The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-03-13
EVERGLADES ARE
TO Be SURVEYED
INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT FUND
TRUSTEES ARRANGE FOR FL
HANGING THE WORK.
TWO CREWS TO BE IN FIELD
Action Taken in Tallahassee, When
Land Company Agreed to Furnish
the State With Money NEEDED.

Lake Worth.-The Everglades are
to be surveyed.
The news of the survey to be made
ly official source.
Money for the survey, which will
be conducted by the state, under the
the personal supervision of F. G. e.
lott, acting chief drainage engineer
of the the state of Florida, will be
provided by the Florida Everglades
Land company and r. J. Bolles, the
latter of Jacksonville, Fla, and the
state will eventually repay this mon
ey to the persons furnishing it at this
time.
Just south of Lake Okeechobee is
the point where the work will be be-
gun, and the first stakes will be driv-
en- in township As south, ranges So
and SO east.
Two surveying parties will be
thrown into the field at once, and the
acting chief drainage engineer of the
state is authority for the statement
that the work can be carried on at
the rate of at least one township a
month.
1t had been hoped, up to a few
weeks ago, that the state could see
its way clear to providing all the cash
necessary to take up and carry to a
successful termination the work OF
surveying the Everglades country,
but at conference of the trustees OF
the internal board, in Tallahassee, a
few days ago, it was decided that the
state could not at this time spare the
money for survey purposes.
Officials of the Florida Everglades
Land company and Mr.. Bolles, hear
ing of the matter and knowing that
conditions at the present time are ia
vorable for the making of survey
of the Glades, promptly took up the
subject and entered into negotiations
with the trustees of the internal de-
partment fund.
Mr.. Elliott, who was a prominent
figure in the conference, agreed with
the land company officials and Mr..
Bolles that the present was the right
time to begin the work, and he
argued further, it is understood, that
the men and women who had pur-
chased land in the Glades were en-
titled to a survey, in order that they
may begin operations on their prop
erty,
While, of course, this does not
be surveyed at this time, it does
mean that a considerable portion of
it will be, and inasmuch as the land
where the start will be made is, for
the most part now in a partially re-
claimed condition, it is certain that
thousands of persons will welcome
this step forward and will look even
more anXiously to the day when the
work of farming and tilling the soil
will actually begin on a large scale.
For many months complaints have
been coming in from all over the
United States, from men and women
who own property in the Glades, in
regard to the delay in surveying the
various tracts, and at times there has
been much unfavorable comment in
regard to the slowness with which
operations were being carried along.
With the opening of the various
canals, esecially the great Lake
Worth-to-Lake Okeechobee ditch,
work on which was begun in Lake
Clark, the Everglades will take on an
activity that cannot at this time be
even realized by those who are not
fully familiar with conditions there.