The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-06-09

ings In this basin, except the Burlington
neighborhood and the enyirons of Hope Viii
at the Amite and Iberville junction.
The lands are generally private property
with q small percentage Of United States an
State lands available at the usual rates, Will
the private and improved usually sell at iron
50 to SIS per acre.
THE CoMtTE.
The COmitc river takes It's source in vii
| kinsOn county Miss, and follows thence
| S0uthwesterly course Of thirty miles, when
Mt that point, it makes a brisk pasterlY curve
which 1t, follows for ten miles within thu
| parish of East Baton Rouge. until It flows
into the Amitez al II point fourteen miles due
east from the city Of Baton Rouge.
The stream is rapid and clear curving Tre
quontly as its sire, the Amite. does. The sane
| OF its bed and banks Is not as cIear white anC
brittle as the Antics, but very nearly So
Rapid in It's course and frequently enCascd
! between high bluffs of the table land, this
| stream has, more than the Amite, large, brisk
and ext9nsive indontatiOns in its banks, form
ing the Owands, or "COmte BOttOma'
The average width Of the Comite varies
from twenty to thirty yards and it is of sufTi.
Client depth to admit tho navigation of small
or light draught boats
As 1t enters within the limits of East Baton
Rouge, the Comite receives the waters of
Doyle's bayou and of Redwood creek.
through its western bank, in township 4
south, range ! east; in the next sontherIv
township 5, of the same range. it receives the
waters Of Saunders bayou. through its cast
ern bank; lower still in its course IT, drains
on its west Whites and Cypress bayous. and
BlaCkwater creek on the east: after this. it
Is again fed by Hurricane creek. on the west,
at the line separating township from town
ship south, range east.
After this whirling to in frequent zig-Zags.
it takes on its left bank now the northern, on
account OF its eastern shifting) in township
= south, range east, to drop finally into
the Amitn
COMITE BAsTN-CLAsg THREE.
All this section, drained by the Comite and
its constituent feeders stretching from five TO
eight miles on either bank. is the Bluff
Land" with the exception Of the s'Comite
Bottoms" already mentioned
The usual undulating surface of the parish
CharaCterizes this basin, and its level tracts.
OF considerable extent in some places, are Of
similar soil texture with the aIluvtaI basin Of
the Mississippi
SOILS.
The highland soils. in this basin, are in al
most every respect similar to those of the
hmIte basin, being perhaps of a more reddish
hue, or dark brown sandy loan with fro
quent clayey variegatiOns.
Inc semi -alluval and peatty bottoms Of the
COmite are not as light rs the Migeisgfpni nj
luvians and they are darker in color. They
are generally . quarter or a half mile in
depth from the water course to the high
lands, and the frequent indentatlOns of these
patches make an ever pleasing diversion to
the Gifted or slOping sides of the highlands
The latter soil weighs an average Of seven
ty-tivC pounds per cubic foot Of dried earth.
and the highland an average of lightweight
pounds: both being quite fertile. especially
the bottoms, and requiring good drainage
The depth of the soil Is Of one and one-haIg
feet In the highlands, and Of two and three
feet in the bottoms.
FORESTS.
In the highlands the forest growth is SINH |
lar to that Of the Amte, and in tho bottoms
the gums occupy prominent portion of the |
growth.
There are abundant facilities along this |
stream and along the Amlte for the utiIiza- |
ion of water power, and in fact a hundred !
mills would not in the least be too many for |
heir force.
The COmitc basin comprises some few hum
lred acres Of United States lands and some
state lands. The settlements are sparse in If.
nd private lands may be had at from So to
. per acre.
The natural drainage facilities of this basin
re remarkable, while its forests comprise
early al the varieties Of the parish growth
alluvial and bluff soils and its surface is
cry sparsely cleared. F.A.