The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1885-12-31

new Year work far TaIlahassee.
During the year Of grace which dawns
tomorrow the fair city of Tallahassee
should push through the obstaeies that
have held her back, and spring forward
to join the sisterhood of cities in the race
of progress which is making Florida q
great State. We firmly believe that she
will, and that the first steps in her new
career will be taken during the years
earlier weeks. She has the power to
command the object and to control her
fate-to be, or not 10 be, live and thriv-
ing place, her streets thronged with visi-
tors, with new buildings going up on all
sides, eager purchasers seeking invest
lnents in county lands, and settlers To-
eating their homes in many fertile but
now lonely places. These results are at
command, for the city is able to create
the agency which will bring them about,
and the lack of which alone prevents re-
advantages in the healthy and beautiful
country and productive soil we possess.
Unquestionably the benefit of these would
have been realized heretofore if the city
and county had not been insulated by
want of direct, quick and cheap commu-
nication with the States that have poured
people and capital into those more Access
sible sections of Florida which have dis
tanced ours in development and pros
perity.
The city is able to assure the construc-
ton of the short line of railroad that will
give US the service of thousands of miles
of railroad already built, and traversing
many States from which we will receive
sojoulners and settlers when the way is
opened to them. The amount the city
may vote, with other resources in reach,
will place the undertaking on such basis
that the work will progress to compile
ton without delay for lack of means.
Clear headed men of business do not
question that all the money necessary
will be forthcoming in aid of an enter
prise thus well begun by the
city of Tallahassee. The people
of Savannah, of Thomas county,
and the managers of other rail-
roads, are interested in this link which
will connect the Georgia system with the
line through Middle Florida, and open
to them the country down to Gulf
waters. An article printed elsewhere in
this paper shows the Importance that
Savannah people attach to line to some
point or points in Middle Florida. The
opening of the new year should find Tai
lahassee prompt to appreciate the sltua-
ton and to exert the power she
possesses to control her own future,
and not leave it to favoring chance, or to
the adverse action of competing interests.
An ordinance of Council providing for
an election on the question of raising
money to secure the railroad may enable
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ruary, and with it would begin the pros
perity of Tallahassee A minor but con-
siderable item, of immediate consequence,
would be the disbursement in the city of
the money the city expended for the
work, while the prospect of the quick
completion of the road would at once
induce persone to seek residence or make
investments here, cause demand for
property and consequent appreciation of
values. Thus would begin repetition
OF the history of booms that have
quickly built up SO many towns; and the
road being completed the city would
continue in the course of steady and
substantial prosperity which would nee
essarly result from so pleasant a locality
being male accessible, and from de-
mand at fair prices being created for all
that the fertile surrounding country could
produce.
The road norlhward may be commenced
and finished in the year 1886, and next
new years day find Tallahassee vigorous
with new life.