14 Gallery Banks of the North-West Atlantic During the 1904 gubernatorial race the strongest candidate Napoleon Bonaparte Broward promoted draining the Everglades He called the future of South Florida the "Empire of the Everglades" Soon after his successful election he began work to "drain that abominable pestilence-ridden swamp" and pushed the Florida legislature to form a group of commissioners to oversee reclamation of flooded lands in 1907 they established the Everglades Drainage District and began to study how to build the most effective canals and how to fund them Governor Broward ran for the U.S Senate in 1908 but lost Broward was paid by land developer Richard J Bolles to tour the state to promote drainage Elected to the Senate in 1910 Broward died before he could take office Land in the Everglades was being sold for $15 an acre a month after Broward died Meanwhile Henry Flagler continued to build railway stations at towns as soon as the populations warranted them. Cypress swamps can be found throughout the Everglades but the largest covers most of Collier County the Big Cypress Swamp is located to the west of the sawgrass prairies and sloughs and it is commonly called "The Big Cypress." the name refers to its area rather than the height or diameter of the trees; at its most conservative estimate the swamp measures 1,200 square miles (3,100 km2) but the hydrologic boundary of the Big Cypress can be calculated at over 2,400 square miles (6,200 km2) Most of the Big Cypress sits atop a bedrock covered by a thinner layer of limestone the limestone underneath the Big Cypress contains quartz which creates sandy soil that hosts a variety of vegetation different from what is found in other areas of the Everglades the basin for the Big Cypress receives on average 55 inches (140 cm) of water in the wet season, 14 Sister states 1990s Law 101, To conduct business overseas multinational companies need to bridge separate national markets into one global marketplace There are two macro-scale factors that underline the trend of greater globalization the first consists of eliminating barriers to make cross-border trade easier (e.g free flow of goods and services and capital referred to as "free trade") the second is technological change particularly developments in communication information processing and transportation technologies. . Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts Downtown Miami. Miami-Dade is the only county in Florida that does not have an elected sheriff or a "Sheriff's Office".[citation needed] Instead the county's law enforcement agency is known as the Miami-Dade Police Department and its leader is known as the Metropolitan Sheriff and Director of the Miami-Dade Police Department (Nonetheless Miami-Dade Police badges bear the inscription "Deputy Sheriff Sheriff's Office Dade County Fla.".), Industry Establishing a Spanish garrison of 200 men further up the coast he sailed to what is today the Georgia coast making contact with the local Indians of St Catherines Island before returning to Florida where he expanded Spanish power throughout southeastern Florida in 1567 he marched south encountering the Ais (Jece) as he reached the Indian River near present-day Vero Beach.
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