Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, September 16, 1914, Page 2

PAGE TWO THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAKELAND, FLA., SEPT. 16, 1914. e B SOOI SNSTEIONSIIIRIRTNTI0: Sy Splendid Resources | of Floridal i | COLONEL PETER KNIGHT MAKES MARVELOUS | STATEMENT. The Chattanooga Tradesman,' a publication devoted to the ex-| ploitation and development of the south, in its quest for infor- mation, recently addressed a let- ter to Colonel Peter O. Knight, who is first a farmer, and inci- dentally engaged in trade and the practice of law. Colonel Knight is president of theTampa Hardware Company, and the letter from the Trades- man was addressed to him as its president. Colonel Knight's reply is an eye-opener. It fills one pride who loves the state and is interested in its rich unfoldment. way alone last year shipped {2106 carloads of pineapples. | The Hastings section alone with ' with only thirteen people to the square ntile. It is worthy of note that our bank deposits have in- creased more from 1910 to the| end of the year 1913 than they in- creased from 1900 to 1910. “The Florida East Coast Rail- 3 o . . ' {shipped $1,000,000 worth of Irishjacrease. potatoes. Although it is not known as a corn state, the val-| ue of our corn crop now, eachi year, is about $2,000,000 more than the entire state of F]orida| cost the United States \\'hcnl ipurchased from Spain; and thcithat six months citrus fruit crop this year, more than the state cost the United when purchased from Spain.! We shipped 4000 carloads of | watermelons last vear. We are now shipping approximately 60,- 000 carloads of perishable stuff, all told, per annunr. “The only potion of the Uni- ted States in which citrus fruits; can be grown is southern Cali- times entire States | It read as follows: “By way of illustration, the Tampa Hardware Company has grown from a $15,000 concern in 1901 to a $300,000 concern at the present time. Its capital stock is $200,000, in addition to which it owns a subsidiary company, which company is simply a real estate company, on the property of which is located the whole- sale house, making an aggregate capital invested of nearly $300,- 000. This indicates the growth of this section. “It would be difficult, in a lit- tle letter, to set forth fully the resourccs of Florida. Concrete- ly stated, when I located in Tam-, pa in 1890, the deposits of the entire state of Florida were ap- proximately two millions of dol-|growth of the United States in{the mayor of each municipality, lars. We have several banks inlthe future will amount to so far|will do so, the advisability of buy-|izeq the advance on Richmond of |mans in numbers enabled them to|covered by concerned. | ing one or more bales, and using the | Grant in 1864. the city of Tampa now that have deposits in excess of fornia and the southern part of Florida. We, therefore, have no; competitors. “The United States is increas- ing at the rate of 2,000,000 per annum in population, nearly, and it is a conservative statement to say that it will have 40,000,000 more people in twenty years! from now than it has today. The people are becoming better off every day, and areyemand- ing more luxuries. When it is recognized that south Florida I | We ;rc a new state, practicall_\‘,!wants Thl-ee Cents Tax on Cotton i Atlanta, Sept. 16.—W. S. With- an, the well-known Georgis. banker of this city, seriously advocates spe- cial legislative enactment taxing cotton at three cents per pound as a means of cutting down next years He holds that when re- duced acreage becomes an assured fact, then the price of cotton will |go to 13 cents or more, and he is confident a cotton tax would accom- plish the acreage reduction beyond a doubt. As to the constitutional- ity of such legislation, he points out or more would elapse before this question could be jamounted to twelve and a half gecided by the courts, judging by the usual length of time such cases are pending, and by that time the legislation would have accomplished its purpose and it would mage no difference if the courts did declare it unconstitutional. Mr. Witham believes the governors of the cot- ton growing States should call their legislatures in s pecial session at once to pass the necessary iaws. SAVANNAH MAYOR WANTS COTTON CONFERENCE Savannah, Ga., Sept. 15.