New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-05-24
rhe Enylroa. of New orleans.
NuMBER sIxTY-THREE.

ING opening Of hhsheln street, in the Third Dis
trict, through the cypress forest to the Gentfll
settlement. This So very necessary road had bee
deereed, if we are not mistaken, since a humble
OF years, but still the people in that section of on
city are waiting for this promised Improvement
what the real impeachment may be it is not possibl
LOT us to divine; true, some have proposed &
carry out this plan of opening a short route to TIA
above mentioned region by prolongiag the com
menced shellroad of Louisa street. further down il
the Third District towards the often mentioned
Touro aims institute, now lying nits glorious ruins
But should it be the choice between these tw,
different routes that causes the delay, we pray ou
city council to come to some speedy conclusion
| for we can assure them that the opening of thu
road is indeed of the utmost Importance TO tina
section of our city. So, also, we would urge tn,
extension Of that system of drainage by eanalins
in the lower districts our authorities have carried
out this beneficial Improvement in the two uppe,
districts, the first and fourth, whereby a consid
| cradle extent of marsh land after couple O
years, will be rendered fit for cultivation The
Third District has not received in this respect its
proper share of attention; we hope, however
that now redoubled efforts will be made to ACCORD
| to this so long neglected quarter proportionate
allowance of public sympathy and public materia
aid in order IA carry ont +bs loooI
of which it stands in need
No pert of our city surroundings would be 90
much benefited by this extension of tbe drainino
system as the Third District and in No orartar can
this process be carried on with greater facility
greater ease and with the mnst sDIan7id s,ooass
We have already. in a former nurnbar 1,ointsd M
what should be the plan in this resnact With 70.
gard TO the great water facilities wbicb The orar
ing of the nayigable Bavou BienvenD v,onI5 ffnrd
or by the lake communication mt lsayir,.
this consideration for the moment LEFT ne onIv n s
into view how easy it would be, by a proper sys.
tenn Of draining canals to render cultiyable ali
that vast area of now inundated land, between the
high ridge of the Bayou Savage ana the Mexican
railroad tract. All these lands could be easily ra.
claimed by conducting the now starnant maseas of
rain water into the natural drain of that section
to-wit: the Bayou Bienvenu. But for the want of
these draining channels, we now behold Tho ortiro
surface of these lands covered nv from one IA +,,o
feet of water, which can find no ontlet anil r,r,t
wait the long process of evaporation nv the cum.
mer's sun, to render this section drv and naseaha
which happens to be the case in midsummer lone
after the time is gone for PLANTING or MAXIM
any use for arabic purposes of anv of +boso
neglected lands.
A ride in the cars Of the Pontcbartrain road com
pany, will at once confirm our statement. those
lands are not inundated by means ~ tbo riuo.
overflow or erevasses it is the winter rains which
accumulate upon these even or level forest orornds
and cover them with the entire sheets of vater
which are seen from one extreme of the woods n
the other Now, if the area TINS inundated r,os
properly traversed by draining canals. and fms
by central system, SO as IL carry off
the water into the Bayou Bienyenn there vo,,ld
then be seen the same glorious spectacle which
we behold in the upper districts of farn,ing os
arising upon the reclaimed forn,erl,,
inundated lands. Fer this purnosa q sinolo &c.,,
engine would be sufficient placed or stationod a.
! convenient central position, for the whole dis
riot to be reclaimed; it might also be necessary
o clear out somewhat the Bayou Bienyenr hnt
his would be comparatively an easy task when
We reflect that we have known, since orr arrival
hat is now nearly fifty years ago. the grassy
'lains around and behind the Mexican GnIf roii.
way track in almost precisely the same condition
p at present, it is in no other wav that we con
ccount for this immobility, this utter stapnatfon
With respect to the rural improvements in tbfs
ection than the want Of draining canals Al II. 4
eady indicated. All the lower suburban districts
rom Faubourg Marigny down to the tobacco
or even the sugar refinery .rvbara q
eeming paralysis has arrested the whole ponnIa.
on, as by an enchanted wand were. in 78IF al
eady divided and laid out intown Mats and straats
here was the Daunoy district the Montegnt The
eelouet, the Montreuil suburbs, where. as i1yen-
es, we would visit our new-made friends tbo II
arms, the Jordas the Dueros, and often s6end s
e evening in their pleasant country seats M /
though these former farming houses had hen {
ng been cut up into squares and town lots =
has been the greatest uphill work to get there c
g proper industrious population which has been
owding into the upper districts even as It we're
suftocation. We say, then again, the only cause v
our estimation, for not receiving a proportiona+e
are Of the great mass of overlooking population h
been the want of proper drainage for the hack IA
Elements. This appears so much stronger when
come to examine who are indeed, the only
ok settlers that have alone been able to make p
ere living. It is certain class of German in. p
bltants who, in common parIance, are called d
swamp choppers-that is to say, people that
We made it a business to cut down The forest
res upon what they suppose the public or va. 81
nt lands, and who, in fact, are actually tres W
ssers upon private property. However, there &c
ing no way of establishing any farms or gardens
these inundated forest lands, we cannot ii
me these people for trying to make "
hylng in that quarter; they, them NJ
YES N their little houses and garden y,
'ches are the greater part OF the year like the on