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try his luck at share cropping on Kreamg
his family by wagon to Lakeport, then
farmers at first didn't own their land. They squatted persuaded him to try his luck at share cro
where they pleased, clearing a few acres here and there
Island. Moving his family by wagon t
the lake, he farmed on Kreamer in 1916
wherever it might suit their fancy. So now you're saying by barge across the lake, he farmed on K
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stating that big and part delicious of this stream potato, was but dredged it is hotter out some than five seven years hun­latedred
to firecrackers. become a part Although of the Thirteen I had seen Mile men Canal taste which wampee, Disston
than a vast
for all time I decided had intended to be smart to continue and boil on the to poison Shark out. River. After It now cooking
one part in of several the Miami waters canal. until As the this lavender stream liquid was typical no long­
of the
forms
ld see them
er showed, lake's dead I took rivers, one cautious including bite the and Democrat, spit it let's out. see In a what
few seconds it was like. my mouth felt like a thousand burning needles,
.from Lake
and the sensation lasted until next day. Scientists say that
the Everiami
Canal depth of water being about eight feet. To say that our
"The river at its mouth is about 100 yards wide, the
wampee juice contains microscopic balls which expel innumerable
tiny needles with great force. Great grief, I
little party was overjoyed would but poorly express it. We
know that's so, and those needles are red hot to boot! Yet
do not go one hundred yards before we hear exclamations
t River was strangely enough, wild hogs used to love the root, and got
from the members of the party in praise of the beautiful
expedition unbelievably Machine picking fat on up it. cane A sawgrass and loading hog into would wagons. eat Man a wampee
walking in
scenery which greets the eye on every side. There is no
enough, and he squeal in pain, rear but picks then up the he'd stalks root missed. up another. Even
perceptible current so far as we can discern. The water is
iver's fork. the jackdaws which used to follow us as we grubbed up
clear as crystal, the banks fringed with a dense tropical
hey weren't sawgrass complete roots,
growth success. would
of trees, Consequently, peck a wampee,
presenting to all
the cane
view is then
a cut gape
solid by imported their
green wall,
bills labor toward impenetrable from the Jamaica, sky while
to the under their
eye. contract tongues
This wall with, cooled
is formed and off.
under the
by vines,
s, "ere the
supervision As
which
the
have
party of
twined the penetrated British
around government. the
the
Everglades
trunks These
and
they
branches men seemed
are
of understandably
the
astir." The also trees,
to have
and
been
have quite oppressed
interlaced proud of by their
and uncanny nationality.
wound themselves
silence.
"I am British
"All each ob-ject. around other I
around
were rowed
until us belong reigns they to a form de death-like queen.
a screen My stillness home
which in unrelieved is Jam-aica,
almost sufficient
!" sound to of shut animal out the life light of any of description. day. Looking The behind croak­
us we
for the last by mon any
iles to come. ing of find a frog, that the we are hoot followed of an owl, by or innumerable the bellow alligators, of an alli­
At home in Jamaica these cane cutters would earn $14 who
more than gator are would swimming be a relief." lazily This along caused in our a wake. "feeling From of all depres­
a week. Here the average for all cane cutters was $57.17. sides we
ith a slight sion we see cannot them plunging avoid."
However, those who in worked the water, full time remain earned under $80. for The a few
of the trees
average
As seconds, they for
progressed, rise the after five month's we the have water season passed in places is and between join became the $1500
somewhat
to
$1640, hind deeper. but us. On We the
crowd and be­
network the do champion not 21st go they two cane
found miles cutter
ponds before earned
in the which $2191, river their begins
for
e approach boats which
to could get he narrow, float was presented
and that we find with
day ourselves they a silver
made in plated a little mile cane stream and knife
a only
ater course half. and a On few a $100 the yards 24th bill. in the width, first the dry sunlight ground completely was discoveredabout
the five branches feet square, of trees and and on the vines, 28th which their have first island, interlocked
shut out by
e machetes,
journey some is and A five year twined acres ago, around in due extent. to each pressure However other from until on certain December a perfect labor roof 3rd unions is the formed
the were ... National After more going numerous Council half of a and mile, Churches, the we water find Secretary we courses are no deeper
of longer Agri­
in
on is reachextending
and culture more a stream, plentiful. Willard but winding Wirtz On that refused around day they to in dark, certify made sluggish fifteen sufficient miles, water, im­the
trees which and ported on roots December labor. and branches Farmers 6th they in of the travelled far trees West forming thirty-five, who had a barrier been for they
using to our
islands a couple then of
Mexicans, further were in were progress Shark nearly ... River, ruined. As we which return Some they even we descended examine transferred more to their its closely
exists, but mouth farming the at vines the operations which Gulf grow of to Mexico. so luxuriantly, The Here ban they and struck find boarded that here they near are
apples. Our schooner the a end species which of the of had gourd, cane come harvest. with to innumerable meet In spite them of for gourds frantic the return hanging and wide to from
ur voyage, civilization. spread them, efforts perfectly The to entire recruit round, trip and domestic from about Lake labor, the size Okeechobee local of negroes a billiard had
refused
The 27 to days vines do and this run their strenuous all over average the work. trees, speed, It and was except on much the for ground the easier day
to form
ball.
tion of the taken white man, in live Shark a on mat relief. River, two or The had three result been feet only was deep." three that our miles mills a day.
