The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-11-20
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10 Duild story around Sl. Andrews
Bay, with a garnishment of the COM
mercial and industrial activities GEN.
tered in the towns which dot its shore
lines, is an easy task. But TO under
take an adequate word picture of the
entrancingly beautiful environs of St.
Andrews bay, is quite another under
taking. Indeed, to do it right-to do
full justice to the subject-would require
! poem wrought in meter and diction
of which none but an artist is capable.
Hence, to one more capable than I, must
be left the task to do full justice to the
st. Andrews bay which I visited last
week
I have known St. Andrews bay since
before a town site had been laid out
upon its wonderful shore line; since be-
fore the wildness Of pines which fringed
its shores and extended north to the
tracks of the P & A. division Of the
Louisville and Nashville railroad had
ever had an axe in it; since long. long
before the thought Of turpentine opera
tons in West Florida had ever received
serious consideration; aye, since away
back in the early eighties, when the
original town site of st. Andrews was
established by a company Of capitalists
from Cincinnati; and too, the aftermath
of that old original st. Andrews bay
promotion-when the bubble burst. But
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Vened since 1 have known st. Andrews
bay. with the exception of a visit which
l made there in the spring of 1908. and
which was of less than half a days du-
ration, 1 had never visited st. Andrews
bay, or Toasted my sense of vision upon
the exquisite picture which Nature, in
her most artistic mood, has wrought
there SO ineffacibly and so indestructa-
BILE, until last week, when the work
which in
through the columns Of The Journal.
to visualize to West Floridians the
matchless wonders and incalculable nat
ural resources of West Florida, took me
there.
And I'm glad. for more reasons than
one, that the opportunity has been af-
forded me to visit ST. Andrews bay.
Alive To Opportunities
Principally, because my confidence in |
the wonderful section of which l have |
been a resident since my childhood, has
been enhanced a thousand fold, not !
alone because I've seen the marvellous |
development possibilities at st. Andrews, |
Panama City, Lynn Haven, Millville. |
Parker, Bay Head and the other COM
which dot the shore line of the |
extensive expanses of st. Andrews bay;
but also because 1 have met and mingled
with a number Of the citizens of all of
am convinced, not altogether by what
they told me, but by what they showed
me while l was there last Wednesday
and Thursday, that they are men who
are thoroughly alive to the mines Of un
developed wealth which surround them
upon every hand, and are up and at it,
and not waiting for George to do It," in
The development of these natural re-
sources.
All of these ST. Andrews bay commu-
mites are prosperOus-unusually So
and as the development Of the back
surrounding them progresses.
Is it is bound to do in the strong hands
which are behind IT, there is no power
which can deter, particularly the towns
If Panama City, Lynn Haven and st.
from forging ahead by leaps
Ind bounds, in both population and
wealth.
Panama City is the largest of the
numerous communities on the bay, is
he county seat of Bay county and it,
md the town of St. Andrews are di-
'ided only by an imaginary boundary
inc, and are located on the main bay.
lynn Haven is five or six miles away :
N one of the tributaries of the main =
'ay, while Millville and Parker are sit ,
lated upon the shores of another tribu-
airy. All of the towns maintain sepa- :
ate municipal organizations, which, in =
he case of Lynn Haven and Millville, :
ue to their segregation from St. An g
rews and Panama City, are necessary. =
SUIT to an entirely impartial observer