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Ingraham Expedition: April 10, Sunday

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Encoded texts are derived from three typescript accounts of the 1892 Everglades Exploration Expedition found in the James E. Ingraham Papers and the Chase Collection in the Special and Area Studies Collections Department of the University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries. Digital reproductions of the typescripts are available at:

Moses, W.R., Record of the Everglade Exploration Expedition

Ingraham, J.E., Diary

Church, A., A Dash Through the Everglades

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2015

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View Page Image Fort Dallas, Miami, Sunday, April 10th. View Page Image April 10th. Sunday. [Sunday, April 10, 1892]
Fort Dallas, Miami, Sunday, April 10th.

Mrs. Tuttle took Messrs. Ingraham, Chase, and Moses in a two seated buckboard 5 or 6 miles north from her place calling at several places on the way. Mr. Michael Axers was the first place visited about 1 1/2 miles distant. He has a good many fruit trees the finest of which were the sappadilloes in very full bearing. Alligator Pears and Mango trees were very thrifty the latter in full bloom. He had limes and lemons and oranges, all in bearing but looking anything but healthy. They appeared to have the "Die Back", Mr. Axer said it was drought and the rock in the soil. He showed some trees that he had watered regularly that looked much better. He also exhibited a tree that had been watered regularly which looked as bad as any, so it was difficult to determine what the trouble was with the trees of the citrus family.

Mr. Axer manufactures compte of which he says a barrel of roots will make about 15 lbs. of starch for which he gets 5 cents a pound in Key West. He uses the water in which the roots are soaked from 24 to 48 hours and called red water and the waste with which to fertilize his trees. He has a shallow ditch running among the trees into which he pours the red water. His place was on pine Land. A good deal of rock was visible on the surface, but generally speaking, in today's ride we found less rock than at Cocoanut Grove.

The next place visited was that of Mr. Sam Filer of Key West, who has 10 acres cleared under fence and a small house occupied by a negro family who take care of the place. Mr. Filer has been here all winter and recently returned to Key West. The clearing of his grove was all done by hand, cultivating is done with a hoe. Plowing cannot be done on account of the rock. This is the case with most of the land immediately on the Bay. Mr. Filer's 10 acres were set out in grove form with Villa Francha, Belair Premium and Sicily lemons, limes, alligator pears, sappadilloes and mangoes. Lemons, however, occupied the most of the ground. They had been set 18 months and looked very fair. Showed the lack of rain, but no disease or insect was seen.

Called on Capt. John Smith who has a place about 1 1/2 miles south of Lemon City. By the road Lemon City is 6 miles north of Miami. He had recently sold 5 or 6 acres of his land at $50. an acre. The place he was living on he had recently bought at the same price and was directly on the bay, while the other was back. We made no comments on the prices but they seem very high when the sparseness of the population and abundance of the land is considered.

We next visited the so-called Wood hammock, said to be about 40 acres nearly equally divided in two by Little River. We met Mr. William Freeman who resides near who guided us by a trail into the hammock. We found lemon and lime trees growing wild therein also many unfamiliar trees and shrubs and some that we had learned to recognize, such as the gum alimbo, mastic, rubber or wild fig, mulberry, bay, etc. The hammock was somewhat low in spots, showing a growth of ferns, but seemed to be above the river some feet for the most part. The river was said to be 10 feet deep at this point. The color of the soil is a seal brown and vegetation very rank. This description will apply to most of the hammocks seen except that this was very free from rock and soil quite deep. Adjoining this hammock is a piece of prairie of large extent on which was a vegetable garden and considering the dryness of the season it looked well. The tomatoes were fine flavored. The cabbages were also good. This prairie in the neighborhood of the river seemed to be as high as the hammock above water and free from saw palmetto. It is on the edge of the Everglades. We were shown compte growing in the pine woods among the saw palmetto and grass. The leaves look similar to a small fern in a cluster of four or five leaves and the height rarely exceeded 12 inches. It bears a pine apple shaped seed pod of a rich red brown velvety appearance of two or three inches diameter, and four or five inches long. April 10th. Sunday. Mrs. Tuttle took Chase, Moses and self out driving. Stopped at Axers. Magnificent sappadillo trees, mango and maumee apples. Limes grow wild. Wild lemons in profusion on hammock land, limbs and truck clean seem to thrive in the rock. Oranges "die back" and tree poor, though some few trees. Compte root is the business here.

Went to Lemon City, also to Wood's Hammock on Little River. Found fine thin skin wild lemons growing, also custard apple, cork wood, etc. Land is stronger. Pine land north of Miami River, blue palmetto, and much better than south.

