Show IT IS THE BASIS OF LAND L D Wh a to t IS It ALL PROSPERITY Unlike commodities and other things there was just so much made in the be beginning beginning ginning there has been none produced since The land that we are offering for sale is ia part of a tract whIch Is receiving more attention from the world at large and the United States In particular than any other body of land In America It is because of this tract that Florida has recently jumped into more prominence nence than any state In the Union In regard to the land question This region Is known as The Everglades of Florida and Is situated In the middle of that half of the Peninsular directly to the south of Lake Okeechobee The state of Florida Is draining this region under contract with the federal government WE have haye the only tract ot of DRAINED LAND In the Everglades that is for tor Sale today and no man can vIew the broad expanse of grassy glade lands of Florida without a thrill of delight and a keen desire to be a party to theIr development Back to the land Is the universal cry and the knowing ones and the wise ones are headed for Florida Ten acres under Intelligent cultivation will earn you from five thousand to eight thousand d dollars per year In this the only truly tropical section of the United States you can raise over seventy varieties of fruits coming under the followIng heads Citrus fruits semi semitropical semitropical tropical fruits hemp sugar cane cocoa cocoanuts cocoanuts nuts tobacco cotton casava bamboo besides all ali the vegetables raised both in inthe Inthe the south and north The vegetables are raised at a time of year when the rest of the country Is frost bound and the the producer re receives receives the very highest prices for hIs pro products products ducts The Everglades ot of Florida lie in an ele dc elevated basin created by a rim of coral around the east south and west coasts ot of the state and durIng the rainy season are covered wIth several Inches of entirely fresh moving water due to the heavy rains whIch swell the northern streams draining Into Lake Okeechobee causing It to overflow Proving the Everglades are not a swamp of marsh as popularly supposed but a wet prairie bat experts say Dr John N MacGonigle In an address before the eighth International Geo GeographIc Geographic graphIc Congress sald The climate and productiveness ot of the Everglades are not surpassed In the world the climate Is most mild and equable time the vegetation shows by the habits of growth that frost Is unknown Only moderately high tern tem temperatures prevail in summer and those these are much modified by prevailing sea breezes The water In the Glades Is always alws pure clear and drinkable Nowhere Is It stag stal stagnant nant nowhere does it seem to be wholly at rest resl It seems to move In one mass from the northeast toward the The death rate of Florida is the low lowest lowest est In the Union being only six per thousand thousand and and there are nora more than seventy people In the state now living that are more than one hundred years old Professor W H Wiley chief of the bureau of chemIstry U S department says lays There is pra tic ally no other body of land In the world which presents such remarkable or of development as the Everglades of Florida These Thee lands lande are new to agriculture and superior to any other soil In theIr capa capabilities capabilities for heavy cro crops s Government In th their lr reports say that the elevation of the Glades Is over twenty one feet above the sea at the lowest point Hence by a system of can canals canals als of sUfficient capacity to lower Lake Okeechobee preventing Its overflow the entire area will be drained The lato Mr Claus the noted sugar plantation owner and r refiner finer writes as follows regardIng his Inspection ot of these reclaimed lands landsI I take pleasure In saying that during my amy recent trIp to Inspect your sugar op operations operations my pleasure was great in fInd fInding finding ing such a climate for the grOwth ot of sugar cane can The soil soU Is as rich as any that I have ever seen and with proper cultivation tb the yield should be equal to that of any country on the face of the globe S Extract from article by J Eo E Ingra Ingraham ham hom vice Ice president of Florida East Coast Railroad entitled Draining of the Everglades published publish cd In Success Magazine There are great agricultural possibilities ties In the Florida Everglades The size of this region Is not so Important as the remarkable productivity of the soil solI The latter Is not absolutely virgin but has been fertilized by anImal and vegetable life through many centuries The work of drainage has progressed for enough to enable me to predict confidently confidently dently the opening In Florida within a avery avery very short time of a great tract of land landof landof of almost unprecedented fertility Elwood Mend chief of and drainage Investigations for the United States department of agriculture four years ago said saidi The prestige ot of FlorIda fruit in the market Is encouraging and IndIcates that the state may easily lead In the quality of many of her fruits The value ot of fruIt products during the last two years as relIably reported has been to 1000 an acre which amount would justify con considerable considerable expenditure for the reclamation Improvements A letter of N U D Jackson ille Fin Fla Governor Broward writes The Everglades may be described as asa asa a wet prairie being a strip of land about one hundred and miles long by miles wide and lying between the pine and swamp lands which have grown over oer two reefs ot of rock running par parallel parallel with each other from north to