Evening star., 1925-10-19
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perience its results, will be removed.
People around here, even the conserva-
tive ones. are forecastins a city of
100000 inhabitants i'm five years.
Others don't stop at predicting mil
lions. They are beginning to look
down on such settlements as Wash
inGton. Baltimore and Philadelphia.
They see, in Miami, another and better
Los Angeles.
True Miamians. who have grown
with the town and who know con
ditions. frankly say that Miami's
greatest bid for fame is her weather.
They laugh at the piffle and tosh one
hears from the street hawking real
estate salesman concerning Miami's
great future as an industrial center.
supporting a great industrial popula-
ton. They do not want industry to
come in. There Is nothing that could
hurt Miami more. they say, than
dirty, greasy population, going back
and forth between little homes and
smoke ebelchinG industrial plants They
think of Miami as a rich mans play
ground. and they believe il will de-
velop along such lines. One man
took pencil and pad and. jotting
down his calculations as he talked,
said:
here last sea son. most of them here
for 90 days. Daily rates here are as
high AS $40. an average might he $50,
but We'll work on $50 as a minimum.
Taking the minimum OF $50 day
spent by 1000 people, we won't
count the other so 900. and that makes
s. .00o. 600 a day, and for 40 days that's
$3.50. 600 900.
, Predict Solid Growth
There are few towns which can
boast a pay roll like that for 90 days
in The year. and il will increase. Lots
of people will have to live and work
here to support the visitors. Many of
the visitors will become permanent
citizens. Miami will grow
But one should not lose sight of the
fact that Miami is a rich mans town.
II costs money to live here. Nor will
il ever. despite the diatrihes and sta
tistics printed by the local newspapers,
become popular as a Summer resort.
II have talked to too many people
who spent the Summer down here to
believe that il is even comfortable.
II may be bearable, but that's all.
Miami is tropical city. 1t has the
ADVANTAGES. as we'll as the diSad-
vantages, of a tropical climate.
The antics of the real estate men
are proving highly amusing, very
profitable. but not altogether popular
with the better class of business men
who have lived in Miami for years.
All sorts of stories naturally go around
about the cut-throats that work their
game here. and such stories tend to
hurt Miami. There's not man here.
unless his boosting is greater than his
conscience. who will deny that many.
many of the dear visitors are getting
badly stunC. At the same time. and
no one can deny it. many people are
getting rich. Miamis bank deposits
now are 5000, 100000
Possibilities i'm Agriculture.
These men who know Miami laugh
at the tosh that is being spread about
the fact that agriculture will be the
rity's backbone. The soil is rich in
many parts Of the surrounding coun-
try. 1t is helped by a climate which
produces luNuriant growth. One may
point out TO the awed stranger men
around here who have made millions
in tomatoes But what does that
prove? Go further north and one may
find in the State Of Georgia men who
have made millions in peaches. Go yet
further north. around Winchester, Va.
and one will find men who have made
millions in apples. But it is not
everybody who can nurse tomato.
or celery stalk, or head of cabbage
through its various stages of develop
ment until it is put on the dinner table
of some plutocratic Northerner who
likes his summer vegetables in the
Winter time Ask the farmers their
difficulties. They have them as much
as the Western farmer has his trou-
bles with his wheat. If this were not
so. it is pointed out that everybody
would immediat tely begin raising to-
matoes down here. and soon there
wouldn't be enough people to eat the
tomatoes.
Mr.. Sewall says there are cases of
men who have been able to produce