The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1915-01-22
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FL0R|DA'S IEA[
Why the State is Bound to
Come to the Front.
From the Daytona Journal.

From the Daytona Journal.
To many of US who have long
known Florida as one of the best
and most enterprising states in the
Union, it is hard to realize that it's
Wonderful climate and magnificent
resources are comparatively unknown
to the world at large. But this con-
dition will not exist many years
more. The state is attracting more
and more attention each year and
even the magazines are devoting a
great deal of space to this state.
The current Issue of Munsey's
Magazine, one of the most widely
read publication in the country, con.
tanned the following relative to Flor
ida from the pen of Frank A. Mum
sey:
Florida is one of the busiest, End
most prosperous of states. Its
towns and cities have in five years
doubled their size. No other state
produces so much phosphate, cypress
lumber, rosin or turpentine. No
other state makes so many Havana
cigars or grows so much long staple
cotton. And perhaps no other region
in any part of the world, has so hap
/ Ply a blending of the joys of life
with the business energy that creates
progress and modern progress and
modern civilization.
Men are now finding gold in Flor
ida, not in mines, but in the forests
farms and fisheries and factories. Not
all the gold that was found in Ne
vada and Arizona last year for in
stance would equal the wealth that
went to Florida for her fruits and
vegetables; nor would the total out
put of Alaskan gold mines be enough
to buy the cigars of Tampa and Key
West.
There are enough golden oranges
and grapefruit in her groves this win
ter to pay back the price-fve> mil
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lion dollars-that the United States
paid Spain for the territory in 1921,
She will have enough cotton, tobacco,
both of highest quality, to bring five
million more; and the lumber that
Floridians shipped from their five
seaports in one year was sold for
ten million dollars.
Phosphate is probably the most
precious natural product of the state.
1t is plant food used to enrich the
soil. A village doctor was the first
to discover it thirty years ago, and
since then Florida has sold sixty
million dollars worth, mostly to Ger
many and to other European coun-
tries. This seems large enough, but
it is a trife compared to what Flor
ida will make from her phosphate
when she learns to use every ton on
her own farms and gardens.
What with this buried treasure of
phosphate, the riches of her soil and
trees and waters and workshops, and
the earnings of the tourist season,
the people who now live in Florida
have a yearly income of more than
$125,000,000. This amount, we may
observe to countrymen of Ponce de
Leon, is very nearly equal to the
present government revenue of the
kingdom of Spain.
1t can be said that no other state
is farther from the gates of death
than Florida. Her average annual
death rate is about nine thousand,
and she has seventy one veterans
who have rounded out a full century
and are still in the land of the liv-
ing.
She allows the soil and the sun
shine to work for you every day. so
that farming becomes continuous
performance. If one crop fails, there
is no need to wait until next year.
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