Panama City pilot., 1908-10-08
INLAND WATERWAYS.
LETTER FROM T j. PRYOR.
MARY ESTHER, Sept. 28, 1908.
PANAMA CITY PILOT,
Panama CitV. Fla.

/ " ~ = Ou hIlluly dlION IiC ope'NN Ati
your valuable paper to call public
attention for the great necessity for
systematic organization composed
of all progressive citizens, regardless
their affluence, who should join the
Gulf Coast Inland Waterways AssO-
citation, and give it the weight of their
influence and valuable counsel.
1t is the numerical strength that
counts and carries weight with it in
an organization of this character, and
| here repeat that if you would have
this Association serve the purpose
for which it was organized, you must
give it your individual and collective
influence, and in order to get imme-
diate results we must act at once, as
| time is short and the results TO be
! fined to any class or section, but it is
national in its scope and will carry
with it great possibilities and will
offer to small investors who engage
in the carrying trade and develop
steam boat and barge lines upon the
inland waterways and no aggregation
of wealth or capitalist with monOpO-
listic intent could ever hope to stihe
an industry Of such vast proportions
and great possibilities.
With the inter coastal waterways
system complete, with its tributaries
reaching out, the inland waterways
system, tapping the coal and iron
fields, the agricultural, manufacture
ing. and the forest districts, with our
great mineral, agricultural, manu- |
factoried and forests products seek |
ing cheap transportation facilities to
the seaboard where they can be trans |.
ported and loaded at q minimum
freight rate.
This is no abstract theory but 4 /
condition that now exists, a consum-
ated fact, one that is only awaiting
for Drawn, brain and enterprise to
reach forth and take the rich rewards
that awaits.
| Not only is this a condition but I
Theoretically &ere are great and
wonderful possibilities and proba- I,
bilities that would be the natural re-
suits of the completion Of the inland I
waterways system. When we con
slider the natural advantages that /.
this bay country possesses, through T.
which this canal project would pass,
with the vast amount of ricl farm
lands, that are adapted 10 agriculture, .
fruits and vegetables, with the valu- .
able products tina, can be grown the .
year round, together with its salu-
briOus climate, its excellent surf
bathing, hunting and fishing, famed .
by the inVigorating zephyrs that gives
zest to the good old summer time,
with its proximity 10 the gulf stream
tempering influence upon our south
ern sunny cline, which makes our
winters sublime; add to these natural .
advantages system of transportation
with the outside world, gIvin- Us q
minimum freight rate and connecting
us up with the inland waterways sys-
item this coastal country would be
filled up with settlers, homeseekers
and investors that would establish
prosperous villages and towns, the
asylum of the winter tourist and
summer resOrter, the home of men
of wealth and leisure.
This territory would be flied with
prosperous farms, orchards and gar
dens that would make this section
bloom like a rose.
This is not only possible but it IS
probable if every intelligent, ener-
getic, patriotic citizen will take hold
of this project vigorously and imme-
diately, giving their influence and
valuable counsel to the Gulf Coast
Inland Waterways Association. There
ought to be and will be something
doing and its results will be imme-
dlate ana spontaneous II properly
supported.
Brethren take hold of this problem
now and give it force and weight; to
wait is hazardous, "procrastina-iOn
is the thief of time" Send in your
fee to Leland J. Henderson
Fla. 1t is but $500 for
individuals and he will enter your
name upon the roll.
Rally to the support of the Associa- =
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