Cañon City record., 1907-05-09

The Oklawaha is fed by innumerable
springs of great size. You can ride
up into them in the boats. Many OF
them send out streams with more
water than normally flows down the
Arkansas. The springs are great bas-
ins into which you could drop build
ing the size of the Strathmore. The
water comes bubbling up through the
sand. The water is as clear as the
atmosphere. You can drop dime in
and see it lay on the sand at the bot
tom, forty or sixty feet below, as
plainly as you would on the bottom
of an ordinary tumbler.
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On the east coast are fine bodies
of water running parallel with the
coast. They call them rivers, though
they are more like sounds. The water
is salt They are fed by inland
streams and are all connected with
the ocean by inlets through which the
tide comes in and out. They will av-
erage several miles in width and only
a few feet in depth. Large boats can
not go on these rivers, but they are
charming for the smaller yachts.
These rivers are full of all kinds of
sea fish and sea life, and lower down
the bottoms are covered with oysters.
Many places the sand ridge running
between the Atlantic ocean and the
river is only few yards wide and you
can sail calmly down the peaceful
waters of the river and see and hear
the roaring breakers of the ocean only
a few feet away. OF such as this is
the Matenzas river at St. Augustine.
and the famous Indian river farther
down.
All these coast line water ways are
being connected by canal work and in
few years one can go by boat from
Jacksonville to Miami on these inland
ocean waters and not meet swell
much heavier than a ripple in the
Arkansas.
The east coast has the greatest sys-
TEN of hotels in the country, all the
way from St. Augustine to Miami.
They were built by Henry NJ. Flagler.
It is these hotels and the East Coast
railway that bring the tourists to
Florida by the thousands-and gets
their money by the millions.
The hotels are magnificent, the
Ponce de Leon at ST Augustine costing
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use trying to describe them.
| have never seen any state that has
profited by the personal efforts and
personal investments of single man
as Florida has profited by Henry NJ.
Flagler.
About everything that is good on
the east coast has been built by him
the railroads. hotels, churches, homes,
etc. He is now engaged in building
the railroad over from Miami to Key
West, couple of hundred miles across
the sea. Great concrete arches will
span from one invisible key to another
and for miles the cars will fly along
over the sea entirely out of sight OF
land The track will be thirty feet
;bove high tide.
This road will be complete to Key
West within two years and then Mr..
Flagler will have invested hundred
million dollars in Florida enterprises.
When Mr.. Flagler wants to build a
million dollar hotel or ten million
dollar railroad, or anything else, he
doesn't issue any stock or sell any
bonds. He merely goes ahead and
builds it and pays for it with his per
sonaI check. and when complete it is
all his.
Strange, isn't It. how the more
man does for a community, be it
| small community or a large one. the
more people "cuss" him. In Florida
everybody out of the faction that is
in control use the name Flagler to
damn those who are in, and to be
branded FlagIer man will defeat
any man. especially In the rural coun-
ties.
Yet Mr.. Flagler seems to take about
as little interest, personally, In Flor