New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-12-09
THE PEOPLE OF LOUISIANA,
Address of the Louisiana immigration ana
Homestead Company.

Address of the Louisiana immigration and
Homestead Company.
We publish this morning tor the infOrma-
ton of our readers the subjoined address.
The president of the company is Colonel j.
B. Price; the vice president, General Beau
regard The objects are not political, but
solely to induce the occupation and cultiVa
ton Of small farms in Louisiana:
Every consideration of personal interest
and State pride conspir6 a. lis moment in
our history to call forth the best ener-
gies and the -purest patriotism Of Loulsi
ana'B sons. 1t is, therefore, from motives
springing out of these considerations that
planters, merchants, bankers, capitalists
and other business men in our city and
State have embarked in the great enterprise
known as the Louisiana immigration and
Homestead Company; and it is, further
more, for these reasons that you are in
vited to cooperate with them in
their Iabors to regenerate the State
through the revival OF her industries
and the settlement Of her waste lands.
The objects and purposes Of this corpora
ton relate especially 10 the introduction
into the State OF good class of immi-
grants, whose presence Will solve the
difficult problem of labor, and through
whose accession of industry and capital the
mineral and agricultural resources Of our
land will be developed and utilized. Con
sp1cuous among the attractions by which it
Is hoped to secure the influx Of immigrants,
is provision by which they may acquire,
at a small cost and no trouble, hOmesteads
of their own. This provision also extends
its broad invitation to such Of our own
people as have been destituted of their
means, and vet who may desire to enjoy the
advantages of the COmpanY's prOfered aid.
When it is remembered that, superadded
to the extent and fertility Of our agricultu-
raj lands the State in every region abOunds
with an undeyeloped mineral wealth-that
Ignite, and mari, and gypsum, and lime
stone, and potter's clay, and sandstone, and
salt, and soda, and sulphur, and petroleum,
and Illuminating gases, are everywhere IN
deriving the surface OF our State, bOuntI-
fully slowed away in their primitive strata
and caverns, and that their virgin abodes
have as vet been scarcely invaded by the
enterprise of man, no surprise Will be teit
in the organized effort that Is now at
tempted to unfold and utilize the varied
resources with which our country has been
so prodigally supplied.
When it is further considered that more
than ten months of farming weather are
annually eniOyed in Louisiana, against less
than five months in the latitude OF New
York or Wisconsin; that during TINS PERIOD
the farmer may pr0ftably engage IN almost
every variety OF tropical culture; that
Louisiana, with her 10000 miles of river,
lake and bayou navigation, enjoys natural
facilities for travel and transportation IN
euuaIed by any other State in the Union,
and that, as accessory to these. three i'm
portant lines of railroad are already in
operation and two others are in rapid pro-
cess of construction. When these circum-
stances are considered, it is rather sub
iect of surprise that such corporation as
the one now considered had not long since
leaped into life.
It is therefore with measure of State
pride, not altogether disconnected from the
honorable association with which their
names will be linked to the enterprise for
State regeneration, that the incorporators
and stockholders of this company have Or
ganized, and now present a plan under
which the moral, commercial agricultural
and industrial interests of Louisiana may
receive a new aud strong impetus in the
race of regeneration and reform.