The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-02-15
. FROM OUR READERS
,ditor of Fvening Telegram,

Editor OF Evening Telegram,
Dear RI have been reading the
letters written by visitors and printed
in your columns, some Of them are
well written and couched in beautiful
and wonderfully descriptive language
in so far as the flowers, Spanish moss
and the ripling waters 60. Ihey nave
no doubt, been written by gentlemen
who are seeking only The beauties that
appeal to the aesthetic, Ot course they
are beautiful but first. / would men
tion, without detail description, ne
wonderful grapefruit and orange
groves one sees for miles almost IN
broken in some sections on both sides
of the highways, producing III Polk
county alone nearly three million
boxes of the finest citrus fruit in the
world. would mention the wonder
full system of roads one enjoys while
motoring in your county consisting OF
between three and four hundred miles
or asphalt highways which run from
end to end and from side to side br-
sides criss-crossing the interior parts
of the county.
Next, l would mention Lakeland and
some of it's advantages, such as the
pure water supply, it's altitude and
pure air. it's schools which are as
good as the best. Where people who
may wish to go to Florida to see
something besides the moss and flow
ers and do something besides sit in
the park, may send their children 20
school, while they earn a living,
Their chances to make a living there
Is equally as good and in many in
stances better than where they have
been living. AS l see it, the letters
written about Florida tend to scare
the really worth while people away.
People who want to make their per-
manent home there and who would
help really develope the country.
A man with slightly increased
blood pressure in the prenephritic
stage who is not able TO be a tourist
the balance of his life, would be glad
to learn of just such a place as Polk
county, Florida. He has money
enough to buy a home and some land
and some left to develope it, prob
ably has made up his mind to go
South because he cannot live in a cold
climate any more and he sees letter
written by tourist, who goes to Flor
ida looking only for the beautiful
things and he very naturally comes
to the conclusion that 1t is no place
for man to make a living which is.
or course, incorrect.
/ think that a state large enough to
produce, in a season. ten million
bushels of corn. between ten and
twelve million boxes of citrus ruit,
mine seven-eighths of the phospha e
OF the world and ship hundreds of
train loads of winter vegetables to
say nothing of other industries such
as lumber, @urpsntine, range cattle,
fish and oysters. etc. and if am not
misinformed, Florida excels in all
here mentioned
Such state and most especially Polk
county should be described as a de-
lightful place to live, as being blessed
with winter climate that charms all
Who go there, a summer climate that
is really pleasant, plus the possibili-
les that are ever present there for a
man of moderate means to make a
living and live in comfort in the
midst of wonderfully pleasant cos
mopolitan population where good
schools and churches are the pride of
the country.
Very sincerely yours,
R. LETTERS.