,\\n$3.00.\\nSt. James City, Manatee Co. San Carlos HoteL\\nSanford, Orange Co. Sanford House, $4.00 San Leon Hotel,\\n$2.00 to $2.50.\\nSarasota, Manatee Co. N ew Sarasota House, $2.50 to $3.50.\\nSeville, Yolusia Co. Grand View House Hotel Seville, $3.00.\\nSilver Springs, Marion Co. Silver Springs Hotel, $3.00.\\nSpring Garden, Volusia Co. Highland Park Hotel.\\nSouth Lake Weir, Marion Co.: Lake Side Hotel, $2.50 to\\n$3.00.\\nTallahassee, Leon Co. New Leon Hotel, $4.00 St. James\\nHotel, $2.50 to $3.00.\\nTarpon Springs, Hillsborough Co. Tarpon Springs Hotel.\\nTampa, Hillsborough Co. The Plant Hotel, $4.00 Palmetto\\nHotel, $3.00 to $4.00; Orange Grove Hotel, $2.00 to\\n$4.00 St. James Hotel, $2.00 to $3.00.\\nTangerine, Orange Co. Wachusett House, $2.50 to $3.00.", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0248.jp2"}, "249": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX. 239\\nTavares, Orange Co. Tavares Hotel, $2.50 to $3.50.\\nUmatilla, Orange Co. Umatilla House.\\nWaldo, Alachua Co. Waldo House, $2.00.\\nWelaka, Putnam Co. McClure House, $3.00.\\nWellborn, Suwannee Co. White Sulphur Springs Hotel,\\n$3.00.\\nWelshton, Marion Co. Hotel Welshtou.\\nWinter Park, Orange Co. Seminole House, $i.00.", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0249.jp2"}, "250": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0250.jp2"}, "251": {"fulltext": "INDEX.\\nAdelantado, 15, 67, 104.\\nAfrica, 166, 168.\\nAfricans, 112.\\nAgassiz, 60.\\nAgricultural College, 88, 128.\\nAgricultural implements, 189,\\nAguacate, 51, 160.\\nAkee, 168.\\nAlabama, 84, 56, 61, 76.\\nAlaminos, 8.\\nAlaska, 110.\\nAlcazar, 84, 86.\\nAleck Hajo, 24.\\nAlexander Co., 182.\\nAl Fresco, 209.\\nAllen, Mr., 220.\\nAlligator, 24.\\nAlligators, 208.\\nAlligator pear, 51, 160.\\nAllison, Governor, 26.\\nAlmond, 51, 176.\\nAmerican Cyclopsedia, 170.\\nAncient Mariner, 228.\\nAnclote, 106.\\nAndes, 163.\\nAnonas, 51, 154, 162-164.\\nCherimolia, 163,\\n16\\nA.nonas, Glabra, 164.\\nMuricata, 51, 162.\\nReticulata, 164.\\nSquamosa, 163.\\nAppalachian Mountains, 62.\\nAppalachicola, 100.\\nApples, 176.\\nArkansas, 23, 56, 61, 76.\\nArpeika, 24.\\nAsiatics, 112.\\nAs-se-se-ha-ho-lar, 24.\\nAssinwar, 25.\\nAtlantic City, 40.\\nAtlantic-islanders, 112.\\nAtzeroth, Mrs., 175.\\nAugusta, 40.\\nAustralians, 112.\\nAustria, 112.\\nAvocado pear, 51, 160.\\nBahamas, 17, 44, 77, 95.\\nBaldwin, Dr., 33, 35, 39, 62.\\nBananas, 51, 148, 150.\\nBarbour, Mr., 194.\\nBar Harbor, 74.\\nBarley, 195.\\nBarrancas, Fort, 14, 99.", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0251.jp2"}, "252": {"fulltext": "242\\nTHE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\nBasinger, Lieutenant, 20.\\nBaskets, 189.\\nBaths, 86.\\nBaugh, Mr., 150.\\nBays, 8, 9, 61, 91.\\nBig Sarasota, 61.\\nBiscayne, 91.\\nClear Water, 8, 9.\\nLittle Sarasota, 61.\\nBayou Grande, 99.\\nBears, 220.