The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1922-02-03
Tampa-the Magic cityv-Five Mil
lions Worth Of Building in Sin
gle Year-A Wonderland Of
Development


Development
Mrs. Maude L. Ballard in Chicago
Tribune)
A resume OF Tampa's progress DUR
ing the past twelve months reads
more like visionary's dream. rather
than cold reality. For city of less
than 100000 people to have done in
one year nearly $5,OOO,000 worth of
building is record few northern
towns can show While industrial
depression has gripped the whole
country, Tampa has maintained a
weekly payroll of her workers of
more than 100000. Tampa's post
Office receipts have overtopped those
Of Jacksonville, the largest city in
Florida. The city's financial growth
also finds reflection in the country's
prosperity values, which show that
Hillsborough county now owns prop
erty valued close to the 100000
mark.
In these figures stock is not taken
Of the development of the outlying dis
tricts of South Florida, where such
agricultural industries as citrus fruit
growing, sugar cane and vegetable
growing have advanced into the mil
lions of dollars class.
Tampa's achievement is the keynote
of all South Florida's progress.
Through northern men Of vision and
capital Florida has become a state of.
great land development.
West Coast Popular
The tourist knows Orlando, Lake
land, Sebring. in south-central Florida.
and Tampa, st. Petersburg, Bellair,
Clearwater and Sarasota on the gulf.
as he once only knew Palm Beach, for
by automobile he has crossed the state
from east coast to west coast to spend
a few days or hours in the South Flor.
ida resorts.
Here are the beautiful homes of
Mr.. Henry Allsopp of South Orange,
N. j., Mr.. George Sebring, Orvnle Sc
bring, Kenilworth Lodge, the fine
hotel recently purchased by Messrs.
T. Elliott Tolson, w. w. Wycoff, ].
Wade McGrath and Hugh j. Flynn.
A wide shell boulevard runs for 12I
miles around the lake. An eighteen
hole golf course adjoins the hotel, and
around the Circle as the city park
is called, is a community of charm
ing homes that house a population of
several thousand permanent citizens.
The winter visitors, VINO now seek
Sebring annually, fill Kenilworth
Lodge and half dozen smaller hotels.
Citrus fruit culture in Orange coun-
ty has been largely concentrated
around Orlando, where are located the
beautiful estates of James LaughIin
OF Pittsburg, c. F. Mather Smith and
J. l. Marshall of Chicago, C. G. Wes-
colt of Richmond, Ind, and John 7.
Prize.
At Orlando is located the headouar-
ters of the American Fruit Growers,
Inc, company incorporated for
$100,000,000 and officered by Pitts
burg financiers.
But it is Polk county that has put
itself on record as citrus fruit
growing district exclusively, and there
are two distinct avenues along which
this activity has traveled-the com
mercial and the social. M. E. Gillett
and mis- son, d. G. Gillett, started the
commercial grove idea in Polk county,
and wave upon wave has the influ-
ence Of their pioneering in orange
culture rolled over the. state, till all
South Florida is gowing citrus fruit
on its high lands.
lnnumerable Golf Courses
Golf courses in South Florida are as
ubiquitous as orange groves, and
they are not the sand green affairs of
early Florida vintage. Outside of the
old links at Winter Park there is not
sand green course in South Florida.
Two golf course architects, Donald j.
Ross and Seth J. Raynor, have left
their deep impress on golf course con-
struction all over Florida and to each
belongs the credit of laying out some