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May 



these glades. Two or three hundred 

 Indians, born hunters, constantly hunt- 

 ing can keep the fish and game animals 

 in check over a broad area. 



No doubt when ditches are dug tour 

 ists will tour these glades with com- 

 fort, just as they will in the course of a 



he regarded the building of this rail- 

 road second only in importance to the 

 Panama Canal project. It would seem 

 that if private enterprise is capable of 

 building a railroad across the Florida 

 Keys to Key West it might also be 

 equal to the task of draining the Ever- 



A Group of Seminole Indians who inhabit the Everglades 



year or two cross the Keys to Key 

 West, literally go to sea by train with 

 the Straits of Florida on one side and 

 the broad Gulf of Mexico on the other. 

 The local papers report that Mr. 

 Shonts, of the Canal Commission, 

 while in Key West recently, said that 



glades. Many of. the canals which 

 would be dug in the Everglades would 

 serve at the same time for transporta- 

 tion purposes. 



While land is so abundant and cheap 

 even near the great centers of popu- 

 lation the need for the reclamation of 



