The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1921-09-30
RESOLUTIONS iMPLoRlNc PER
MISSION TO OPERATE THE
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WlEhI<AO, The operation Oh the
Ocklawaha Valley Ry., by its receiver
has been discontinued on account of
the seizure of rolling stock, and also
of the tracks and trackage facilities
lying in Marion county, Florida, by the
sheriff of Marion county, under war
rant issued by the Honorable Ernest
Amos, comptroller of the state of Flor
ida, for the collection of the state and
county taxes, due the state of Florida
and the counties Of Marion and Put
man,, for the years 1917, 1913, 1919,
and 1920, and
WHEREAS, it is the understanding.
of the Wholesalers Grocers Association
that the Honorable Rivers Fl. Buford,
attorney general and the Honorable
Ernest Almost, comptroller, are the of
ficials of the state of Florida in control
of the proceedings wherein said road
was seized. and
WHEREAS, The operation of said
Ocklawaha Valley Railroad brings the
wholesale merchants of Palatka TWEEN
ty miles nearer to their customers in
Ocala, Dunnellon, Inverness, Wild
wood, Trilby, Dade City, Leesburg and
: many other points reached by rail
roads operating out of Ocala, Flor
ida, at consequent saving to the said
customers of the Palatka Wholesale
Grocers of many thousands of dol
lars each year, and consequent
direct saving to the people of the ter
ritory served by railroads operating
out Of Ocala of many thousands of dol
lars year, and
WHEREAS, The Wilson Cypress
Company, a saw mill operating in Pa
latka, has been operating in Palatka
for more than twenty-five years, and
employs many hundreds of people liy-
ing in Palatka, and in the vicinity of
Palatka, and the said Wilson Cypress
Company, owns many millions of
feet of cypress timber in Marion
county, to which it has at great cost
built spur railroad, and was, until
the Ocklawaha Valley Railroad was
seized as aforesaid, using portion of
the line of the Ocklawaha Valley Rail
road to transport it's logs to its saw
mill in Palatka, and
WHEREAS, The Wilson Cypress
Company will be greatly inconyen-
fenced, and in all probability COM
PEELED to cease operations until it can
make other arrangements for timber
at great loss to the retail merchants
of Palatka, and at a great loss and
hardship upon the many hundreds of
people employed by the Wilson Cy-
press Company in the vicinity of
Palatka, and
WHEREAS. The Rodman Lumber
Company of Rodman, Florida, oper-
ates large saw mill at said Rodman,
Florida, and employs many hundreds
of people in the operation of its
plant in the vicinity of Rodman, and
is virtually dependent upon the opers
alton of said road for the purpose of
transporting its saw logs from points
in the interior of the state of Florida,
and as consequence of the shutting
down of the Ocklawaha Valley Rail-
road will be virtually compelled to
cease operations with consequent
loss of employment to many hun
dreds OF people in Rodman, and the
vicinity of Rodman. and to the great
loss and injury of merchants and
other persons engaged in business in
Rodman, and the vicinity of Rodman,
and to the loss of employment of many
persons engaged in the logging bust
ness, for the Wilson Cypress Company
and the Rodman Lumber Company,
and consequent loss of trade to the
merchants and people supplying the
employees of the said Rodman Lum-
Der Company and the Wilson Cypress
Company, and
WHEREAS, The disastrous effect
of the shutting down of the Ocklawaha
Valley Railroad will be felt by prac-
tically every person and citizen in
Putnam county, Florida. on account
of its effect upon the industries afore-
said, and
WHEREAS. The disastrous effect
of the shutting down of the Ocklawaha
Railroad will be felt in Marion
county, and in other counties in
which the Rodman Lumber Company
and the Wilson Cypress Company are
operating their logging camps, and
WHEREAS, the shutting down of
the Ocklawaha Valley Railroad will
work a disaster to the Wholesale
Grocers of Palatka selling to the trade
in the yicinities above mentioned, and
WHEREAS. The shutting down of