Years of imagination, toil, disappointment, hope,
determination, and millions of dollars have gone into perfecting, in a
measure, this control that means security from floods, and thousands
of acres of reclaimed land.

In this rich area, 25,000 acres are planted to sugarcane by the
United States Sugar Corporation. So huge an industry is this that
miles of special railroad track have been constructed from the fields
to the grinding mill at Clewiston. Citrus groves and pineapple
plantations spot the eastern edge of the 'glades from Delray south to
Fort Lauderdale. The Redlands district, 40 miles from Miami,
produces larger crops of winter vegetables and with less fertilizer
than any other section of the State.

The best pasture land for beef and dairy herds is drained
'Glades land, where green, sweet fodder grows the year round.
Native cows, crossed with Brahmanbulls India, produce cattle that
equal the best western range strains.

All of the disappointment, hope, and eventual success of
the Okeechobee Project, is paralleled in the construction of the
Tamiami Trail. Linking Miami with Tampa, people driving along it
have their eyes and minds occupied with the Indian villages along
the way; with the herons, egrets, and ibis that float high over the
cypress trees; with the alligators that casually, if infrequently,
emerge from the canals, or the bears that wander to the