FLORIDA 



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FLORIDA 



THE r*RM 

 Corn 

 Cotton 

 Oranges 



Hogs slaughtered 

 Peanuts 

 Grapefruit 

 Tomatoos 

 Sweet Potatoes 



FLORIDA PRODUCTS CHART 



Figures Based on U.S. Governm ent Reports 



Mil lions of Dol lars Annual ly 

 I 2 A 6 8 



Potatoes 

 Sugar Cane 

 Tobacco 

 Poultry raifced 

 Dairy Products 

 Hay 

 Wheat 

 Cattle sold 

 Cottonseed 

 Pineapples 



THE QUARRY 



Phosphate RocK 

 THE FACTORY 



Coffee 



Cooperage, etc 

 Brick, Tile 

 CarriagesVagons 

 Meat Packing 

 Cigar Boxes 

 Gas 



Ships, Boats 

 Foundry.Machine shop 

 Ice manufactured 

 Bread etc. 

 P\ailroad Cars repaired 

 Printing. Publishing 

 Fertilizers 

 Turpentine.Rosin 

 LumberTimber 

 Tobacco 



Chicago to Jacksonville is only 212 miles more. 

 Palm Beach, Florida's most notable winter 

 resort, is forty-eight hours from Chicago and 

 forty-five hours from New York City. Miami 

 is seventy miles south of Palm Beach. Then, 

 running along the eastern coast, the Florida 

 East Coast Railway, which was extended to 

 Key West in 1912, brings the traveler to the 

 extreme south of Florida. Tampa, on the cen- 

 tral west coast, is 1,195 miles from New York 



THE RAILROAD TO KEY WEST 

 The solid black line Is the route of the rail- 

 road ; the steamer routes are Indicated by the 

 dotted line. 



and 1,309 miles from Chicago. Within the 

 state over 4,900 miles of steam railway, about 

 130 miles of electric railway and 1,000 miles 

 of navigable rivers afford connection with all 



places of importance or interest. The construc- 

 tion of railways since 1880 has had a most 

 important influence on the prosperity and 

 progress of the state. Since that time the 

 population has increased almost fourfold. 



Large trade is carried on through Pensacola 

 harbor, where the channel is thirty feet deep 

 at low tide. Jacksonville harbor has been 

 much improved within recent years. The 

 largest export trade is through Pensacola, Jack- 

 sonville and Tampa. Key West, Fernandina, 

 Punta Gorda, Carrabelle, Apalachicola and 

 Saint Augustine are also export centers. 



Education and Religion. Education in Flor- 

 ida has not been in a satisfactory state, but a 

 compulsory education law in force since 1915 

 will remedy this defect. Separate schools are 

 provided for white and colored children. In 

 1914 about 172,300 pupils were enrolled in 

 nearly 2,700 public elementary schools and 

 about 5,000 pupils in nearly a hundred public 

 high schools. 



Higher education is provided by the state 

 in a university at Gainesville, a State College 

 for Women at Tallahassee and Rollins College 

 at Winter Park. The John B. Stetson Univer- 

 sity at De Land is one of the leading private 

 schools of the South. 



Over forty-one per cent of the church mem- 

 bers of Florida are Baptists, more than thirty- 

 seven per cent are Methodists, and others are 

 chiefly Roman Catholic, Protestant Episcopa- 

 lians and Presbyterians. 



