The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-09-17
ocALA MAKING STEADY GROWTH

Ocala continues to make forward
strides, and is slowly but surely dis
icarding the swaddling clothes that
she has so long worn as town and
step by steP is enrolling herself in the
garments Of city.
She already has railroads approach
ing her incorporated limits from all
directions, north, east, south and west,
and others are on the way.
She has long enjoyed electric light
ing, night and day currents, and al
thuogh the plant was recently enlarg-
ed it is again being taxed to its full
capacity and soon another enlarge
ment will be necessary, which of it
self tells the story of progress.
Ocala also enjoys telephone service
! Qong and short distance) telegraph
and a system of underground sewer
age which seems possible to solve this
difficult problem.
The streets bordering the public
square and one block adjacent there
to are paved with vitrified brick, and
now this excellent system is be-
ling extended on down Magnolia street
as far north as the Seaboard Air Line
railway depot One by one all the
streets of Ocala, in time, will be paw
ed with this most excellent material,
which is by far the best, and in the
long run the cheapest of all paving
material, because there is scarcely
any wear to it. The rains do not wash
it TO pieces, and it requires no annual
expenditure for repairs.
For long time Ocala's hotels were
noted for being the largest land for
time the best kept of any in the
state, yet while other towns have
reached us and perhaps Outstripped
US in the hotel line, we understand
that movement is on foot which will
again place Ocala in the vanguard of
interior towns in this respect. 1t may
be noted here that nothing adds more
to the reputation and growth of a
town than well-kept hotels.
Ocala's court house, lawn and pub
lie square are the admiration of ev-
cry visitor and her store buildings
will hold their own with any interior
town in Florida, and is surpassed by
few of the bigger cities.
Ocala's government building occu-
pies an entire block, and while the
building is without ornamental frills,
founces or furbelows, it is a most
substantial structure. Including the
cellar, which will be utilized for the
distribution of the mails, it is four
stories. The grounds will be beauti-
fully kept and we'll provided with ce-
ment walks.
Ocala is constantly extending her
business along the lines of wholesale
development
She now has very large iron works,
foundry and machine shops, several
garage establishments, two ice plants,
two lumber and planning mills, large
crate factory, several wholesale feed,
grain and grocery establishments, two
bottling wodks, lime works, and a fer
tilizer factory is in progress OF con-
struction.
| We have two cement block plants,
two daily and two weekly newspapers
and one agricultural monthly that
keeps the town fairly we'll advertised
Making notable improvements along
many lines Ocala has made more i'm
provements in the number, style and
finish of her residences, her lawns,
flower gardens, cement sidewalks and
stone copings than in anything else.
Ocala's residential section will now
compare favorably with, and in all
possibility are handsomer than that
of any other town of its size in Flor
ida, and this is largely because she
has so many beautiful building sites.
Like Rome, she sits upon an hill and
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apex of these hills and the undula-
tons following them present many
beautiful building spots.
When some Columbus from the
/ bleak regions of the north discovers
Ocala and let's its beauty and situa-
ton become known to those who
want to build homes in our salubrious
climate Ocala ought to become far
more famed than Daytona in this re-
gard, because naturally Ocala is more
hilly, unduitlng and beautiful.
Besides the handsome residences
Oeala already boasts, she is building
others and the music of the saw and
hammer goes merrily on.
Mr.. Clifton Camp is building one of
the most modern style residences
known to architects on Camp Heights,