New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-08
MIAMI
and
MONTRAY
Names that resunited to bring happi-
ness and prosperity to many people.
Art,sls No, S---By William c. Freeman.
Previous articles mailed on reuuess.)

/ recently had the pleasure of
meeting. in the Office of Earle Royce
Dumont. president OF the Montray
CORPORATION, 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., is very close to properties
owned there by the Montray Corpo-
ration--has established a 100-acre
aviation field at Hialeah, new sub
urb of Miami, which, by strange
coincidence, is also near to proper
ties in the Miami zone owned by the
Montray Corporation. Hialeah only
started to develop February l, 1921,
vet it now has 20 houses completed
and 20 more being constructed-also
81 miles OF paved streets and a
post-ottlce.
And, J. II. Bright, a partner OF Mr.
Curtiss in the ownership of the Cur
tiss- Bright Ranch, consisting OF
$4,000 acres (2l7s square miles)--
one of the most fertile sections in
the world. The edge of this ranch
will be part Of the area that every
body expects Miami City to occupy
within few years.
Also, T. ]. Bevis, of California,
who has come East to establish a
commercial motion-picture studio at
Miami, his company having acquired
l40 acres for this purpose from Mr..
Curtiss and Mr.. Bright.
These gentlemen called on Mr..
Dumont to congratulate him on the
broad policy Ne is following in ad-
vertising Miami more than he is. ad-
vertising Montray Corporation prop
critics there, and to assure him that
they would lend every assistance
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 orna-
mental 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
Hialeah," Mr.. Curtiss said. 1--WE GER
tainly have fine field. Pilots say it
is the best aviation field in Florida.
II is used as training camp and a
general service station for aero
planes. Flying, yoL 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 cnthusc over and
to encourage the establishment of an
aviation field 1t is certainly 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 so rich that they are
able to raise three crops of corn
every year.
1--WE are pretty proud of our little
town, Hi2leah," Mr.. Bright said.
We are setting out palm trees and
tropical shrubbery, carrying out the
Miami scheme of making everything
beautiful, because we know that
Hlaleah will be a part OF the greater
Miami in the near future"
Mr.. Bevis told me that the COM
pany backing the commercial motion
picture studio selected Miami be-
cause of the continuous good light
that always prevails.
There are no fogs in the Miami
zone, as there are in Los Angeles
and Hollywood, CAL" Mr.. Bevs
said. Miami, because of it's close
ness to New York City, is the most
desirable place anywhere in the
country for the operation os mo-
ton picture studio. The studio to be
established at Miami will be the most
perfectly and completely equipped in
the world. The preliminary invest
h4eHl' Whlcn VIII De immediate, ap-
proXimates $300,000 and the total in
vestment will reach S2,500,000
Il think the motion picture indus
Try will do more for Miami than it
did for Los Angeles, which, you
know, has grown in ten year from
population of $4,000 to 10000
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 $7l,000,000. I
think our starting in Miami will be a
big thing for the Miami zone"