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IS PONCE de LEON used siili is ei~ linddinp S7O.WO.M# e.n, i! '^sp”^C^C-P""^ (d?”.'*' i.
armor a-glitter in the brilliant Flor- hotels therefor. gP*V«g 1 *
_ Ida sunlight he was bathed in slug There is more gold than ever on the '■%-
- ” ore P«°ous than the fabled tamtam CMSts th . t knew the keds o( s 5^J JgUwfe- 'J>W
hecametoseek. But he did not know. There is a market for hundreds of things 3^^ jjgjggl^JEft'
Florida knows that j sunshine is pure * n Bus State make and sell. Florida .g 5 A:" : ■c 1
And we know htm aha has trans- “J"
Wriy t °b^tith , travel expense. Our goods carry no
We know how she has built real eastles f ™ Bht ra,< 7 , F ? r “ a to °’ her «4IJP ~
out of her balmy aim-how she has made “ * symbol ° f * oM “ .««► (g j %\V
herself the playground and the garden of a Um y * ' T w; M
continent. We can tell Florida about ourselves
and our goods through advertising, in her s^'
Florida is selling sunshine, shipping it hewSpapers, and in so doing we sj&eak in r _ ’ ,
away in the form of citrus fruits at the the ears of the thousands from all parts _=
rate of 21.000.000 boxes a year, finding a of the country who are her part-time ~
billion yellow feet of it in her pine forests guests —folks with money to spend. Let's JfrSS II
annually. She s dispensing it retail to advertise m Florida. It pays. Florida v
her thousands of winter visitors, and has proved it. « . ~
FLORIDA: StatUticf
Farm values have increased 1605? In five years. 1923 J&B *
Bank deposits have increased 225% in five years. aflT * 7^/
Railway mileage has increased from 518 miles Areasquare miles 54.86 V
in 1880 to 5.000 miles in 1921. Population 1.046.28 J
t -j -w • . i l i * . True property value $2,440,491,000 * A A
In 12 years deposits m national banks increased .. . a \ F
from $46,000,000 to more than $156,000,000. Manufactures: \*3 *?/ •
Florida is growing $80,000,000 worth of crops a Capital.... $ 206,294,000 ~
year on 2.000.000 acres of land and has Products, value $ 145.82 LOOC V-lT
! 20.000.000 acres of the same type of land Lumber cut. feet 980.014.000
} yet to be developed. Phosphate mined, tons 2,018.805 * to/
Florida produces more phosphate, her miw»» Value of fatm property .$ 330,301.717
yielding $19,000,000 worth annually. Value of farm products $ 88,700,000 Jifc«eea *
Florida has no income or inheritance taxes to Bank deposits ...$ 244,276,000
retard the influx of wealthy people who are Railroad mileage 5,283 y*'
making her their home. Highway expenditures 9,769.000 .
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These Newspapers Will Sell Our Goods in Florida
DeLmid News Miami Herald St. Augustine Record
Honda Time*-Union Miami News St. Petersburg Independent
,if.- Fort Myers Pres* Orlando Reporter-Star St. Petersburg Times
, Orhuido Sentinel Tampa Times
Palm Beach N&Ws Tampa Tribune
Lakeland Star-Telegram Sanford Herald We,l Palm Beach Post
THE CONCORD DAILY TRIBUNE
Wednesday, July 8, 1925