\\nBees, 204.\\nBelgium, 112.\\nBelknap, General, 21.\\nBellevue, 98.\\nBermuda, 196.\\nBig Chief, 124.\\nBig Water, 29.\\nBilly Bowlegs, 24.\\nBimini, Isle of, 7.\\nBirds, 220.\\nBiscayne, 20V.\\nBismarck, 40.\\nBlack Dirt, 24.\\nBlack Drink, 24.\\nBlodget, Dr., 52.\\nBloxham, Governor, 26, 27.\\nBlue Springs, 81.\\nBohemia, 112.\\nBoia,ca, 7.\\nBoomer s land, 226.\\nBordighera, 166.\\nBosporus, 77.\\nBoston, 40, 73, 74.\\nBourbons, 109.\\nBowlegs, Billy, 24-.\\nBranch, Governor, 18.\\nBread-fruit, 139.\\nBreckenridge, Minn., 40.\\nBritish America, 112.\\nBroken health, 57.\\nBrooke, Sir Philip, 45.\\nBrooksville, 80.\\nBroome, Governor, 25.\\nBroom-handles, 189.\\nBrown, Governor, 25.\\nBudd, Professor, 135.\\nBuilding- woods, 189.\\nCabinet-woods, 189.\\nCacao, 170.\\nCalifornia, 29, 34, 55, 76, 135.\\nCall, Governor, 18.\\nCaloosahatchee River, 32, 43, 01,\\n70, 94, 102, 104.\\nCamping and Cruising in Flori-\\nda, 220.\\nCanada, 72, 210.\\nCanaveral, Cape, 42, 131.\\nCanes, woods for, 189.\\nCapes\\nCanaveral, 42, 131,\\nFlorida, 74, 94.\\nHatteras, 46.\\nMay, 74, 81.\\nRomano, 42.\\nSable, 61, 96.\\nCaribbee Islands, 160.\\nCarolina, 14, 15.\\nCassava, 203.\\nCattle, 194.\\nCattle-Fields of the Far West,\\n195.", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0252.jp2"}, "253": {"fulltext": "IXDEX.\\n213\\nCatticy guava, 50.\\nCautio, 7, 20, 82.\\nCedar Keys, 42, 67, 80, 93, 98,\\n187.\\nCentral America, 112, 158, 170.\\nCeres, 119.\\nCession, 15, 17.\\nCharleston, 73.\\nCharles Town, 14.\\nCharlotte Harbor, 32, 42, 80.\\nChattahoochee River, 76.\\nCherimoyer, 51.\\nChicago, 75.\\nChina, 112.\\nChipley, W. D., 201.\\nChipco, 124.\\nChitto-Tustenuggee, 24.\\nChukaluskee, 42.\\nCincinnati, 75.\\nCitrus fruits, 130, 136, 140.\\nCitrus Japonica, 136.\\nCity Point, 203.\\nClarke, S. C, 209.\\nClays, 6i.\\nClear Water Bay, 8, 9.\\nClimate, 33, 43, 48, 49, 52, 57.\\nClimate-cure, 52.\\nClimatology, 52.\\nClinch, General, 21.\\nCloete, W. Broderick, 197.\\nCoacoochee, 21, 23, 24.\\nCoahuila, 197.\\nCoal, 65.\\nCocoanuts, 51, 96, 141.\\nCocoanut-groves, 142, 143.\\nCoffee, 175.\\nCollege, Agricultural, 88, 128.\\nCollege, City, 35.\\nNormal, 129.\\nRollins, 129.\\nState, 64.\\nColorado, 34, 211.\\nComptic, 203.\\nConchs, 95.\\nConcrete, 67.\\nConfederate States, 26.\\nConnecticut, 34, 66.\\nConsumption, 55, 56.\\nContini, C. G., 183.\\nCooperage-woods, 189.\\nCoquina, 66.\\nCoralline, 67.\\nCorals, 208.\\nCordova, Hotel, 87.\\nCorn, 194.\\nCotton, 182.\\nCowford, 77.\\nCows crossing over, 77.\\nCreeks, 25, 117.\\nCrescent Lake, 31.\\nCrosby, 0. M., HI, 113.\\nCuba, 8, 9, 16, 63, 95, 112, 113,\\n180.\\nCurtiss, A. H., 42, 187, 193,\\nCustard-apple, 51, 164.\\nDade, Major, 19, 21.\\nDade massacre, 19.\\nDaily Union, 116.\\nDakota, 34, 76.\\nD Arriola, 14.\\nDate-palm, 164.\\nDate-plum, 168.