The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-12-27
E4aize Charles, Aa.
PROSPEROUS AND BRILLIANT FUTURE
Is PROSPECTIVE.


and allnring picture TO tourists and
prospecting settlers. Possessing a
grand water highway, she holds the
key to an imposing maritime com
meree; indeed, already her lumber and
other articles of expectation find their
markets ria the Gulf of Mexico, and
foreign products for home consump-
ton are returned by the same route.
The bananas on the table OF mine
host to-day came, think, from Ruatan.
And erewhile, but space of few
DAYS at fnrthest, we are to have daily
railway communication with the out
side world. Then indeed will the
clarion of push, progress and improve
ment, have sounded for this country,
and the giant strides of multiplied in
terests and industries make glad the
hearts of the people, and open up for
easy occupation the avenues of wealth
and civilization. For Nature In her
gifts to this country has been prodigal
in the extreme, and the problem of
living here is of the easiest solution, re
quiring scarcely modicum uf labor
in exemplication.
The lumber trade of Lake Charles is
just now, perhaps, her chief industry,
the '.pineries," not fan distant, afford
ing an unlimited supply of material,
and of a quality not 10 be surpassed,
perhaps, in the markets Of the world.
This is grand industry, and the Rum
Der of 'slog-men and mill-hands en-
ployed, is great in the extreme.
The culture of rice is becoming of
absorbing interest to agricnlturists, its
success having been so marked, and Its
peculiar adaptabiiity to this climate
and soil being apparent to all. South
Carolina, so rich in the yastness and
extent of her rice fields, though they
have never attained the magnitude and
Importance since, that they commanded
previous, to the war, will now find a
formidable rival in this field, the quality
produced here being the very finest in
the world. We may have to import
few Chinese TO assist in its produe-
ton and consumption.
Sugar cane, too, is easily grown here,
and little care and trouble is all that
is necessary to enable the farmer to
make MS own sugar and molssses.
Vegetables, of almost every variety,
may be grown the year round, and
fruits, hardy and tropical, are of easy
culture. Oranges head the list of na-
tive fruits, and the groves, green and
glossy in their foliage, make beautiful
the homes on the lakeside. The eul-
tnrc of this fruit has been quite com
mercial feature in time past, and it viii
doubtless grow 20 mammoth proper
tions IL the future.
This too, is the land Of the 0leander
and Magnolia, and to see them in their
brightest beauty You should view them
as now, in mid-winter, still clothed in
their robes of brilliant, glossy green,
the Oleander fannting flowers of
fairest hue, and emitting a perfume as
sweet as some odorons breath from
Araby the Blest.
Fromthe Gulf coast or near, splendid
oysters of delicious flavor are obtained,
and Just here in the lake and river,
the finest Of fish are to be caught.
The extensive marshes, some miles
distant, afford fine field for sports
men, the haunts of geese, ducks and
brent, being all that the most enthusi-
astic anayksman could desire.
And a. GROWING glory--a climax
to Natures generous dover Of gifts !
the climate is just the most charming
Imaginable. a dream of Italia--an
Idyl Of sunny, Southern France--real-
lied infull. with skies as soft and sunny,
and mild and genial in tbeif mid-winter
moods, as ever laughed DER FIorentian
aisles, or beauteons wales of Provence
TriIF 10 the aMellcr Of the North,