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Show They say they enn grow sugar nlonj their strip enough to supp!) tbowbolo United Mtatos Iho lucmlxro of that (l,000,000 sjndicato that is going to drain Iho bt John's and Indian liters In Uorld-i. Tho swamp U olghry.tbreo miles long mid from threo to tbe miles wide. Tho syndicate bought nil this land for rt fow e-ents per ncro and ex-lcts ex-lcts to finish drniulug It In two) oars Tlio soil Is covered with a rich loam throo foot thick. 1 ho company will not wait till tho work Is cumpletod befuro beginning to plant sugar cane, but w ill drain In section), nnd nt fast at ono section sec-tion is finished It w ill bo put nnder cultivation. cul-tivation. Hero is an outer rise which will givo employment to hundreds or men and onrioh tho stato cf Florida by millions us troll as add to Iho supply of an article of contumi Hon which otery body must Int e. This is ono of tlio rn-dertaklngs rn-dertaklngs that attost tho truo grcatnu and clt Dilation of our nge. As a benov-olcnt benov-olcnt nnd reformatory work its taluo is Incalculable, t |