1 100 1 https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka/files/original/ea4959b7c05cf299addc3959a8ad2d4f.pdf b631d727a7c4754a7523337e59060d5f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title Citrus Collection Alternative Title Citrus Collection Subject Chase and Company (Sanford, Fla.) Citrus--Florida Citrus fruit industry--Florida Description Chase & Company was established by Joshua Chase and his brother Sydney in 1884. The company sold insurance and later invested in storage facilities and fertilizer sales. Chase & Company was known mainly for its agricultural interests and maintained a series of citrus groves throughout Central Florida. The company was based out of Sanford, Florida, and became one of the city's largest employers into the early twentieth century. By 1886, the Chase brothers purchased several citrus groves to expand their business, including Isleworth Grove in Windermere. Isleworth Grove covered a total of 1,300 acres along the Butler Chain of Lakes. Between 1894 and 1895, Central Florida was hit by several freezes and most of the citrus crop was destroyed. Chase & Company did not grow citrus crops again until 1904 when Joshua came back from an extended stay in California. Between 1894 and 1900, different types of pesticide equipment was created, including equipment driven by steam, machines, and horses. Randall Chase joined in the family business soon after his brother, Sydney Chase, Jr., did in 1922. Randall became the president of Chase & Company from 1948-1965. The Isleworth property stayed in the Chase family until 1984 when Franklin Chase, the son of Sydney Chase, sold the property to famed golfer Arnold Palmer. Is Part Of <a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/15" target="_blank">Chase Collection</a>, RICHES of Central Florida. Language eng Type Collection Coverage Belair Grove, Lake Mary, Florida Isleworth Grove, Windermere, Florida Sanford, Florida Contributing Project <a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">Special and Area Studies Collections</a>, University of Florida <a href="http://ufdc.ufl.edu/" target="_blank">Digital Collections (UFDC)</a>, University of Florida Curator Cepero, Laura Marra, Katherine Digital Collection <a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a> External Reference "<a href="http://floridacitrushalloffame.com/index.php/inductees/inductee-name/?ref_cID=89&bID=0&dd_asId=600" target="_blank">Sydney Chase Sr. (1860-1941)</a>." Florida Citrus Hall of Fame. Copyright 2012. http://floridacitrushalloffame.com/index.php/inductees/inductee-name/?ref_cID=89&bID=0&dd_asId=600. Warner, S.C. "<a href="http://www.fshs.org/Proceedings/Password%20Protected/1923%20Vol.%2036/198-200%20%28WARNER%29.pdf" target="_blank">Development of Marketing Citrus Fruits in Florida</a>." Florida State Horticultural Society vol. 36 (1923): 198-200. Hopkins, James T. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1219230" target="_blank">Fifty Years of Citrus, the Florida Citrus Exchange: 1909-1959</a>. Gainesville, Florida: University of Florida Press: 1960. "<a href="http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1986-09-30/news/0260060057_1_chase-isleworth-golf-florida-citrus" target="_blank">Franklin Chase, 'Towering Figure in Citrus Industry</a>.'" The Orlando Sentinel, September 30, 1986. http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1986-09-30/news/0260060057_1_chase-isleworth-golf-florida-citrus. Weaver, Brian. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43312643" target="_blank">The Citrus Industry in the Sunshine State</a>. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 1999. Contributor <a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">Special and Area Studies Collections</a>, University of Florida <a href="http://ufdc.ufl.edu/" target="_blank">Digital Collections (UFDC)</a>, University of Florida Has Part <a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/91" target="_blank">Belair Grove Collection</a>, Citrus Collection, Chase Collection, RICHES of Central Florida. <a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/100" target="_blank">Florida Citrus Exchange Collection</a>, Citrus Collection, Chase Collection, RICHES of Central Florida. <a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/88" target="_blank">Isleworth Grove Collection</a>, Citrus Collection, Chase Collection, RICHES of Central Florida. Provenance Entire <a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/pkyonge/chase.htm" target="_blank">Chase Collection</a> is comprised of four separate accessions from various donors, including Cecilia Johnson, the granddaughter of Joshua Coffin Chase and the children of Randall Chase. Rights Holder The displayed collection is housed at <a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">Special and Area Studies Collections</a> at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. Rights to this item belong to the said institution, and therefore inquiries about the item should be directed there. <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> has obtained permission from Special and Area Studies Collections at the University of Florida to display this item for educational purposes only. Source Repository University of Florida, <a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">Special and Area Studies Collections</a> Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format 