The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1876-07-22
Drainage.
BY UNCLE SILAS

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TINEL it was shown that there Is
barely "a possibility OF Il tax ever
being levied to meet the payment
of the bonds proposed to be issued
by the Town Council for the pur-
chase of 100 shares of stock in
the T'hibodaur d Te,rebonne Drain
age and Navigation Company.
These bonds will probably pro
cure sufficient funds to enable the
Directors to pay the Incidental
expenses necessary to organise
and incorporate the company and
purchase or build a suitable
dredge boat to undertake the
task of dredging the Canal and
the Bayou Terrebonne. The next
question for consideration will be
GLOW are the means to be raised
to run the dredge boat when once
ready for operation J" For this
purpose money will be required,
and there is no other visible re-
source apparent than is to be
found in the purses of those who
are interested in the early consnm
nations of SO desirable an under
taking. Who are interested !?
Every man who owns one foot OF
land drained by the Bayou Terre
bonnie, or who resides upon either
bank of said streams deeply and
personally interested. The future
welfare of every landed prOprie
tor is involved in the success of
this company to an amount of fifty
to one hundred per cent on the
present value of his estate, aud
in its ultimate value to a much
larger per centage.
From the corporate limits of the
town of Thibodaux to the Terre
bonnie station of Morgan's Louisi
ana & Texas Railroad, on the
eastern shore of Bayou Terre
bonnie fully one half of the arabic
land, cultivated in 1860, is now
abandoned to the dominion of.the
bullfrog and the alligator, whilst
the remaining half is so inefficient
ly drained as to renderimprobable
any good yield, especially if the
season be a wet one, and even
when IA crop is raised the net
profit of the yield is absOlved il
transportation to market. The III
, habitants on either side are de
prived of the USE of public roaC
for niue months in the year, Bayor
Terrebonne holding possession OF
the same us a channel through
, which Its surplus waters il SLOW
ly pass away. The residents il
. case Of sickness cannot obtain
, physician for hours, especially a
! night. although a half dozen o
+ them are within two miles. The,
cannot come to Church for week
4. although they hear the bells rim!
t ing for service every Sabbath,an'
when those persons who SHOULD
f be orr neighbOrs and weekly Wis
f tors do arrive in town, they ar
2 gazed upon as strangers whel
! they pass along the ban4uetS.
:. Within less than three miles o
t Thibodaux Is a proprietor of
tract of land who, six years ago
refused $4,000 cash for his lot
last year he could not get All Offe
at $1,4OO, and this is the histOr,
4; of every piece of ground on eithe
Y side of the Bayou Terrebonne.
T.. A proper drainage Of tina
stream will at once double o
treble the value of those lands
double the area OF cultivable sol
secure good roads, obtain cas-.
access to market, increase tn
value of the products of the sol
and greatly enhance the social IA
vantages that will necessarily re.
e suit from a free and easy int
g course among the inhabitants.
e Every person who owns a 10
IS within the corporate limits of III
l. Town Of ThibodauX, or in it's SIT
$, urbs is deeply interested in thi
e enterprise. TO day there are doz
!, ems of Inhabitants who have cea
" ed to cultivate their gardens bt
cause the Overhows cOnSequen
d OF heavy rain will iuundate an
IS destroy their growing vegetable
II 1t is even unsafe to attempt t
e raise chickens as they will in a
e probability be drowned in thos
q foundations.
C There is to-day no value upo
t. town property. The best store
II and residences rent for a SUI
'e barely sufficient to pay currel
'f taxes and repairs absolutely II,
s cessary whilst several store room
axe and have been standing empt
e for two or three Years.
Secure a good road by whic
e the people of Terrebonne ca
n drive here easily aud at all times
=; and thoroughly drain the tow
y property will, at once assume