The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1877-12-06

one cent of the vaiue IF this timber
ever finds its way back to our Staff
but after circulating generally
Itlroneh Texas, finally q les into
the banks uf Galveston aud there
remains. Oa!v th. other day
heard one oil the nest Informed
number merchants in the city %
Grunge assert that there vert
about twenty th,'usnnd cypress
trees 10 come to Orange tins VIII
ter. and over fifteen Thousand o'
them to come from the Louisiana
snore. There is no trade between
Orange and any portion of Louis
luna, and never eau be unless sonr
ai'road from New O,leans is tuu
nut in this direction. Orange has
to-day the largest lumber business
of any town either in Texas Or
IIonisiana, while almost every
week YOU will hear OF the foanda
'iou of another new mill. The sup
ply of timber along the Snhine L.
Looked upon as inexhnnstiblt, and
the most valuable and largest poi-
ton of il il op tie Louisiana shore
the NEST valuable, BECAUSE 10
calculation has ever been made
that Louisiana timber will even
need to be bonglrt.
THE GENERAL GOVERNMENT
has abont put Il stop 10 depre'lations on
public land, but this only trcbles the
force now cutting from State lands To
show you how profitable the business o.
getting logs from State lands is, II i'll
stance one mun who was only engaged
in il for eleven mon5lis and, during that
short period. he WAS enabled to get
married five different times. The last
spouse. however, proved to he leIs
thrity than the other four, and tiie fel
low had to swap her off to II neighbor
for II don lt'-hurrel shot gun. am ac-
q laintel with dozen men who were
present ut all the weddings, aud can
Vt Silly to the trade for the shot-gu
The so-c;,lled log war is ubout at an
End. and once n@slin "peace leigns sn
IRENE All the ili-feeiine against gov
.rtiinent officials which at first exi,.ed,
has died ust now entirely. with the eX-
,eption of two or three individuals who
never had anything to lose, and cons,-
lnently must feel more lnrt than ANY
one else. The government still mas
seventy thousand logs III It's possession
besides those already sold Tie mill.
have bought some nine or len thousand,
md are running ahead on them to r,,i"e
money to buy more. 1t is REASONABLE,
10 say that in about two months more
)nsiness will have entirely revived ut
Lake Charles and the constitutional
,rnml,lers will be at /, dead loss for
to say.
The deputies,still out here are having
good l,snsh over James +. Cotter,s
.ffilnvit to the etf4cr that logs were
eized in Texas and carried across the
Sabtn' riyer to Louisiana. There IRE
nnr deputies here anxious to he put ION
he witness stand to see if all four If
hem can't
oUTswEAR MR cOTrER
n any other man i'll Orange county.
BIT all joking aside. there never has
'ecn IL log seized in Texts. which fact
an he so easily established that it is II
natter Of wonder to the fol,r swearina
|eputl.s that CD. Wharton should n
DIV himself to he annoyed 'by any such
ilicnlons. statements. The boys"
re- going to stick mp TO the special
gent and thelmarshal, yourcan just bet
our last red cent. and anybody that
at this late date to charge
ither of them with ever having male
n illegal step III the ''log business in
will have their innds fill.
The Times has never published any
ts.tement thus far. relating 40 the