Ten years after the railway arrived, Pompano had less than 250 residents, and based on newspaper articles, not all occupations were represented. In those days, the prospects for financial success were different than what we expect today.

"Pompano needs a butcher, and one will find an excellent opening for a good lucrative business."

On the other hand:

"A doctor willing to locate and grow up in the country will find Pompano a place of fair inducements. He would have to depend on pineapples and farming however for his main supper. But between Colohatchee [Wilton Manors area] and Deerfield and this place, he could catch many an odd dollar."

The economic reality seems to have been that most people ate meat more often than they fell ill.

Quotes from The Miami Metropolis, December 21, 1906.