\\nDavis, Mr., 141.", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0253.jp2"}, "254": {"fulltext": "2U\\nTHE FLO BID A OF TO-DAY.\\nDavis, John, 14.\\nDaytona, 42.\\nDeaf, Dumb, and Blind Institute,\\n128.\\nDeath-rate, 55,\\nDe Bary, 81.\\nDe Cordova, 8.\\nDeer, 217.\\nDe Funiak Lake, 81.\\nDe Funiak Springs, 129.\\nDe Gourges, 13.\\nDe Land, 80, 129.\\nDe Land University, 129.\\nDelaware, 56.\\nDe Leon, Ponce, 7, 8, 20, 67, 84,\\n104.\\nDe Luna, 11.\\nDemerara, 171.\\nDe Narvaez, 8.\\nDenison, Dr., 52,\\nDenmark, 112.\\nDennett, Colonel, 197.\\nDe Ortiz, Juan, 9.\\nDe Reinoro, 97.\\nDe Soto, 9, 10.\\nDe Vaca, Cabe9a, 9, 10.\\nDimiek, E. N., 139.\\nDiscoveries, 7.\\nDivisions, 41.\\nDown South, 82.\\nDrainage, 54, 69, 192.\\nDrake, Sir Francis, 18.\\nDrew, Governor, 26, 27.\\nDry Tortugas, 32.\\nDubois, E., 152.\\nDucks, wild, 219.\\nDuluth, 40.\\nDummitt Grove, 131.\\nDuncan, Sir William, 16.\\nDunedin, 106, 107.\\nDunn Brothers grove, 133.\\nDurian, 171.\\nDustins, 18.\\nDuval, Governor, 18.\\nEaster-Sunday, 7, 20.\\nEast Florida Seminary, 128.\\nEast India, 173.\\nEaton, Governor, 18.\\nEau Gallic, 88.\\nEden, 90, 147.\\nEducation, 127.\\nEgypt, 84.\\nEl Dorado, 8, 9.\\nEmathla, 24.\\nEngland, 59, 112.\\nEngravers blocks, 190,\\nEnterprise, 81.\\nEocene, 60, 61.\\nEsjDiritu Santo, 9.\\nEustis Lake, 81.\\nEvans, James, 143.\\nEverglades, 30, 31, 47, 53, 69, 71,\\n93, 94, 96, 117.\\nExcursions, 81.\\nExposition, subtropical, 77, 79.\\nFacts about Florida, 201.\\nFairbanks, 7, 18, 19.\\nFall Brook, 35.\\nFencing, timbers for, 190.\\nFernandina, 32, 42, 45, 72, 73,\\n94.\\nField Osborne, 143.", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0254.jp2"}, "255": {"fulltext": "INDEX.\\n245\\nFigs, 50, 175.\\nFirminger, 157.\\nFish business, 205.\\nFishes, 210, 212, 215.\\nFishing, 209.\\nFishing- grounds, 215.\\nFishing-tackle, 216.\\nFlint-rock, 66.\\nFloats, 190.\\nFlooring, 190.\\nFlorida facts, 113.\\nFlorida for tourists, 194.\\nFlorida Fruit Exchange, 131.\\nFlorida University, 128.\\nFormosa, Island of, 47.\\nFort Barrancas, 14, 99.\\nCarlos, 14.\\nCaroline, 11-13.\\nGeorge Island, 87.\\nMarion, 84.\\nMyers, 70, 104, 143, 144.\\nPickens, 15, 99.\\nSt. Luis, 98.\\nSan Marco, 67, 82, 83.\\nSan Mateo, 13,\\nFossils, 59.\\nFountain of Youth, 67.\\nFrance, 11, 59, 112, 113, 152,\\n184.\\nFranceses, 12.\\nFruit Exchange^ 131.\\nFruits, 49, 51, 136, 154, 167, 169,\\n172.\\nFruits, semi-tropical, 48, 49.\\nFruits, subtropical, 50, 200.\\nFuel, 190.\\nFurniture- woods, 189.\\nGainesville, 128.\\nGalesio, 141.\\nGame, 91, 217, 220.\\nGardening, 199.\\nGardening in Florida, 151.\\nGarey, Mr., 141.\\nGeography, 28.\\nGeology, 59.\\nGeorge, Lake, 31.\\nGeorgia, 15, 34, 56, 75, 151, 166,\\n182, 193.\\nGermany, 112.\\nGleason, 88.\\nGoats, 196.\\nGonzales, F. A., 180.\\nGopher, 207.\\nGosse, Mr., 162.\\nGovernors, 25, 26.\\nGrains, 194, 195.\\nGrampus, 222.\\nGrand possibilities, 154.\\nGrant, James, 16.