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Jaudon J F, Miami.
. . . .
.right top lines
Phillips Wm I. Miami.
384
Stewart W H D, Miami .... left top lines
Van Sant Company, St Paul. Minn ..
.left top lines
Hall Charles R. St Petersburg ..... 518 Grav & Ball, Tampa. backbone McNevin Wm L, Tampa.
. back cover and 577
Sexton & Harris, Tampa.
. front cover and 578
McGinley H P, West Palm Beach.
right top lines and 644
JEWELERS
Riles R J Co, Jacksonville.
. bottom edge and 234
Hewitt T W, Jasper.
308
JUNK DEALERS
Goldstein J Co. Jacksonville.
228
Peninsular Metal Co, Jacksonville ..
234
Sabel Bros (Inc), Jacksonville.
235
LANDS
Hopkins Henry G, Jacksonville ...
.left bottom lines Anderson Hugh M. Miami. . left top lines Meyer J H Co. Miami. 378 Morse Fred'k S, Miami.
front cover and 380
South Okeechobee Farms Co,
Miami
1013
Riviere J H. Palmetto
454
Van Sant Company, St Paul. Minu
Morse Fred'k S, Miami. .left top lines front cover and 380 Hall Charles R, St Petersburg. 518
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Kelley W McKee. St Petersburg ... 521
Seaman M D, St Petersburg 520
Barret W S, Tampa 566
Gray & Ball, Tampa.
backbone
Hammond-Weaver Co, Tampa. .front edge and 568 McNevin Wm L, Tampa
. back cover and 577 Manatee River Land Co, Tampa ... 577 McGinley H P, West Palm Beach ..
right top lines and 644 Upper Glades Development Co,
West Palm Beach .. 644
LAWYERS
Phillips & Bruce, Chipley 107
Lambeth John E, Clearwater. 110
Bayer Ferdinand, Gainesville.
179
Dodge John W, Jacksonville.
Metcalf & Dunkle, West Palm Beach 649
LEATHER AND FINDINGS
Sabel Bros (Inc), Jacksonville. 235
Southern Leather Co, Tampa ....... 579 LIME, PLASTER AND CEMENT
Carolina Portland Cement Co, Jack- sonville right top lines
LITHOGRAPHERS
Drew H & W B Co, Jacksonville ..
. front cover and 6
LIVERY STABLES
Bates L E, Tampa 573
LOANS
Ahern John J, Jacksonville.
. left bottom lines Hamby Thomas B, Jacksonville ... 229 Knauer Wm, Jacksonville. . left top lines Davenport Thomas S Co, Miami .... . back cover and 382 Jaudon J F, Miami ....... right top lines Jeffries J B, Miami. . back cover and 382 Stewart W H D, Miami .... left top lines Waddell E A, Miami .. 380 West Coast Abstract & Mortgage Co, St Petersburg. 523 Hammond-Weaver Co, Tampa. .front edge and 568
Sexton & Harris, Tampa.
.front cover and 578
LUMBER MANUFACTURERS Cummer Lumber Cô, Jacksonville. .
.right bottom lines Halsema J C Mfg Co, Jacksonville. 228 Muller F E, St Petersburg. 522 Downing Mfg Co, Tampa .. 567
Hillsborough Lumber Co, Tampa ...
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LUMBER-WHOLESALE
Lake County Mfg Co, Eustis. 153 Rawls, Avant & Co, Miami 384 Milton Lumber Co, Milton. 408
Hillsborough Lumber Co, Tampa .. 2 Kirkland A & Son, Tampa. 576
LUMBER-RETAIL
Lake County Mfg Co, Eustis. 153 Muller F E, St Petersburg. 522 Ramsey T W, Tampa. 572.
Southern Lumber & Supply Co,
Tampa
571
MACHINERY
Fairbanks, Morse & Co, Jacksonville 240 Farquhar Machinery Co, Jackson- ville 226
Kaufman Metal Co, Jacksonville ... 231 Malsby Machinery Co, Jacksonville 231 Seminole Mfg Co, Jacksonville. . . 235 Sharp D B Machinery Co, Jackson- ville 236
Weller Henry C, Jacksonville.
244
Perry C H, Main.