3 page typewritten letter on Chase & Company letterhead Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title Letter from Sydney Chase to Joshua Chase (March 27, 1928) Alternative Title Chase Correspondence (March 27, 1928) Subject Chase, Sydney Octavius, 1860-1941 Chase, Joshua Coffin, 1858-1948 Citrus fruit industry--Florida Wabasso (Fla.) Quincy (Fla.) Guava Sanford (Fla.) Orlando (Fla.) Chase and Company (Sanford, Fla.) Description An original letter of correspondence between brothers and business partners Sydney Octavius Chase and Joshua Coffin Chase. Topics discussed in the letter include Eli Walker (the "Granddaddy of the citrus business" in the Vero and Wabasso area of Florida); Chase & Company's acquisition of more land in Orlando and the McNiff Grove in Wabasso, Florida; Sydney's suggestion on obtaining citrus land near Quincy, Florida; and his observations on guava plants. Chase & Company was established by Joshua Chase and his brother Sydney in 1884. The company sold insurance and later invested in storage facilities and fertilizer sales. Chase & Company was known mainly for its agricultural interests and maintained a series of citrus groves throughout Central Florida. The company was based out of Sanford and became one of the city's largest employers into the early twentieth century. By 1886, the Chase brothers purchased several citrus groves to expand their business, including Isleworth Grove. Creator Chase, Sydney Octavius Source Original letter from Sydney Octavius Chase to Joshua Coffin Chase, March 27, 1928: Chase Collection (MS 14), box 3, folder 13.46, <a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">Special and Area Studies Collections</a>, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. Date Created 1928-03-27 Is Referenced By Folder referenced in Chase Collection finding guide, <a title="A Guide to the Chase Collection" href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/pkyonge/chase.htm" target="_blank">http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/pkyonge/chase.htm</a>. Requires <a href='http://www.adobe.com/reader.html' target='_blank'>Adobe Acrobat Reader</a> Format application/pdf Extent 5,405 KB Medium 3 page typewritten letter on Chase & Company letterhead Language eng Type Text Coverage Sanford, Florida Orlando, Florida Vero Beach, Florida Wabasso, Florida Quincy, Florida Thonotosassa, Florida Spatial Coverage 28.811729, -81.268138 28.538084, -81.378593 27.638828, -80.397463 27.748417, -80.436158 30.587386, -84.583426 28.061377, -82.302217 Temporal Coverage 1928-03-27 Accrual Method Donation Provenance Entire <a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/pkyonge/chase.htm" target="_blank">Chase Collection</a> is comprised of four separate accessions from various donors, including Cecilia Johnson, the granddaughter of Joshua Coffin Chase and the children of Randall Chase. Rights Holder The displayed collection item is housed at <a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">Special and Area Studies Collections</a> at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. Rights to this item belong to the said institution, and therefore inquiries about the item should be directed there. <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> has obtained permission from Special and Area Studies Collections at the University of Florida to display this item for educational purposes only. Contributing Project <a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">Special and Area Studies Collections</a>, University of Florida <a href="http://ufdc.ufl.edu/" target="_blank">Digital Collections (UFDC)</a> Curator Marra, Katherine Digital Collection <a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a> Source Repository <a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">University of Florida, Special and Area Studies Collections</a> External Reference "Sydney Chase Sr. (1860-1941)." Florida Citrus Hall of Fame. Copyright 2012. http://floridacitrushalloffame.com/index.php/inductees/inductee-name/?ref_cID=89&bID=0&dd_asId=600. Warner, S.C. "Development of Marketing Citrus Fruits in Florida." Florida State Horticultural Society vol. 36 (1923): 198-200. Hopkins, James T. Fifty Years of Citrus, the Florida Citrus Exchange: 1909-1959. Gainesville, Florida: University of Florida Press: 1960. External Reference Title "<a href="http://floridacitrushalloffame.com/index.php/inductees/inductee-name/?ref_cID=89&bID=0&dd_asId=600" target="_blank">Sydney Chase Sr. (1860-1941)</a>" "<a href="http://www.fshs.org/Proceedings/Password%20Protected/1923%20V%20ol.%2036/198-200%20%28WARNER%29.pdf" target="_blank">Development of Marketing Citrus Fruits in Florida</a>" <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1219230" target="_blank">Fifty Years of Citrus</a> Transcript CHASE & COMPANY GROWERS' MARKETING AGENTS PACKERS AND SHIPPERS FLORIDA FRUITS AND VEGETABLES SANFORD, FLORIDA March 27, 1928. Mr. J. C. Chase, Orlando, Fla. Dear Josh: I want to congratulate you on signing up the Pryor contract for the Orlando house. Unquestionably this is the biggest block of fruit which has ever been secured at one time for the Orlando house thru the combined efforts of our entire organization. As information, if you can do so, I would like to know how many boxes of fruit which passed thru the Orlando house this season were contract fruit and how many boxes were packed for others. Yesterday I spent