\\nGrape-fruit, 50.\\nGrapes, 49, 152.\\nGreat Britain, 15-17.\\nGreat Father at Washington, 22.\\nGreece, 112.\\nGreeks, 16.\\nGreen Cove Springs, 87.\\nGroves. See Cocoanuts and Ok-\\nANGES.\\nGuanabena, 51, 162.\\nGuavas, 50, 51, 155, 156.\\nGulf of Mexico, 44, 70, 80, 98,\\n102.\\nGulf Stream, 44, 46, 47, 60, 62,\\n63, 90, 93, 96.", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0255.jp2"}, "256": {"fulltext": "246\\nTHE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\nGun-stocks, 190.\\nGuayaquil, 163.\\nUaenke, 163.\\nHalifax River, 82.\\nHalleck-Tustenuggee, 24,\\nHammocks, 69.\\nHampton Spriogs, 68.\\nHardy, Lady, 82.\\nHarris, J. A., 132.\\nHart, Governor, 26.\\nHart Grove, 133.\\nHart wig, 169.\\nHatteras, 46.\\nHavana, 16.\\nHealth, 52, 71.\\nHeilprin, 60.\\nHelen Harcourt, 141.\\nHenry, Professor, 37.\\nHensball, Dr., 94, 211,\\n220.\\nHickey, John B., 70.\\nHillsborough River, 32, 81.\\nHirrihigua, 9.\\nHistory, 7.\\nHogs, 198.\\nHolatter Micco, 25.\\nHo-le-wa-gus, 123.\\nHolland, 112.\\nHomosassa River, 32, 104,\\nHonduras, 169.\\nHoney, 204.\\nHorsch, Mr., 147.\\nHorses, 198.\\nHospetarkee, 24.\\nHotel Cordova, 87.\\nHuguenots, 11-13.\\n219,\\nHumboldt, 151.\\nHumidity, 35, 40.\\nHunting, 217.\\nIdaho, 34.\\nIlhnois, 34, 56.\\nImmigrants, Northern and for-\\neign, 110.\\nImmigrants, Southern, 1\u00e2\u0082\u00ac9.\\nImmigration Association, 79.\\nIncah, 123.\\nIndia, 112, 157, 166, 168.\\nIndiana, 56.\\nIndianapolis, 75.\\nIndian Archipelago, 163.\\nIndian River, 82, 80, 88, 90, 131,\\n133.\\nIndian River Inlet, 43, 45, 46.\\nIndians, 117. See Seminole.\\nIndustrial features, 63.\\nInsects, 223, 224.\\nInstitute for Deaf, etc., 128.\\nInterior finish, 190.\\nIowa, 56, 76.\\nIreland, 112.\\nIron-ore, 64,\\nIslands, 31.\\nAmelia, 32.\\nAnastasia, 32.\\nCumberland, 166,\\nDry Tortugas, 82,\\nFormosa, 47.\\nKey Largo, 32.\\nKey West, 32.\\nMerritt s, 35.\\nSanta Rosa, 15, 81, 32.\\nTen Thousand, 32.", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0256.jp2"}, "257": {"fulltext": "INDEX.\\n247\\nItaly, 112, 113, 166, 184.\\nIv^es, A. M., 131.\\nKraemer, James il., 53.\\nKumquat, 136.\\nKurunda, 172.\\nJacques, Dr., 52.\\nJack-fruit, 1*72.\\nLake City, 128.\\nJackson, General, 17, 18,\\n21,\\n124.\\nLake regions, 50,\\nJacksonville, 34, 40, 73,\\n76\\nV8,\\nLakes, 29-194.\\n80, 82, 87, 90, 92, 96,\\n99,\\n116.\\nApopka, 31.\\nJamaica, 160, 161, 163.\\nBuffum, 31.\\nJapan persimmon, 168.\\nCrescent, 31.\\nJapan plum, 49.\\nDe Funiak, 31.\\nJay, Hamilton, 116.\\nEast Tohopekaliga, 69.\\nJohnson, Dr., 52.\\nEustis, 31.\\nJujube, 50, 176.\\nFresh Water, 91.\\nJumper, 24.\\nGeorge, 31.\\nJupiter Inlet, 45, 46, 88\\n,90\\n,93,\\nHarris, 101.\\n95, 142.\\nlamonia, 31.\\nJute, 183.\\nIstokroga, 31.\\nKissimmee, 30, 31.\\nKansas, 34, 56, 76.\\nMiccasukee, 31.\\nKaolin, 64.\\nMonroe, 31.\\nKeiffer pear, 49.\\nOkeechobee, 29, 69, 94, 96, 102,\\nKentucky, 56.