The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-03-01
THROUGH ORANGE
BLOSSOM LAND
(St. Augustine Record.)

A large percentage of visitors to
Florida come and go without obtain
ing any real intimate knowledge OF
the beauties of this favored State.
There are many who have made the
railroad journey from Jacksonville to
ST. Augustine and who have gone
back home and told the folks that
they have seen all there is to see in
Florida" There are thousands who
make the journey by rail either from
10 cksonville to Tampa and Fort My
ers, who maintain that they have
seen all there is TO see in Florida.
They are wrong.
Gne cannot see the real Florida in
all its beauty unless he travel by au-
tomohile over the hundreds of miles
CT good roads that are now open TO
the motorist.
Naturally the Dixie Highway down
the East Coast is the most travelled
through route in Florid because it is
the most widely advertised in maya
zines and newspapers, but other por-
items of the State are now coming in
for their fair share of traffic. A mer
chant over in Apopka the other day
made the statement that there had
been more strangers in that beautiful
! little town during the past year than
have been seen there during the pre-
ceiling half century
The visitor to the upper East Coast
resorts who desires to see something
of the central portion Of the State
now has several alternative routes
that offer attractive and agreeable
travelling. One can go from Daytona
across to DeLand, a distance of twen-
ty.two miles, the only inconvenience
being nine miles of rough road out
of Daytona, which will soon be a mat
ter OF history, because the brick nav,
ing that extends thirteen miles fur
ther into DeLand will be continued
right through to Daytona this COM
ing summer. From DeLand there are
splendid roads running south to San
loro' ana very fair sand-clay high
way westward across the ST. Johns
at Crows Bluff bridge into Lake
county and for eighteen miles into
Altoona. Here is encountered one sec
ton of Lake county's famous system
OF modified sheet asphalt highways
and from this point there are bun-
dreds OF miles of this kind of road
open to the motorist. Eustis. Lees
hurg, Tavares and other exceedingly
attractive towns are within easy
reach, There are no prettier places in
all the South than Leesburg and Eus.
It's with their hills, lakes and ORANGE
groves.
Another route from Daytona and
one that is very pleasant to follow ie
Gown the Halifax shores to Nav
smyrna and thence over a splendif
new she'll road to Sanford In tbe
sanford section there are thousands
OIL acres of celery and lettuce that
are Just being prepared for shinment
10 northern points. From Sanford IF
Orlando over twenty-four mi,es =,
srouted brick highway one passa.
through orange grove after orang.
grove, with here and there many az
qnlsltively beautiful towns, such a,
Altamonte Springs and Winter par,,
orlando continues to grow in i'm
poftance and becomes more beautifr
/ with the passing of the years From
orlando alternative routes are offera,
through Florida's wonderful lake re-
glon. A splendid route to take :
westward through Oakland to CIer
mont over wonderful sand-clay roads
twenty to thirty feet wide and .
siaooth as floor. Up hill and dow,
dale the motorist goes. with hera ON
there beautiful lakes bordered b
. orange groves that pour forth a per
feet flood Of perfume. All this natura