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For full information on all lines and descriptive and illus-
trated literature, write
H. H. RICHARDSON
Secretary Jacksonville Board of Trade
Jacksonville, Florida









JACKSONVILLE'S

Climate is very equable. Average mean
temperature: spring 71 degrees, summer
80 degrees, autumn 71 degrees, winter 60
degrees. Annual mean temperature, 70
degrees. In summer-time the heat is tem-
pered by cooling breezes from the Atlantic
Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, and by re-
freshing rains. The annual rainfall is 52
inches, mostly in summer. The evenings
and nights are delightfully cool and pleas-
ant and superb for sleeping.

Cealtb.Mortality in Jacksonville is low
-14.32 per 1,000. That of Florida 3 to
the 1,000, comparing favorably with any
State in the Union. Records show that the
ratio of deaths to the number of cases of
remittent fever is less in Florida than
other States, being one in every 278 cases

PIoputation 66,520. Very cosmopolitan.
Increase in past eight years, 120 per cent.

IsanlS.Nine, with capital and surplus of
$2,760,000.00 Deposits, $11,875,000.00.
Bank clearings 1898, $12,642,953.00.
Bank clearings 1908, $73,194,127.00. In-
crease in ten years, $60,551,174.00.

Wttbolesale MoueC. Forty, doing an
annual business of $20,000,000.00 in Flor-
ida and Georgia.

flibanufactortes 147. Making lumber,
naval stores, phosphate, vegetable and
fruit packages, cigars, paint, iron work,
shipbuilding, copper stills, carriages and
wagons, ice, crackers, candies, chairs,
clothing, brick etc.

%trtet Carn are most modern and up-to
date. Owned by Stone & Webster Corpor-
ation, Boston. Has thirty-five miles of





track, Number of passengers carried in
1908 nearly eight millions.
E electric LiObt owned by city. Lights
&'WXater Plants cost only seven cents
per kilowat, and water $1.00 per month
for three hundred gallons per day. Wa-
ter is from flowing artesian wells, cool,
pleasant and healthy.
Ucleorapb ant As good as the
Celelepbhone Service best anywhere.
Western Union and Postal have offices
here. Telephone service by Southern Bell
Telephone Company, with very complete
long distance facilities. Wireless tele-
graph and telephones are now installed in
the city.
Oa5 for heating, cooking and lighting,
at $1.35 per thousand feet. Gas mains
well distributed and connections free.
De)CCp tlatCt Twenty-four feet at mean
Cbannel low tide from the city to
the sea, with appropriation for survey of
a thirty-foot channel. Deepest seaport on
the South Atlantic coast, whose importance
will increase rapidly on completion of
Panama Canal.
Steamsbip %Line C 1 y d e Steamship
-CoaStWfSC. Company has five
steamers a week for New York and Boston.
Southern Steamship Company one steamer
a week for Philadelphia. Merchants and
Miners' Transportation Company three
steamers a week for Baltimore.
JfOtCil. The Burg Line and the Gans
Line operate regular steamer to Bremen,
Amsterdam and other European ports.
The Logan Steamship Line to Liverpool.
Another line is being organized to run
steamers to Mediterranean ports in the
near future. Two steamship lines run to
Cuba and Porto Rico and Central Ameri-
can ports.






iRiCer. On the beautiful St. Johns river,
the Clyde Steamship Company, the Beach
and Miller Line and the Independent Line
run daily steamers to up-river points as
far as Sanford, a distance of nearly two
hundred miles.

1Raltroas. The Atlantic Coast Line, Sea-
board Air Line, Southern Railway, Geor-
gia, Southern & Florida and Florida East
Coast Line afford splendid service from all
points North, East and West. About
eighty passenger trains arrive and leave
the Union Depot daily. Freight terminals
are modern and superior to any in the
South. Transportation Companies have
spent several million dollars within the
past three years in new shops and freight
warehouses.
tItjRS* About one hundred acres in well-
kept parks, abounding in beautiful tropi-
cal foliage, lakes and flower-beds. Each
residential suburb has its own park and
playgrounds.
PaveOb ttteets.About fifty miles of
brick-and-ro-k-paved streets in the city
and fifty miles of hard-surfaced roads in
county outside of city. Streets are sprink-
led and swept daily. Cleanest city in the
South.
Cburcbes. The following denominations
have splendid church edifices: Adventist,
Baptist, Christian, Congregational, Catho-
lic, Christian Science, Episcopal, Hebrew,
Lutheran, Methodist, Presbyterian and
Unitarian.
V* fi* I C # A magnificently equipped
building, costing $250,000.00, has recently
been completed.
0C001 Fifteen in city and fifty-three
in Duval county. Each residential district
has its own grammar school. The High





School is a new building, costing $75,-
000.00. There are also two large business
colleges and schools of music and art.

PubliaC ibrartv costing $50,000.00, do-
nated by Andrew Carnegie. Contains 18,-
000 volumes.

fraternal Societies. Masons, Knights
of Pythias, 1. 0. 0. F., Elks, Woodmen of
the World, Knights of Columbus, Red Men,
Eagles and many other societies have
lodges.

1RewSpaperC The daily morning paper
is The Florida Times-Union, published by
the Florida Publishing Company, and the
afternoon paper is The Metropolis, pub-
lished by the Carter & Russell Publishing
Company. Both papers are well edited
and have large circulation.

mu!SeClelCntS3. Three theatres, A i r
Dome, moving picture shows, Ostrich Farm,
South Atlantic League Baseball, Moncrief
Park Race Course, Dixieland Amusement
Park and other places afford ample means
of amusement for the people.

OCCan BeacbCes.Pablo Beach, Atlantic
Beach and Mayport are within three-quar-
ters of an hour ride of the city. Good
hotels. Fine surf-bathing. Fishing on St.
Johns river and at the jetties is good.






JACKSONVILLE'S

CONVENTION

ADVANTAGES

JACKSONVILLE is the com-
mercial, financial and industrial cen-
ter of Florida.
Has several commodious auditoriums
for convention purposes, free of charge.
Has fine hotel accommodations and new
hotels being erected at present time. Good
boarding-houses. Splendid restaurants.
Special rates given for conventions.
Interesting side-trips to beaches, St. Au-
gustine-oldest city in America. Beauti-
ful streets, parks, automobile trips on
magnificent roads. Ostrich Farm. Trip
on stately St. Johns river. Beautiful pub-
lic buildings and churches.
Modern department stores.
A live Board of Trade with Information
Bureau, convention hall, committee rooms,
etc.
Good water from artesian wells, besides
several mineral springs.
Special rates on railroads and steamships
to Jacksonville.
Genuine Southern hospitality from public
officials and the citizens.



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The Board of Trade

I, is the Power House
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OWNS its own building, on the cor-
ner of Main and Adams streets,
valued at $100,000.00, with hand-
some auditorium, committee
rooms, library of directories, telephones,
etc.
Has over six hundred members.
Has thirty-one live committees on all mat-
ters of civic and commercial development.
Sends delegations to national conventions
in interest of public good.
Conducts a continual publicity campaign
for the upbuilding of Jacksonville, Duval
county and Florida.
officerss
1909
W. A. BOURS, President
W. K. HAILE, Firt V.-P. F. P. CONROY, 2d V.-P.
H. H. RICHARDSON, Sec'y & Treas.
Sbfrernors
W. H. BAKER G. L. DREW
J. DENHAM BIRD J. H. McLAURIN
A. G. CUMMER H. B. RACE


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