The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-08-18
HEARING IN THE.
D RAIN A Gt
CASE
Witnesses for Complainant Give
Testimony at Trial Before
Special Master.
The Jacksonville Times-Union

The Jacksonville Times-Union of
Thursday says:
Hearing on matters of fact in the
case of the Southern States Land and
Timber Company VS.. Napoleon B. Bro
ward, as governor, ct. al, was contin-
lred yesterday before Special Master
Charles s. Adams.
The Witnesses called on behalf Oh
the complainant company were john
NJ. Lee of Kissimmee; James E. Nose
~, of Gotha, Orange county; Wesley
Mobley, of Arcadia; Morgan G. Bass,
NJ. P. Tyndall and V. P. Keller ire
called)
AS was the case ON Tuesday, the
coplainants were represented at the
hearing by Attorneys E ]. L'Engle and
p A. Vans Agnew. The defendants,
comprising Gov Broward his board OF
drainage comm iksioners and the sew
eral tax collectors of the five counties
involved in the drainage district were
represented by Former Gov. w. 5
Jennings and Attorney General w. H.
Ellis. Capt. r. E. Rose, state chemist
was an interested listener to all the
proceedings yesterday.
AS far as the complaining company
was concerned, the evidence yester-
day was a repetition of that given on
Tuesday by Civil Engineer V. p. KEEL
Ter, and the testimony bore out, in
every DETAIL the evidence given by
him during the long and searching eX.
animation to which he was subjected
while on the witness stand.
Mr.. TyndaIl's Evidence.
~ ID 6o11
one of the most important witnesses
called by the complaining company,
may be briefly summarized as follows:
The witness knew the north portion
of the Everglades we'll, of his own
personal knowledge, and concerning
the lower portions, he knew of them
by means of reliable information from
hunters and from the Indians, who
still inhabit them.
-Four years ago he spent four
months in the winter season on a
hunting trip in the upper glades, and
only last February he returned from
four months trip in the same region.
In his opinion the annual rainfall over
the Everglades is very heavy, and on
both trips he found as much rain as
| is ordinarily found in summer time:
with very cloudy weather and very
| little sunshine.
Story Of Trips.
On both trips he entered the, glades
from Jupiter Cypress, commencing ON
the east coast in township 40. range
AZ. His course from there was i'm
scuthwesterly direction, through cy-
press timber and open sand sloughs,
with a sand bottom of white sand
The cypress was very low, squatty and
scrubby, and occasionally strip of
water pine grows in the water among
| the cypress, entering out into the
glades twenty-five miles from the head
of the Jupiter river down Loktoachee
marsh, through Jupiter marsh to the
head of the glades.
| From this point, on what IS called
Jupiter trail. the Hungry lands lie
about fifteen miles northwest and
about fourteen miles east by south
from this point is Del Ray landing
which landing hes about twelve miles
due west from the town Of Del Ray
on the east coast.
clumps Of Everglades.
Right here the witness entered what
| Is known as the clumps of the Ever
glades. They extend from Hungry
land to New river at Fl. Lauderdale
a distance of about forty-five miles
extending north and south on the east
boundary of the glades. The widest
portion Is about twelve miles as best
as witness could get the width of them
east and west. and marrow down at
both ends
The clumps are composed of various
woods, known as sweet bay, ever
green and myrtle. These clumps run
n, sizes from ten feet in diameter to
an eighth of an acre. and the soil is
no higher than fifteen inches above the
surface OF the water
In between the sloughs are open