Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-06-22
Grant Morthland
Enjoys Ledger in
Florida Home

AOAAAS
The FOLLOWING interesting letter
from Grant Morthland, formerly of
this county, is from his home in
Florida:
Ocala, Florida.
May 25th, 1922.
Nj. Mitchell White,
Mexico, Missouri.
Dear MITCHELL
! have a notice from you that it is
time for renewal. I am to eager to
set at the meat inside to look at the
wrapper and 50 you have to remind
me. People at home do not know
how to appreciate a local paper, but
just wait until you get away and
then you look forward for it next to
a letter from mother. 1t matters not
how far you roam, there is never the
interest in other people like where
you were reared.
Well how's Florida? She is just fine,
The longer / stay here the better I
like it. The tourist do not get a fair
impression of the state asfew Of them
ever see the commercial side. 1t has
been my privilege and business to
travel a great deal in the past year
and study Florida-7getting at the in
side Of the developments of the state.
When you see it in this light you can
not help but wonder what it will be
in ten or twenty years from now. If
you will travel through the state you
would not realize that there is any
financial depression in America to-
day on every side you see new fields
being cleared, new Enterprises spring
up, and in the towns the building
boom is going on undated. In
ocala there is probably more building
IN process and being contemplated
than in the history of the town.
The people down here are awake to
the importance. Of good roads, and
are building them just as fast as pos
| sible. In the course of the next five
years it will be possible to reach any
point in the state on a well built
hard surface road. For instance last
fall there was a million seven hundred
thousand available for completing the
hard surfacing Of the Dixie highway
from the Georgia line to Orlando a
little over two hundred miles, this is
all bond money voted by the different
counties, and not taking into consid-
Grafton State and Federal aid. 1t is
not a question Of voting bonds in this
State but when can we get them
built. Many of the counties are not
waiting for out side aid, but are go.
ing ahead with their own money and
building them.
A letter from Florida with out q
fish story is not complete, | am moi
going to tell you a story, but just in
wife you and. any one who will come
to and let me take them to my fav.
orite grounds. Here's the LAY out
take a boat and start just below
where the Silver Spring run joins tht
Ocklawaha River. This Spring il
really a river itself and any one who
comes to Florida and fail to see il
will, missed one of the greatest
sights in the state. But, back to my
story, the water from this spring j.
as clear as the air, and for miles be
row the run you can see all about ii
the water distinctly get a boat with
a GOOD KICKER, for you are goinl
to need it coming back, a rod and rec
and you are fixed, just drift along, a
you will travel at he rate of foul
miles per hour and cast. ! assure vol
that you will be able to get a goot
bass or jack fish on the other end 0:
the line and then is when the fun be
gins for not only car you feel hin
but you can see all of his antics il
fighting you, and don't worry abou
him not having them for they ar,
game to the core. A day when the.
are striking good is nigh onto a per
feet day.
We would be delighted to have
part Of that rain you are having u
the there as it has rained very it'll
for the last two months here, but o
course this is a dry season here, !
will start tosraining in a month an
then we will have more than we nee
for a couple months.
It was with deep regret that ! rea,
Of the death Of our friend DR.. MacI
Bolts, / fully intended to 60 up t
Lake City and see him but | did no
realize that his, condition was so crit
ical, and now he is gone.
Very truly yours,