from noon until six o'clock going over tomato fields and young citrus plantings on drained lands west of Vero and Wabasso, including the McNiff property. It is almost unbelievable when shown groves that have only been planted three to five years that compare favorably with groves in the central part of the state which have been out eight and, ten years. This growth has resulted from the use of but very little fertilizer. Old Eli. Walker, who is the Granddaddy of the citrus business in that section, doesn't use 1000# of fertilizer per acre per year to big bearing trees. He has a wonderful grove, but I know he would produce more fruit, and better sized fruit, he he used a ton of fertilizer to the acre. Eli's plan is to give each tree individual treatment, and only give it fertilizer when he sees it getting yellow, or apparently needing some stimulent, but does not, according to his own statement, give a general fertilizing but once a year and that a very light one. I met Mr. Graves, who is the principal owner and Tzar of the Sebastian Lana Company. The land he has was purchased from the Barnetts. Their first move was to cut the timber, from this land, using portable sawmills; after the timber was cut they then leased the land to tomato growers, of course after certain drainage canals have been put in. After the land has been used for trucking for three or four seasons they then plant it to citrus. This past season they planted out 400 or 500 acres in citrus, some tangerines, a good many Valencias, and some grapefruit. I had quite a visit with this Mr. Graves, who is a big tobacco grower at Quincy, Florida. McNiff tells me that they marketed their citrus this year thru the American Fruit Growers. McNiff is of the opinion that with proper efforts on our part, if we can lease a packing house at Wabasso or some other point close to their property, we would stand a good chance of signing them up for this year; and he also believes if we would join them in putting up a modern packing house, located where they would prefer, that they might put up half the money for the construction of same. I think this section is well worth careful investigation, with a view of increasing our citrus business in that vicinity. If any new packing houses are considered at all I would prefer putting them in this section to any part in the central part of the state or thru the Thonotosassa section. I saw large guava trees which passed thru the cold spell of this winter with full foliage, and with green fruit on it. This is proof that the average cold does not effect them seriously. It is a deep warm soil, and I think the big drainage canals act as cold drainage, cold air being carried off to river bottoms thru these canals. The soil which the dredges cut thru is sometimes five or six feet of sand loan, some clay and some shell, and in no instance did I see quicksand. I am sorry I did not visit this section years ago. MCNIFF GROVE, AT WABASSO: I was agreeably surprised by the land embraced in this deal. The grove itself is looking very much better than it did some weeks ago, however it shows evidence of having been badly handled, and a year or eighteen months of neglect. Some trees will have to be taken out, and new trees set. There is a considerable acreage which can be set right away with some expense connected with mounding the ground up and providing drainage leading to the drainage canal. The land can be gotten in shape and the trees planted in May or June. Nothing would be gained in attempting to plant them now, as all nursery stock is covered with new growth and for that reason it is not a good time to transplant. I think the title of this property is now in shape to close the deal up. The objections which Foster found to the title, as exposed by the abstract, the Vero attorney states have been corrected by deeds in his possession which have not as yet been put on record. Randall and Foster will probably go down that way next week and close the deal. I understand that McMichael, the American Fruit Growers head man in that territory, has been confined to the house for the past thirty days with heart trouble, and is flat of his back. McMichael was pretty heavily interested in some of the banks in Vero which closed in the past year, and McNiff thinks he has worried too much over some of his personal business matters. Yours very truly, S.O.C DISTRIBUTORS Sunniland FRUITS AND VEGETABLES SOC:HMR. Is Format Of Digital reproduction of original letter from Sydney Octavius Chase to Joshua Coffin Chase, March 27, 1928. Is Part Of Chase Collection (MS 14), box 3, folder 13.46, <a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">Special and Area Studies Collections</a>, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. <a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/93" target="_blank">Citrus Collection</a>, Chase Collection, RICHES of Central Florida. Audience Education Level SS.K.A.1.2; SS.1.A.1.1; SS.1.A.2.2; SS.1.A.2.4; SS.1.E.1.4; SS.2.A.1.1; SS.3.A.1.1; SS.4.A.1.1; SS.4.A.7.1; SS.4.E.1.1; SS.4.E.1.2; SS.5.A.1.1; SS.6.W.1.3; SS.7.E.2.4; SS.8.A.1.5; SS.8.E.2.1; SS.8.E.2.3; SS.912.A.1.1; SS.912.A.1.6; SS.912.A.5.4; SS.912.E.2.3; SS.912.W.1.3 Mediator History Teacher Economics Teacher American Fruit Growers Barnett Chase and Co. graves McNiff McNiff Grove Orlando house Pryor Pryor contract Sebastian Sebastian Land Co. Sebastian Land Company Thonotosassa Valencias Walker, Eli