Bisbee daily review., 1911-06-27

I sidering at all, so far as that sec
 ton of Florida is concerned.
 | They are doing great work on
 the canals down there and it's go
 ing to be a success in that re
 spect. too. They haven't any young college engineers working on that job. The men in charge of that job struck me as veterans at that
 kind of work and are certainly
 on to their job. They have some
 of the greatest machinery [ ever
 saw in those dredges working on
 the canals. There are something
 like eight or nine dredges work ing on the various canals
 One man l saw there told me be had picked twenty-seven boxes
 of grapefruit on one tree. which
 was. however, ten years old. and
 the fruit brought s7.50 a box and there were fifteen boxes left on the
 tree, which he said were in the
 'curir class that he expected to
 realize $350 a box from. Anoth- CT man told me that one could get
 from that land A tomato grower
 told me that be had netted s7fo an acre off of eleven acres-a total
 of $S.140-and he had already done
 so well of his place that he could | live if be never took in another | quarter The figures look strong, but they have the goods thers 10 | show. Citrus fruits. vegetables and sugar cane will be the crops down I there. l went through the govern ment experimental station there and
 was shown an infinite variety of tropical fruits and sufficient to be- wilder one. Saw a coffee tree with the berries ready toN pick No, they didn't have any pineapDies or bananas in the experimental sta ton. as they were quite common, almost every man having them grow ing iD his yard. The canals will be admirable for transportation. l saw big barges, wide as this house going up the canals I saw hundreds of boxes Of tomatoes being hauled of the Glades- [ The state is having fine cement locks put in the canals in places 10 1 maintain the water levels and facii- l itate transportation. and I don't see l how the work could be better There 1 are plenty Of fish down there. though 1 didn't catch any; however. ate l them every day it iS calculated | that the dredges on the Miami canal i will meet in about eleven months"
 Then some one called hr. Taylor 1 over the phlne and wanted to | ask him some questions about the I Everglades: Hello About the winds | down there, The breezes are fine; l soft and balmy. Yes. l guess it Is i a little more than 9 breeze at cer- tain times of the year; blow your straw bat of occasionally and once iD a while a little squan such as have seen around Seattle, Pert land and the northwest country. Wind cant be very much different 1 there from here as they build frame houses as we do here.
 The soil commences with the depth of knife blade at the edge to seventeen feet deep twenty miles i or more out in the Glades where I vas. Never saw anything like ! it in my fife for richness. The oranges 1 saw there weren't much ! tor parade purpose alongside of the California orange. but when it came to eating them they had three times ! as much juice. However, the orange season was about over down there and I didn't get to see the really ! fine product of the country in that line
 No, the land was not under va ter when I was down there az it was too early for the overflow from | Lake Ckeechobee to come down walked for four miles on the ground 1 after we got as far up the canal in the boat as we could go and the only water ! saw was in the main canal and the lateral ditches
 T have experienced the sensation | Of dropping down from Alaska into | the civilization of Seattle, but must say that coming into that 1 Eyerglade section was just like go- ing into a new world Miami is one 1 O. the u Jst beautiful cities ] ever saw. have visited southern Cali IorD,a been all over it, but ] be, l heve taat fl the people who are ac
 custQmeG tO gong to California l ever become acquainted with th- charm oi the Evergiade reElon of southern Florida they WiN rtvee 41 anywhere else The winter months 1 there must be wonderfully delight | fui They have a hOtel the P0nciane, ! at Palm BeylCh. ,wEicai cOatSn. tweEty-tWO hundred rooms with 1 rates from five co fifty dollars a day and if you ge- one you will have 70 telegraph way in advance 70 do so. 4 great deal of building going or at toth Lauderdale and Miami and WitG other railroads cuiug 5n 9 wonderful growth will soon be taking place dOwu there following t1e completion of the canals. All auderdale they gre counting on hay g a splendid harbor and the peo- i.e are confidently exrectine the railroad building from wa1npa through the Everglades to make nat place the Atlantic terminal
 On the whole [ bad rreer do : gef trip and thoroughly saFis , sd myself with what 2 saw.