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chief transportation systems of the American continent and the 

 Atlantic Ocean focus on this area. From here radiating lines of 

 communication go out to tap the markets of the world. There 

 is no place where raw materials are so easily assembled, and 

 from which the finished product can be more easily dispatched 

 to the world's marts. 



Twenty-eight thousand acres of waste land possessing all 

 these advantages can scarcely be found anywhere. The first step 

 toward hastening the industrial utilization of these meadows 

 is the completion of the mosquito drainage, for industries cannot 

 flourish where workmen are tormented throughout the summer 

 season by hordes of winged pests. Remove the insect nuisance 

 and the capacity for development on this area seems almost 

 unlimited. 



An Increase of $300,000,000 in Property Values in the Urban and In- 

 dustrial Centers can be Expected within 20 Years to Follow the 

 Suppression of the Salt-Marsh Mosquito 



Thus we have seen that with not over 5 per cent of the total 

 possible area occupied the taxable values of this salt-meadow 

 land has risen from $1,000,000 or less to $16,000,000. Further- 

 more, the increase in the values of urban districts has yet to be 

 considered. Mr. Walter A. Evans, former director of the Essex 

 County Board of Freeholders, and a man familiar with real 

 estate values said in 1915, "Real estate experts have stated that 

 the benefits to property values, which would result from the 

 extermination of the mosquito in northern New Jersey would 

 amount to at least $1,000,000,000." Nor does this seem unreason- 

 able, in view of the fact that adjacent to these low lands resides 

 a population of almost two millions. 



In view of the fact that the development of 5 per cent of this 

 28,000 acres has already created taxable values to the amount of 

 about $16,000,000 and the fact that living adjacent to this area 

 there is a population of almost two million, it seems very con- 

 servative to estimate that complete freedom from the salt-marsh 

 mosquito pest would be followed within 20 years by an increase 

 of at least $200,000,000 of taxable values in the metropolitan 

 district of northeastern New Jersey- 

 Mosquito Extermination Has Been Considered a Necessary and 

 Paying Proposition in Neighboring States 



During the past year the State of Pennsylvania, the City of 

 Philadelphia, the Westinghouse Electric Company, and the 

 Emergency Fleet Corporation spent $260,000 in a joint effort to 



