The Palatka news and advertiser., 1915-09-10
ROAD BOND ELECTION
OCCURS NEXT TUESDAY
Opinionis General that Bond
Issue will Garry by
Large Majority.

issue of bond issue of $2OS,0O0 for
building brick roadvays in the East
Palatka- Federal Point Orange Mills
San Matco-Peniel, Palatka Highg
and Rice Creek districts will be held
next Tuesday, the 14th inst.
Reports coming to Palatka from
the members of the central campaign
committee of which DR.. johnson OF
this city is chairman, is to the effect
that there is very little opposition so
far manifest, and the belief is gener-
al that the proposed issue will carry
by very large majority.
Here in Palatka, part of the dis
trict, there is great enthusiasm. Pa
latka will not benefit except in that it
will prosper through the prosperity cf
these outlying districts where the pro-
posed roads are to be built. But
even this reflected prosperity will
mean much to this city and the voters
, recognize the Importance of the roads
The country people are for the
bonds; such an issue means much to
them in the advancement of their in
terests as farmers.
The Publicity Committee, a sub
committee of the general campaign
committee, the chairman of which is
H. E. Merryday, has prepared the
following additional arguments for
the bond issue:
"Palatka has many advantages
over other cities in Florida, and with
the brick roads to be built will have
many more.
Railroads radiate in eight differ
ent directions from Palatka and con-
meet us with all parts of the State as
we'll as with the markets of the world.
The st. Johns river gives US water
transportation to the sea, and with
its tributaries brings the water borne
commerce of the best part of the
State to our doors.
These two factors give us advant-
ages that our sister cities, with the
exception of Jacksonville, do not en-
joy.
I'VE are commercially and natur-
ally the distributing point and trad
| ing center of some of the most, if not
the most, productive farming sections
in the State, and these sections are
fast growing and rapidly increasing
IN wealth.
$50 much for what nature and out
side influences have done for US.
What have we done to TAKE AD-
VANTAGE of our OPPORTUNITIES
ard improve them?
eve have done much it is true.
We fought to make Palatka bas-
ing point of freight rates and today
we enjoy the same advantages in
this respect that were formerly en-.
ioyed only by such cities as Jackson
vile, Tampa and Pensacola. We
have done much to encourage the To-
cation of factories and mills at Pa
latka and success has crowned our
effort Our merchants have worked
Increasingly to make Palatka the best
market in central Florida. They
carry the best lines and give the
greatest value for the money. We
have the best class of merchants and
Iusiness people in the state.
I'VE have miles upon miles of brick
paved streets and concrete sidewalks.
"Our farmers and truck growers
are among the most intelligent and
industrious in the state, and by their
efforts and scientific methods of farm
| ing they have made the farming lands
about Palatka famous the country
over.
BUT WE CANNOT STOP HERE.
Greater opportunity for material
gain for ourselves and those whose
trade we now enjoy, and those whose
trade we hope to win, is knocking al
our gates.
"The Bostwick district to the north
| of us has already held an election fo'
he purpose of bonding itself for the
building of hard-surface roads from
Clay county to Rice Creek and there
was not a dissenting vote cast in that
election. In addition to this the peo-
pie of this progressive Cpmmunity
have also created themselves into a
special drainage district and are
spending thousands of dollars for the
purpose of constructing a great sys
tenn of drainage canals which will
drain and make available for cultiva-
tion and farming an area of over rif-
teen thouSnd acres of land in the vi
entity of Bostwick This work is ac-
tually in progress. The farming
lands of the Federal Point, Hastings,
teo and Peniel sections lie at our very
doors.
at is a duty we owe ourselves TO
build the proposed brick roads and
bring the farmer and the merchant,
the producer and the market, together
lat Paiatka.
With brick roads radiating from
Palatka into Federal Point, Hastings,
Orange Mills, East Palatka, San Ma
teo and the Peniel sections and con-
meeting with the Bostwick district
hard road at Rice Creek, the farmers
and truck growers of these sections
can at all times with the same teams
they now employ haul greater loads,
travel faster and trade more frequent
ly with our merchants.
BUT IN ADDITION TO THESE
ADVANTAGES:
"Many hundreds of thrifty farm
ers who realize the advantage of To-
eating in a cmomunity where the
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