Ogden Daily Standard | 1917-08-10 | Page 4 | Where Cities Grow up over Night

WHERE CITIES GROW UP i OVER NIGHT From Miami. Florida, comes a special spe-cial edition of the Daily Metropolis, published for the purpose of reviowing the growth of Miami on its twenty-first twenty-first birthday. On the margin of the paper appears the name of John S. Corlew, former resident of Ogden. now a proud citizen of this rapidly developing devel-oping pleasure place and industrial center near the southern tip of Florida. Flor-ida. The growth of Miami is extraordinary, extraordi-nary, as related in Tho Metropolis. The town wa6 surveyed in June, 1916, and on July 31, the coast railroad rail-road entered its boundary. Within a year Miami had 2,000 population. Then in fifteen years It advanced to 6,000, but after 1911 tho progress was rapid. The present estimate gives j Miami 28,000, which may be somewhat high. Miami, at this rate, promises to overtake ov-ertake Ogden. The Florida city's bank deposits are $8,000,000; assessed value $21,000,000; j city's bonded indebtedness $2,000,000; schoolhouses $200,000. There are 15 lumbers mills; 200 boats are engaged in fishing. Dade county, of which Miami Is tho county seat, produces grapefruit, oranges and avocadoes to the value of $1,000,000 a year. Allowing for a little exaggeration in these figures, Miami still is entitled to hold the attention of other cities which make claim to being progressive and enjoying a remarkable growth. How substantial Is the development of Miami is not disclosed, but the lumbering lum-bering industry in time must almost disappear and its decline should have an unfavorable effect. Miami, we take it, has some of the boom spirit of Southern California, where the intangible is capitalized and climate is wholesaled ana retailed to the stranger who believes one swallow makes a summer.