The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-04-13
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Editor Pensacola Journal:
IL was my privilege and pleasure to
be one of the excursionists that took
in the trip last Friday to Jonesville
and back over the Deep Water Route"
ana as deeply interested party from
start to finish, / want to give you in
as Few words as possible my impress
sion OF the territory we passed through
on the occasion. The success Of the
trip was in a large measure due to
Mr.. J. ID. CAROLS efforts In securing
such a large number to avail them
selves of the opportunity of seeing
new territory that up to the time the
Deep Water Route opened it up, was
entirely unknown to most Pensaco-
lians.
Mr.. Carroll pulled off his coat roll
sd up his sleeves (fgurately) and
went to work to secure an attendance
that would be credit to the city and
railroad, with the result that by the
time the train was ready to pull out
OF the West Garden street depot, fully
three hundred and fifty passengers
were aboard the cars.
The first few miles out of Pensa-
cola the soil from an agricultural
standpoint is not very promising, but
on getting in the Olive neighborhood,
and further on to Roberts and Con-
zalez, the soil is all that one could
wish as a means of crop production.
Those places are fairly we'll known to
all travellers on the L. & N. railroad.
But after leaving Muscogee, we plunge
into an entirely new territory to most
of those on board, and from Barri-
neau Park, on to the state line near
Atmore, the train traversed a terri
tory which is an empire in itself OF
the finest farm lands in the state of
Florida, the future prosperity of which
no one present, even the most optt-
mistic, could measure.
The soil is of very high grade and
the natural drainage good, and when
the right class of farmers take hold
OF that land and develop it, we can
hardly have any idea as to the enor-
nous crops it can produce. The opin-
ion so generally expressed that the
city of Pensacola has territory ad-
jacent to it that no other city in the
state has, was amply verified by those
on the Deep Water Route excursion
last Friday, on passing through that
newly opened up part of EScambia
county, and the only thing now lacking
is to let the rest of the world know
the splendid opportunity here afford
ed for those desiring a location where
the soil and climate is everything that
could be desired. The train made
short stops at all stations along the
route and at every point the people
from the surrounding territory were
at the depot to bid it welcome, but
it was left to Mccullough to give us
the rousing welcome that every one
so much appreciated. Mayor j. A.
Neal was promptly on hand, doing his
best to make every one feel at home.
President Dobson of the CONNER
cial Association, made speech, ex-
pressing his qualification, at being pres
ent and meeting such a. large crowd
of the Inhabitants of the surrounding
country and invited all to make Pen
sacola an objectivel point when they
wanted to do profitable business. Sec
rotary Henderson also spoke as to the
desirability of their doing the largest
share of their business in Pensacola
and expressed the conviction that in
very few years Pensacola would be
second to no city on the gulf coast.
c. K. McQuarrie spoke to the farm
ers present. expressing his pleasure of
being present and counciling better
farming methods, combining the art of
farming with the science of agriculture
thus enabling them to grow more and
better crops and be better able to fight
their arch enemy, the boil weevil.
Mayor Neal made a few remarks, well
coming the excursionists after which
the train moved to Jonesville. The
time at Jonesville was limited as con-
siderable time was consumed on the