384
MACHINERY-SECOND-HAND
Goldstein J Co, Jacksonville. 228 Tampa Machinery Exchange, Tampa 904
MACHINISTS
Mains Foundry Co, Jacksonville ... 239 Murphy T Iron Works, Jacksonville 232 Lyne C H Foundry & Machine Co, Miami 383
Perry Foundry & Machine Works, Perry 481
MARINE CONSTRUCTION
Merrill-Stevens Co, Jacksonville ... left bottom lines and 232
MATTRESS MANUFACTURERS
Shaw's Mattress Factory, Tampa .. 579
MEDICINE MANUFACTURERS
Tampa Drug Co, Tampa.
........
. 571
MERCANTILE AGENCIES
Dun R G & Co, Jacksonville
240
MERCHANT TAILORS
Damato Tom, Jacksonville
240
METAL PRODUCTS
Florida Metal Products Co. Jackson-
ville
.right top lines
MILL SUPPLIES
Cameron & Barkley Co The, Jack- sonville. left top lines Farquhar Machinery Co, Jackson- ville 226 Malsby Machinery Co. Jacksonville 231 Knight & Wall Co, Tampa. back cover and 576
MINERAL WATER
Good Hope Water Co, Jacksonville ... right bottom lines and 6 White Springs Mineral Water Co, White Springs 653
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MIRROR MANUFACTURERS
French Mirror Plate Glass Co,
Jacksonville . . ... .left top lines
MULTIGRAPHING
Burbridge Multigraphing Stamp & Seal Co, Jacksonville .. right bottom lies and 224
Duval Multigraphing Co, Jackson-
237
ville
Eureka
Multigraphing
Service,
Jacksonville
224
Letter Shop The, Jacksonville
238
MUSIC TEACHERS
Trotter James B, Jacksonville
244
Sproule-Baker Iva, Miami.
385
MUSIC AND MUSICAL MERCHAN- DISE
Southern Music Co, Jacksonville. 244
Philpitt S Ernest, Tampa.
578
NEWSPAPERS
Arcadia Daily News, Arcadia. 67
De Soto County News, Arcadia. 67
Enterprise The, Arcadia .. 67 Courier-Informant The, Bartow 77
Florida Metropolis, Jacksonville. 220 Florida Index, Lake City 330
Free Press, Lake City. . 330
Lakeland Morning Star, Lakeland .. 335
Polk County Star, Lakeland. 335 Leesburg Commercial, Leesburg. 345 Standard The, Macclenny .. 356 Enterprise-Recorder, Madison 357 Miami Herald The, Miami. 377 Palatka News, Palatka. 450 Colored Citizen, Pensacola. 462 St Petersburg Daily Times, St
Petersburg
523
Daily and Weekly Democrat, Talla-
hassee
554
Florida Record, Tallahassee
556
Florida Grower, Tampa.
567
NOVELTY MANUFACTURERS Magnolia Novelty Works, Daytona. 128
NURSERYMEN
Exotic Gardens The, Miami. 386
Gordon Thomas G, Tallahassee. 557 Indian River Nurseries, West Palm
Beach
643
OFFICE, STORE AND BAND FIX- TURES
Nissen & Anderson, Jacksonville .. 233
OFFICE SUPPLIES
Drew H & W B Co, Jacksonville ... . front cover and 6
Southern Office Supply Co, Jackson- ville 239
Shaw-Clayton Stationery Co, Tampa 569
OPTICIANS
Riles R J Co, Jacksonville.
.bottom edge and 234
PAINTS, OILS, ETC
Conroy D J Co, Jacksonville ..
3
Gulf City Painting & Decorating Co,
Tampa
575
PHOTOGRAPHERS' SUPPLIES
Tampa Photo & Art Supply Co,
Tampa
580
PIANOS AND ORGANS
Philpitt S Ernest, Tampa.
...
. 578
PIPE ORGAN BUILDERS
Stringer John, Jacksonville
243
PLANING MILLS
Magnolia Novelty Works, Daytona .. 128
PLASTERERS
Graham John S, Jacksonville.
998
PLUMBERS-STEAM AND GAS FITTERS
Golder E G, Jacksonville.
238
Orr Alexander jr, Miami.
383
PLUMBERS' SUPPLIES
Cameron & Barkley Co The, Jack-
sonville
.left top lines
POULTRY SUPPLIES
Walton Seed Co, Jacksonville.
