. The Southern States. fit. 356 THE FLORIDA PHOSPHATE INDUSTRY. The first shipments of Florida phos-phate were made in 1888, aggregatingabout 3000 tons for the entire year. In1892 the shipments amounted to 287,821tons and the output during the presentyear will largely exceed this to a recently issued reportby the United States Department ofLabor, the Florida phosphate minerscontrol 193,348 acres of land, they have$4,705,582 invested in machinery and$14,366,067 in land. Unfortunate as it may be that this industry should have been ushered inwith so much of speculation and fraud,
. The Southern States. fit. 356 THE FLORIDA PHOSPHATE INDUSTRY. The first shipments of Florida phos-phate were made in 1888, aggregatingabout 3000 tons for the entire year. In1892 the shipments amounted to 287,821tons and the output during the presentyear will largely exceed this to a recently issued reportby the United States Department ofLabor, the Florida phosphate minerscontrol 193,348 acres of land, they have$4,705,582 invested in machinery and$14,366,067 in land. Unfortunate as it may be that this industry should have been ushered inwith so much of speculation and fraud,it is exceedingly fortunate that thereexists a basis and foundation for anindustry of enormous extent andimportance. A few years of systematicdevelopment and honest, practical effort,like that now being put forth, will pro-duce in Florida an industry that will farexceed in its magnitude and importanceevery other industrial interest in thatState. The opportunities are gigantic,the progress is steady, the future is :, lAlIl 1)1 A CREOLE GIRLS FIRST BALL. Bv Marie Louise Points. She lived in the heart of Frenchtown,in the dim, dreamy Latin Quarter ofNew Orleans, which even in its decayretains an unmistakable aspect of ancientgentility that reminds one of the gloomypride of a grand seignior, wrapping him-self in the habiliments of faded glory,and stolidly stanciing out in gloomyisolation from the progressive spirit ofimprovement which characterizes theage. But it had been a great house inits time; one of those solemn foreign-looking edifices which somehow conve}the impression that, while walking thestreets of old New Orleans, one is notaltogether upon American soil, but inthe midst of a peculiar section andamong people individually distinct fromany hitherto met beneath the stars andstripes, yet seemingly an integral partof the whole. The old mansion stood out upon thestreet, as all the characteristic Creolehouses do. The lower facade, with itshigh arched fr
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