The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1921-07-08
SELLING PROSPERITY WITH 4
BIG p.

OF sumter, INFORMED q TcpoTtcI VI LlilS
paper that the truck growers of that
section had grown the biggest crops
and had received the biggest prices
ever before known.
It is most gratifying statement
and we note with great deal OF
pleasure the good fortune that have
rewarded their efforts
Since then we have seen Mr.. Giroud
E.. Hammond, who lives near Willis
ton in Levy county, and he says that
Sumter county has nothing on Levy
county. That it was nothing unucual
for the Levy county truckers to have
reaped a profit of twelve hundred dol.
lars per acre planted to cucumbers.
Repeating this story to one Of our
Marion county truckers he informed
us that number of our truckers had
received checks for that amount per
acre on land planted to tomatoes and
the watermelon growers were alike
successful.
Had our banks been more optlnIs-
tic and less conservative and had been
more liberal in their advances for fer
tilizers he says that the acreage
would have been much larger and the
bank deposits proportionately great
err.
It is anticipated that the acreage
will be largely increased next season.
In glancing over the Lake County
Laconics we note the following from
Mr.. Willis Powell:
II took trip over part of the
county last week to look at the move
ment of watermelons. 1t was worth
it. Mutations made showed the fol-
lowing number of cars on sidings be-
ing loaded: Umatilla, Ia; Grand Is
land, 8; Lake Nurseries platform, 8;
Fruitland Park. IL; Conant, rs; Lady
Lake, 10; Weirsdale, 20; station
west of Leesburg, s; Whitney, Z. /
expect as many as 100 cars rolled
from this part of the county that day.
and this was just one corner of the
county"
Again he says:
"A Lake county banker told me that
while he would have been satisfied if
the deposits in his bank had been kept
within 80 per cent. of normal, they
are 1000 in excess of the same per-
iod last year"
A glance at the bank deposits of
any of the banks in this county will
show an ever increasing number of
deposits.
That "good time coming" seems to
be right on US.
1t is not only so in our own par
ticular section but it seems to be gen
eral over the state.
The tobacco growers of Gadsden
county are rejoicing over the sale of
shaded tobacco for seventy cents per
pound and the truckers to the south
of US have reaped a rich reward on
celery, lettuce, peppers and other
products.
Orlando is putting up two million
dollar hotel. two hundred and fifty
thousand dollar apartment house and
other buildings; West Tampa is build
inging one hundred homes; Arcadia
reports building boom and Miami,
not having enough land on the shore
is building on made land out into the
sea.
Plant City steps forward with the
statement that her fruits, strawberry
and vegetables growers are richer in
the sum of two million dollars by the
returns received from the past sea-
sons shipment.
The growers in the vicinity of Lake
Alfred have reached stage where it
is thought imperative to expend one
hundred thousand dollars in the build
ing of packing house to meet the
immediate demands.
The shipment of oranges and grape
fruit from Wautula totated SIC cars
and 440 cars of cucumbers and other
vegetables. Mr.. J. G. Sellers of the
Farm and Live Stock Record of Jack
sonville says that it is million dollar
town.
st. Petersburg is making arrange
ments to accommodate 10000 more Wis
itors than last season.
So from nearly every section the
same story of the arrival of that
good time coming is told.
And Ocala is building more houses
than for any number of years and IL
she is not moving along at the head of
the procession she is along way from
the foot Of it.
At no time in her history were her
prospects more bright and substantial.