The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-07-01
TAMIAMI TRAIL TO Be
Completed WITHIN
YEAR IS PREDICTION
Work is Progressing at Satisfactory
Rate and Jaudon Predicts Trail
VIII be Open 20 Miami
Within q Year.

Mr.. ]. F. Jaudon, president of the
Chevelier Corporation, is over from
Miami in the interest of the Tamiami
Trail road work; Mr.. Jaudon expects
to leave today or tomorrow on trip
over the Tamiami Trail south
through this county to the point
where work is now going on in its
construction eastward to the Monroe
county line.
Mr.. Jaudon reports that although
the promoters of the Tamiami Trail
had been too optimistic regarding the
length of time it would take to COM
plete the trail, the work of its con-
struction is steadily going forward
every day and will be completed from
Fort Myers to Miami within another
year. Possibly be open for traffic the
latter part of the winter season, but
more likely not. The work to be
done was underestimated, in facL II
was utterly impossible to foretell the
extent of the work to be done until
the work was actually encountered.
If every reader of this paper could
see the pictures of the Tamiami Trail
of the work completed and under
construction in Dade county, he
would be enthusiastic over the work
being accomplished and marvel at the
permanency of it. The Dade County
construction crew are digging big
drainage ditch and using the bank
thrown up as a grade for the Trail,
covering it with limestone rock and
mari. making it as smooth and hard
as any y&avement. This crew has
four and half miles of the deepest
water and muck of the Everglades to
20 through before reaching the high
prairie beyond, and in making the
big ditch and grade is using float
ing dredge. Just as soon as this
strip is completed, and work is going
ahead every day upon it, 1t will give
an outlet for the machinery, mater
ials. crews, etc, of the Cheyelier Cor
poration road builders to so ahead at
once in the construction of their pal
OF the road through Monroe county.
for which the money is already avail
able and ready to finance the cost oil
the construction of the road through
their large holdings to the Lee Coun-
ty line. Mr.. Jaudon says thar thu
type of country through Monroe
county was entirely different from
the Everglade lands through which
the construction crew have been
working in Dade county. The
Trail through Monroe County passes |
over a high prairie and timber land.
about two feet below the |
surface with limestone rock, making |
the building of the road through this |
section comparatively easy as COM
pared with the work in Dade County,
and that work will go forward very
rapidly on the balance OF the Tam
iami Trail just as soon as the Dade
County crew gets through the low
lands of the Everglades. The WORK
in Lee County is going steadily for
ward using a walking dredge, and
the spoil bank for a grade.
The character of the land yet to be
gone through in the southern part of
this county is not unlike that of the
high pairie land and timber lands OF
Monroe county.
The president OF the Chevlier Cor
poration states that Miami has
already constructed switching yards
and loading and shipping wharf for
A municipal railroad, and that the
ramiami Trail Railroad has trackage (
in the yards in Miami. This railroad
has a right of way along the Tamiami
Trail TO this city from Miami and
work of construction may be conf
iently expected after the completion
1f the Tamiami Trail For the pres
int the vast southern section holding
In untold wealth inaccessible, that no {
way of getting anything out to the
outer world, until an outlet is first s
made by the Trail and later by the {
making it as useless to the 8
world until that time as if it were ,
coated in the wilds of African |
wamps. I
Mr.. Jaudon says that the future of 8
10Th Fort Myers and Miami is abso-
utely assured by the building of the 2
ramiami Trail. In the words of this '
Gentleman. The Tamiami Trail is 7
he key note of the opportunity and !
uture development of Fort Myers, r
nd the development of the vast vir- 8
lin region to the south and east of 7
he city. Eft. Myers Tropical News.