The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1915-01-15

however, is very rare. BIT tenn
nerature of 40 to so or So degrees is
more common, and warm clothes ana
a well-heated house are necessary
for perfect comfort. This is not a
disadvantage, rather it is an advant-
ape to the state. For an unbroken
range Of summer temperature through
twelve months of the year would, 10
ninety-nine out of one hundred, be-
come irksome and undesirable. The
disagreeable days, however, or Ine .
days when warm fires are needed
seem very scarce in this state. IN
like conditions in California, where ;
the. winter is the rainy season, here
the winter is the dry season. Day
after day the sun shines with exceed
ing briliiance. The air may be
warm, but generally it is crisp and
invigorating. At the very time OF
the year when people want dry
weather in winter, Florida furnish
es it. The rainy season, so-called, IS
in the summer and early fall. /
During mid-winter the trucking
fields are at their height of activity.
Strawberries are being shipped out
of Florida while zero weather pre-
walls through much of the North and
West. Right now, in the middle OF
January, the roses, the gorgeous
poinsettias and hibiscus are brilliant
, in color wherever one turns. Some
/ places in Florida pay more attention
to flowers than do others. Unfor-
tunately, not every point in the state
, devotes as much attention to making
2 Florida, in deed as it is in name,
= "The Land of Flowers as 1t should
a do.
!, A state which, like this, draws its
t permanent settlers and its thousands
d of tourists from every part of our
e country and good many from other
:, lands, is under obligation to the whole
! country to regard itself as trustee
o of these climatic and other advant-
o ages, using them for the highest
/ benefit of the people whom it is so
W persistently, by virtue of its attrac-
l. tions. calling to itself as permanent
It citizens or winter tourists
" Florida is pre-eminently the citrus
If fruit center, so far as the Quality OF
o, the fruit is concerned, of the world
ID Its oranges and grapefruit have no
re equal, though sometimes small and
n inferior fruit is shipped away OF
I'd furnished to the guests of boarding
III houses and hotels to the disadvant
err age of the state.
ed Florida's strategic location, stretch
at ING for 500 miles into the Atlantic
ed Ocean and the Gulf, with rapidly de
veloping ports whose foreign, com
st merce is steadily increasing, will CIV
Ii it a very great advantage for eX
es panding trade and commerce upon IN
IN. opening of the Panama Canal.
ill Florida is the worlds chief cente
DIS of phosphate rock production, upo
re which the prosperity of the farmer
of of this country as well as other land
cir depends.
he Florida is a great timber state
he with vast numbering and naval-store
ey operations. :.
lat Florida is the market garden
ass the country, producing millions c
le- dollars worth of early vegetable
The which go in great trainloads ever
tie. dav of the winter to the North an
nit West. :,
ner lForida's development in all
,ys these industries, except perchance
lot that of timber, is in its infancy. L
en- citrus-fruit industry can be great
or increased. It's trucking business wi
md necessarily have to be expanded mi
of nyfold as the population OF the nj
J is ton continues to grow. Its pho
in phate rock business, by better metho'
itch of handling and by the utilization
and the raw material in the state, W
tic doubtless add far more to the veal
of the owners and to the state than
to has yet done.
ner Floridas ports will grow ev
ex- more radidly in domestic and foreil
ers. trade than they have done in t
,me past. -.
IAN, Measured by the percentage of
i'm, crease, Florida's population is gro
or ing twice as rapidly as that of t
this whole country; but measured by t
that character of its population, it is
evil creasing four or five times as Ia
ate idly as that of the country at larg'
tes- Florida is drawing to itself thou
9TH ands of the better class of Americ
citizens, men and women of edlt
da's ton and character, who are seekl
ner- this state as permanent hor
i'm Florida is thus building uu citiz'
the ship made up, to large extent,
cred the very cream of population FIR
r is nearly all of the states in the Uni
CINE Florida is peculiarly fortunate
SUP the character of the people who ms
They up the bulk of its new settlers.
ever, a large extent they are people of
rood ucation and character and enel
der and o-aheaditiveness." They.
n is coming to this state because of
,eter many natural advantages and Il
That, unite with the people of the state
- creative development work, which
:. resulting in such splendid progr
Y seen in nearly all the cities and toy