of Glades County, which was created by legislative enactment in 1921. The census of 1925, enumerated under authority of the State, gave the population of the county as 2,467, and that of Moore Haven as 705. The Everglades News, published at Canal Point, states that about 1200 persons lived at Moore Haven. A considerable community of negroes lived outside the limits and consequently was not included in the census of the town.
Warning of the hurricane was posted in the Moore Haven post office Friday, September 17, but no signal was hoisted and there were many who had no knowledge of it. At least nobody left the town, and it is assumed that such a warning, if it had been generally known, would have created consternation, because the town had been flooded several times, and it was well known that its situation was precarious because of the danger that threatened it in event of overflow.
Lake Okeechobee is about 37 miles long at its greatest length and about 35 miles wide at its greatest width. It covers an area of some 450,000 acres. In 1913 a survey of the lake was made by Isham Randolph, a noted engineer of Chicago, who had been employed by the Florida Board of Drainage Commissioners to investigate conditions in the Everglades and recommend a comprehensive plan for draining that region. Randolph reported, as others had before him, that the lowering of the lake was the key to the situation, and went into an exhaustive study of the subject in which he calculated the effect of wind upon its waters. He also pointed out other factors that should be
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AFTER THE FLOOD AT MOORE HAVEN HAD PARTIALLY RECEDED.
