The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-03-21
WANT EXHIBIT
ALASKA-YUkON
EXPOSITION
APALAcHIcoLA BOARD OF TRADE
WRITES A LETTER TO GOVERN.
OR URGING HIM TO TAKE STEPS
IN THE MATTER, AS 1T WOULD
BE A BIG ADVERTISEMENT,

The Apalachicola Board Of Trade
has written the following letter TO
Governor Albert W. GiIchrist:
Governor Albert w. Gilchrist, ITALIA
hassee, Florida.
Dear Sir: 1t is expected that from
one to two million people will attan1
the a-Yukon-Pacific exposition
THIS year at Seattle, Washington.
Believing this to be a most excellent
opportunity to advertise Florida anu
DrinS to this state, the immigration
so much desired to develop the ma
tive resources and wonderful opDor-
tunlties OF our state of commerce aui
flowers, the Board of Trade of Ana-
Iach1co!a has instructed me to write
you requesting that you take the nee.
essarJ steps to erect a Florida build
lug ana maintain an exhibit during
the exposition.
Ine exhibits of the western states
at the expositions of the world dur
ing the past so years has had much
10 Go with the marvellous develop
ment or the west | am a western
man myself and know whereof ]
speak. / also know after nearly 10
years OF residence on the coast of the
Coli Of Mexico that if people genera
IL realized the actual climatic condi-
NEbA0s SUI CdpdC4llSS anu commercial
resources and possibilities of Florida
that 1t would be one of the most pop
ulouS and prosperous states in the vn-
i0P.
From the recent sales of lands in
the Everglades and the decision of
the federal court in favor OF Florida
On the drainage tax this state is 81
funds. twenty-five or fifty thousand
dollars expended at this exposition to
supplement recent great developments
and undertakings in Florida should re
tIrn the money many fold before the
close OF the year.
WONDERFUL EXHIBIT.
Florida can make a wonderful ex-
hlDIt with her timber, soils, minerals,
fish, oysters, sponges, manufactures,
canaeries, agriculture, live stock, Cit
rus fruits, flowers, eyergreens, semi
tropical fruits and vegetation, rail-
roaCS, especially the East Coast lire
connecting the United States by rail
with Cuba, drainage of the Everglades
and consequent reclamation OF q vast
empire of land, rivaling the Valley OF
the Nile in productiveness, and as
TO- health, located only a short dist
ance south of the isothermai line OF
the Bermuda islands, the health re-
sort of the world; 1900 miles of Sc A,
coast, many miles of navigable rivers,
constructed and proposed coastal
waterways, the great Florida ship
canal when constructed with its 80
nj Jon tons of freight annually
In shOTt-fTOm the days of Ponce
de Leon and his location of the foun-
tain of eternal youth in Florida the
land OF flowers and of baimy climate,
and the founding of st. Augustine, the
Oldest city, to the present, with its
world famous pleasure grounds, unox-
Ceiled game and lshing resources,
tecming cities and commercial az
tivities and meagre population of only
about 6oO,0 inhabitants, to the nOt
distant future when the bane of mis-
representation and transformation has
been removed when because of the
drf mage of the Everglades millions
Of sores OF lands, capable Of producing
more wealth than the mines OF the
earth will be made available, when,
Because of the construction of an in
lTud waterway from the Mississippi
to the Atlantic across the peninsuls