The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-07-31

and continue to do so as long as the
timber lasts.
HardWood-We have thousands of
cords on the river banks ready for
shipment to Tampa and other points,
where there is an ever increasing de-
mand, as well as for shipment up the
river to the mines where thousands
of tons are used for the kiln drying
of rock.
Naval Stores-We have in this
neighborhood, and adjacent to the
river, naval store operators that esti-
mate in annual production of 10000
barrels rosin and 10000 barrels spir-
it's. This all can be hauled by water,
and in fact one of the operators on
the river has already made prepare
ton to haul his production up the riv-
er to Dunnellon for shipment by rail
from this point as soon as the lock
on the power dam is finished. We
have other operators who will not on
ly join in this movement but are
ready to avail themselves of the first
opportunity to ship down the river
and deliver stores on board foreign
bound vessels.
Hay, Grain, Groceries and Dry
'Goods-The town of Dunnellon alone
takes care of $4,000 tons of this
year, all of this could come by water,
in fact we have already have had
shipments come via Port Inglis from
Mobile and New Orleans in past FEARS
and now are negotiating for cargo
of grain from Mobile for delivery at
Inglis and with ten feet of water from
the loading pool to Dunnellop the
shipments could come up direct to the
town itself for the same ocean rates
as we are now paying to Inglis and
we would save the cost of extra hand
ling and railroad freight from Inglis
to Dunnellon. Furthermore with the
assurance of return cargoes our wa
ter rates would be even lower than at
present but until we get the water We
are tied hand and foot and forced to
pay the freight and looE pleasant.
Hardware and Supplies-150,00 900
tons of these come into this district
every year, machinery for the phos-
plate plants, sawmills, etc., and like
our other general supplies and feed
stuff all this could come by water as
the original shipping points are with
in easy reach of the Atlantic seaboard
and the majority right at it.
To substantiate our claim for the
amount of commerce on and in the
neighborhood of the Withlacoochee
river we wish to call attention to the
fact that Dunnellon is the hub of the
phosphate rock. belt, and while the
town has only population of about
1850 the immediate territory is filled
with the people employed in public
works, sawmills, turpentine camps
and farming. The pay rolls disbursed
in this neighborhood amount to some
$6S,000 a month, and it is easy to rea-
lie that it takes both dry goods and
groceries to keep people with ulis
amount of money to spend in food,
clothing and houseroom.
Dunnellon, with the newly opened
extension to the West via Wilcox is
a natural and logical distributing CEN
ter, and with the water right at her
door, ought to be encouraged in her
effort for an outlet and inlet by that
channel and we trust that favorable
report will be presented to the Wash
ington authorities and they will grant
our request for a ten foot channel to
the Gulf We might also add that the
town is in a position to comply with
all requirements for public docks as
it owns some good river frontage
that could not be bettered for such a
purpose.
Respectfully submitted,
DUNNELLON BOARD OF TRADE,