The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-12-04
oKLAwAHA RIVER ITEMS

"Tn sunny and balmy Florida, there
RACES the wierd and romantic Okla
waha."
Silver Springs-Ocala, Nov. 30
, The new boat the G. A. Carmichael,
the first of the Ocala freighters, has
arrived from Jacksonville, Captain
Bush commanding. The G. A. Car
michael with Capt. Bush in command
and the expert river navigator, Carl
Mason acting as pilot and full deck
crew cleared the Blue Roads on Sun
day, November %, for Jacksonville.
Mr.. c. Carmichael, owner of the yes
sci, was on board when she steamed
from this port and after arriving in
Jacksonville he placed her In the Gus
toms house. The G. A. Carmichael Is
a very fast boat, almost as fast as a.
passenger. vessel. She made, going
and the Welaka-Palatka portion of
the ST. Johns, in thirteen hours. And
on the return trip, with three tons Of
freight in her hold, she steamed the
Jacksonville -Palatka end of the broad
st. Johns IN just seven hours, and
breasted the strong current of the
raging Oklawaha river, Welaka to-
Silver Springs, in fifteen hours.
Young Mason stood out the entire
watches in that twenty-five
hours, with no sleep. The G.. A. Car
michael will carry crew of six, in
GLIDING the captins Mr.. Bush, the
constructor and captain, should be-
proud of the vessel. Ocala should be
proud of her, for water and vessels
unravel the oppressive freight rates.
A new freight service has entered
on the Little Oklawaha river. Mr.
E
Juniper creek, towed up with the tug
Fox flat-bottomed boat and hauled
her out on the ways here to receive
engine, etc. Mr.. Marsh will enter the
vessel, the Frances Annie, on the Lit
tie Oklawaha river, from which pur-
pie and shallow waters he will haul
down oranges grown in the Electra,
Moss Bluff and Tiger DEN country.
He will ship the oranges via the land
locked port of Ocala.
The Mills Steamboat
The Mills Steamboat Lire, navigat-
ing the Sharpshoot;er, is very busy In
ORANGES and naval stores. often run
ming 81 night by her great search
light This vessel clears for Palatka
Tuesday, with oranges and other
freighk In 1914 this steiner alone
hauled on the OklsIwaha over 100000
tons of freight. OF this nearly seven
tons were oranges. On account of
the low water over 10000 tons of
naval stores could not be moved
The Oklawaha River Tour
The Oklawaha river tour tourist
steamers and daylight yschts enter
on their schedule about the 10th of
January, or just before. / understand
that the Hart Line will operate four
steamers, two daylight steamers and
the two steamers we all know-t the
Okeehumkee and Hiawatha. The Sill
yer Springs Company will operate its
two daylight yachts this year-the
new Silver Springs and the City of
Ocala.
The Randall Grove and the Wenona
Wilderness
The Randall orange grove and rose
garden at Conner and the Wenona
silver wilderness and rose gardens at
Arden-these two faomus places and
the Carmichael ranch, the Avenue of
i Kisses, the orange grove at Good
Hope, the last battlefield of Osceola
and Sunday Bluff-al1 these points
can be quickly reached every day by
steamer while the tourist season
lasts. An Ocalan and visitor may
Cohc q udyuSHC ydcHt mere dI . d. III.
on any day, Sunday included, and in
a few minutes, or hours, reach the
orange groves, stay all day, and late
IN the afternoon, say 5 o'clock, catch
and upstream yacht and arrive in
Silver Springs; then Chamber aboard
Dobbs' automobile bus and arrive in
Ocala before the winter night. This
is the first tourist season in which
the yachts are so convenient for home
folks. A. Al. G..