. A history of the United States. era, which were thescourges of the old South. Florida, since 1906, has beendraining the Everglades. When this work is finished an areathree times as large as Connecticut will be opened to settle-ment for small fruit and truck farms. One writer has esti-mated that if the swamps along the Atlantic coast from NewJersey to Florida were drained, Hke similar lowlands in Hol-land, 10,000,000 people might find homes on them. It is in 48o THE NEW SOUTH such places that the United States must find part of its futureland for settlement. The Key West Railroad. — Since the
. A history of the United States. era, which were thescourges of the old South. Florida, since 1906, has beendraining the Everglades. When this work is finished an areathree times as large as Connecticut will be opened to settle-ment for small fruit and truck farms. One writer has esti-mated that if the swamps along the Atlantic coast from NewJersey to Florida were drained, Hke similar lowlands in Hol-land, 10,000,000 people might find homes on them. It is in 48o THE NEW SOUTH such places that the United States must find part of its futureland for settlement. The Key West Railroad. — Since the Civil War the Southhas also been building many new railroads. The FloridaEast Coast railroad has recently finished a line from Miamito Key West. To do this, it was necessary to bridge the seafrom islet to islet with great stone arches. The new railroad,155 miles long, carries trains to within 90 miles of Havana. How this Change affects the People. — The change in thework of the South since 1876 is much like that in the North. The First Train over the Key West Railroad after the War of 1812. The negroes and the poorer whitefarmers no longer make their sugar, candles, and soap, andspin and weave and dye their own clothing, as they often didfor some years after the Civil War. The negroes are not nowthe skilled laborers — the carpenters, the masons, and theblacksmiths of the South, as in the days of the great slaveplantations. The white men from the hill country of theAppalachians are taking over these trades. They are alsogoing into the factories and shops. The old class of poorwhite people is fast disappearing. Varied work and freedomfrom competition with slaves have given them the opportunitythey needed. Their little cabins are giving way to three-roomor four-room houses. Their sons no longermove westward asthey did in Lincolns boyhood, but they find the promised EDUCATION AND PROGRESS 481 land about them in the mines, the forest, the factories, andthe new farms. Captains
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