The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-08-09
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am writing these articles in the spirit
to make known to strangers, settlers,
homeseekers to come to Pensacola and
Escambia county to the Oldest and
best city and Escambia county the
best county in the state of Florida,
the Indian shuluota. Escambia coun-
ty holds out to settlers, homeseekers
and strangers the greatest inducement
offer by any other county in the state.
The first and greatest is health, pure
air coming in from, the great Gulf of
Mexico, the purest and best of drink
ing water, high rolling country free
from. swamps and malaria infected
districts. Prolific soil that will grow
anything in vegetables, fruit and all
kinds of forage. But in order to make
these wonderful God given blessings
known we must talk about and write
about it in the newspapers. To make
known these facts to people who do
not know about. A lots of people are
looking for homes to come here to Es-
Gambia county, if they had any infor-
nation of what we have, no overdrawn
or untruthful statements, but indis-
putable facts. To illustrate, some few
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seen of Escambia county's products,
supposedly official reports from the
bureau of census, giving Escambia
county 2,313 acres of cultivated farms
valued farm buildings and all $685.
100000; 829 horses not valued, 762
mules, $50 hogs, 1900 Sheep $500
goats, 100000 bushels of corn, $4,000
bushels of sweet potatoes, 5000 crates
of peaches, 1900 mich cows valued
at SIC, 100000, the entire monetary val
lie $8,370,000.00. When the fact is that
Escanlbia county had 480,420 acres
of tilliabIe soil and we have several
dairies in Escambia county that have
mich cows valued at from 100000
to $15,000.00. We have several indi-
viduals who cultivate from 600 acres
and upwards so that the fact we now
have under cultivation over 5000
acres in place of 2,313 reported. We
have no report made on irish potatoes,
vegetables of any kind from carrot to
egg plant, cabbage, tomatoes, cucum-
Der, onions, rutabeggar, and turnips,
melons shipped from Pensacola by
carloads. Pumpkins, cantaloupes. We
also have quantities of berries, black,
dewberries and blue berries, peanuts,
fruits Of all kinds, peaches, figs, pears,
laconts and Keiffers, satsuma oranges,
then grain, corn, oats, wheat, forage
crops, clover, nathal grass, sowyer and
Kudza. Cutting from eight to ten
tons per acre. The hay valued at $35.-
90 per ton. I could continue and men
toned about other products of our
soil, giving a rough estimate of Es-
Gambia county's valuable products in
monetary value, including stock, of not
less than $30,000,0 10000, that is from
the present small acreage under Gull
tivation. 1t is no inducement to stran-
gers, settlers and homeseekers to see
in print that out Of 480, 420 acres OF
tillable soil only 2,313 acres cultivated.
These wonderful God-given blessings
of Escambia county are great, and the
great blessings are yet unknown, nor
had they been or are they appreciated
to a lareg extent by majority of the
citizens of Pensacola or Escambia
county: Take the varieties of our soil,
such as we can produce successfully
all kinds of grain or forage plants and
also all kinds of fruit and all kinds of
material for the building of the finest
highways throughout the country.
These materials are in abundant sup
ply and everywhere accessible. We
have the best county in the state for
stock raising. Stock can be raised with
more and larger profits than in many
other parts of the state. Plenty of
green growing grass, plenty of fine
water, never too hot or cold, no ex-
pensive barns to erect. We have thou
sands of horsepower hourly going to
waste that by very small competitive
outlay could by dams and turbine
wheels can be converted into electric
ity. We have clay that will make the
best of brick and tiles for building
purposes that some will show by analy
sis of over Is per cent aluminium, while
others make the best friedrich and Wit
rified paving blocks that are now in
use. We have many springs highly
impregnated with medicinal properties.
The famous GaIvez's springs, head of
Bayou Chico, has been used by the
government. and citizens for years
because of the beneficial effect on the
stomach and liver and kidneys. There
is no better or purer water as a whole
than in Escambia county. Our sand
has been pronounced by experts as
unexcelled for glass manufacturing. /
We possess the large varieties for fur
nitude purposes. Al kinds of hard !
wood oak, hickory, bays, red and /
white, ash, cedars, black and white |
gum. We have large deposits of he |
mitite ore and thousands of yards of |!
the best quality of gravel for any
purpose such as material used for |
road building and other purposes, but |
all these and many others are now I'M
developed and are unknown and lay /
dormant because there are no efforts |
made by the citizens of the city and /
county to bring these resources to |
the attention Of others by printed mat
ter and proper publicity by your news
papers, and just as long as you keep |
these things locked up in your trunk /
these blessings will never be Of any /
use to yourself or anybody else. Let /
your slogan be: Make these blessings
known and help to build up a greater
Pensacola and a gerater county"