Think lemons will do well if budded in native stock. Went to Sam Filer's grove, two year old lemons, Belair and Villa Franca doing well. Dig holes 3x3 and take out rock.

Fine prairie gardens; fine tomatoes, potatoes, oats, etc. Compte mill here too. Freeman says very healthy country. [There is no entry for this date. Last date in this text is April 7, 1892.]
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View Page Image Fort Dallas, Miami, Sunday, April 10th. View Page Image April 10th. Sunday. [Sunday, April 10, 1892]
Fort Dallas, Miami, Sunday, April 10th.

Mrs. Tuttle took Messrs. Ingraham, Chase, and Moses in a two seated buckboard 5 or 6 miles north from her place calling at several places on the way. Mr. Michael Axers was the first place visited about 1 1/2 miles distant. He has a good many fruit trees the finest of which were the sappadilloes in very full bearing. Alligator Pears and Mango trees were very thrifty the latter in full bloom. He had limes and lemons and oranges, all in bearing but looking anything but healthy. They appeared to have the "Die Back", Mr. Axer said it was drought and the rock in the soil. He showed some trees that he had watered regularly that looked much better. He also exhibited a tree that had been watered regularly which looked as bad as any, so it was difficult to determine what the trouble was with the trees of the citrus family.

Mr. Axer manufactures compte of which he says a barrel of roots will make about 15 lbs. of starch for which he gets 5 cents a pound in Key West. He uses the water in which the roots are soaked from 24 to 48 hours and called red water and the waste with which to fertilize his trees. He has a shallow ditch running among the trees into which he pours the red water. His place was on pine Land. A good deal of rock was visible on the surface, but generally speaking, in today's ride we found less rock than at Cocoanut Grove.

The next place visited was that of Mr. Sam Filer of Key West, who has 10 acres cleared under fence and a small house occupied by a negro family who take care of the place. Mr. Filer has been here all winter and recently returned to Key West. The clearing of his grove was all done by hand, cultivating is done with a hoe. Plowing cannot be done on account of the rock. This is the case with most of the land immediately on the Bay. Mr. Filer's 10 acres were set out in grove form with Villa Francha, Belair Premium and Sicily lemons, limes, alligator pears, sappadilloes and mangoes. Lemons, however, occupied the most of the ground. They had been set 18 months and looked very fair. Showed the lack of rain, but no disease or insect was seen.

Called on Capt. John Smith who has a place about 1 1/2 miles south of Lemon City. By the road Lemon City is 6 miles north of Miami. He had recently sold 5 or 6 acres of his land at $50. an acre. The place he was living on he had recently bought at the same price and was directly on the bay, while the other was back. We made no comments on the prices but they seem very high when the sparseness of the population and abundance of the land is considered.

We next visited the so-called Wood hammock, said to be about 40 acres nearly equally divided in two by Little River. We met Mr. William Freeman who resides near who guided us by a trail into the hammock. We found lemon and lime trees growing wild therein also many unfamiliar trees and shrubs and some that we had learned to recognize, such as the gum alimbo, mastic, rubber or wild fig, mulberry, bay, etc. The hammock was somewhat low in spots, showing a growth of ferns, but seemed to be above the river some feet for the most part. The river was said to be 10 feet deep at this point. The color of the soil is a seal brown and vegetation very rank. This description will apply to most of the hammocks seen except that this was very free from rock and soil quite deep. Adjoining this hammock is a piece of prairie of large extent on which was a vegetable garden and considering the dryness of the season it looked well. The tomatoes were fine flavored. The cabbages were also good. This prairie in the neighborhood of the river seemed to be as high as the hammock above water and free from saw palmetto. It is on the edge of the Everglades. We were shown compte growing in the pine woods among the saw palmetto and grass. The leaves look similar to a small fern in a cluster of four or five leaves and the height rarely exceeded 12 inches. It bears a pine apple shaped seed pod of a rich red brown velvety appearance of two or three inches diameter, and four or five inches long. April 10th. Sunday. Mrs. Tuttle took Chase, Moses and self out driving. Stopped at Axers. Magnificent sappadillo trees, mango and maumee apples. Limes grow wild. Wild lemons in profusion on hammock land, limbs and truck clean seem to thrive in the rock. Oranges "die back" and tree poor, though some few trees. Compte root is the business here.

Went to Lemon City, also to Wood's Hammock on Little River. Found fine thin skin wild lemons growing, also custard apple, cork wood, etc. Land is stronger. Pine land north of Miami River, blue palmetto, and much better than south.

Think lemons will do well if budded in native stock. Went to Sam Filer's grove, two year old lemons, Belair and Villa Franca doing well. Dig holes 3x3 and take out rock.

