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EVERGLADES 



EVERETT, MASS., a manufacturing city in 

 Middlesex County, situated on the Mystic 

 River, three and one-half miles north of Bos- 

 ton, of which it is a suburb. The Boston & 

 Maine and the Boston & Albany railroads serve 

 the city, and interurban lines connect with 

 Boston, Chelsea, Salem, Lynn and Maiden. 

 There are excellent freight facilities by rail 

 and by water. Everett was settled in 1640 and 

 was a part of Maiden (being known as South 

 Maiden) until 1870, when it was incorporated 

 as a township. In 1892 it was chartered as a 

 city. In 1916 its population was 39,233. 



Although Everett is a manufacturing city 

 of importance, it is also an attractive city of 

 homes, for it is within the scope of the boule- 

 vard system known as the Metropolitan Park- 

 way, and many Boston merchants have their 

 residences there. It has the Parlin and Shute 

 libraries, the Whidden Memorial Hospital and 

 the Home School for young ladies. Of the 

 varied industries for which the city is noted, 

 the production of gas and coke is in the fore- 

 most rank, the coal used being brought from 

 mines in Nova Scotia. L.P.S. . 



EVERETT, WASH., the county seat of Sno- 

 homish County, situated on Puget Sound, at 

 the mouth of the Snohomish River, thirty-three 

 miles north of Seattle. It is served by the 

 Chicago, Milwaukee & Saint Paul, the Great 

 Northern and the Northern Pacific railroads, 

 by electric interurban lines and by steamboats. 

 The population, which in 1910 was 24,814, was 

 estimated to be 35,486 in 1916. 



Everett is in a region of extensive pine for- 

 ests, and lumbering is the chief industry. Here 

 are located some of the largest saw mills in the 

 Northwest. Quantities of red-cedar shingles 

 are exported. Gardening and farming, and the 

 mining of copper, gold and silver are other 

 large interests of the surrounding country. The 

 city has shipyards; ore, paper and flour mills; 

 iron works, sash and door factories, and smelters. 

 In connection with the last is one of the two 

 plants in the United States for the saving of 

 arsenic from smelter fumes. Everett has an 

 excellent harbor, equipped with several iron 

 piers, and has a considerable commerce. 



The town was not settled until 1891, but its 

 location, on the Sound and in the great forests, 

 and its railroads contributed to a rapid growth. 

 It was incorporated in 1893 and has since 

 adopted the commission form of government. 

 It contains United States customs and as- 

 sayer's offices, a Carnegie Library, Y. M. C. A. 

 building, a Lutheran college and two hospitals. 



EVERGLADES, ev'erglayds, a name com- 

 monly given to any swampy, grass-covered 

 area, but applied particularly to a vast, marshy 

 tract in Southern Florida, covering an area 

 about 140 miles long and fifty miles broad. 



Recommended for ImmediateConstruction 

 Recommended for Future Construction 

 Existing Canals 



THE EVERGLADES 



The map shows the ambitious plans of Florida 

 for reclaiming at least a part of the area. 



Until recently there had been no effort to 

 drain and reclaim this area, larger than some 

 Eastern states of America; but a most re- 

 markable drainage project has now been suc- 

 cessfully inaugurated by which thousands of 

 acres of land have already been reclaimed in 

 this district. In many places where there was 

 in 1913 nothing but marsh, lakes and pools, 

 excellent crops of fruit and vegetables are 

 now grown. 



The water which caused the formation of 

 the Everglades came from Lake Okeechobee, 

 and from the heavy rains which fall from May 

 to October. The marshy lands were covered 

 to a depth of six feet over much of the area, 

 and nowhere were they habitable. In 1913, 

 five drainage canals had been dug through the 



