The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-08-21
WONDERFUL CITY
OF VALPARAISO
Captain Patterson Tells of Vale OF
Paradise on Choetawhatehee Bay.
BIZ cAPT. ]. c. PATTERsoN.l

The high hills surrounding the wales
of paradise, the loveliest and most
wonderful city in Florida. You read Of
mushroom cities built in 4S hours of
tents in the west, in and about some
discovered gold mine. but it took years
to build even shack city.
The wonderful city of Valparaiso,
situated on the beautiful Choctawhat-
chez bay, was wilderness two years
ago, but today a beautiful city with
wide streets and avenues, eight miles
of concrete sidewalk, hard streets, fine
substantial buildings, both public and
private, that would do honor to any
city. large and substantial school
buildings, large commodious hotel and
apartment buildings now being erect
ed, large drug store and bank build
ing; also a large building for printing.
Coming up the main street from the
bay front is adorned with flowers,
laid out in circles, stars and other de-
signs, and a large beautiful park, with
the most gorgeous flower display. Most
every house lot is planted with flowers
and shrubs, and the mayor and Off
GERS of the city of Valparaiso have
adopted the slogan that cleanliness is
next to goodness" Not alone in the
physical but in the moral and spiritual,
and wherever you look it Is a clean
city, and the whole looks like the most
perfectly kept private grounds.
The city has electric lights, water
power, and are preparing to erect an
ice refrigerating plant. Valparaiso has
the greatest gold mine in the United
States, as health is above the value
of gold. Purest air coming in from the
gulf, laden with the life giving ozone,
and as it sweeps over the high hills
the atmosphere becomes impregnated
with the aroma from the balsam and
the stately pine, Of the sweet magnolia
bloom, and as you breathe in this in
vigorating air you feel new life per-
meating your whole being.
Next to pure air Is pure drinking
water, the purest IN the world, and the
surrounding country is all high rolling
land, no swamps, or malaria infected
districts, and If you wish to live longer
and better with half of the same ener-
gy or capital investment you would
use in any other place, come to VAL
pariaso and enjoy life. good fertile soil.
the water studded with the finest of
fish, oysters, shrimp and crabs. In
short, all the delicacies of sea food. Be
a Missourian, come and see. have no
axe to grind, no land for sale, but IS
years in and about Pensacola and VAL
paraiso, after being all over this globe
of ours, I can say without fear of con-
tradiction, 1t is the greatest God given,
blessed all round country I have ever
been in.
Questions are asked, what are the
of the future of Valparaiso?
The soil will give you 100 per cent
in anything you plant, from a turnip |
to an onion. Fruit of all kinds, peach |
es, figs, satsuma oranges. You must |
expect in cultivating the soil to put |
back / nthe earth what you take out, |
like your physical frame. you must re-
place what you exhaust. You have all |
kinds of soil, clay, heavy and light |
sandy loan. There are also opportuni- |
ties for other industries. Take and dam |
up and put turbine on shoal rivers and |
you have electric power for a line |
from the railroad to Valparaiso, and /
this same power can also be used for |
many other purposes. You have hun |
dreds of acres of palmetto that would /
make brooms, brushes and mattresses |
for hospitals, coarse fiber for plaster
Ing, make cordage mad cloth for cover
Ing, fannie acid per cent stronger
than from any other wood, and after
burning the residue you have, accor-
ding to the United States agricultural |
department, per cent of potash from
every ton Of ash. Some of your clay
mentioned will make the finest brick, /
fire brick, vitrified brick for paving
blocks. Unsurpassed for stock raising,
will grow the finest kind OF forage, |
the wonderful napier grass, will cut /
from 20 to 80 tons per acre, the kudzu,
10 to IL tons per acre. / could write
several columns of the wonderful pos
5ibilities of the Valparaiso and Of Okla
oosa county, but will leave that to my
esteemed friend. Mr.. Murphy, a good /
Did Irishman, and a man of wide travel /
and large experience, who is thorough
y up on every point that could come /
Up before, not alone the public of VAL
oaratso but Of the entire country A /
man of wonderful ability. l would like !