The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-07-02

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good roads built and kept up under
competent sound construction and
maintained under progressive plans,
instead of the makeshift plan as now
and heretofore, the motor truck will
attend to the transportation through
| the interior section of the county TO
the nearest shipping points, either rail
or water, as the interest may demand
| We have thousands of horsepower
hourly going to waste that by a COM
paratively small outlay in dams and
turbine wheels would be converted
into electric energy that would light
every town and private residence in
the county, besides, by having stan
dardized storage batteries power suffi-
cient to drive every car or truck in use,
this energy could be delivered for miles
| in different directions-to charging
stations, where everyone could ex-
change the exhausted battery for one
charged, and pay for the charging,
which would be far less than gasoline
etc.
We have clays that we can make all
kinds of brick, tile, ETC., for building
purposes and all ceramic arts, ard
some will show by analysis over Is
per cent alumina, while the other
properties compare equally with the
best friedrich and vitrifted paving
blocks that are now in use.
Our pure waters, in many Instances
highly impregnated with medicinal
properties, rank with the chalybeate
class of prime quality. Anyone can
easily verify this by stopping and get
ting drink from the springs that are
near the writer's house, about 38 miles
north of Pensacola on the Pensacola
and Flomaton hard road. These springs
are where the station derived its name
from; they make out under high red
bluffs, which are about 3S feet above
the railroad at this station.
There are a great number of fine
springs almost everywhere in the
county, as no section can be better
watered than this county with never
failing pure water.
We have the greatest variety of
woods, and particularly of oaks.
The many varieties and the easy
lasting polish that can be given many
make the county an ideal section for
all kinds of furniture and cabinet
work construction. Our sands only
awaits the alkalines and the blowpipe
Our unsurpassed landlocked harbor,
with its deep water, is pleading for
ocean traffic to every part of the
globe
We only mention few of the wealth
producing advantages and already ac-
quired natural wealth, and now to the
point of action letting the thousands
that want homes and investments
know what we have by well directed
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Do we take the interest in our
county displaying her products in the
agricultural lines at the fairs? Do we
organize as county unit in producing
and selling the products of the soil
to the markets that are only too glad
to handle them?
DO we equalize the taxes in such a
way as to remove the burden from the
shoulders of the farmers and small
home owners in our towns and city,
and the renters when they are over
ridden by the profiteering rental con-
Germs?
Do We take the proper interest In !,
having only the best and most progress I
sive qualifications in selecting the men
that control and direct our county at
fairs, and educational interests, or are +
ule of progression?
Our slogan should be perseverance,
push and progress, for we have the
goods and the chamber of commerce
has started in the right direction in
the financial drive, and every cent
should be spent in judicious advertis-
ing of the true possibilities of our
county and harbor, which would be
the longest stride toward settling up
the county we have ever undertaken.
J Every citizen is vitality interested in
the development Of our county in any
and all lines of realizing from our adj
vantages, now latent.
We have large deposits of hematite
ore and thousands of yards of the best
quality of gravel for every purpose
such material would be used for
One Of the greatest movements that
should appeal to every thinking oiti-
zen at this moment is the county fair,
which will be held at Molino. If we
exert little energy in this display of J.
our soil producing wealth and let the
hundreds see that we have something
besides sand beds and red bugs, we
will all reap lasting financial benefit
from the small investment each citizen
of progressive inclination has made.
If you can't exhibit, contribute. If you
can't exhibit or contribute, why, visit,
and by thus endorsing it and doing
your little BIT, you will know what che
has in it.
]. w. CRARY, sr.
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