CHICAGO EXAMINER.
 CHICAGO.




 Chicago, April 29, 1912.




Mr. William L. Larkin,
 Miami, Florida.
Dear Mr. Larkin:
 I have learned a lesson in agricultural development-
a lesson that has taught me the wonderful possibilities of
development on this little earth of ours. I have seen
through the Everglades. I have realized the dream of my
youth that some time I might see this land of mystery and
legend. In the Everglades I have been impressed with the
purity, the cleanliness ,and the wonderful greatness of
God's bounty to mankind in a land that was deemed
uninhabitable and inaccessible. Here has been opened
a vast empire, the future of which is surely beyond the
comprehension of any man in Florida or elsewhere. It is an
easy thing to see with the eye, but to conceive the
possibilities of this vast territory of more than four
million acres that has been redeemed by the great system
of drainage canals, to foresee how great will become the
population of this new land within the next twenty years,
or how far-reaching will be its influence upon future
enterprises of similar character in other countries and
climes as well as in our own nation) is impossible. It will
be grander than any man dares to hope.
 I congratulate you upon having been interested in
and connected with this humanizing project which is to do so
much for this and future generations.
 Your friend,
 M. E. DICKSON,
 (Editorial Staff.)


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