The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-06-02
SILVER sPRINes-A GLIMPSE
INTO THE FUTURE

Silver Springs is at last coming
into possession of it's own, and is rap
idly undergoing a transformation In
a score or less of years it will be one
of the noted resorts and beauty spots
of Florida.
hr. Ed Carmichael, who is now in
control of the property adjacent to
the head of the springs, has filed in
a good deal of the marsh with sand,
has put up a pavilion, where dancing
may be enjoyed, bathing suits pro-
cured, ice cream and other delicacies
may be obtained. He has twenty or
more steel bottom boats, several nap
tina launches, several glass bottom
ones, and every day there are picnic
parties on the springs, and life glides
along as merrily as a marriage bell.
Mr.. Patrick T. Randall and others
have larger boats, which are always
conveying pleasure parties up and
down the river.
Quite a number of ladies went down
yesterday, taking with them their
sewing and lunch baskets, and en-
joyed a picnic dinner on the margin
of this romantic stream.
The editor of this paper went down
the run as far as Carmichaels Land
ing.
Mr.. Carmichael has a farm here of
several thousand acres, and was busy
cutting and baling oats. He has one
of the finest oat crops grown in the
county. II was better than the oat
crop in other sections because it was
planted on moist soil and did not suf-
fer from the pronlonged drouth, as so
many oat crops did throughout the
county.
On his pasture we counted six fine
colts, and in his hennery we saw the
unusual sight of twelve hundred incu-
bator chickens, ranging from those
recently Matched to frying size. They
are absolutely free of insects of all
descriptions and blights and blemish-
es of all kinds. No "sore-head," no
"chiggers," nothing but strong, heal
thy chickens. The sight is worth go
ing many miles to see.
Mr.. Carmichael has a nice bunga-
low "a pool and billiard table, several
beds and generous table for the en-
tertainment of his friends.
Across the stream is Arden" Mr..
Sistrunk's noted stock farm. 1t will
not be many years before the margin
of this stream will be dotted with
beautiful farms and palatial homes.
The soil is finer than that of the Ev-
erglades, and the stream is one of
magic beauty.
Already a trolley line is planned
from Ocala to the springs, and when
this is accomplished it will become a
winter playground for thousands of
tourists visiting the state by boat,
train and auto, and in the summer it
will become a watering place for
Ocala people. In ten years the whole
aspect of this vicinity will undergo
a change, and people will be counted
by hundreds where they are now
counted only by tens.
With Silver Springs and the Okla
waha to the east, Lake Weir to the
south, Blue Springs and the Withla-
coochee river to the west, and Or
ange Lake to the north and Orange
Springs to the northeast Ocala is
certainly favorably located and all:
these places will soon be connected
by trolley, and this section will take
its place as the stone of the corner
which the builders rejected.
AT Silver Springs there is already
everything that is pleasing to the eye
and satisfying to the senses: Boating,
bathing, fishing, dancing, eating, see
ing and enjoying. Nature has done
her part well, and man now, increas-
ing in numbers, will proceed to util-
ize this wonderful gift and make it,
indeed, an Ell Dorado.