Atlas of the World PONCE DE LEON DISCOVEREO FLORIDA SOON AFTER f ASTI R, 1513 WHITi TAU OIER JE WFJSH TARPON ORANGES SAILFISH LIMONS 8ASRACUDA RED SNAPPER P GRAPE FRUIT AVOCADOS THE EVIRGLADiS SIMINOll INDIANS ESTING FLAMTNGOIS KUMQUAT ~Ä' THE STATE FLOWIR ' ORANGE BtOSSOM AUfflATÖ* Florida The Peninsula State Admitted to the Union as a territory, 1822; as a state 1845 Capital, Tallahassee. Florida is responsible for about 75% of the United States’ production of phosphatc rock. It is also a prineipal source of l'nllei ’s carth; its limestone and clay, including kaolin, are of commeretal valtie, and mineral waters are found in «ybundance. Agrieulturc is the prineipal occupation, though at the present time less than one-fourth of the State’s area is in farms, The lowlands of the south, however. arc gradually being drained and brought under cultivation, and will materially incrcase this proporcion. A temperate and semi-tropical chtnate permits the growth of peaches, pears, and cotton in the north, and oranges, pincapplcs, grapeluit, guavas and lemons in the middle and Southern counties. Vegetables, tobacco, sweet potatoes, peanuts and sea island cotton of a very high grade are also commercially important. Extensive forests provide chiefly yellow pinc and cvprcss. Hard- woods are of lesser importance, the tnost common speries being oak, yellow poplar and hickory. The prineipal catehes of Florida’«, vahiable fisheries are mullet, sh ad, red-snapper, mackerel, sponge and oysters, Tarpon and king- fish are numerous and are much sought by sportsmen. The manufacturcs of the Peninsula State, headed by tobacco produets, lumber and timber, and naval Stores, have shown a steady growth during the last sixty years. The tobacco industry is practically confincd to cigars and cigarettes for which' the raw material is imported largely from Cuba. The output of the lumber industry, amounts to nearly half the manufactured produets of the State. A growing activity is the manufacture of tung oil. Two pages from the Atlas of the World illustrated by EDGAR MILLER