The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-08-21
some Of uKELAND's
MANY ADVANTAGES

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a write-up of Lakeland. and a CON-
mittee from the Board of Trade fur
nished the following:
The Board of Trade of Lakeland
invites correspondence upon the op-
portunities for the establishment of
manufacturing and general business
enterprises or in the investment Of
capital in this section.
Lakeland will shortly begin paw
ing its business streets with brick,
and residence section with asphalt
blocks. In addition to the paving,
the city has contracted for the sani-
tary sewerage system. and city hall
in keepin.s tn the population of
the place.
Prosperity is not waiting to
knock at the doors of Lakeland, but
has evidently entered and taken pos
session of the city. a number of
large buildings already underway, to
be carried out during the next six
months, foot up over a half millOG
dollars. These developments include
"a $4,000 freight depot, 100000 ice
plant. $4,000 postofiice building.
$40, 900 auditorium, $4,000 hospi-
tai, a 200-room hotel, and many resi-
dences to cost from $4,000 to $15,-
900. The Atlantic Coast Line rail-
road has just completed fine pas
senger station at cost of $40, 0On.
Probably no city in Florida is grow
ing more rapidly than Lakeland
with the great amount of devel-
Opment work that is going on in
and around the city, her population
is increasing with such rapid strides
that the proposition of caring for
her increase in the number of her
citizens has become a problem
Houses are in such great demand as
to preclude the possibilities of i'm
mediately caring for the great in
rush. and. though building Opcra-
tons are going on as rapidly rs pos
sible hundreds of hOmcscekers Hho
have come here to locate permanent
ly and have to content themselves In
hotels and boarding houses, and
these are Overrun. The city has
grown so fast that it has taken prac-
tically all of the available capital OF
those at the head of the various big
business enterprises in Lakeland to
care for their own businesses; hence
there is no idle capital In the city
with which to build homes for rental
purposes, and Lakeland through tbs
cnterprising Board of Trade is call
ing for outside assistance for out
side capital to come to Lakeland and
build homes. There is ample ground
in the city on which to build homes
for the homeless aud high rentals
are Offered for houses to he built, but
the demand far exceeds the supply
The growth of Lakeland is sub
stantial, and is based upon trade con-
ditions that are permanent and last
ing The commercial and manulac-
turing activities here are SO inter
woven with the natural resources
which are being developed in our
midst that the growth must ncccs-
sarily continue for many years. Lake
land will endure as long as the sun
shines and the soil gives up it's treas
ures.
I'm addition to being the tinan-
cial. industrial and social center OF
Polk county, Lakeland is peculiarly
blessed as to climate. Its extreme
F.! elevation more than two hundred
feet above sea level gives it COM
pletc freedom from malaria and sim
| liar diseass, and Il climate made ideal
by the constantly blowing sea breezes
| in the summer. and by the surround
ing and protecting bodies of fresh
water i'm the winter months. EleNa-
ton and water protection practically
eliminate damage from frost. Roses
bloom throughout the winter; straw
berries and winter vegetables come
in marketing condition unframed,
and grapefruit hangs safely upon the
heavily. laden trees until after
christmas.
In 1881 mere spot in the wilder
ness. il has long been the center of
the lumber and turpentine and Plies
phate industries. thriving upon the
growth of these. while the hundreds
of beautiful homes which now sur
round its several lakes. took form
and attested to the wealth of their
owners. With the passing of the
lumber and turpctnine operators
came the citrus fruit grower. and the
intensive farmer, until today Lake
land is the center of the strawberry