Causeway, the new causeway spoken of above, is the Raymond Concrete Pile Company of New York, and this same Company get the contract for the building of the reinforced conerete bulkheading which cone stitute the framework of the new lands. Tt. i estimated that 30 million' cubic yards of sand. must bbe dredged from the bottom of the bay to form the islands, but this dredging will be of great benefit inasmuch as it will "deepen the channel of the upper bay and make it navigable for yachts and other boats, now unable to tse it on ae count of the shallowness "of the water. Ten bridges will connect: the islands, end a mile and a halt of conerer"' viaduct.
The directors of the North Venetian Company who have carried out thave stupendous works with must admit), comparatively little publicity, are Hugh M. Anderson, President; Robert H. Gamble, vi ident; F.C. B, LeGvo and R.
Onee'Ameriea starts making axt. ficial islands, there ix no knowing where she will stop. The Florida boom has already struck that extraordinary series of islands known as the Florida Keys, and several of those keys are now being exploited Miami has been exploited, 'The Florida Keys are, ax the reader is already, aware, a' remarkable chain of coral and sandy islets which extend over 200 miles in a south-west direction, terminating in the Tortugas, and traversed as far as Key West by an extension of the Florida East Coast Railway. T recently crossed this railway in daylight, from Key West; and I must say that to ins it seemed one of the most extraordinary railways in the world, For scores of miles one seems to be running by train along. the surface of the sea, for no land at all is visible unless one sticks one's head out of the window and Tooks down at the conerete causeway built in the st tallow water. The keys oF islands are very picturesque, being covered with palm trees, mangrove swamps, and tropical vegetation ut most of them. seem, to ma uninhabitable, being, too small. and
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