\\n192.\\nKenworthy, C. J., 40, 52,\\n57,\\n135,\\nOrange, 31, 132.\\n209, 215.\\nSanta Fe, 31.\\nKey Largo, 31, 32.\\nTohopokaliga, 31.\\nKeys, 32, 43, 161.\\nWorth, 42, 71, 90, 92, ^Q, 143,\\nKey West, 32, 35, 40, 74,\\n91,\\n104,\\n162, 175, 194.\\n144,162,166, 176, 181,\\n205,\\nLand-sharks, 105, 226,\\n207.\\nLaudonniere, 10, 11.\\nKingsley, 169.\\nLawson, Dr., 52, 54.\\nKissimmee, 30, 94, 104,\\nLe Conte, Dr., 52.\\nKissimmee Lake, 30, 31.\\nLeesburg, 101.\\nKissimmee Eiver, 32, 94.\\nLemons, 50, 136.\\nKnight, Mr., 147.\\nLente, Dr., 52,\\nKnight, P. 0., 195.\\nLevers, 190.\\nKost, Dr., 59, 63, 65, 68.\\nLichee, 173.", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0257.jp2"}, "258": {"fulltext": "248\\nTHE FLO BID A OF TO-DAY.\\nLignite, 65.\\nLimes, 50, 51, 140, 167.\\nLiraona, 35.\\nLinngeus, 1*70.\\nLocke, E. 0., 142.\\nLogan, Dr., 52.\\nLombardy, 183.\\nLondon, 148.\\nLong Branch, 74, 81.\\nLos Angeles, 35.\\nLouisiana, 15, 17, 29, 34, 56, 61,\\n76, 197.\\nLowe, John, 142,\\nLumber, 186.\\nLuteranos, 12.\\nLuxemburg, 112.\\nMacomb, General, 21.\\nMcRae, Miss, 18.\\nMagnolia, 87.\\nMagnolia Hotel, 87.\\nMaine, 56.\\nMalaria, 52, 71.\\nMalay, 171.\\nMamey, 160.\\nMammals and Winter Birds of\\nEast Florida, 220.\\nMammee, 51, 159.\\nMammee sapota, 160.\\nManatee, 50, 166, 176.\\nManatee, 221.\\nManatee River, 60.\\nMandarin, 87, 178.\\nMango, 51, 157.\\nMangosteen, 51, 159.\\nMannville, Mr., 141.\\nMarble, 66.\\nMariana, 65.\\nMariannes, 9.\\nMarietta, 209.\\nMarl, 64.\\nMarmalade-tree, 160.\\nMartin, M., 153.\\nMarvin, Governor, 26.\\nMaryland, 56.\\nMassachusetts, 31, 56, 211.\\nMassacre, Dade, 19.\\nMastodons, 59.\\nMatanzas, 12.\\nMatthews grove, 133.\\nMayport, 80, 87.\\nMay River, 11, 87.\\nMedicinal barks, 191.\\nMediterranean, 40.\\nMelbourne, 88.\\nMenendez, 10, 12, 18, 97.\\nMentone, 40.\\nMerritt s Island, 35.\\nMexico, 9, 10, 76, 77, 112, 151,\\n197.\\nMexico, Gulf of, 63.\\nMiami, 71, 92, 93, 96, 144.\\nMiami River, 121.\\nMicanopy, 24.\\nMiccasukee Lake, 31.\\nMicco, 24.\\nMiccosukees, 25, ll7o\\nMichigan, 56.\\nMillview, 80.\\nMilton, Governor, 25.\\nMineral waters, 67.\\nMinnesota, 56, 76.\\nMinorcans, 16.\\nMiocene, 60, 61.", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0258.jp2"}, "259": {"fulltext": "INDEX.\\n219\\nMiruelo, 8.\\nMississippi, 34, 56, 61, 76.\\nMississippi River, 9, 10, 14, 2f\\n44, 62.\\nMissouri, 56.\\nMonroe, 81.\\nMontana, 34.\\nMontiano, 15.\\nMoore, Mr., 141.\\nMoore, Governor, 14,\\nMorphia, 204.\\nMorus alba, 184.\\nMorns Japonica, 184.\\nMorus multicaulis, 184.\\nMoseley, Governor, 25.\\nMosquitoes, 223.\\nMoss, long, 46, 47, 52.\\nMounds, 104, 105.\\nMountain, Table, 29.\\nMount Whitney, 29.\\nMulberry, 184.\\nMurat, 98.\\nMurietta, 35.\\nMurray Hall, 81.\\nMuscogees, 117.\\nNaples, King of, 98.\\nNarrows, The, 90.\\nNassau, 40.\\nNebraska, 34, 76.\\nNceld, Mr., 157.