—May- or R. J. Davant, a member of the ‘“Buy-a-Bale” of cotton committee, has written letters to every mayor .in almost every city in the cotton States, urging upon them to call a conference to adopt means of dis- 'poslng of the distress cotton in the South. Mayor Davant urged two and southern California ae the|congerences, one for each scction of only places in this country that|ipe State, to save long journeys, e piel s ni e s tnd n et iel te tutel L LS DL L Eul Bt Tt Phone No. 340 L= German Advance Like Grant’s Before Richmond | (By New York Sun’s Militaryy Expert.) For Americans, for whom the re- cent days of desperate fighting in northern France must seem confus- | there is an FARM WAGONS (. We can save you money on Wagons. Our stock of | and 2-horse Wagons is complete, and if you need a Wagon for hauling fruit thisy fall, see us. “COLUMBUS” make and the name is a guarantee of quality, MODEL HARDWARE Go C. E. We Want YOUR Business S-Sy lnsdnl Cngi OE‘Q‘EQSWWWOE fudcla® off from Richmond and, if possible, envelop him. Repulsed in his frontal attack at the Wilderness, he moved by the left flank of Spottsylvania, only to find Lee there in new intrenchments, from which, after desperate fight- ing, he was d riven back. Second drive to the left brought him to the South Anna, only to find new in- trenchments. At Cold Harbor, on June 3, his last attempt at the left flank failed. @ We sell the TODD, Mgr. BB BB A BT BB BHI BT BATHBCH B IR A BTGB BAT BB IR BAN BT 51 5181 B 0 B G S ‘French at Avesnes Chimay. Against the English in their pey position, was hurled another terrig, ‘frontal attack, the severity of which is described in the British officjg report. The attack failed, cut agi a move to the left flank compelle Iretirement, this time on the Pe Ironne-St. Quentin front, while French came back to the Guise-Ver ing front, which was an ex s of tha English line. that we are largely the only place in the United States where winter vegetables can be grown, you many imagine what the can produce citrus fruits, and as south Florida is these conferences to name delegates to be held in Savannah {n the near future. In sending out the call to the con- ference Mayor Davant urged upon or that| One can hardly hazard a guess|cotton therein for the manufacture The German Parallel Now, consider the German ad- vance. At Charleroi and Mons, on ing and inexplicable, {admirable parallel to be found in a civil war campaign. The ‘“on to Paris” movement of the Germans in ¥ z 1914 is being executed with almost |AU8. 23, it delivered a savage fron- precisely the same strategy, spirit tal attack, which was repulsed, but and determination which character- |the immense superlority of the Ger- Terrific Frontal Attack At this point our information i less exact, but it is certaln that one more there was a terrific frontal a tack upon the intrenched b, whose left flank was now partially fresh French troo| strike for the left flank, that is, t0|brought. up from Alsace by Gen When, on May 4, in the earlier [endeavor to get around the end of |Pau. At the same time, a fronl amount. The bank deposits of|as to its future for fear he will of pillows or mattresses in the pub-|year, General Grant stepped over |the Anglo-French force, and come|attack was made on the French the state of Florida at the pres-jbecome too optimistic. There is|lic institutions, and thus take the the Rapidan into the Wilderness, eighty|more real, solid prosperity and|staple out of the market for ent time approximate million dollars, which are great-| more optimism here now than|time. er that North Carolina, greater|in any other portion of the Uni-Imayors to write the all He will also urge upon’ the mayors of down between it and Paris. the west. Again after terrific figh with approximately twice the force | To avoid the danger the allies fall ing, German numbers prevai |of Lee, his controlling purpose was"back, just as Lee did in the Wilder-|pylged in front, they a: to use his superiority in numbers in |Ness, and stood again, the English, iaround the left. On the ;! in g French than South Carolina, consider-|ted States, and it is by reason of (Northern cities and urge upon themsuch a manner to defeat the enemy |Who held the left of the army,|front, on the other hand, aftery ably greater than Arkansas, and more than twice as great as the largely in luxuries . And yet necessities.” state of Mississippi. 1 are and not » fact that we Rl L ] % : i DSORGB R BI0 GG FOPOBLPIPST DS S PENSISDSSISIEPISISIMIND SIS OSIPOISIPOS TS0 S & 2] | Geecfoidrifeuadrady SBdGr el R DBl * [ = Send Your Next Order to The La kEIa TELEGRAM BUILDING # First Hous AT THE HEAD OF thier cities to do so. 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This gentleman was a new comer, otherwise he would have known that for years we did ALL the printing used in this town now we are doing more, probably than all the other printing offices in the county combined ; that we have a larger investment in printing facili eight or ten other printing shops in Polk County combined ; that w this business on correct and workmanlike service; ment and know-how, and that we give an order for 100 visiting cards the same careful attention we bestow on a large catalogue wide newspaper. We Do Do Job Printing:; Indeed, We Do! ; that right ties than the e have built that we have both the equip- B T B B T BT O B B O BB D B or the publication of a State- land Evening Telegram nd News e On Main Street THIN G5 R T pp——