The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-05-23
WANTED...A COLONY,
New Orleans Times,

| CNcw Orleans Tinlesl
Every paper I'm this State should have
=. "'splay advertisement at tho head of
its WNnt column, something to this
eftect: Wauted-Five hundred healthy
and ind0strious families from the
West or North, to buy up n I.onisia,.
parish and colonixe 1t. It Ia the inter-
est OF every paper and Of every citizen
to make known to the outside world
the magnificent agricultural rcsource.s
OF tho State and to offer, as the Times,
now offers, to furnish information ia
parties seeking 1t with view to pur-
chase and colonization. We have. IN
fact, resolved to devote certain amount
of our time and space to this subject,
believing 1t to be fraught with benefit to
tho State and cherishing the convic-
the means of comfortable in,lcpen,i-
ence for thousands of people who are
now vainly strugg ling to make a Iiv-
Ing IN other and less favored sections.
With this object in view, therefore,, we
put our advertisement Of Wantol-A
Colony, and hereby offer to suppfy
facts and statistics free to any parties
making inquiries and meaning b,,si-
ness.
IN q general way we may say that
the chief difficulties which have here
tofore interposed themselves to immi-
grafton arc being rapidly removed.
Among these were the inaccessIbility
OF the regions available for tho pur-
pose and the prevailing unfavorablo
public opinion as to such measures,
AS concerns the first mentioned dif,i-
Guilty, 1t Is now widely known that tho
GaSXN XN,NHN In
being rapidly opened to travel by rail
way-such as the prairie parishes west
of Iberia, tho rich districts of st. Mar
tin and st. Landry; while In tho
northeastern part of tho State tho rail
road from Vicksburg to Monroe will
soon be projected west to Shreveport,
thus taking In that splendid farming
area, north and south of the already
and operated road from
Vicksburg to Monroe and connected
with 1t by tho various navigable streams
running ut right angles to the line of
railway, lie thousands of acres OF most
fertile land, heavily timbcretl, nbun-
dainty watered, adapted equally t.
cotton or grain or to stock raising.
There are the perennial pastures of tho
cane. brake, the bnyous filled with fish
and the woods alive with game, and,
over and above all this, genial ana
healthful climate. We can say this
much without fear of misleading any
one-that q colony of people such ns
We describe could get land enough for
their purposes In any of the districts
we have mentioned upon terms that
Will be considered thoroughly satisfuc.
tory; and wo presume it will hardly bo
contradtcted that our best lands, work
cd as the farms of Iowa, Illinois or
Missouri have to bc worked, will pro-
ducc two, thrce or even fourfold.
Louisiana has no immigration socie-
tfCs sucfi aS many other States have
we have no means, except through,
the press and tho personal rcprcscntu-
lions OF such of our citizens as happen
10 encounter strangers, Of assuring the
outside world TINT we have n hearty
Ind genuine welcome for all honest
md industrious people who como among
IS to make their homes. Yct we have
10 doubt that, If one party OF settlers
vcre to establish themselves in one of
he parishes we have described, they
would find the soil and climate nud
onditiOns all that VIC have represent
II them to tic and acknowledge to hny-
nS received II welcome ns sincere and
warm as they over met with In their
Once more, We want u
olony of Northern or Western ftrm-
hs people to buy up II ncighborhood
nd colonize II, and We arc willing to
irther such Il move In every possible
lanner-to furnish all required infor-
nation without charge and, generally,
} encourage and promote tho enter
rise.