The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-10-01

ain proof house. and put up their cooking
tove, and they cooked supper on the s'o'' W
AT once they proceeded TO build rough oa6ins' |
weAther boarded aud covered with split In%SvSsL
20 aocomnodate families md TO es .;,S a.
hOnssts.d claims. They also rs sp ssxrc labor,
but l6spendea upon themselves. They aM
Ssie ~ virsinis .rssees q: BE-, sue s.a n several
Chi.es." ~ short sime they n.@ na;vs the
In brief period they had . sawmill up and
10 operation savpG plank: and tMsixs thou
sa6d doliars. II saws six Thousand dseo ,;os
humber daily. And they have plenty o, rpp ;;sS
trees on che 6anks Of the Cannes 10 ,",. LII
want. Seme of thsss pines are more % '1 the
three feet in diameter and forty feet 10 .S Snr
frat limb. There are large oaks ana 1 In",
Der the colony will want in fifty years can aS 0e
furnished at less than twenty dollars '"'N
sand.
magic in Faquetyke prairie, aud new t tSa.s
grants are constantly arriving to people .nSse
houses. They now have twenty live families families
settled In ahis prairie, and VIII WI. nave '"'
They are now looking for Immigrants ison
Alsace, Lorraine and Bavaria, IN n snip wx.S W..
| sailed from Europe nearly month avg. 10 40
Of these oolonists which have settled ana sre
| settling on this prairie were originally iron
the places just mentioned. They expect
large Immigration from Alsace and Lorraine IN
| the next two or three years, and that the wn0ie
| of Prairie Mamon, and other portions OF 81.
! Landry, will be filled with these people, VINO
| are the most honest and industrious peasantry
| of Europe. Letters now constantly pass
iny between these new settlers and their
friends in Europe, which will do n vast deal
more good than all the immigrant bureaus
| ever established in Louisiana, with us State
| appropriation of $40 900.
Mr.. John Fabacher has built new house OF
eight or ten rooms in the middle OF the prairie,
and has a new stable hundred by .nirty-'wo
feet twenty stalls for mules and horses. an
apartment for cows and oxen, and a ioie large
enough for fifty tons of hay. He has now
ing machine and horse rake.
He has drove well, and another well, with
excellent water, and has fenced in field OF
two hundred and forty acres with pianks ana
white-oak posts sawed at the mill: Inc renee
is we'll put up, the gates completely made and
iii good condition, and all that has been done
. has been we'll done.
other families are completing their houses
hosings, Or doing something useful for them;
selves or for the colony. =.
Yesterday evening we rode over to Mr. hu
ber's mile from Mr.. Fabachers. He has JUS
|, completed q now house, we'll. garden, etc.
I where grass grew undisturbed few month";
. ago. And these Improvements are all con
ysnsnt: They would Pass 'G5 aS V0 Country
q Mr.. Huber accompanied us to the sawmi!i
J.. not q mile distant from his house. Here in tn
skin
q full men now run the steam engine ana circala
. saw and grind corn weekly for the neighboI
y hood. The sawsiill and cornmiii, t6e mug
u pine and oak logs, the piles of sawed !umDe
y lust from the mill, the diningroom for tn
d workmen, the -sleeping-rooms, the store-roo,
>, for provisions, the female German COOKS, a
l. look like business, and women, men and boy
p look as though they meant business
X They haul their largest logs on timber whee
= when the ground is hard, and on slides wit IT
\ runners foot or more IN width wheu u
~ ground is wet and soft.
CHURCHES AND SCHOOLS.
o. The people of this colony are prncipai
q. Catholics. They worship ut present at u
~ dwelling house of MI Fabacher, where the
ne fitted M a room with such conveniences as a
u. most important in the Catholic mode OF wo
70 shin. They will build q church at an ear
ct period. They are liberal Catholics, and on
a. desire the privilege of "worshping God md
he thar own vine and fig tree with none to IN
n lest or make them afraid"
q public meeting has been called to tai
y. measures at once to build a school house al
III start a school. They have in the neighborhoo
Do including some of the creole families, mo
a than sixty children old enough to go to scho
I'm of scholars will be considerably increase
DO They expect to have good schooihonse a
er good teacher and q prosperous school IN opel
,h. ton in less than two months.
w. 1t ia the intention of these cOonists to fiji
" make their home supplies of corn, potato
,n- beans, peas, rice, sugar, cotton, veSetaoi
fruit pOrk, b6ef, milk, OutteT, cueesc, eCe''
of raise mich cows, horses, sheep, mules, ox'
gh domestic fowls and all else which aai they
ne. they can most profitably raise to sell, as
the revenue for the colony They Will afpena
"s, And they are the most hopeful, cheerful, re
rec rec Int and self-reliant people we have seen
lir- Many people say that these Germans hs
nj selected o soil of very inferior quality, q
ted that they ought to have settled on ric
lands.
of with all duo respect to the opinions OF
fad old inhabitants, who have an utter conten
S". for poor lands, we beg leave TO remark, t
III. ~ these people have settled on - prairie ab
ra,s six miles square, nearly surrounded WITH
and ME supplies of the best Of building and fenc
reat timber and sugar wood, the average widtl
the timber being about mi e and a halt. ~
are enabled to settle on homesteads which {
them not more than ten or fifteen cents
acre. They are able TO settle all in a be
and to unite in establishing and keeping
schools, churches, and social customs of Il
own liking. They can protect themse
nco- against bad neighbors, COW thieves, etc. III
Col. Know what constitutes poor soil, and kl