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Hidden treasures: the pebble phosphates of the Peace River Valley of South Florida.
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| Title: | Hidden treasures: the pebble phosphates of the Peace River Valley of South Florida. |
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| Name(s): |
Shrader, Jay. PALMM (Project) |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Issuance: | monographic | |
| Date Issued: | c1891 | |
| Date Issued: | 1891 | |
| Publisher: | Varn | |
| Place of Publication: | Bartow, Fla. | |
| Physical Form: | electronic resource | |
| Extent: | 59 p. ; 18 cm. | |
| Language(s): | eng | |
| Abstract/Description: | Tongue-in-cheek description of the phosphate industry in Florida in the 1890's. | |
| Table of Contents: | Wherefore. Preface -- The first boring. Introductory -- Discovery of Florida Phosphate -- Phosphate development in Polk and DeSoto counties -- Phosphate mining as compared with other mining ind's. -- Phosphate exported from Charlotte Harbor -- North bound shipments from Bartow -- Outward bound shipments over the F.C.& P.R.R. -- Phosphate exported from Port Tampa -- Importance of phosphates in agriculture -- Origin of pepple phosphates -- Alafia and Peace phosphates -- Analyses of soft rock and pebble phosphates -- Nodular or pebble phos. as distinguished from hard r. -- Organic remains in phosphate beds of South Florida -- Cost of mining plants -- Companies mining phosphate in Polk County -- Companies mining phosphate in DeSoto County -- Value of phosphate land -- Nodules of lore -- The Florida phosphate law. | |
| Identifier: | AAA1309QF00009/05/200003/06/200819678BfamKa D0QF (FCLAZ), FHP C SF 2000-09-05 (DNX), FCLA url 20000907 (snx), SF00000056 (IID), 2466239 (digitool), usf:37898 (fedora) | |
| Note(s): |
by Jay Shrader. Title, etc., from Contents page. Electronic reproduction. [Florida] : State University System of Florida, PALMM Project, 2000. (Florida heritage collection) Mode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: Internet connectivity; Web browser software; Adobe Acrobat Reader to view and print PDF files. Electronically reproduced by the University of South Florida from a photocopy of the book in the Main Library at the University of South Florida, Tampa. |
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| Subject(s): |
Phosphate mines and mining -- Florida -- Peace River Valley -- Humor Industries Economics and Society: Post-Civil War Florida, 1865-1913 -- Business, Agriculture, and Tourism, 1878-1897 |
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| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dl/SF00000056.pdf | |
| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dl/SF00000056.jpg | |
| Use and Reproduction: | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/ | |
| Host Institution: | USF | |
| Other Format: |
(OCoLC)22156849 |
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| Is Part of Series: | Florida heritage collection. |
