Show TO DRAIN DISMAL SWAMP SWAMP- Can Calls for rOl to tu Cone Come From Fund Republican Special Washington March 2 25 Three Three million dollars Is iK asked b by Representative ell ell- Small of or North orth Carolina to drain the tho Dismal swamp which lies partly In North Carolina and partly In Virginia This swamp swami the hiding place of runaway slaves es In iii slavery days das is un an area of oC about twenty miles b by twenty five O e miles and at places Is practically inaccessible Scattered red throughout the swamp however ho are arcS small patches and on these thee now lIethe live lI the descendants of or runaway II negroes renegades s rom 1001 Justice and moon- moon shiners Some years ago a canal was built from the Elizabeth river rl In ln Virginia lnla to the pD Pasquotank river rl In North orth Carolina and waterway has half In nai part t drained the south and anti east ast a t edges of tho the swamp the land reclaimed d now being under cultivation and It is Mr h Smalls Small's ii's Idea Ida t that hat It will vili be he a U engineering feat eat to drain completely the remainder taking th ort off Julio Into the l Elizabeth lIzabeth river rl In North orth Carolina Th Thu bill has hns been referred to the tho committee on public lands of th the hou house Under the provisions pro of or tho the bill tho the money nolle for the tho project will vili cornu comae from Crom the till reclamation fund rund |