. .
.left bottom lines
Crenshaw Bros Seed Co, Tampa ...
right top lines
PRINTERS-BOOK AND JOB
Dennis Printing Co The, Jackson-
ville
219
Drew H & W B CO The, Jackson-
ville .
. front cover and
6
Seminole Printing Co, Jacksonville 243
Leesburg Publishing & Printing Co,
Leesburg
345
Acme Print Shop, Pensacola.
462
PRODUCE
Walton County Farmers Produce
Exchange, De Funiak Springs .... 134
PUBLISHERS
Enterprise Publishing Co, Arcadia .. 67
Anderson Frank K, Bartow.
77
Metropolis Co The, Jacksonville ..
220
Index Printing Co, Lake City
330
Helvenston R L, Macclenny
356
Merchant T C, Madison.
357
Miami Herald Co, Miami. 377 Russell & Vickers, Palatka. 450
Times Publishing Co, St Petersburg 523
Appleyard T J, Tallahassee.
556
Smith Milton A, Tallahassee.
554
Florida Grower Publishing Co, Tam- pa 567
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RAILWAY SUPPLIES
Fairbanks, Morse & Co, Jacksonville 240 REAL ESTATE
Florida Land & Abstract Co, Apa- lachicola 63
Lambeth John E, Clearwater.
110
Trafford A R, Cocoa ..
114
Turner Chas F Real Estate Agency, De Funiak Springs. 133
Hutton James, Fort Myers .:
171
Bayer Ferdinand, Gainesville. 179
Ahern John J, Jacksonville
left bottom lines Brown Charles A jr, Jacksonville ..
right bottom lines
Elmore & Elmore, Jacksonville. .. 238 Hamby Thomas B, Jacksonville. .. . 229 Hopkins Henry G, Jacksonville. .
left bottom lines Knauer Wm, Jacksonville. . left top lines McCrory W M Co, Jacksonville .... .right bottom lines Simmons H H Realty Co, Jackson- ville 243
Warrington W C & Co, Jacksonville 244
Florida Real Estate & Abstract Co, Marianna 362 Anderson Hugh M, Miami. . left top lines Brossier F C & Son, Miami.
.right top lines
Carmichael-McCalley Co, Miami ... 381
Davenport Thomas S Co, Miami ...
. back cover and 382
Fossey A D H. Miami. 386
Jaudon J F, Miami. . ... .right top lines Jeffries J B, Miami .. back cover and 382
Meyer J H Co, Miami. 378 Mitchell L A, Miami. 383
Morse Fred'k S, Miami.
.front cover and 380
Phillips Wm I. Miami. 384
Rawls, Avant & Co, Miami. 384
South Ockeechobee Farms Co, Mi- ami 1013
Stewart W H D, Miami. .. left top lines Terry Fred L, Miami. 386
Waddell E A, Miami. 380
Breaker-Barclay Realty Co. Orlan- do and Kissimmee. 323 and 438
Knight T J, Palatka. 449
Riviere J H, Palmetto. 454
Robinson W E, Palmetto 454
Van Sant Company, St Paul, Minn ..
.left top lines
Hall Charles R. St Petersburg. 518 Kelley W McKee. St Petersburg. 521 Seaman M D. St Petersburg .. 520 West Coast Realty Co, Sarasota. 538 Barret W S,.Tampa. 566
Fessenden's Real
Estate Agency,
Tampa 574
Gray & Ball. Tampa.
. backbone
Hammond-Weaver Co, Tampa.
.front edge and 568
McNevin Wm L, Tampa.
.back cover and 577
Manatee River Land Co, Tampa .... 577 Sexton & Harris, Tampa ....
.front cover and 578 McGinley H P, West Palm Beach .. .right top lines and 644 Upper Glades Development Co, West Palm Beach 644
REFRIGERATORS
Shannen Refrigerator
&
Butcher
Supply Co, Jacksonville.
239
RESTAURANT SUPPLIES
Wright Co The, Atlanta, Ga ...
853
ROAD OILING
Davidson J B, West Palm Beach .. 643
ROOFERS
Cox Norman A, Pensacola
....... 463
RUBBER STAMPS
Burbridge Multigraphing Stamp & Seal Co, Jacksonville. .right bottom lines and 224 Seminole Printing Co, Jacksonville. 243
SANITARIUMS
Yates Sanitarium, Madison ..
