The Palatka news and advertiser., 1916-10-06
A MANS JOB.

That Palatka is destined someda
to become the center of great CONNER
cial activities should be apparent t
any business man with the faculty 0
peering into the future through sue
binoculars as nature and the trend o
present development have placed i
his hands.
President Barrett of the Nationa
Farmers Union, who was the city
guest last week, caught vision of Pa
latkas future. He said some thing
about the country contiguous whicl
we all knew. He saw the corn field
of East Palatka and learned of tht
productivity of the lands. He visit
ed Peniel and Interlachen and Orange
Springs; then he made an auto triI
through San Mateo, Satsuma, Pomona
to Crescent City.
"You people have the country fol
development; it beats any thing Cali
fornia ever had to offer; some day
your crops will be noted throughout
all the land and your acreage price
will soar; Putnam county should be a
great growing section"
We don't need to tell our progress
sive farmers that Putnam county is a
great corn country and that they can
grow immense crops here; they know
that.
But what they do want to know is
how to market that corn crop after it
is grown. They want a grain eleva-
tor and place where it can be stored
and kept free from weevils and where
it can be held for and shipped to mar
ket when the conditions are right.
In other words they want market
for their corn.
1t was only little time ago that
the Palatka board of trade had up for
consideration the proposition of a
warehouse company for warehouse in
this city, a place where farmers could
store their crops and hold them for
market and where they could get an
advance on their crops Of IS per cent
of its value.
The proposition was turned down
because it would cost $4,000.
And yet if there is anything that is
needed to build up the agricultural in
terests of Putnam county it is ware
house and grain elevator located in
this city. Once the farmer knows he
can get a market for his corn and
other crops, the crops will be forth
coming.
A gentleman with vision said to
The News only last Tuesday:
"Palatka is the natural shipping
point for a vast section of country
along the Ocklawaha river bottom
lands which will eventually be tapped
by an extension of the Ocklawaha
Valley Railroad to Eustis and thence
on to Mulberry in Polk county.
There is some very rich lands along
this route, and one firm, Young &
Ford, owners Of the "Muclan Farms"
in Marion county had 1000 acres in
corn this year and which Mr.. Young
says will yield nearly 100000 bushels.
This yield without fertilizer.
with warehouse and grain eleva-
tor facilities in Palatka this city
would be the natural receiving and
point for this and the 9TH
er big co-l crops that are to be grown
along this line and in the corn grow
ing sections of our own county"
To attain these necessities in the
development of Palatka is a mans job.
It is a job that calls for the best
brains in our board of trade. 1t is
work that calls for something more
han wind-jamming. 1t needs a
PRACTICAL promoter. 1t needs the
of business men.
1t is work that must be done in or
Ter to place Palatka on the map in
;pIash commensurate with its impor-
.ance as the head of deep water navi-
cation on the st. Johns river and as
| railway center. Old things are
passing away and the era of corn and
is waiting to be ushered in.
Did the board of trade properly
Weigh the Importance of that ware
louse proposition? Or did it turn it
.own simply because the raising of
10000 meant effort? Nothing real {
Y worth while will ever come to Pa.
ltka without effort. t
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HE EILENFSS Is