St. Landry democrat., 1878-01-26
The New Orleans and Pacific
Rail Road.

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Rail Road.
Gentlemen from the Eastern part of
the parish inform us that work is rap
idly progressing on this line of railroad.
The road enters the parish near Church
vile, on the Atchafalaya, and will leave
it in the neighborhood of Holmesville,
on Bayou Beuf, running diagonally
from east to northwest. 1t will pene-
trate one of the richest, most fertile and
most desirable portions of the parish.
The lands in this region are of the most
Iprcductive character, capable of yield
ing immense crops of corn, rice, sugar
and cotton, and we'll adopted to stock
raising. Much of it is IA yet in state
of nature, hut let this road be com
pleted, (and we have now no doubt that
it soon will bt) and few years hence it
will nearly all be in cultivation, and
immensely valuable. No better field is
now presented for the investment of
capital, than along the line of this road.
Lands now worth from SO to So an acre
and easily purchasable at that price,
few years hence will be of quadraple
value. There are now several hundred
ronvicts at work on the road and the
force will no doubt he largely increased
within the next six months. We regard
this road as a fixed fact. Its compile
tion will no doubt lead to the building
of Others. Louisiana is now far behind
her sister States in these great works of
internal improvements, which have
been mainly the cause of filing up the
young States of the northwest, with al
most a superabundant population OF
hardy and thrifty yeomen. We want
this kind of population in Louisiana
and nothing will tend more to bring it
here, than iutersecting our State with
lines of railroads, making access to us
easy, and facilitating the shipment of
crops to market, We have taken one
step to bring about this state of things.
A stable, strong government like we
now have; one that can preserve law
and or0er; one that is honestly and
economically administered presents the
greatest Of all inducements to capital
lists to invest, and where there is the
necessary capital, the building of rail-
roads in a country like this is only a
question of few years. By the time
of the expiration of the present ad-
ministratiOn we look for o changed state
of affairs indeed in Louisiana. Every
thing is now quiet and peaceful. We
have time to turn our attention to the
material development of the State; to
look after our broken levees to reclaim
our rich alluvial lands; to build railroads,
and bring to our midst an immigration
of hardy thrifty farmers, who will make
Louisiana bloom like a garden once
more. We say to all in quest of homes,
and who wish to find them in salu-
brious climate, where the soil is of in
exhaustible fertility where the cost OF
living is as cheap, rs can be desired,
where all the substantials of life can he
produced, with the least labor; where
horses and cattle and hogs and sheep
can be raised iu superabundanees, that
Louisiana is the place to come to, and
that no part OF the State combines all
these advantages to greater perfection
than this, the empire parish OF St. Lam
dry and especially that portion Of it in
tarseeted Inv tnisl lrOad
AS one Of the main objects of the
DEMOCRAT will be to enlighten the out
side world as to the resources agricul-
tural and otherwise OF our parish, we
request all those possessing |
data and facts to furnish them to us.
We would like particularly to have |
from the warehousemen of our sister |
town Of Washington and Barry's Land.
ing a statement showing the number of
bales of cotton, hogsleads of sugar, bar
rels of molasses, bales of moss and hay,
the numbers of thousands Of hides,
eggs, cattle and other produce
shipped by them during the years 1876,
1877 and to date in 1873.
Communications relating to crop sta
tistics, character of crop, productive
capacity of soil, &c, will be thankfully
from farmers and planters of
,ur parish. We hope our planters will
make note of this. We have embarked
IN our editorial career, not only to dis
siminate sound doctrine politically, but
also to deveIope as far as in our power
the resources of our, great parish. The
tide of immigration will soon begin to
get towards Louisiana, and it stands st.
Landry to be wide awake to reap her
share..
THOU SHALT NOT STEAL.-Joseph
Figurant was lodged in Jail this week
by Deputy Sheriff Garland Peck ac-
sused Of cow stealing in Coulee Croche.
Ben Beuchamp alias Jones, indicted
by the grand jury last October, was ar
rested this week and given quarters in
our parish jail accused Of beef stealing.
Guy Jean, Alex. Prud'homme and
Jim Wright were lodged in jail this |
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