The New York herald., 1921-07-06
AdVerISemeHt.
MIAMI
and
MONTRAY
Names that are united to bring happi-
ness and prosperity to many people.
Article No. s-By William G. Freeman.
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Article No. S---By William Z. Freeman
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recently had the pleasure of meet
ing. in the office of Earle Royce Du-
mont, president of the Montray Cor
poration, No. sol Fifth avenue, the
following gentlemen:
Glenn H. Curtiss-who has done so
much to develop aviation and whose
aviation field at Hampstead, l.. l., IS
very close to properties owned there
by the Montray Corporation es-
tablished 100-acre aviation field at
Hialeah. a new suburb OF Miami,
which. by strange coincidence, ls
also near to properties in the Miami
zone owned by the Montray Corpora
tion. Hialeah only started to develop
February. /, 1921, yet it now has 20
houses completed and 20 more being
constructed-also 514 miles OF paved
streets and post office.
And ]. H. Bright, partner of Mr..
Curtiss in the ownership OF the Cur
tiss-Bright Ranch, consisting OF l4,Ooo.
acres (211s square miles, OF
the most fertile sections IN the world.
The edge of this ranch will be part
of the area that everybody expects
Miami City to occupy within few
years.
Also T. j. Bevis, of California, who
has come East to establish a COM
mercial motion-picture studio at
Miami, his company having acquired
14O acres for this purpose from Mr.
Curtiss and Mr.. Bright.
These gentlemen called on Mr..
Dumont to congratulate him on
the broad policy he is following In
advertising Miami more than he is
advertising Montray Corporation
properties there, and to assure him
that they would lend every assist
ance they could.
THEY ARE GREAT MIAMI
ENTHUSIASTS.
Mr.. Curtiss told me that he first
established an aviation field at Miami
Beach. but had to move from there
the following year on account OF the
rapid growth of the ornamental trees
planted the same year he opened the
field. He said he never saw things
grow anywhere as they do in the
Miami zone.
"The only available acreage near
Miami for an aviation field was at
Hia]eah." Mr.. Curtiss said. I'VE GER
tainly have a fine field. Pilots say
It is the best aviation field in Florida.
1t is used as training camp and a
general service station for aero
planes. Flying, you know, is rapidly
becoming an American habit. This
means that our service station will
have plenty to do.
Miami was among the first of the
American cities to enthuse over and
to encourage the establishment OF an
aviation field. 1t is certainly a wide
awake city. Nothing is allowed to
slip by it."
Mr.. Bright told me he acquired ten
years ago the acreage now known as
the Curtiss-Bright ranch, and strangely
enough, pitched his tent where the
town of Hialeah is now being developed.
He said the soil on the ranch is 80 rich
that they are able to raise three crops
Of corn every year.
I'VE are pretty proud of our little
town, Hialeah," Mr.. Bright said. We
are setting our palm trees and tropical
shrubbery, carrying out sthe Miami
scheme Of making everything beautiful,
because we know that Hialeah will be a
part of the greater Miami in the near
future.
Mr.. Bevis told me that the company
backing the commercial motion picture
studio selected Miami because of the
continuous good light that always pre-
walls.
There are no fogs in the Miami
zone, as there are in Los Angeles and
HOLLYWOOD Cal" Mr.. Bevis said.
Miami because of its closeness to
New York City, is the most desirable
place anywhere in the country for the
operation of motion picture studio.
The studio to be established at Miami
will be the most perfectly and COM
pletely equipped in the world. The
preliminary investment, which will be
immediate, approximates 100000, and
the total investment will reach $780,
600.
Il think the motion picture industry
will do more for Miami than it did for
Los Angeles, which, you know, has
grown in ten years from population of
$4,000 to 100000. There are $4,000
motion picture workers employed in
Los Angeles, and the monthly payroll is
over S5,000,000. The business done
there last year was over $71, 900, 900.
think our starting in Miami will be a
big thing for the Miami zone"