The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-08-06
IMPORTANT MATTERS UP
For Discussion at the Meeting of
the Board of Governors

the Board of Governors
Most of the members of the board
of governors were present at the
meeting in the Board of Trade rooms
Saturday night.
The most important matter before
the meeting was Oklawaha improve
ment. The governors Joined the
board of county commissioners in
presenting the vital need of river
and harbor improvement to Con-
gress, and the following resolutions
were passed and ordered forwarded
by the secretary to Washington.
1t is Vital to OcaIa
Whereas, The Marion County
Board of Trade, thru action of its
board of governors, fully appreciate
the Importance of the present river
and harbor bill, and THAT same is
being held up in the Senate, and that
there is great danger" of its defeat,
or at least going over until next ses-
sion of Congress. This would make
a break in, and tend ITO the destruc-
tion of the annual bill policy of MAX
ing river and harbor appropriations,
upon which Congress embarked in
1910
Whereas, The failure to pass the
bill will cause damage to the govern
ment, as it will increase materially
the cost of the present pro-
jects now under ways and failure
to furnish money for maintenance,
in addition will cause the deteriora-
tion of work already accomplished.
Whereas: The territory travers-
ed and contiguous to the Oklawaha
commerce being solely dependent up
on this water transportation which
has been a recognized artery of COM
merce for more than sixty years. and
upon which a very large area of
Florida was solely dependent upon
for the handling of both inbound
products, which were handled to and
from Silver Springs to Welaka,
Green Cove Springs, Palatka and
Jacksonville.
Whereas: There is now built and
launched, and will be in commission
during the present month, as per
photographs herewith submitted, a
hundred ton boat, which will operate
between Jacksonville, Palatka, and
Silver Springs, now Ocala, under leg
| IcIa d11Ixr
nicipal owend docks and terminals
for the use of every one, and through
which there will be maintained by
the operation OF this and other boats
now in use and under construction.
Whereas: We have arranged for
a steel self-propelled barge to be
loaded at New Orleans with a cargo
of rice and suger and grain, to be
delivered on and by said barge at
Silver Springs, now Ocala, fully dem
onstrating that with even the nres-
ent condition of the OkIawaha riy-
er transportation is being and can be
carried forward.
Whereas: The very life of this
great section Of our state is Deepen
| dent on this for movement of its COM
merce, and that no section of our
| great country will more readily de-
velope and become one of her richest
/ and most productive areas than that
/ lying along, and adjacent TO the Ok
lawaha, river, and the lakes forming
the complete Oklawaha project. ap-
Ipreciating the management of. and
the necessity for this work to be car
ried out. 1t is therefore,
Resolved: We endorse the pres
emit river and harbor bill pending in
the Senate, also the annual bill policy
OF making river and harbor appropri-
ations, in line with the plan and pol
icy embarked upon in 1910. Fur