Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-04-25
homes for 100000 of people.

florlda is a state OF great dlmen-
sions. If gigantic earthquake
should cause the state to turn a
somersault north Key West would
land in Virginia, and if it should turn
west Fernandina would strike in
Texas. 1t is about as far from Key
West to Pensacola by rail as it is
from Jacksonville to Chicago. Flor
ida has room to build 100000 homes
on the margin of our waters, giving
each 100 feet front or 100000
i homes giving each so feet front, or
100000 people could dwell comfort
ably on our water fronts, and have
fishing, swimming, boating at home.
The people of earth always have
liked the water and lived near it, and
people are coming to Florida; SO per
cent of our population were born out
of the state.
With not more than 10 per cent of
her available wealth developed Flor
ida has an assessed valuation of
$409,58 8,592, as this is based on a
40 per cent valuation, we have a to-
tai wealth in the state of $1,C24,-
100000.
There are 250 different varieties
of crops, nuts, fruits and vegetables
that grow we'll in Florida. There are
80 crops shipped by carload in the
United States; SO of them grow in
Florida.
Florida is in the market center of
the world by water and has 6,242
miles of railroad, score of naviga-
BILE rivers, many large lakes, bays,
inlets and canals, which makes pos
sible the greatest and most practical
and serviceable water transportation
system on earth. Florida has a pro-
duction of manufactured, forest, min
eral, fish and other sea food prod
ucts. with value of $215,OOO,O 900,
and an annual crop and live stock
value of $150,OOO,O00, making to-
tai production of 365,0OO,OOO, or
81 900 900 daily, to say nothing Of
the earnings of our banks, which
have resources amounting to $245,-
100000 and deposits amounting to
1892 100000, which have increased
205 per cent in the last five years, or
the revenue derived from our hun
dreds of thousands of winter tou-
rists.
Florida leads all the states in win
ter-grown tomatoes. The 1921 crop
was $1,000 acres which yielded 5'+
175OOO crates, valued at $19,045,OOO
or nearly one-third of the entire crop
Of the United States. If this crop OF
tomatoes had been placed in crates
and rlaced side by side, edges touch
ing, they would have reached from
Jacksonville to New York CITY,
If all the potatoes grown in Flor
ida were in barrels and placed in a
VOW, sides touching, they would
reach from Jacksonville to st. LOUIS
If all the oranges and grapefruit
produced in a single season were
placed in cars they would load a SOL
ii freight train reaching from Jack
.orviIle to St. Petersburg, and sell
for five times as much as the Unit
ed States paid Spain for the whole
state. .,,.;.,,do
o,d oitude on earth, the warmest
~ winter, the coolest in summer. we
orc lin the same latitude with tne
land n,o the Lord said should flow with
r~;Ik and honey, and in which our
savior and the Christian religion
we're born. -. o.,,os-
Florida has invigOrating atmos,
,,hare' cooled, warmed and cleansed
tn ozons from pines, breezes from
livery ~ lakes and tropic seas, beauty
81 0, Landscape, natural attractivsness'
y Ch.ru and heaith-giving conditions