Bisbee daily review., 1911-07-25

far as ! colld learn. There were
 some mosquitoes in Miami. but
 as We iouueyed up the canals on
 the boat, and got into the Glades
 wo did not see any mosquitos 1 There we're quite a number of in- yea lgators, thc same as myself. on
 the trip. Including C. w. Alter
 9f this city. have the addresses
 ot each one, which ] Will ba glad
 Co furnish 10 anyone who cares to
 write to them.
 paid particular attention to
 crops growing on muck soil which
 is the same as tbe agents of tho
 company have been showing to buy
 CTS here. The growing season Is
 every day in the year. Without
 tiring your readers with a long
 list will say that I saw growing,
 in muck soil practically every kinc l, cf vegetable grown in the north. | Among forage grasses never saw | anything more thrifty looking than miilet, alfalfa tfrom which ! was i reliably informed they make eleven cuttings a vear) blue grass, Rhodes 1 grass, very fGe hay for stock. and the finest looking orange, lem or. lme and cTapefrnit trees. all Of which do better on the muck lands than on the marl-saudy land. ! saw little grapefruit trees, that did not seem over two years old. bending down to the ground with
 as many as eleven grapefruit Pine apples also do fine on the muck soil. while sugar cane, kafr corn, cocoa nuts, mangoes. (which by the way is the finest fruit [ ever ate) ayacado pears and dozens Of other tropical fruits ! never say or heard ui before. It's the richest soil ever saw anywhere-bar none The rainfall is about sixty inches a year, well distributed The canals will be used for transportation afford ing the cheapest transportation pos sible
 The work on the canals. which are designed to prevent the over
 flow Of Lake Okeechobee, are Go feet wide and 8 t0 12 feet deep and two of them will be comnleteI in abour ten months There isn't
 any doubt in my mind about their | success. Ore of the biggest con stTuction com mpanies in the world 1 Is doing the work and are under a forfeit bond CT practically s500. .00l 10 the state to finish the work ll specified time, 30 months from time contract was let July 1 year ago visited rho l great concrete locks that are being pUt in the canals These are planned to keep the water lev els in the canals just where de sired ct an time, insuriuz the most magnificent system of sub ! irrigation that could ever be de. | yised. There has been somewhat of 8 drouth prevailing over that sec | ricn this year but it didn't seem 70 have any effect on the growth | of crops in the Everglades. There | Inc time Of my visit It is a per | fectly level country. with no stumps | or rocks on it and with The grass | growing from six to ten feet high. ! tt the junction of the two oaualG | it is generally thought down there ! good big town uill spring up. 1 understand that m5sr or the Bisbec ! buyers are located near this june , ton. am well pleased with my | location, which is not far from the junction and not far from either
 canal
 visited the famous Walter Wal din place while there 1t is situated ] on the edge of the 'GIadcs on both sandy pine and Everglade or muck soil In an orchard of oranges and other citrus trees here. in which | trees are growing on both kinds oi soil, ! had a good opportunity % observe the difference. The trees growing in the Egersiade soil were a much healthier. darker green and seemed to be far more thrifty look ing than the trees on the sandy mari land, and the further you are away from the muck the more aD. parent is the difference
 There is great variety Of fish down there. Did Hot see any aliiga- tors. While during the eqUinOctiai season there IS considerable wind. think perhaps the best illustration ! had that the winds cannot be any more severe than what We are fam i liar with in Bishee or Warren. is. that one of the members of the par ts- took hold Of tree about three inches in diameter pulled it down oD one side, pulled it back over on the other and then after few twists. pulled the whole tree out by the roots. This was on hammOckz, which are rare, slightly raised DOT lions of ground scattered here and there in the Everslades lf the
 wind were Of any greater severity than we have here, it would seem to me that none of these trees wonld be left stanfkng.
 CroDs Of vegetables Of all kinds are raised down there = tho win
 fer months. as frost very seldom
 visits below Lake Okeec hOhee,
 and Of course a winter crop. put
 on the market when everything in ihe north g in fec and snow, will
 bring fhe highest market prices.
 talked with nlanH farmers, who
 ere farming on the Everglade soil.
 and they spoke in 8 matter of fact
 Eay os figures received for crops
 which Co be seemed wonderful, for
 instance, one man told me be ship
 pod. from two acres of land. sl4
 hampers of beans. Tor which he re
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