The Sunland Tribune (Tampa, Florida), July 30, 1881, page 3, column 3

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Limona Matters

We have rains nearly every day now.

The ten thousand orange trees growing in this place, are showing how fast they can grow.

Dr. Pratt and Judge Knapp are having the trees under their care, hoed and fertilized, with mercantile fertilizers. They believe in potash, bone-dust and gypsum. No sickness where they are used.

Those who have said that Limona lands would "not sprout cowpeas," open their eyes, and wonder what has got into this "poor land." It is the plow, cultivator and harrow that has got into it; and the vegetation buried, not burnt, and a little fertilizing has got on it; that is the matter.

An Irish peddler, rather tramp, thought that a single towel which could be bought at any store in Tampa for 20 cents, was full compensation for supper, breakfast and lodging, and complained that it was thought insufficient pay. Such fellows ought to pay big licenses.

The saw mill is lying idle for want of a wheel to drive some of the machinery. When one comes, the whistle will blow again.

Judge Knapp has got 20,000 feet of logs into the mill, to be sawed into lumber for Chas. D. Knapp's store, which he will build as soon as men can put it up. The Judge talks about village lots, and a plat for Limona .

"Where is the railroad to be located?" A good road to Tampa, over which a team could haul 2000 pounds would be more benefit than a railroad, not only to Tampa, but to the country.

Why does not some steamboat man send a small boat and barge up the Alafia river, to the shoal at Buckhorn landing, and build a warehouse there! The place is only three and a half miles from the Limona post-office, and good roads could be made to center on it. Such a boat could carry and fetch all the freights of a large tract of country, and pay the boatman, and would save money to people who live east of Tampa.

LIMONA.

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