\\nNegroes, 19, 113.\\nNew England, 18, 19, 28, 72.\\nNew Hampshire, 56.\\nNew Jersey, 56.\\nNew Orleans, 21, 76.\\nNew Mexico, 55.\\nNewport, 74.\\nNewport Springs, 68.\\nNew Smyrna, 16.\\nNew York, 34, 56, 72, 73, 75.\\nNormal College, 129.\\nNorris, J. Hart, 133.\\nNorth Carolina, 56, 193.\\nNorthern Florida, 29, 42, 46, 145.\\nNorway, 112.\\nNutmeg, 174.\\nOars, woods for, 191.\\nOats, 195.\\nOcean Grove, 81.\\nOcean routes, 72, 73.\\nOcilla River, 32.\\nOcklawaha River, 32, 100, 101.\\nOeklokonee River, 32.\\nOglethorpe, Governor, 15.\\nOhio, 34, 56.\\nOkeechobee drainage, 54, 69, 192.\\nOkeechobee Lake, 29, 30, 31, 69,\\n94, 96, 102, 192.\\nOld xYleck, 124, 125.\\nOld residents, 108.\\nOligocene, 61.\\nOlives, 175.\\nOlustec, 71.\\nOpium, 203.\\nOrangeBelt,43,134, 135, 145, 152.\\nOrange-culture, 135.\\nOrange-culture iu California, 135.\\nOrange-culture in Florida, 135.\\nOrange-groves, 131-133.\\nOrange Lake, 31, 132.\\nOrange Park, 87.\\nOrange-quince, 176.", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0259.jp2"}, "260": {"fulltext": "250\\nTHE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\nOregon, 34, 76.\\nOrlando, 101.\\nOsborne, Field 143.\\nOsceola, 24, 125.\\nOtulkee, 24.\\nOtulko-Thlocko, 25.\\nOverland routes, 73.\\nOxford, 11.\\nOx-yokes, woods for, 191.\\nOysters, 205.\\nPablo Beach, 74, 80, 81.\\nPalatka, 80, 101.\\nPaleontology, 59.\\nPalmer, Dr., 62.\\nPalm-Sunday, 1.\\nPanthers, 220.\\nPapaw, 173.\\nPaper-pulp, 191.\\nPaper towns, 226.\\nParis, 59, 163, 207.\\nPascoffer, 24.\\nPascua Florida, 7.\\nPeace River, 32.\\nPeach, 175.\\nHoney, 175.\\nPeen-To, 175.\\nPears, 151.\\nPecan, 176.\\nPeen-To peach, 175.\\nPemberton Ferry, 80,\\nPencil- wood, 191.\\nPennsylvania, 56.\\nPensacola, 14, 15, 17, 80, 99, 201.\\nPeoples, 108.\\nPeople s Line, 81,\\nPerry, Governor E. A., 26, 27.\\nPerry, Governor Madison, 25.\\nPeru, 163.\\nPests, 223.\\nPhiladelphia, 73.\\nPickel, Professor, 64.\\nPiles, 191.\\nPineapples, 144-146.\\nPinellas, 106, 107, 157.\\nPistachio-nut, 177.\\nPlant System, 80.\\nPleiocene, 60.\\nPleistocene, 60.\\nPocahontas, 9.\\nPoland, 112.\\nPolynesia, 169.\\nPomegranate, 50, 167.\\nPonce de Leon Hotel, 84.\\nPoppy, 203.\\nPopulation, 108.\\nPort Royal, 11.\\nPost-tertiary, 60.\\nPoultry, 198, 199.\\nPoway, 35.\\nPowhatan, 9.\\nProductions, 130.\\nPullman cars, 74, 75.\\nPunta Gorda, 80, 93, 94, 9\\nPunta Rassa, 40, 104.\\nQuinces, 176.\\nRailway-ties, 191.\\nRailway Routes, 229,\\nRamie, 186.\\nReasoner Brothers, 49, 50, 145,\\n158, 162, 163, 166, 176.", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0260.jp2"}, "261": {"fulltext": "IXDEX.\\n251\\nHeconstructlon, 26,\\nRed Bluff, 35.\\nReed, Governor, 18, 20, 26.\\nRenaissance, Spanish, 84.\\nReptiles, 225.\\nRestoration, 26.\\nRetrocession, 17.\\nRevolution, American, 16.\\nRhode Island, 56.\\nRibault, 11, 12.\\nRice, 192.\\nRichards, Mr., 147.\\nRio d Ais, 88.