359
Worley Sanitarium, St Augustine .. 508 SCRAP IRON AND METAL
Kaufman Metal Co, Jacksonville .... 231
SEEDS
Walton Seed Co, Jacksonville.
left bottom lines Crenshaw Bros Seed Co, Tampa .... .right top lines
SHEET METAL WORKERS
Daytona Sheet Metal Works, Day-
tona
126
Nash C & Son, Daytona.
129
Cox Norman A, Pensacola.
463
Ahrens & Son, West Palm Beach .. 645
SHIP BUILDERS
Merrill-Stevens Co, Jacksonville ....
.left bottom lines and 232 Thibault Edward S, Jacksonville .. 223 Tampa Steam Ways Co, Tampa ... 580 SHIP CHANDLERS
Biscayne Hardware Co, Miami ..... left top lines
SPORTING GOODS
Knight & Wall Co, Tampa. . back cover and 576
STENOGRAPHERS-PUBLIC
Letter Shop The, Jacksonville ..... 238
STOVES AND RANGES
Rhodes-Futch-Collins Furniture Co. Jacksonville ... right top lines and 222
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STRUCTURAL IRON Florida Metal Products Co, Jackson- ville ...... right top lines
. SURVEYORS Ellis, Curtis & Kooker, Jacksonville
left bottom lines and 237
TAILORS
Damato Tom, Jacksonville
240
TANK MFRS
Nash C & Son, Daytona.
129
TENTS AND AWNINGS
Jacksonville Tent & Awning Mfrs,
Jacksonville
230
Thomas E T, Miami
385
TIMBER LANDS
Cummer W W & Sons Co The, Jack-
sonville. ...
.right bottom lines
TRUCKS-AUTOMOBILE
Smith Form-A-Truck Sales Co (Inc),
Jacksonville
236
TURPENTINE STILLS McMillan Bros Co of Florida, Jack- sonville 242
UNDERTAKERS
Ferguson
Undertaking Co.
West
Palm Beach
643
VULCANIZERS
Spiller Vulcanizing & Equipment
Co, Tallahassee
560
WALL PAPER
Conroy D J Co, Jacksonville
3
Gulf City Painting & Decorating
Co, Tampa
575
WIND MILLS
Fairbanks, Morse & Co, Jackson-
ville
240
YACHT BROKERS
Mitchell L A, Miami.
383
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FLORIDA
·Is sometimes called the "Flowery" or "Everglade" State. Its civiliza- tion dates further back than that of any other State in the Union. In 1512 it was conquered by the Spaniard, Ponce de Leon, and in 1539 it was visited by De Soto. In 1564 a permanent settlement was made at St. Augustine and at Pensacola in 1596. The Spanish colony was overcome by the British in 1535 and the Territory was under British rule from 1763 to 1783, when it was receded to Spain. In 1819 Spain ceded it to the United States, the cession being ratified the following year. Florida be- came a Territory in 1822 and a long series of conflicts with the Seminole Indians, known in History as the Seminole War, retarded its prosperity. It became a State in 1845. It is the southernmost State in the Union, extending as a peninsula through five degrees of latitude, with a coast line 472 miles long on the Atlantic coast and 674 miles on the Gulf of Mexico. Its surface, generally level, but sometimes gently undulating, is nowhere over 330 feet above sea level. In the south the "Everglades" until recently formed an extended swamp, morass and jungle ; a vast Cypress swamp on the western side and a Mangrove swamp at the lower end of the peninsula still being practically impenetrable. Dense forests still cover the greater portion of the State, but with its development adding to its beauty and charm.
The fossil remains of elephants and mammoths and giant sloths and tigers are found in many parts of the State. In the office of the State Geologist, at Tallahassee-a man whose fame as a student and investigator extends far and wide-can be found a large assortment of the remains of a surprising variety of fossil land and marine forms of life, indicating the existence here of a vast number of strange and grotesque beasts, birds and fishes long before man took a place on the earth and became its master. The alligator is a survivor of past ages, and is as much a curiosity today to Floridians as to tourists.
