The Everglades National Park Project #6-J County Court House Miami, Florida October 1st, 1936 His Excellency Honorable David Sholtz, Governor The Capitol Tallahassee, Florida Dear Governor Dave: Considering the nature of other correspondence which will reach you from time to time, we anticipate that you will be glad to have the enclosures on file for records. Obviously, the citizens of Florida require a tremendous lot of informing before they can possibly appreciate what a wonderful dispensation the State of Florida will fall heir to with the eventuation of the Everglades National Park. When a realization of this becomes general, progress with the Park project will speed along merrily. This Association is doing its utmost to hurry this day and are making very good progress. More than two hundred press releases made their appearance in Florida papers within the last forty days, and with the program now advanced practically every reader in the Stater will have an opportunity to know about the Everglades National Park and what its benefits will be to the State at large, as well as every community. The Everglades National Park, if carried out according to the plans of the Department of the Interior, will in itself create tourist travel activities which will go a long way toward solving the economic problems which beset Monroe County. The Everglades Park Commission, through exhaustive title searching, now has at its command information as to ownership of lands within the Park area, valuations, tax levies, taxes paid and unpaid, and other encumbrances. Searching and writing up this vast aggregate of information is a titanic job in itself, but without the information this afforded the Commission could not go ahead with its work to any advantage, or the information be laid before the public which now will demonstrate very amply that the area asked for by the Department of the Interior for Park inclusion, if included within the Park, will yield to the State, and all interests directly or indirectly concerned with the tourist travel, greater returns than could possibly be realized from the use of the land for other purposes.