\\nRio Carabelle, 207.\\nRio Grande, 10, 14.\\nRivers, 10-134.\\nAlafia, 32.\\nAppalachicola, 32.\\nAshley, 14, 63.\\nCaloosahatchee, 32, 61, 70, 94,\\n101, 143.\\nChattahoochee, 76.\\nChipola, 32.\\nCooper, 63.\\nHillsborough, 32, 81.\\nHoraosassa, 32, 104.\\nKissimmee, 32, 94.\\nManatee, 32, 60, 175.\\nMay, 11, 87.\\nMiami, 32, 121.\\nMississippi, 9, 10, 14, 28, 44, 62.\\nOcilla, 32.\\nOcklawaha, 32, 100, 101, 235.\\nOcklokonee, 32.\\nPeace, 32.\\nSt. John s, 10, 11, 30, 32, 46,\\n81, 87, 101, 134, 231.\\nRivers, St. Mark s, 32, 68.\\nSt. Mary s, 31, 32, 42.\\nSebastian, 147, 150.\\nj Suwannee, 32, 102, 103, 108.\\nI Wakulla, 32, 100.\\nWithlacoochee, 32, 80.\\nRock Ledge, 74, 88.\\nRocky Mountains, 61.\\nRogel, Padre, 97.\\nRollers and bearings of machin-\\nery, 191.\\nRollins College, 129.\\nRoman baths, 86.\\nRomano, Cape, 42.\\nRoutes, ocean, 72.\\nRoutes, overland, 73.\\nRussell, A. J., 127.\\nRussia, 112.\\nRussian baths, 86.\\nRye, 195.\\nSacramento, 35.\\nSaddle-trees, 191.\\nSahara, 38.\\nSt. Augustine, 7, 10, 13, 18, 35,\\n67, 74, 80, 82, 87, 97, 128.\\nSt. John s BlufiP, 11.\\nSt. Louis, 76.\\nSt. Luis, Fort, 98.\\nSt. Lucie, 42, 90.\\nSt. Mark s, 15.\\nSt. Paul, 40, 75.\\nSam Jones, 24.\\nSand-lands, 68, 146.\\nSandstone, 66.\\nSandford, 35, 81, 101, 123, 137.\\nSandwich-Islanders, 112.", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0261.jp2"}, "262": {"fulltext": "252\\nTEE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\nSan Marco, 67, 82, 83.\\nSan Marco Hotel, 8*7.\\nSan Mateo, 12.\\nSanta Fe Lake, 31.\\nSanta Maria, 11.\\nSanta Rosa Island, 15, 31, 32.\\nSapodilla, 51, 161.\\nSapote, 161.\\nSarasota, 74.\\nSaratoga, 74.\\nSavannah, 73, 75.\\nSchools, 127.\\nScotland, 112.\\nSebastian River, 147, 150.\\nSecession, 26.\\nSecoflfee, 24, 117.\\nSeeman, Dr., 163.\\nSeminoles, 17, 21, 24, 104, 107,\\n117, 123, 125.\\nSeminole wars, 18, 25, 104.\\nSemi-tropical Florida, 29, 43, 45,\\n50, 101, 134.\\nSettlement, 12.\\nSharks, land, 226.\\nSheep, 196.\\nShells, 208.\\nShenandoah Valley, 75.\\nShingles, 191.\\nShip- and boat-building, 191.\\nShoe-lasts, 191.\\nShuttles, 191.\\nSilk, 183.\\nSilver Spring, 100.\\nSilver Spring Run, 100.\\nSisal hemp, 186.\\nSlavery, 108, 113, 114,\\nSmith, John, 9.\\nSmithsonian Reports, 107.\\nSnakes, 225.\\nSoils, 68.\\nSouth America, 77, 112, 113.\\nSouth Carolina, 10, 11, 14, 56,\\n182, 193.\\nSpain, 15-17, 112.\\nSpaulding, 141.\\nSpanish Main, 13.\\nSpear grove, 133.\\nSpencer, Mr., 175.\\nSponges, 207.\\nSporting, 209.\\nSprague, Captain, 25.\\nSpratt grove, 132.\\nSpring Garden, 133.\\nSprings, 68, 129.\\nBlue, SO, 81.\\nDe Funiak, 129.\\nGreen Cove, 68, 87.\\nHampton, 68.\\nNewport, 68.\\nSilver, 30, 100.\\nSuwannee, 68.\\nTarpon, 74, 81.\\nWakulla, 100, 101.\\nWhite Sulphur, 68.\\nState, 25.\\nState College, 64.\\nState Governors, 25.\\nStearns, Governor, 26.\\nStrawberries, 77, 178.