couldn't oper-
ate Major at capacity, When
Williams cane
I first
concludes damaged
came to this
his by report frost
lake these
by could stating not be
gourds still
that
cut
were
big and delic
the before Everglades it soured, plentiful in
"are and
the
nothing some cane
custard apple
more was
forest,
nor left less standing
although
than a
they
vast
in the
then
dred firecrac
and fields. useless
were The
less
marsh, Belle
luxuriant
and Glade such
than Co-op they
the estimated
moon
will remain
vine, that a
for this
kind
all had
of
time
cost
morning I decided to
to its come
glory, growers in my
which
estimation." nearly
completely half Good a million
blanketed
golly, dollars. he
the
should
tops However, see
and
them
the this ing
exposed
flanks of the custard apple woods, making cutters of
one in se
now!
past season Secretary Wirtz relented, but for a shadowy
er showed, I
cane
dusk only,
at not
mid for
day.
celery. Consequently our mill has broken few seconds m
And so that was the first trip ever made .from Lake
some world's records, both for a single day's grinding and and the sens
Okeechobee southward through the length of the Ever­
for a week's. After cruising the south shore for. nine days the party wampee juic
glades, yes, and the last one too, until the Miami
arrived, near the southernmost point on the lake,
Canal
at numerable the t
was surveyed Now our some cane thirty growers years are later.
faced with another threat.
largest and longest of all these rivers. This they christen­
Under the terms of the Sugar Act, quotas are established
know that's
But ed let's T-D, take or a Times-Democrat closer look what River. Democrat After traversing River was this
for all domestic sugar producing areas, which include
strangely eno
like in stream those to primeval its end, days. they laid The a scribe course of south this expedition by the compass unbelievably
Florida, Louisiana, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and twenty-four
gives for us a Shark detailed River, account, ninety though miles away curiously by air enough, line. Although he and squeal i
beet sugar states. These areas normally receive about 65 %
never water mentions had those evidently ancient been mounds five feet at over the river's the land fork. not the too jackdaws
of the U. S. market, although last year domestic produc­
Maybe long the before, jungle they growth found was that so it dense now was that a they scant weren't five inches, sawgrass roo
tion supplied only 57 % . Puerto Rico has consistently fail­
even and noticed. under that was fifteen feet, more or less, of soft mud. bills toward
ed to fill its quota, but instead of allocating this and other
deficits "On the So to now 10th mainland they day of are producers, November," compelled it is to he being battle relates, given the "ere to sharp-edged foreign
the As the p
first countries. streaks sawgrass, of Yet which dawn, due to they every better had man believed growing camp to methods, was be only astir." improved
ten The miles also in to have
boats strains extent, were and loaded but good which and weather, for actually a few Florida persisted hundred growers clear yards to have were the increased
headwaters
rowed "All arou
up their of stream. per-acre Shark Then River. production the At oars times until were they there stowed were is away able a surplus to for burn the of last the sugar
sawgrass,
"for hand. poles but But will usually instead have the to of be way reducing used must for be imports many hacked miles from with to come. foreign
machetes. ing of a frog
by any sound
time on The nations, river For many has the narrowed Florida days they and down were Louisiana to compelled a stream cane to growers not push more and (but than lift not
their gator would
five Hawaii or boats six nor every feet the in foot depth, beet of growers) the dark, way, sluggish often are being making and with penalized.
only a a slight few hundred
yards current in a running day. On north. November The boughs 17th, a of week the after trees leav­As they p
sion we cann
perceptible
Since 1964, the last year of unrestricted planting, the
lap over ing the water, lake, a the tall vines cypress form at a Democrat perfect network River was to what still deeper.
bar
Florida our visible progress,
growers to the and
had naked to all
to eye. appearances
reduce acreage when
by we
16 approach
% in 1967,
boats could
these by 5
barriers % in 1968,
it seems and a
as further
if the cut
end of
of 22.5
the %
water is threatened
course half. On the
has for
been 1969, Constantly
reached, which
but means they
with
were that a few
plagued an strokes original by
of
innumerable planting the machetes,
of snakes,
100
about five fe
axes acres and
though would hatchets
fortunately, be reduced our way
nobody to is only cleared,
was 62.
and
bitten.
our journey
But they
is
were
some five ac
resumed
tortured by mosquitoes, leeches and poisonous wampee
Transferring for a few yards Puerto until Rico's the next deficit obstruction to foreign is reach­
nations,
islands were
ed,
plants "which produce a terrible burning sensation. Its
while sometimes cutting a sunken back on log, domestic the roots acreage of trees would extending
result in
and more ple
across
appearance is similar to the water lily, the leaf being from
more the money whole being channel, spent or in the foreign branches countries, of trees while which
less
and on Dece
reach
six to twelve inches across, the root running to a depth
would the be surface collected of the in taxes water. here. We have It would gone result a couple also, of
in
then were in
miles
of six inches, and resembles a shallot in appearance. We
further when migration we discover of that farm the labor river to no the longer cities, exists, but but
worst
mouth at th
has
had the curiosity to taste it. We shall do so no more!"
of lost all, itself many in farmers the dense who swamp have of invested custard heavily apples. in Our
land
schooner whi
compass and machinery Yes, is now, I know and as will well blamed be as until in well the the they sugar end didn't! of mills, our That would voyage, wampee
un­
civilization.
our doubtedly only was guide. a face hellish We ruin, are plant, and now in nobody penetrating all probability would a ever portion some taste mills, of it the
both
twice! taken 27 day
state in Indian which Louisiana has turnip and never it's here, been called would done up before north. forced by It's any to tuber close.
white looks man, like in a Shark Riv