The Indian mounds, abundant in all parts of the State, bespeak a dense aboriginal population at one time, the only record of their existence being left in rude pottery and bone found in heaps of earth built up for observa- tion, defensive and burial purposes. Scientific societies have explored many of these mounds and found relics of crude devices used by our first inhab- itants in war and peace.
There are numerous rivers: the St. Johns, Indiana, Caloosahatchee, Withlacoochee, Suwannee, Apalachicola, Ocklawaha and St. Marys. A number of these rivers flow entirely across the State (the St. Johns River runs almost the entire length, rising far to the south and flowing due north), and in almost every case have at their mouths safe harbor for vessels in coasting trade. There are thousands of lakes, some large enough for small steamers. Lake Okeechobee is the largest in the State, being 40 miles long and 30 miles wide. The State lies between 241/2 degrees and 31 degrees
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north latitude, and between 80 degrees and 88 degrees west longitude from Greenwich. The total area of the State is 59,268 square miles, or 37.931,520 acres. Of this area according to the latest United States Census, the total land surface is 54,240 square miles ; the total area covered by water, com- posed of lakes, rivers and ponds, is 5.028 square miles. The length of the State from its northern boundary to the south end of the peninsula is some- thing over 400 miles, the average width of the peninsula is about 100 miles and that portion of the State lying along and between the States of Georgia and Alabama and the Gulf of Mexico averages about 60 miles in width, though much narrower in some places.
From its geographical position, being in the same latitude as the north- ern half of Mexico and'southern China, it is natural to suppose the climate is hot, but its comparative degree of heat is not accurately indicated by its latitude, because the temperature that might be expected from its geograph- ical position is controlled in great measure by its peculiar shape, bringing the whole surface in close proximity to the ocean currents which influence to a great degree its entire climatic conditions. The narrowness of the State and its consequent exposure to the fructifying influence of the balmy ocean winds produces a pleasantness and salubrity of climate, and a power of vegetable production truly wonderful.
The principal harbors on the Gulf Coast are Pensacola, Tampa. Char- lotte Harbor, Key West and Carrabelle, and on the Atlantic Coast, Fernan- dina. Jacksonville, Fort Lauderdale, and Miami.
Throughout the history of the world experience has invariably shown those countries blessed with water facilities for travel. transportation and commerce, are the ones that accumulated greatest wealth, were prosperous and progressive. Florida has these facilities to a greater extent than any other State, for practically all of her territory is in close touch with the commerce of the ocean. through her harbors, where her products may be transported to other climes or exchanged for wares from other parts of the world.
Geographically, no equal area on earth is more favorably located with facility of access by water to all' continents than Florida. A study of a map of the world, on "Mercator's Projection," will substantiate this state- ment.
Florida as a front yard of the Union is vitally interested in world problems. No State of the American Republic has a more commanding location with reference to the world. Sir Walter Raleigh long ago said. "the country in command of the sea commands the world." Great Britain is not as well located in accessibility to the world as Florida. To the east, across the Atlantic, are the continents of Europe and Africa, to the south is Cuba, with which there is car ferrage, and just beyond is the continent of South America, while the Panama Canal gives it nearest access to the island continent of Australia to the southwest, and to the northwest is Asia.
Geographically Florida commands more territory tributary in a com- mercial way than any other American State. All of the West Indies, a thousand or more islands. of which Cuba-larger than Ohio, with Delaware and Rhode Island thrown in, and the continent of South America, with thirteen nations, as the maps show, are nearer to Florida ports than any other. Immediate neighbors to the north are Georgia and Alabama, the great mineral bearing States of the South. Across the Gulf is Mexico, with nearly 800,000 square miles of territory, and below it the five Central American Republics of Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and
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Panama. Across the latter the United States owns a ten mile strip with a canal on which there has been spent $350.000,000. This canal cuts the trip to California 10,000 miles shorter than by Cape Horn.
Any account of Florida would be incomplete that did not include a statement regarding the work of the late Henry M. Flagler, giving him undying fame and his State distinction and renown, in building the exten- sion of the Florida East Coast Railway across the Florida Keys from the mainland to Key West. This is not a long piece of railroad construction, but there were no precedents on which estimates for works of this character could be based. Contractors came down, looked over the wide waste of rolling water to be bridged, shook their gray heads and returned unwilling to even try their skill, or trust their judgment in such unusual undertakings.
