The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1914-03-06
WHAT A PIKE COUNTY MAN
HAS TO SAY ABOUT FLORIDA.

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Eldred, Fla, Feb. 22.-To my
many friends and acquaintance in
the Big Sandy Valley, Pike county
especially, / live in four miles of
Ft. Pierce. Fla, the county seat of
st. Lucie county, beautiful thriv-
ing city of about 1000 inhabitants,
on what Is known as the Indian
River front drive way. There is
no city in the United States that
has street more decorated with
beautiful flowers than has this
driveway. There are people in Pike
county who have seen this driveway
that will verify my statement.
Florida today has more unculti-
waited productive land than any
state in the union. Less than ten
per cent is actually in cultivation.
1t is not because the land is poor,
nor because the climate is bad, nor
because we are not near the mar
kets, but it is because Florida has
been overlooked. The state has not
had the attention from her own peo-
pie nor of the world outside, that
she has not been developed.
In point of climate, that in Flor
ida cannot be excelled anywhere in
America. Come to Florida and we
will show you the most equal eli
mate in the world, with more sun
shine when need and more rain
when wanted than any country on
earth Come to Florida and we will
show you the finest soil under the
SUM- We will show you land pro-
ducing five and six crops year; we
will show you land producing the
finest potatoes and more of them
than any country in the world; we
will show you land producing the
finest tomatoes, beans, celery, cab
bage, lettuce, turnips, and all 9TH
or vegetables practically every
month in the year. l have a gar
den now full of all kind of vege-
tables as fine as ! ever saw grow
on Big Sandy. We can show you
the finest groves of oranges xand
grapefruit, bananas, pineapples and
all tropical and citres fruit. There
Is large quantities of strawberries
now in mid-winter being gathered
and sold for 75c and $1.00 quart |
for the Northern markets. We will
show you everything that grows in
the ground or above the ground in
quantity or quality equal to the
most productive countries in het
world.
Come to Florida and we will show
you more miles of macadam roads
over which you can travel hundreds
of miles and everything with more
conveniences and everything
that makes for the comfort and
of the people. II would
say 100 automobiles pass my house
each day would not be putting 1t
too high, not mentioning the motor
cycles and other vehicles.
In my opinion Florida is the most
healthful country in the world.She
can show lower percentage of NOR
tally than that shown by any other
country in the world. We can not
show you that tabled Fountain of
Youth for which Ponce De Leon
sought so long and believed he had
discovered in the land of flowers,
but we can show you people that
are living just as happy, comfort
able and contented as though they
had found it.
Come to Florida and we will show
you the most beautiful country
In the world. We can show you the
finest beaches in the world where
bathing is good every hour of every
day of every year that rolls by. We
can show you the most beautiful
lakes and streams Astounding In fish
and over the shimmering sheen Of
whose pellucid waters you may sail
Or float all day long and never grow
tired. Come to Florida whore every
citizen holds open the door of op-
portunty and welcomes you within [