The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1905-02-23

| oacA IN the generous rates of fare charged
on MS railroads and steam ships; but it is no
more than just that he should. It opens the
way for business, pleasure, health and ex-
cltement, and he who would enjoy must
loot the bills. And its not safe to make a
start on thirty cents.
OF the steamship s owned by the p g. n
Company. operating between Miami. Mas
sau and Havana, the new Miami is easily
the largest and finest Her commander is
Capt. Rob White, Belfast boy, and it is
certainly great compliment that he has
oeen given the best of the compauy's boats
Capt. White had taste for the sea as how :.
his first experience was surely a strong
taste and might have cured less determin.
Cd boy than he of his love of the salt water.
he was in the ship P R. Hazeltine when
she was wrecked in the straits of Magellan
and had all the hardships of that bitter ex.
perlence. Capt. Whites wife and daughter
live here during the winter and in TAMPA
generally in the summer time when the
Miami is placed on the Tampa-Havaha
route. We inspected the steamer todav-
not ohclally-Just as she is ready for sea
ana hnd her beauty. She leaves tonight
Tor Nassau with good passenger list. in
Guiding large party under RAYMOND &
Whitcomb's management
An afternoons trip which afforded us
great enjoyment was up the Miami river to
the edge of the Everglades. Here one finds
fish of many kinds, crocodiles, and game in
plenty. This great desert of water is al
most unknown, in its inner depths, to the
white man, or rather has been until yery
recent date. The surviving remnant of the
Seminole tribe of Indians live in the wastes
OF the glades, occasionally coming out in
little bands of men and women, in fancy
Indian dress, to exchange pelts for a little
calico, more tobacco and a good deal of
whiskey. The soil of the country adjoin-
ing the Everglades is better adapted to the
cultivation and growth of tropical fruits
than, any other locality in America. The
soil is rich and is kept at the proper moist
ure IN all seasons by the nearness of this
great lake. The State Board of Trustees of
the Internal Improvement Fund Governor
Broward, chairman, has spent the past
week exploring the Everglades, its inlets
and outlets. This with view to the drain
age of this region and the formation of an
immense tract of very rich land. That this
vast area, embracing, approximately, 7,0o0,-
600 acres, can be drained and be made
available for cultivation, is fact of which
every member OF the commission was con-
WINGED. 1t is thought that S. per acre will
pay the cost of retaining. ] visited with
much interest the fruit farm of MIR. J. R.
Richardson, but little distance from the
Everglades. l was astonished at the re-
suits achieved here. In the first place we
were shown a basket of sweet-potatoes,
coming from one hill, weighing 1856 pounds.
Nearly all these potatoes were two-thirds
as large as a common watermelon. Mr..
Richardson said this could only be brought
about by planting the hills widely apart, SO
moisture of the ground would be absorbed
by comparatively few tubers. He thought
if he planted only one hill to a large field,
fortified and watered well. possibly
potato as large as a nail keg could be pro-
duced. Among the various productions of
this wonderful farm that we saw growing
in February were straw berries, tomatoes.
bananas. cocoanuts, pineapples, mangoes,
guavas, lemons, oranges and grape fruit.
Surely goodly array for a winter garden.
l have seen some of the best groves of Red
lands and Riverside, Cal, but for fine, per
feet, yellow grape fruit in profusion, Mr..
Richardson's trees exceeded any that had
happened to come under my observation
elsewhere
In some of the advertising folders of the
Florida East Coast Railway Co. stands
gentleman of color holding open a door,
leading from the frigid north to the sunny
skies and baimy air of Florida, and this ex-
preston follows; "Florida's East Coast is
Paradise regained' 1t seemed almost as if