The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-05-26
MINNEAPOLIS PEOPLE
ARE INTERESTED
IN GOOD ROADS
ALL RoPERTY OWNERS IN POLK
COUNTY
Lack of Good Roads a Serious Draw
back to Residence in this Part of
State-Hope Soon Live Here

As evidence of the keen interest
the fight for good roads in Polk
county is creating and the wide
spread publicity that has been given
the county all over the country, sew
cral letters have been received from
people who are now residents of Mon
ueapolis, Mimi, but who are property
owners and tax payers i'll Polk Coun
ty and who hope to make their future
home here. These letters say
while not yet resident of your
state, but as IA tax payer in your
county. am naturally interested in
favorable outcome of the movement
for good roads. The lack of them is
to my mind the one serious drawback
to residence in that part of your state.
You know haw enthusiastic we are
about Florida and particularly about
that part of Polk County in which we
are interested. We are anxious to
proceed with our own improvements
with Il view to becoming permanent
depends in Il great measure on what
the people now residing there will
do to improve the facilities for travel.
"J, j. AHERN,
Manager Mass. Mutual Life Insurance
Company"
81 paid my first taxes in Polk
County this year and hope to be "a
regular voter fcller" there some day
! A friend who moved to Crooked Lake
last fall writes back that there were
two things needed to make 1t ideal;
that obtaining either one would help
bring the other, viz: good roads and
more people. Many tourists that go to
! California from Minneapolis who have
preached California for years are now
strong for Florida-like it better in
every way, excepting the roads. On
the sother hand | know one man in
particular who has been to California
a dozen times, who was in Florida
last winter. He complained bitterly
of the roads down in your state and
was so disgustcd that he went direct
from Florida to California. But this
man is anxious to build a home in
| Polk when conditions will permit,
hut not until then, 50 boost the good
roads
"T. f. Andrews"
Hundreds of men with means will
settle in Polk county almost immed-
diatey-thousand will follow--if good
roads are provided. We will spend
$50 900 in Palk County development.
"IRVIN A. YARNELL,
Secretary, The State Institutions for
Savings"
81 own four pieces Of property in
Polk County and am very much inter
ested in the efforts now being made
by the citizens of that county to Sc.
/ cure Ille DltSSlHBS Vi BOOu IOduS IN
the immediate future, have sad some
little experience with both the east.
ern and western coast of Florida and
also with the central part and | feel
confident that if the good roads are
secured for our county that it will
be a very short time until the great
tide of tourist, many of whom are al
so investors and all of whom are lib
eral spenders, can be attracted to the
central section of the state.
II this is done all desirable property
in the county will be increased III
value and the business OF all towns
and villages throughout the county
argely increased and this increased
income will warrant the manages
carrying larger stocks and better as
sortments so that the benefit will &C
crue to everybody. while the cost o.
the good roads, according to the plaI