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West Palm Beach on alternating days, staying overnight at Fort
Lauderdale, before leaving for Miami the next morning; they returned
to West Palm Beach the same day.62 By then, the railroad extension
had been completed to a point about six miles north of the New
River, although trains had not yet begun to run on it.63
 The end of January found 200 men at work clearing the town
site of Miami, prompting the Florida Times-Union to remark, "Ev-
erybody is busy and the boom has commenced.""4 E. H. Harrington
and Charles L. Tyler were doing big business feeding the workmen.
A. L. Knowlton was continuing to survey the town site. The firm of
Ellis, Williams and Branscombe operated a successful fertilizer and
crate business. At Cocoanut Grove, real estate brokers John Fred-
erick and E. C. Dearborn also were busy. The lots in the actual city
site of Miami were not platted and were not yet for sale. However,
there was much land in the adjoining area that was selling.65
 February 1896 saw the opening of the railroad extension to Fort
Lauderdale. The first passenger train left Palm Beach on Tuesday,
February 18, at 7:30 a.m.66 The canal steamboat schedule was ad-
justed so that the Della (owned by the canal company) and the
Biscayne (formerly the J. N. Sweeny, owned by the railroad com-
pany) met the arriving trains at Fort Lauderdale on alternate days for
the trip to Miami.67
 On February 1, 1896, Mrs. Tuttle fulfilled the first part of her
agreement with Flagler by signing two deeds to transfer land for his


Surveyors Knowlton and Frederickat work marking offthe future streets of
Miami. (HASF 1990-516-2)