The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1921-05-06
THE @ocALAv EDITOR ON CAPITAL
REMOVAL

Editor Tampa Morning Tribune:
Availing myself Of your generosity, /
shall venture a word on the removal
Of the capital from Tallahassee
So far as / nave been informed there
has been but one argument advanced
for its removal and that is its inacces-
sibility and remoteness from the
geographical center Of the state.
Like the imperial city of Rome, Tai
lahassee is located on seven hills, and
one looking in any direction from a
vantage point will see hills on hills
arise. AS FAR as the eye can reach one
beholds landscape rarely excelled. It
possesses highly cultivated and mag
nificent type of citizenship, and its
flower gardens are noted as being the
most lovely of any city of its size in
the Union. :
So as there is no other ground eor
its removal why move the capital to
any other point where the same argu
ment obtains?
Search the map Win square and
compass and it will be found that
Ocala comes naerer approaching the
geographical center than any other
city in the state.
So, logically. destiny points to Ocala
as the site for the location of the new
capital
Whatever may be said for or against
it, take it from me that Ocala is going
to become the leading interior city of
Florida in everything that goes to
make that distinction
Ponder the following facts and see
If am Justified in making this predic-
ton
Within her corporate limits Ocala
has one of the worlds most beautiful
natural attractions in the possession of
Silver Springs. I am pehraps reveal
ing no secret when say that move
ment is on foot for the sale of this
property to a fabulously rich corpora
ton and it will be made one of the
wonder places of the world Mann
moth hotels bath houses, pavilions,
gondolas, ornamental grounds and
architectural and floral adornments of
various kinds will make it quite as
famous as the fabulous beauties of
ancient Babylon.
Talk about not having hotel accom-
modataions. Ocala is going to be in a
class with Palm Beach and Saratoga.
Besides the Florida Orange Grove
corporation of Pittsburg, Pa, now de-
veloping four hundred acres in citrus
fruits within few miles of ocala,
still another wealthy corporation has
purchased eight hundred and fifty
acres from Hon. E. L. Carney on the
margin of Lake Bryant, in the eastern
portion of the county, and already has
let the contract for clearing the land,
and it will soon be numbered as one
of the most extensive citrus groves in
the state
Two hundred and fifty acres Of this
tract was formerly an impenetrable
forest of wild orange trees.
So Marion is rapidly regaining her
place as the biggest orange producing
county in the state and her fruit
commands the highest prices in the
markets.
Her citrus fruits are the most deli
cious because the orange tree is native
to her soil.
This.is not all Another enterprise,
the particulars are not yet just ripe
for publication, when consurnmated.
will put ocala on the map in very big
letters.
A big bond issue has already been
affirmatively voted on and as soon
as the bonds are sold Marion county
having started the good roads move
ment. will again be in the swim, and
like Good Ben Adhem, in Charles
Lambs vision, will lead all the rest"
50 destiny is pointing to Oeala as
Florida's future metropolis and wond-
erland.
ocaia is already pierced by four rail-
roads, two of which are trunk linas8
The arrival and departure of trains
are booked for morning. noon. after
noon and night.
No other city in the state is better
supplied with railroad connections.
venture the prediction that possess.
ing his vision The Tribune owner in
the no distant future will have a
branch edition of the Tribune issued
from ocala with his son in charge.
i will really become. and that quick
~, the main edition for the trains an