SIOUX CITY, TRIBUNE.
 Sioux City, la.


 Sioux City, May 6th, 1912.


Mr. William L. Larkin,
 Chicago, Ill.
My Dear Sir:
 Just a word in appreciation of the Everglades by one
who had read much, had heard more, but never had SEEN until
he visited the 'glades as a member of the party of
newspaper men who, under your able guidance and direction,
attended the official opening of the Gulf to Atlantic canal.
 Henry Watterson, Louisville's famous editor, has
 called this southern Florida region "The Garden of Eden
 without a Serpent." Other noted men have spoken of it as
 "The land of Opportunity," "The second Valley of the Nile,"
 "The Great Utopia," etc. I can think of no sufficient
 expressive adjectives and will therefore say simly that
 "Them's my sentiments."
 Nowhere have I seen a region that equals this southern
 Florida country in the opportunities it offers to the
 settler and investor. The future of this four million
 acres of Everglades land can scarcely be imagined. Words
 cannot begin to tell what this country will be when the
 network of canals is entirely completed, when the deep
 waterway from the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic ocean
 finally becomes the passageway of ships engaged in
 international commerce.
 Nowhere have I found a man who has personally
 investigated the Everglades drainage project who does not
 agree that it is entirely feasible. Since my return north
 I have been preaching the gospel of the Everglades and I
 believe every other man of the party I accompanied is today
 an Evergladbs Evangelist.
 The courtesies extended to me by the people of the
 Everglades country never will be forgotten. I can but add
 my thanks to you as director of the most pleasant sight-
 seeing journey I ever have made.
 Sincerely your friend,
 B. H. YARWOOD.
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