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Show The Everglades Once a Waste Now Center of Sugar Industry r "O 5 ' - - ; Jlf 1 4 dozen years ago the Florida Lverglades were barren and unproductive. Today they are the center of a sus,ar industry which provides more than 5,000 people with employment and which spent over a million and a half dollars in 1940 for materials purchased pur-chased in 19 other states. The ten plantations of the United States Sugar corporation cor-poration spread over thousands of acres of thxse glade lands. These photos show what goes on during the harvest season at Cleiviston, Fla. The girls at the left look very industrious, but they are only out for a frolic in the sugar cane. V knows how to cut ..V'jf , ( rl ir 1 sugarcane. H"'-' 1 "! V.1 L lB lm 'Jim . ha2'A1a-' As grown in the Everglades sugar cane is cut in the field, moved in tractor wagons to the railroad, and hauled by train to the raw sugar mill at Clewiston. Right: The "Casey Jones of the Eveglades" having a bit of fun oiling up the com pany locomotive. :f.i it ftliiiliiriiffi'rW-'1ip ' "ffiil . r imrMffn . . Tie cars are locked to the rails and tilted. The cane is now on its way to become sugar. Planting is planned to provide canes which mature on a regular schedule during a six-month period. ; f 1,. y The raw sugar flows into sacks from automatic weighers, each sack getting the same amount of sugar when the boy releases a trigger. The long journey starts. Up the escalator go the sacks to the freight cars, then to the refinery, where the raiv sugar is refined into the white table product. Harvest season in Florida's Everglades is a season of merry-making. Harvest season in ' ' " ""e ''J'' ' 1 Florida's Everglades is a 1 5'--t,.v'h:4 season of merry-making. i lFi i |