Show New N v e Florida Highway I to Traverse Everglade Area I rI r 1 I a G 34 This map of lower Florida shows show's bow how the new Trail will ill cut through the Everglades lad By Dr NE NEA V Service Ice MIAMI f Fla Oct Two 15 15 Two years l lago ago a party of ot motorists at attempted n at- at attempted t- t tempted to cross the southern ever ever- everglades everglades glades of ot Florida between the Gulf Quit of ot Mexico and the Atlantic coast They The found themselves In a path path- pathless pathless less ess wilderness and were rescued by airplanes By next spring this same wilder wilder- wilderness wilderness ness will be traversed by a a. fine tine macadam road which will cut the trip across the everglades to two hours This Is the new Trail Trall named so ao because of ot its lis connection between Tampa on the gulf gult side and Miami on the east Its total length will be miles and its comple comple- completion completion tion will have cost the state of ot Florida almost By Dy means of ot this road touring through gh Florida will be one con con- continuous continuous continuous circle of ot sights Visitors now will enjoy a new and entrancing entrancIng entrancing ing side Ide of ot this sunny state slate This wild country is full of ot wild game ame Seminole Indians occasion occasion- occasionally occasionally occasionally ally penetrated this region but it was vas not until the highway engi engi- engineers engineers engineers came carne along that so many white persons presented themselves here at one time Cutting this road especially through the wild and marshy ever ever- everglades everglades everglades glades has been a particularly heroic and troublesome engineering job Dredges had to steady them them- themselves themselves selves over soft swampy soil soli Great drills had to hammer deep into the ther hard r bed rock r And great e saws had r i to be used to cut their way through o four miles mUes of ot cypress forest Many streams had to ro be crossed and bridges built on foundations found deep below the marshy top topsoil topsoil soil soli to make this road complete It is 15 90 SO miles from Miami to the gulf gult coast straight westward Yet this stretch cost almost half halt of ot the entire cost of ot the miles of ot road k v z f fL i. i tY N L rw This bleak trackless waste In the Florida Everglades will Ill be con con- converted converted Into fine tine road crossing the state tI te by next spring to Tampa This more than any any- anything anything anything thing else tells what it means to cut across this trackless waste All AU supplies and heavy machinery had to be hauled at immense cost Huge drag line dredges had to be mounted on great caterpillar trac trac- tractors tractors tors to get them over the soft soil The workers camped alone In in the wilderness entertained by the cries of ot the wild turkeys and mallard ducks the hoots of ot the owls and the screams of ot the eagles Travelers going through here next summer will enjoy similar di diversions dl- dl versions by day diy and night |