The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-07-01


win Co., Times:
Chicago, H., June IA, 1905.
Editor Baldwin Times:
When one realizes that in old Bald
win county we have an area Of 1920
square miles and an acreage OF over
one and one quarter million acres,
and a population which will not at
this time number more than 10000
people, it is not surprising that one
engaged in the real estate business
would pause to consider the possibil-
tiles of a county with such acreage and
resources and such limited population.
In connection with this we remem-
Der a statement made by friend 10
Us some time since, namely, that ev-
erything else seems to have been look
ed after with an idea of growth and
increase but that in so far as we know
God Almighty has made all the land
He intended. To turn from this
thought to the oyer-crowded conditions
of the north, east ana even the west,
the present and future possibilities OF
the south are beyond our calculation
Real estate valuations have been
greatly enhanced and increased
throughout the entire country. especl-
ally is this true of certain large cities
around which there is located thriv-
ing and prosperous agricultural COM
munities. This increase of course has
been created by an actual demand,
and the demand being from purchas-
ers for actual development purposes
is perhaps the most healthful and
promising condition which the real
estate market could be in as 1t means
that purchases made have been mace
for development alone and not 1or
long time investments.
Before the war the agricultural pur-
suits of the south were confined en-
tirely to the old planters who with
slave labor cultivated only the low
and fat black soiled river bottoms
known to this day as the old planta-
ton tracts. The other acreage OF the
south was at this time almost entirely
| heavily covered with timber, into
which the lumbeTHan had not gone
and were then virgin forests. since
the war, however, and the awful con-
ditions which confronted the south al
that time and since. the woodman 3
ak ann saw has found its way into the
pines, bnt not until. very recent years
! has this vast acreage been cut over
and robbed of its timber, and made
accessible to the colonist and the ag-
riculturist. After the war the dis
| turbed condition of the south, the pow
lerty of the inhabitants and the uncers
tainty of attending to business gener
ally in that section operated against
the peopling of those states. There
had been no real effort made to colo
nize the south or any portion OF It.,
Both before and after the war the un-
sanitary conditions of the city and
town were alarming not alone to the
people of the north, but the Europeans
as we'll who believed it to be the home
of yellow fever and feVers of malarial
oriSin. The freedom from yellow re-
yer OF the entire south for the past
/ few years, the recognized improve
ments Of sanitary conditions not only
In the south but IN Cuba as we'll, has
changed this opinion throughout the
world. and people now generally know
| that their health is as we'll insured in
| the south as in the north and with
more genial climate, as orderly and
| as honest government, the results OF
! their toll will not only be as great but
as secure as in any part of the known
| world. The south In all respects Is
| at last before the world in it's true and
proper light, and before ten years we
will witness an astounding growth OF
| the southern states in population
wealth, manufactures. agriculture and
all classes Of commercial and financial
affairs. The wide awake people from
! the north cannot get into too close
! touch with the business people Of the
/ cfo 20 IN fhACn
! there will be a business development
! that is bound to eclipse even the mag
| nificent development made during the
recent years in the great west. Pen
sacola, Mobile, Tampa. New Orleans,
Galveston and Navy Cove will be to
| the south and the middle west what
/ New York. Philadelphia and Boston
are to the great business interests o.
the east. with their far reaching feed
ers touching the central and the great
western and northwestern territory OF
this country. The population of the
southern port cities would increase
! that unprecedented race in the ton
mage of the gulf will rival and prob
ably eventually sarpass that of the
great lakes or the Atlantic sea board,
Once the Panama canal is open to the
world, the great gulf stream Of com
merce for both the Atlantic AND Pa
cific oceans will run through that way.
and the creation of this trade will
greatly effect both northern and south.
ern ports of the United States 1t will
require not even ordinary business
knowledge to foresee the future great
destiny Of our ports of the gulf and
the increase of the Importance of the
southern section Of the union. Within
ten years the magnificent system OF
good roads, together with what has
been done during the past FIVE years
il inter-urban electric roads, has done
much for the advancement and pros
perity of many of the northern states,
and there is no question but what
this same means Of development will
be duplicated within the coming ten
years in the states south of the Ohio
and particularly in Georgia, Alabama
Texas. Arkansas, and the gulf coast
cities are bound to be the goal Of ali
those electric roads. What a nagnif
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