Fine prairie gardens; fine tomatoes, potatoes, oats, etc. Compte mill here too. Freeman says very healthy country. [There is no entry for this date. Last date in this text is April 7, 1892.]
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View Page Image Fort Dallas, Miami, Sunday, April 10th. View Page Image April 10th. Sunday. [Sunday, April 10, 1892]
Fort Dallas, Miami, Sunday, April 10th.

Mrs. Tuttle took Messrs. Ingraham, Chase, and Moses in a two seated buckboard 5 or 6 miles north from her place calling at several places on the way. Mr. Michael Axers was the first place visited about 1 1/2 miles distant. He has a good many fruit trees the finest of which were the sappadilloes in very full bearing. Alligator Pears and Mango trees were very thrifty the latter in full bloom. He had limes and lemons and oranges, all in bearing but looking anything but healthy. They appeared to have the "Die Back", Mr. Axer said it was drought and the rock in the soil. He showed some trees that he had watered regularly that looked much better. He also exhibited a tree that had been watered regularly which looked as bad as any, so it was difficult to determine what the trouble was with the trees of the citrus family.

Mr. Axer manufactures compte of which he says a barrel of roots will make about 15 lbs. of starch for which he gets 5 cents a pound in Key West. He uses the water in which the roots are soaked from 24 to 48 hours and called red water and the waste with which to fertilize his trees. He has a shallow ditch running among the trees into which he pours the red water. His place was on pine Land. A good deal of rock was visible on the surface, but generally speaking, in today's ride we found less rock than at Cocoanut Grove.

The next place visited was that of Mr. Sam Filer of Key West, who has 10 acres cleared under fence and a small house occupied by a negro family who take care of the place. Mr. Filer has been here all winter and recently returned to Key West. The clearing of his grove was all done by hand, cultivating is done with a hoe. Plowing cannot be done on account of the rock. This is the case with most of the land immediately on the Bay. Mr. Filer's 10 acres were set out in grove form with Villa Francha, Belair Premium and Sicily lemons, limes, alligator pears, sappadilloes and mangoes. Lemons, however, occupied the most of the ground. They had been set 18 months and looked very fair. Showed the lack of rain, but no disease or insect was seen.

Called on Capt. John Smith who has a place about 1 1/2 miles south of Lemon City. By the road Lemon City is 6 miles north of Miami. He had recently sold 5 or 6 acres of his land at $50. an acre. The place he was living on he had recently bought at the same price and was directly on the bay, while the other was back. We made no comments on the prices but they seem very high when the sparseness of the population and abundance of the land is considered.

We next visited the so-called Wood hammock, said to be about 40 acres nearly equally divided in two by Little River. We met Mr. William Freeman who resides near who guided us by a trail into the hammock. We found lemon and lime trees growing wild therein also many unfamiliar trees and shrubs and some that we had learned to recognize, such as the gum alimbo, mastic, rubber or wild fig, mulberry, bay, etc. The hammock was somewhat low in spots, showing a growth of ferns, but seemed to be above the river some feet for the most part. The river was said to be 10 feet deep at this point. The color of the soil is a seal brown and vegetation very rank. This description will apply to most of the hammocks seen except that this was very free from rock and soil quite deep. Adjoining this hammock is a piece of prairie of large extent on which was a vegetable garden and considering the dryness of the season it looked well. The tomatoes were fine flavored. The cabbages were also good. This prairie in the neighborhood of the river seemed to be as high as the hammock above water and free from saw palmetto. It is on the edge of the Everglades. We were shown compte growing in the pine woods among the saw palmetto and grass. The leaves look similar to a small fern in a cluster of four or five leaves and the height rarely exceeded 12 inches. It bears a pine apple shaped seed pod of a rich red brown velvety appearance of two or three inches diameter, and four or five inches long. April 10th. Sunday. Mrs. Tuttle took Chase, Moses and self out driving. Stopped at Axers. Magnificent sappadillo trees, mango and maumee apples. Limes grow wild. Wild lemons in profusion on hammock land, limbs and truck clean seem to thrive in the rock. Oranges "die back" and tree poor, though some few trees. Compte root is the business here.

Went to Lemon City, also to Wood's Hammock on Little River. Found fine thin skin wild lemons growing, also custard apple, cork wood, etc. Land is stronger. Pine land north of Miami River, blue palmetto, and much better than south.

Think lemons will do well if budded in native stock. Went to Sam Filer's grove, two year old lemons, Belair and Villa Franca doing well. Dig holes 3x3 and take out rock.

Fine prairie gardens; fine tomatoes, potatoes, oats, etc. Compte mill here too. Freeman says very healthy country. [There is no entry for this date. Last date in this text is April 7, 1892.]