The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-06-10

the Captain Mcclure, Captain }. p.
Shar9 is in command OF the Florida,
Captain E. L. Mills is in command OF
the SharDshooter. and the Sirius
and the Lunette are so far down in
The river fastness / know not who
heir captains be.
Historical
Silver Springs, OF which the ma
rine station IS at the head, IS the
largest AMI most beautiful spring in
the world. The springs are OF blue
water and they boil from the Blue
Grotto and the Ladies Parlor, of
which contains the Bridal Chamber,
Shell Room. Smoking Room, Lovers
Leap, Jacobs Well and the Thou
sand springs. The largest boiling
spring in Great Bird Lake, an half
mile below here, is known as the
Ocala Peace Bowl, and the boils of
the Fossil Boneyard runs just below
il.
the common carriers map as Alex
ander, lies two miles from the roads
here. The ranch is large farm and
it has all the latest farming machin-
cry. and is noted for it's high-bred
horses and stock. its fine fruit, and
bumper crops.
Above here twelve miles as the
crow flies by landward, at the sta
ton of auckland. the farmer shall
ind the richest farming land in the
world in the fields of the five thou
sand acre plat there, where three
hundred bushels of Irish potatoes
may be dug from an acre
There is an immense farm in the
fork of the Oklawaha and Silver
river, known as the Garden of Ar
den. the S. T. Sistrunk suburban es-
tate, where are grown the finest ros-
as in the world and the finest chick
ems and hogs. In the fastness of
the Gardens of Arden honeymoon
ing would be secluded Immense
highly colored butterflies circle over
the gardens.
Okla aha River-Crooked Water
Delks Bluff, a picnic resort at the
mouth of Silver river on the Ottawa
Ea. and the picturesque Colby or
ange grove grows there
The logging landing of Red Hot
lies over against the cedar tree
country, adjacent to the station of
Good Hope, a wild portion of the
river where you may with Satanic
meanness slip out into the trees and
climb the back fence of the orange
grove deep down in the fastness
Whereabouts.
Grahamville and Conner are the
two most prominent orange grove
landings on this end of the river,
and the port of Conner is especially
reserved for the tourists in winter,
though it is favored by quite a few
on excursion days. A great farming
country extends out on all sides.
At the station of Durisoe is an
other orange grove, and just below
this station one of the longest and
most picturesque bends issues, and
1t curves its cat-like tail over the
lee ofthe NEUROLOGICAL station of
Loss Kiss, where the Just Us Girls
Clubs meets in the sunset. This
station is known on the Hart Line
map as Osceola's Last Battlefield;
and the station below it is Gore
Landing, a prominent logging sta
ton and the nearest approach to
Burbank.
Hells Half Acre, low. lying and
treacherous sandbar formation in
the rivers bed above the Shirt Tail
Bend; then begins the Straits of
Darden Kennels; and below them
the Pin Hook, Star Island, Twin Cy-
press, a curiosity for the tourist but
only trees to us.
There is a snake farm a. Eureka,
where you may sell to Mr. Fry,
iuli-D1OOI51 UoISOu IdltlGSIld LOT
IS. The snake must be alive A cot
ton-mouth moccasin, the poisonous,
is worth as much
The Farmers Alliance once had a
store at Eureka. The station is in
the farming country and there are
orange groves and turpentine about
it. Eureka is five miles below Sunday