\\nSubtropical Florida, 29, 43, 46,\\n48, 50, 69, 93, 117, 154,\\n159.\\nSugar, 193.\\nSugar-apple, 51, 163.", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0262.jp2"}, "263": {"fulltext": "INDEX,\\nSuwannee River, 32, 42, TG,\\n102,\\nTohopokaliga Lake, 31.\\n105.\\nTool-handles, 92.\\nSwamps, 69.\\nTornadoes, 58.\\nSweden, 112.\\nTrade-winds, 47.\\nSwitzerland, 112.\\nTravel, 72.\\nTurban, 120.\\nTable Mountain, 29.\\nTurkeys, wild, 219.\\nTago, 97.\\nTurkish baths, 86.\\nTait, J. Selwin, 195.\\nTurnbuU, Dr., 16.\\nTallahassee, 18, 24, 97, 116,\\n128,\\nTurtle-eggs, 206.\\n152, 201.\\nTurtles, 206.\\nTallahassees, 25.\\nTyndall, Professor, 38, 39\\nTamarind, 51, 166.\\nTampa, 60, 74, 80, 97, 106.\\nVan Deman, E. B., 80.\\nTampa Bay, 9, 10, 21.\\nVarnadoe, Captain, 152.\\nTan-bark, 192.\\nVegetables, 200.\\nTanyah, 202.\\nVegetables, yields of, 202\\nTavares, 80, 101.\\nVera Cruz, 11.\\nTea, 175.\\nVermont, 56.\\nTemperature, 33.\\nVestibuled cars, 74.\\n25 3\\nTen Thousand Islands, 32.\\nTerritorial Governors, 18.\\nTerritory, 17, 18.\\nTertiary, 59-61.\\nTexas, 55, 56, 61, 76, 198.\\nTexas Stockman, 198.\\nThames, 59.\\nTheobroma, 170.\\nThomasville, 76, 152.\\nTiger-Tail, 24.\\nTi-es, 51.\\nTitusvilie, 80, 8S, 96.\\nTobacco, 178.\\nTobacco-boxes, 192.\\nTobacco Company, 179.\\nTocoi, 80.\\nVirginia, 14, 43, 56, 75.\\nVon Miiller, 166.\\nVuelta Abajo, 180.\\nWacca Palatka, 77.\\nWadddl, James A., 143.\\nWagons and carriages, 193.\\nWakulla Springs, 100, 101.\\nWaldo, 134, 175.\\nWales, 112.\\nWalker, Governor, 26.\\nWashington, 21.\\nWashington talk, 124.\\nWaycross, 73, 76.\\nWay Key, 98.\\nWeather Bureau, 33.\\nWee-la-ka, SO.", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0263.jp2"}, "264": {"fulltext": "254\\nTHE FLORIDA OF TO-DAY.\\nWest Florida Seminary, 12S.\\nWest Indies, VV, 98, 160, 169, 171-\\nWest Virginia, 34, 56.\\nWheat, 195.\\nWheel-stock, 192.\\nWhite, J. B., 211.\\nWhitner, Professor, 151, 163,\\n169, 173, 175, 202.\\nWhitney, Mount, 29.\\nWigwam, 118.\\nWild eats, 24, 220.\\nWilliams, 18.\\nWilliams and Warren, 143.\\nWilson, agent, 124.\\nWilson, Dr., 52.\\nWines, 152, 153.\\nWinter Park, 129.\\nWinthrop, W. W., 203.\\nWisconsin, 56.\\nWithlacoochee River, 32, 80.\\nWooden shoes, 192.\\nWoodenware, 192.\\nWorth, General, 21, 23, 97.\\nWorth, Lake, 42, 194.\\nWy-o-mee, 119, 123.\\nYack-fruit, 172.\\nYankee settlers, 112.\\nYields of vegetables, 202.\\nYouth, Fountain of Perpetual,\\n67.\\nYucca, 186.\\nTHE END.", "height": "3281", "width": "2077", "jp2-path": "floridaoftoday00davi_0264.jp2"}, "265": {"fulltext": "APPLETONS GUIDE-BOOKS,\\nA.PPL3T0NS GENERAL GUIDE TO THE UNITED STATES\\nAND CANADA. Compiled on the plan of the famous Baedeker Hand-\\nbooks of Europe, With numerous Maps and lllustratioiis. In three sep-\\narate forms\\nOne Volctme Complete. 12mo. 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