The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1912-07-01

Jaclnd a "rule-of-thumb" engi-
med the story goes, General
Ia lad in his army bridge
thos had never been trained
lac sineer, but who had remarka-
blly TO get there" in bridge
lcoIed. On one occasion Jack
scJ orders to his engineering
cdprepare plans for building
: = Eross the river, in order that
hk might move on one of its
| hImarches. = The old bridge
!. bIwithout waiting for the plans
o engineer, rushed his men on
n | 4 and before the engineers had
r out scientifically how the
9 could be constructed across
q er, .Iuckson was moving his
r lover the bridge which his old
/. lIg bridge builder had hastily
/, into place.
r IJeffers4n Davis and the Stone
s jackson who are now united in
4 Eal WORT are known as Jefferson
al Young,a farmer of Cecil coun-
\. .taryland and Thomas Jackson
i -ewall) lyle of Gadsden, Ala.
.oe two pla found a tract of about
.aacres ofoverfiowed land in Ma
id county, florida, through which
,uDklawaht river ran it's tortuous
Sc with more crookedness than
rhm's horn In its windlngs the riv-
-tould not AIRY off the water rap
! enough tprevent an overflow OF
the bottondand, which in times of
IN water VS. covered with water
Im knee DIP to waist deep. 1t
IS, indeed, lake, but these men
d the visioito see that if it could
drained it ould make a principal
: for farm erations. They asked
number of lgineers to devise a
an. but most the monty suggested
wv not to dthe work, and SO, not
lding the rig man to tell them how
do Il .LSl id it themselves. On
=. 'oI'tN ) 5O00-acre tract, from
III there is a considerable rise in
elevation of the land, they cut a
'ght aannel with big dredge,
i Exn the river and cutting
,rd the source. Then they built
ln.allment to prevent an over
andgtifen they carried the dredge
light Through into the river and
-, n. channel. The rush of wa
frolrsshe old river bed made by
ne 70 this new straight channel
man promptly resulted in
Eom the whole property
e3T- to such an extent
sches could be cut. AS
G.e1sc cut it's way in making the
mel i. threw the dirt toward the
to be reclaimed. Parallel with
levee thus constructed, a ditch
cut to catch the seepage water.
n this ditch to the old bed of the
+ laterals were cut at regular in
ais.
lree years ago when Jefferson
is Young tried to cross this bot
land the water for much of the
lnce was up to his waist.
NO years ago work ON the chan
1ad proceeded far enough to show
it would be successful. The 9TH
ay four automobiles drove over a
iderable part OF this land. follow
for a greater part OF the distance,
farm roads, which, though heavy
eason of recent rains, were easily
eled without Inconvenience, aad
these motor cars passed over
stretches of fields. where roads
never been made, crossing oat
S, where the reaper had done its
8 out through alfalfa fields, and
to n point where heavily
ed wagons were hauling a heavy
I of oats from land which two
s before was under water.
ben a native, not familiar with
Possibilities of reclamation, first
what these two men were doing,
aid to a neignoor that he had seen
Yankees who were wasting their
ey trying to dry up a piece of
i. When this remark was repeat
o one of them, he sent back the
y: "please tell your friend that
of us is named Jefferson Davis
the other 'Stonewall' Jackson,
you can't make very much OF a
kee out of either of those names"
r. Young is a farmer from one OF
richest counties of Maryland. Mr..
; is a member of the Kyle Lumber
one of the concerns of north Ala
a, which for years has ranked as
of the most prosperous institu-
5 of Gadsden. they are enthusi-
: over what they have achieved,
they have a right to be. The
of drainage has been less than
an acre. Judging by earnings thus
ar made, the annual income per
promises to be four or five times
much as the cost of saving this
and turning it to the uses of civ
ton. For unnumbered years it