The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1915-02-04


titled From Mittens to Straw Hats
being very interesting description
of an automobile trip from Quebec TO
Miami, recently appeared IN Motor
Print. The following reference 10
the roads between Fernandina' jack
sonyille. Daytona and Miami was
feature of Mr.. Smiths story;
"From Fernandina to Jacksonville
there is good shell and stone road.
"From Jacksonville to st. Angus
tine the road is fairly good, but is be-
ing hard surfaced all the way with
brick.
From st. Augustine to Daytona
there is quite long stretch of sandy
wood road which IS safe and passa-
Bile, but not much of highway. In
many cases it is rather low way,
and in rainy weather somewhat
muddy, but st. Johns county has
promised to pave it with brick, and
it is not bad now.
From Ormond down the coast, all
the way to Miami, there is almost
continuous good hard road.
An Amazingly Delightful Finish.
AT Jupiter Inlet there is a magni-
fcent new cement bridge, and from
there on down the road is very fine
into Miami, and also 40 miles beyond
with about 200 miles of local roads
and streets around Miami. The whole
! trip from Daytona down to Miami is
perfect delight, with its scenery
along the Indian river and its fine
! farms, orange groves, palm trees.
pineapple fields, etc.
Anyone can make the run from
| Jacksonville to Miami, 400 miles. cas-
! lily in four days, running about seven
or eight hours day, and the time will
/ be greatly reduced as soon as the lit
| tie short sections are completed.
"Of course, no one must expect
that this road will be the broad, fiat.
but merely in many places as good as
the ordinary good country roads in
other states, with stretches of mar
/ row roads that are extra good.
in the south it is impossible, for
various reasons, to get very wide
roads anywhere. The sand-clay roads
/ through North and South Carolina
and Georgia are marvels of good road
work. and are built at a very small
cost $500 to 5000 mile) and main
tanned at $40 to $50 a mile per year
In central and southern Florida the
coquina and phosphate rock roads
are also smooth and hard in finish
and are built at very moderate cost
There are many miles of brick roads
/ in the vicinity of all the towns.
! In addition to die main line of
/ the Quebec Miami. there are, of
course, hundreds of miles of other
roads branching out from each Sec
ton. and in Florida, alone, there are
/ in all, about 1900 miles of hard sur
/ faced roads for the tourists, besides
the QuebecMiami portion, to enjoy
after he arrives in the state. The
same thing can be said to great
extent of the sections through which
the road passes in the states farther
north.
! Country Developing Rapidly.
THE country is improving rapidly
as to farms, and cities are growing
with leaps and bounds in many cases,
and there is every evidence of
| prosperity and wealth in a large por-
tion of the section that this route
passes through. The whole route
| from Canada to Miami will be a most
beautiful winter trip. and any one
who has passed over it is more than
charmed with its attractions of va
rious kinds.
IF tourists prefer to shorten their
winter trip, they can ship their cars
to Savannah or Jacksonville by Mer-