New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-05-31

MANY people believe this vast territory utterly
psHess 10 man. The drainage companies are pIo'ins
sbat il isn't Centuries of decaylng vegetauon n"''
gradually raised the earth-level OF the Ever
storing them with deep layers OF men, DARK SUI
Ybat makes husbandmen green with envy n loui
font reduction of the water-evel woulu nloN0 "i
This available for cultivation. Genera ii"i"e'
IN letter reported to the United States oen"'e'
sueoested that canals cut east ana weso 'ioN
Okeechobee and the glades would give 'iie i'
ouired reduction Mr.. Dlsston, as the suoiS So
after careful examination and cohsulta'on W."
Colonel lanes NJ. Krearner, his engineer, decided
49, - ,vas also necessary to diminish the water
snnnlv from the northern lakes that serve a'
49,. Those lakes moreover he knew, were
,,oxderea nv marshes worth draining for their own
.oba So he went to the Legislature ana III 1901
occurred permission to reclaim all lahus
holow q line drawn across the peninsula
- few miles north of klssiminee anu
cast Of Peace Creek which debouches IN mar
80 IJarhor The tract embraced s,OOO,Ooo
acres Four million of these, however, MI Di0'-
ton was compelled to form a separate company !"
buy to lift State mortgage
Then the work began. AS the map shows, lhe
,akes as they occur southwark on the sioPine
peninsula; are Tohopekaliga, Cypress ha'cheehe,
baw. Kissimmee and Okeechobee Inc water ieNei
follows the land slope Tohopekallga Is SHY
four feet above the sea, Hatcheeheha" e'NS'
Kissimmee ffty-nine, and Okeechooee only '"en'S,
Canals cut southwark to Lake Kissimmee and
the Strengthening of the very crooKeu river V"''
ainks Lake Kissimmee and Okeechobee have there
fore relieved the upper lakes by a steady now'
while cuts from Okeechobee southwark into the
EVERGLADES and eastward to the Caloosahatcme'
that empties into the Gulf near Panta Kassa' nave
lowered four feet the surface OF that greau i"he
The MERGING of the rock-rins on the coast ie
exnected now TO release the water accuuuia.eu
IN the Everglades. Then the engineers VIII MAKE
predictions as to the running OF the nrst broueh
train from Jersey City TO Cape Sable Meai"hlie,
Ia the north end Of the chain laKe cast VI
Tohopekalipa has been connected with the hor'h-
I'm Atlantic coast by way OF the 81. John hi'ei'
10 relieve the pressure there. 30 far ABOUT eisn'S
Ave miles of canal are cut The trencnes vary
from 25 TO los feet in width, ana hoid iion
6 to 10 feet Of water.
Kissimmee owes its existence 10 the oIain"se
company few years ago the shore Oh iohope
kalga at this point was cypress swamp. p"O
Captain r. e. Rose came here to build dredge'
the water level was lowered seven feet' wiue
beach was uncovered, docks and shipyards were
hu,lt. and flow the town has big hotel, BRICK
courthouse, and 500 inhabitants. The company
has made this its field headquarters. AT South
port at the opposite end of the lake, you can
ramble through large banana plantation ana
see tobacco and sugar-cane growing where INC
land was once all under three feet OF wafer.
The plantation is now in bad hands. Grass ana
wecds overgrow everything, but the SOL as
evidently wonderfully rich and capable OF high
production at small cost. Scotchman here re-
GENTLY declared that it looked like so many acres
of barnyard manure. The Kelly brothers, whose
Louisiana mill could handle more rice than they
were able TO produce, have established themselves
In this neighborhood and declare that the sou
beats that OF the Mississippi They have yet 10
produce their first crop, though as the lana 10
said TO yield twenty barrels TO the acre, worth