The difficulties are these: a narrow fringe, more or less broken, of low coral islands, or keys, jutting out from the mainland to Key West to be connected by embankments, trestles or viaducts and bridges, the Atlantic Ocean on the south, the Gulf of Mexico on the north, protected in places by the outer reef on the south side and by sand bars on the north.
These islands are rocky, hence afford a bed for the railroad for 112 miles, the balance of 66 7/10 miles to be trestled or bridged or filled in. After many months of careful examination by Mr. Flagler's engineers, the actual work began, dredges were put to dig two parallel canals, 100 feet apart, from a point across the Everglades south to Homestead to Jewfish Creek at Key Largo, 14 miles, the dump between the dredges being for the future railroad bed. A number of light draft steamboats and barges were bought and supplies were carried, including water (for no fresh water is found on the keys), to camps scattered along the keys from Jewfish Creek to Key West, and thousands of laborers were put to work grading the roadbed on the Keys. These men were well cared for, food was good, and their health was made an object of care, great dredges were built or bought and put to filling in with clay, sand and rock. Owing to the shallow waters between some of the Keys, trestles were built across these waters and the work of filling in these places that could so be treated was carried on night and day by dredges and by trains of cars, dumping rock and clay along the sides of these trestles. Where the water was too deep for this treatment reinforced concrete viaducts were built, the longest at Long Key, being 2 1/10 miles in length, diameter of arches 50 feet, the track level is 31 feet above sea level. This type has also been used for a number of openings at other points. The Knights Key and Little Duck Key bridge is of steel girder spans, these girders are 80 feet long, 8 feet high, track level same as Long Key viaduct. The girders are supported by reinforced concrete piers.
The total length of bridges is 17.6 miles; the total length of embank- ment built by dredges is 49.1 miles.
At Knights Key, 111 miles south of Miami, a wharf was built where cement granite, gravel and sand from the Hudson River quarries and Balti- more, and other construction supplies could be landed by seagoing vessels. At Jewfish Creek, Indian Key Channel and Moser Channel, draw bridges were provided.
Recalling, as Mr. Flagler did, the great mistake made by northern rail- roads, as for instance : The New York Central, Boston & Maine, Baltimore & Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroad in providing insufficient terminal facil- ities at the great cities, Mr. Flagler planned and built a terminal yard at Key West of about 160 acres of land built entirely in shallow waters on the north side of the island, thus creating terminal facilities largely in excess
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of the present wants, but sufficient to supply all future needs. Freight is now carried from these terminals to Havana, Cuba, 80 miles south, in car ferries without breaking bulk.
The most important work facing Florida today is the draining of the Everglades. When completed, an event will have transpired of as much moment as the opening of the Panama Canal was to the world. The work, involving 4,000,000 acres, is progressing satisfactorily. Five great canals have been completed from Lake Okeechobee, through this district, to the Atlantic Ocean, with outlets at Palm Beach, Deerfield, Fort Lauderdale and Miami. The whole cost of this great work will be approximately $6,000.000. The canals referred to not only serve to drain the marches, but furnish means of transportation by steamer. Exclusive of the Everglades project, with its 4,000,000 acres, there are no less than 1,700,000 other acres, repre- senting 23 separate districts of more than 2,000 acres each. Five of these comprise more than 100,000 acres each, and only four drop below 20,000 acres. The largest is the Withlachoochee district, but when the plans of the Bunnell and St. Johns Park drainage district, in St. Johns and Volusia Counties, of 443,000 acres, are perfected, it will be in leadership in area.
The widespread attention to reclamation matters covers all sections of the State and means the rescue of a vast territory of wet land, as rich as cream when the water is taken off, and prosperous agriculture will follow.
More money is now being spent per capita in Florida to improve the roads than in any other State. Florida, too, is the only Southern State penetrated by all the great national automobile roads: uniting the chief American centers-the Dixie Highway from Chicago and crossing the Lin- coln Highway, the Miami-Quebec Highway through New York, Phila- delphia, Baltimore and Washington; and the Old Spanish Trail along the Gulf to Texas, and connecting en route with the Jackson Highway, the Santa Fe Trail and with the Apache Trail over the mountains to the Pacific Coast.
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