Bisbee daily review., 1911-06-25

ering comfortable during the night | The region is a vast plain. per | fectly level. with soil varying from | a few inches to twenty feet prob ! ably in the center of the glades. i There are no gullies and if a man were picked up by an aeroplane and dropped down fifty miles away he couldn't tell the difference. There are no stumps or rocks. The Ever
 glade Land Sales company from whom I purchased my land. is dO- ing considerable work in putting in
 roads. iaterals. etc.
 Tt rained considerable while was there, usually at night but the soil is such that you can cultivate crops the next day after a rain. The wind was nothing more than a gentle. breeze. soft and pleasant
 and enc can step in the shade down there and cool of just as they can
 in the high attitudes on a hot day here. The winter months there must
 be glorious. as attested by the
 heavy tourist travel to Palm Beach
 and Miami during the winter months.
 Every day in the year is
 growing day. [ saw a man down there who said be was 9 farmer and
 had arrived from Missouri twelve months before with the price of a hoe in his pocket. and he already had his land paid for. A boat goes up the canal daily to gather the produce of croppers who are not waiting for the canals to be finished. This man had from three to six crates a day of something for the market.
 "A man sure isn't out of CIviliza- ton down there. The Ponciana ho- tel at Palm. Beach alone could prob ably house comfortably the entire population of Douglas, in its more than 2,O00 rooms while the Royal Palm hotel at Miami has 500 rooms
 '-The finest grove of grapefruit anC oranges slW down there was , growing on the muck soil and eel cry grows splendidly and moreover. bleaching boards can be dispensed with, as the muck can be piled up against the plants instead. One man was shipping a carload of fine prime oranges. lettuce grows to great size, in fact everything grows prolifcly down there. The Ever glades is practically the only frost less part of the state sud the winter crops there-that is, grown when it is winter elsewhere-com- mand the highest market prices. The ~aua's for water transportation sull further add to the advantages Of that wonderful country. have farmed in Illinois and am familiar with agricultural conditions in ! dozen other states. but to my mind there isn't anything that have ever seen that is so full of won derful possibilities as the Everglade section.
 MT. Taylor and | left Miami to- , Eether and visited St Augustine and Jacksonville. We saw a great deal of fine land in other parts of the state, travelling through, and whole lot that was worthless. but there fs nothing down there that will com ' pare with the Everglades While not half the pOrches in Miami were screened. all the houses at Jack sonville and St Augustine were pre- pared to keep out the pestiferous mosquito and the fly.
 ''I was struck with the fine coral rock reads they have. and the fish you could almost catch thel5 with . your hands. ID one little pool where 9 lateral canal had been broken in, {. there must have been half a tub Of fish
 Six inches oi that EyersIade soil : would be all a man would need on a farm anywhere. The canals are sure to be a success and there IS plenty of labor in the country. Wa 1 ter can be obtained at thirty feet ! and artesian water at siXty-dye and { seventy-five feet About all a mar ! needs down there is a hoe. a gruH {, stake and 3 pair of willing hands !, to make a success. The work on the big canal contract is about on third finished don't believe that there is likely to be any overflow below the South LaUGerdale canal . this season. There is a great deal 1 of building under way at Miami and | Lauderdale-
 "On the whole. am delighted . with the country and am arranz- ing my affairs so as to go dOvr . and get ready for putting in inr movements and get ready to put in . my farm at the earliest pOssjs- moment