south No rivers penetrate Into the Glades bey beyond ond these rock reefs on en either side and the land Is very level only about twenty one and feet above sea level being chiefly of muck and sand lying In a basin with a rock bottom The rhe annual rainfall over this territory ayer aver averages ages nearly sixty Inches It has for this reason and because thIs rainfall has no outlet over these reefs been and Is too wet for cultivation The muck which overlies the sand and rock varies from about two feet teet on the edges of the Glades to a depth of twenty feet In the middle and would average over oyer the whole terri tern territory tory a depth of between six and eIght feet The land Is free from trees and stumps and almost tree free from bushes the Item ot of clearing being of no consideration whatever simply requiring mowing mong down the graSS and burning It when the soil Is ready to be tilled as soon as the excess water Is run off The soil as compared with other per por portions of the country taking Into consid consideration consideration Its natural richness location and climate is 13 more valuable for agricultural purposes than any that is known being particularly adapted to the growth of cane cotton Irish potatoes celery toma tomatoes toes cabbages turnips beets and in tact fact any crop will grow well on these lands except such as require a colder climate The Everglade lands are suitable for forthe forthe the most profitable form of agriculture their richness and fertility have been demonstration by soil and climate experts The soil has actually produced tons of sugar cane per acre worth dollars per ton at the mill Sugar cane can canhas has to be replanted only once every seven or eight years The few persons who have hae as yet cul cultivated cultivated Everglade lands as a business have found the yIeld per acre very large and prices high for their crops grown there at a season when they cannot be grown anywhere else In the United States The quantity of land now reclaimed Is very small perhaps not over twelve thou thousand thousand sand acres but two other dredges will be put to work within a few days das and the work of reclamation will be pushed rap rapIdly rapidly Idly and by the middle of the year there should be reclaimed monthly from ten to fifteen thousand acres The people on and about this land are healthy It Is free from malaria and fevers and It Is my opinIon that within a few years It will constitute the most valuable agri agni agricultural cultural area aren In the United States Very truly yours ours N B BROWARD Market Conditions This is a question of prime importance The best land in the world from a pro productive standpoint might be worthless or at the best were freight rates sufficiently high markets overstocked or transportation fa facilities sufficiently poor In the consideration of the market con conditions conditions in hi connection with the land we weare are offering for sale the following facts I should not be lost sight of Taken In conjunction with the remarkable yield ld in crops vegetables and fruits one Is forced to conclude that nowhere today Is there therea a regIon so favored nor one where re ne returns turns are so great Local score of the largest and finest I I Mf Y 4 TT I I J l t S x cM ps 4 t p 5 S c cT T t Wt 4 DREDGE AT WORK THE EVERGLADES Five of these Dredges art ar now in to be put in Commis Commission Commission sion in a Short Time Headed for Lake Okeechobee I hotels In the world besides hundreds J others more modest have their location j i Florida The tourist trade of this stat sta statIs Is astounding and each year ear sees It tr Ir creasing In leaps and bounds Durin the last five years the towns and of Florida have doubled In size Whet you have verified this statement stop long enough to ask yourself what It means The demand at home for fruits vegetables vegetables ables etc Is great white while the prices a steady and good Miami eighteen mUL mil from our land does a wonderful trade and the local demand for e eis Is good Greatest MarketS of the there Is this demand domand for pr duce of all sorts In cities such as Tampa Miami Jacksonville Orlando St Peter burg Lakeland ArcadIa Sanford K I simmee etc a still greater and an UJ ui ceasing demand comes comee from the nort i iThe The Floridian has haa at hIs very doors 11 largest centers on the continent Bost New York Washington Baltimore Phi Ph adelphia Pittsburg Cleveland Cleeland t Detroit Chicago St Louis and hundred of lesser towns are eagerly demanding this land her succulent vegetables a ar i luscious fruits No Competition Is at least 1 miles near r these great markets ot of the tha thaher her nearest competitor California A Wonderful Fruit find nd Vegetable Re ne Region glon gion This section of Florida Is the very en r r glon gion that has gained this wonderful t 11 to its fame as a fruit and vegetable regi as the northern boundary line ot of Ia Da mtv Is the actual frost line and If I t ti i beginning of the only semitropical l I Ir in th the state Florida as a whole has the t highest production per acre of 01 an of the big crop producIng states For cx 61 mplE the United States department of agriculture year book shows earnings per pe at the following figures Illinois I Wisconsin M Pennsylvania i Alabama t Texas 4 Florida 63 I Dade county is the greatest producing County ot of Florida showIng an aVErage of per acre as against average for the entire state This Is from the tenth biennial report of the state om corn missIoner of agriculture With this won wonderful productive power added to the rapid Influx of population the value of 01 our land will ill advance very rapidly Buy now while the prIce 11 i still In easy reach |