Bisbee daily review., 1912-09-17
Newsy Items of Interest
For Everglade Purchasers

a room in Miami that will not be
rented for at least S1.0O a night, and
If you want to be fastidious, you can
get them for s. to $50 a day in the
big hotels-if you order a few weeks
ahead.
Jacob Erickson, a foreman at the
Hoatson who bought thirty acres
about a year and half ago. was
down TO see how badly he mad been
soaked, during the month of May,
when the country looked its worst),
and took on another twenty-acre
chunk He represented a Swedish
colony of Bisbeeites who bought their
land through z. J. BergstrOm, an
agent. Mr. BergstrOm left last Sun
day for the Everglades. 1t would
take about n page of The Review to
tell what Mr.. Erickson thinks of the
country; suffice it to say that he in
tends to make it his future homo, and
says no buyer will regret his pur-
chase and will not fail to be delighted
with his holdings when he sees the
land for himself
There have now been forty buyers
of Everglade land from Bisbee, Can
anea Douglas, and Arizona and MeXi-
co points, who as CluE representa-
tiyes, or who, going down on their
own hook" have seen the land. NOT
A SINGLE ONE but strongly en-
dorses the proposition. Many Of them
have added to their purchase after
seeing it, They certainly form a
solid stone wall against which the
knocker cannot make any Roadway.
The club representatives were select.
ed by the buyers themselves, and all
are satisfied.
1t is getting 20 be an old story with
Everglade buyers, hearing of the fell
| low who was down all over that
country and can tell all about IT."
After talking to him awhile, the buyer
usually discovers that he never saw
: the Everglades. and in nine cases out
of ten never was within a hundred
miles of the Everglades.
Everglade buyers, land school
| teachers. tool, who have not already
! received a copy should send 10 cents
I TO w. L. Larkin, 1853 Washington
| Street, Chicago, for 4 copy of a book
| let on the Everglades, endorsed by
| the representatives of fifty leading
! newspapers of the United States. Mr..
Larkin is manager of the farm land
department of the Chicago Record.
Herald and the booklet is a "Souven-
ir of the Oflcial Opening of the Gulf
10 Atlantic Waterway OF the Ever
glades Drainage Canal in Florida. It
is Of particular interest to buyers as
a strong endorsement Of the greatest
reclamation project ever undertaken
in the history of the world, the drain
ing OF the Everglades, and sheds a
new light on this misunderstood and
misrepresented land of mystery.
The Miami Metropolis, In a recent
issue, stated in an interview with one
of the members of the big construc-
ton firm, which has a 50 000, 900 con-
tract with the state for the big canals.
that the work is going ahead fully as
rapidly as necessary to meet the
terms OF the contract This firm,
the Furst-Clark Construction Co. is
under a forfeit bond to finish the
canals July l, 1913.
Harry Hummer, a club representa-
tive from Tucson, who has forty
acres, and Norman W. Parlee. form
erly OF la Fundicion. Mexico, are
among buyers who were in the Ever
glades in June and July. Mr. Parlee
Is one of the largest buyers in the
Royal Glade tract, being the owner
OF 40 acres. He and his family are
now living In Miami Roth Mr.. Hum
mer and Mr.. Parlee highly endorse
the lands of the .Eyerglade Land
Sales Co.
Mr.. NJ Gaxiola. who represented a
club OF Hermosillo and Guaymas buy
ers. under date of August II. en-
dorsed the proposition in a thorough.
ly written report in which he stated
he believed the Everglade Lands
TO be a magnificent investment Mr..
Gax.oia bought 40 acres.