Bisbee daily review., 1911-12-24

-and Under Cultivation.
 tracts 5, 6. IL. and l2 in this Royal Glade tract, and work will be started on this tract. in the next thirty days"
 You consider, then. that the Ever glade Land Sales company is OfferinS as good a proposition for the money as anything being sold in the Ever glades. do you, Mir Hiii2"
 'l certainly do or ] would not have bought l5O acres from them. In fac; consider it the best. considering the location of the company's lands, the improvements being made by the company, terms, and the reliability of the company l am personally ac- quainted with MT Helm, the pres.. dent of the company. also the twu Ralstons and Mir. Miller. The com pany Is highly thought of down there.
 The ccmpany's land m the DavlC Experimental farm is free from wa ter, the lateral ditches and canais having ali been completed. l just came from there two weeks ago. My brothers are there looking after the farm We have ten acres in pota. toes and garden truck and have grape fruit and orange groves under way. i instructed my brother before 1 left to plant 500 grape fruit trees. Out of loo we planted a year ago, We only lost two. Last year on lc- count of the improvements not be. ing completed, we did nC> get our beans to market until the middle of February This year we will ship Leans he middle ol January and ger prices for them too. l received d letter from Cleveland. Ohio, people asking me to put price on my land in the Dayie tract. Am confident could get Sl25 an acre for it, but it is not for sale. Anyone going doTn there and seeing what can be raised can not help but appreciate that there will be a great and rapid develop ment taking place there It is a fire investment today for a poor man or man or salary. l rlanted babans the first of February that 1re now nine feet high and will bear in a few months. Frost rarely occurs in the Everglades. 36j growing days in the year.
 in buying Everglade land can one Nflitba hAoA SNlAAAA- O f1OtA IfANNt bA ground. MT. Hill?"
 T cant see how he can help it. I have been out on the canals and all over the country and it is prac- tically uniform everywhere, except there are hammocks scattered here and there, but if anyone gets one Of these on his place he is always pleased as they make desirable bull ling sites and the vegetation is not deep rooted. and not difficult 10 clear. We culti vated ten acres last year with noth- ing but hoes. This year We had the pulverizer go over the ground and il is better, of course, but one can gl right in and cultivate the land witl nothing but a hoe.
 The company guarantees a piece of Iillable land 70 every buyer. hSve planted radishes that were mp in three days; cabbage and tomatoes in fivs days. Everything grows quickly. or Cages farm in the Everglades, have seen a grove Of fruit trees, fin' as could he, that were under watel three weeks al a time without in jury"
 What do you think about the sue cess of the state of Florida in tn | drainage of the EyergladeS' wa: asked.
 Water will run down hill, won : t?" said MT. Hill Tt is running a ] the rate of four or five miles an hou | in places and there is not the ieas doubt that Lake Okeechobee, the oyc l flow from which at certain times o | the year has prevented the land iron ! being utilized heretofore, will be eos | fly taken care of.
 ' We weIy gTEeIhorns when VI started in farming last season bu have learned quite a good deal
 Here MT. Hill exhibited callouse on his hands worn by the use of
 hoe
 When the state canals are fir ished and as soon as the sugar fat tory is put in down there l am goin to put in a large acreage to suga cane, to which the conditions are pal ticularly adapted
 Miami and Lauderdale are bot fast growing towns and are destine to have a big growth within the mex few years. with that great stretch c rich lands behind them to make ther grow. Werner, an expert hoTticultu ist from California. says that Cal fornla conditions cannot compar with the Evergiade section for tn growing of citrus fruits. Citrus fruit in the Everglades are being budde to the sour stock or wild orange ths grows on the hammocks in tBe Evel glades. Eucalyptus trees which I sa' planted a year ago are now seyers feet high. The cutting of canals an lateral ditches will be necessary, a. while insuring perfect drainage, also insures water for irrigation needed, sub-irrigation at that whic Is ideal, as the crust will never bak or pack and the soil will renal loose and porous. Locks have bee put in and water levels in the canal will be maintained on scientific priI ciples and as experience may deer the most desirable It Will be a grea
 country with marvellous yield, an handled in small tracts on an inter siye farming plan.
 T am going from here to Calume Mich, where l will spend the holiday and the hrst of the year will tax my father and sister down to tn Everglades where we will spend th winters and where the winter seaso Is just like a cooi summer seaso