The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1915-03-26
"CAMPHOR
PRODUCTION"

Many camphOr trees have been
set out in Jacksonville and practi-
cally all of them are fiOurishing.
The camphor tree grows here as
well as the live oak or any other
native tree. Not tree grows that
is more symmetrical. The cam
phor tree is an ornamental growth
that fits in well with the plans
for identifying the city.
But tree that can be grown
as an ornament can also be grown
for unitarian purposes and al
ready our state is beginning the
growth of camphor trees for pur-
poses of commerce. We expect
sooner or later to see large area in
this state covered with this growth
that at the same time furnishes
shade, beauty and money. The
industry will soon be an impor-
tant one in this state. There IS
no state in the Union whose soil
gives such rich returns as that OF
The trouble with all this sort Of
"junk" is that instead of giving
facts to substantiate its claims, the
Times Union, either ignorantly or by
FlOrida..-Times- Union.
design not to assist any industry not
in Jacksonville, continues to deal in
glowing predictions of what WILL
SOMETIME be accomplished in
Florida. rather than to tell what ac-
tually is BEING accomplished.
ID "Many camphor trees have
been set out in Jacksonville and all
of them are fourishing."
(2) eve expect sooner or later to
see large areas in this state covered
with this growth that at the same
time furnishes shade, beauty and
money" +
CD "There is no state iythe Union
where soil gives such rim returns as
that of Florida"
These are important statements,
but the only one that carries any
weight is that which notes the sue
cessful growing|of camphOr shade
trees in jacksonville. The other two
quotations af just so much chunk"
and the th1d, wholly without value
for the rfson that every state
makes. AMI is prepared to prove, the
same claf.I
How nfust better it would have
been for Florida had the Times
Union stated the fact, which it ought
to know, that at Satsuma Nights,
Putnam county, there is a camphor
farm of 1000 acres, which has been
in successful operation for several
years under the supervision of Prof.
w. o. Richtmann, formerly of the
u. S. Department of Agriculture;
that there is distillery on the farm,
and that for the past three or four
years the Satsuma Company has been
making shipments of crude camphOr
gum
These are facts, and facts weigh
more than Boosting bunk in their in
fluence upon the investing public.
The Palatka News cOnfesses it was
not in hearty accord with the pO-
sition recently taken by Secretary
Moses Folsom of the local board of
trade, who, when asked to have his
board join with other trade bodies in
the state in making the Jacksonville
board of trade the clearing house
for Florida industrial information,
said: "No. Sir! Jacksonville is for
Jacksonville first, last and all the
time, and the other sections of the
state have nothing to hope from her
professions of loyalty to them"
The late Prof. Henry G. Hubbard,
entCmOlogist of the Smithsonian In
stitute, set out more camphor trees
in and about the little town of Cres-
cent City, Putnam county 25 years
ago, and which are all now thriving,
than the total in Jacksonville up to
this time.