The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1880-02-07
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II u correspondents ~ AtHhC N'1As'h iN-'f -
ifrom which we make the following
extracE:
i e Strangers continue to How III
where from or how, is the question
but here they are, new faces every day
not of stragglers and railroad tramps
Hike the first installment, but good look
ing men, who evidently mean business
provided the place snits. 1t will sui
many, not all; what place would2 New
buildings are going up every week
Business is good with all trades ane
professions. Jacob RYAN d Sons rict
mill is soverstocked with rice waiting Il
be cleaned. Their capacity will have
to be greatly increased to accommodate
the rice growers of this immediate sec
Ittion.
Z" Next wear, if favorable, this crop
will be immense. 1tis, perhaps, the
best rice country in the State. Amar
may go ont on the wild prairie, select
low place for his rice field, make the
necessary dams and bitches, pillow the
land, SOW the seed and harrow it in,
and if the season is favorable-nearly
every season is-a big crop of rice is
certain. Then when the crop has been
gathered turn in the stock to secure all
they want, after which it is easy to
keep the field overfowed long enough
ito Kill the bad seeds which would 9th
lerwise spring up with the next years
crop. Now is a good timet to send out
tcanvassers to secure a portion of this
trade for the New Orleans merchants.
The fact that the Houston connection
will be first made, will give that place
and Galveston a temporary advantage,
vet my opinion is that New Orleans
will soon win the bulk of it after the
completion Of the road"
This shows very plainly the cdirec-
tion in which the tide of immigration
is setting. The parishes along the line
of Morgan lroad-which have hith-
erto been without adequate communi-
cation with the outside world-will
soon have fine transportation facilities,
and will, therefore, possess every fea-
ture likely to attract the immigrant.
As rule, when immigration begins
to pour into a thinly settled country,
the owners of land, blind to their real
put prices beyond the reach
of the new conner, and thus check the
of population and wealth. The
only effectual safeguard against the ra-
pacity of landholders is the existence
Of large bodies of public lands, belong
ing to the State and Federal govern
ments. Government lands possess for
the settler three peculiar and distinct
advantages-a fixed price, perfect war
ranty of title, and boundaries ascer-
tanned with Astronomical exactness.
These are, indeed, very great advant-
ages in a State like Louisiana, where
SO large a body of lands is inthe hands
of individuals, and where the warranty
Of titles and the boundary lines of
property, in many cases, have no other
foundation than old colonial grants. I,
BY the act of March 2, 1849, the
United States donated to the State all
lands subject to tidal or alluvial over
flow. These lands, constituting allarge
area in the parishes of Nermilion, Cal
casieu and Cameron, are specially
adapted to the culture of rice, and are
subject to prescription at a fixed price
Of twenty-five cents per acre, as pro-
tided in section 1918 of the Revised
Statutes of the State.
The general provisions concerning
presumption of lands belonging to the
federal government, are contained in
section $3.50 of the Revised Statutes
Of the United States, which lis as fol
lows:
q Every person who is the head of d family,
Or who has arrived at the age of twenty-one
years, and is a citizen of the United States, Or
who has filed his declaration of intention to
become such, asrequired by the naturaliza-t
ton laws, shall be entitled to enter one guar
ter section or alesst quantity of unappropria-
led public lands, upon which such person may
have filed a presumption claim, or which may
at the time the application is made, be subject
to prescription at one dollar and TWENTY-FIVE
cents per acre I; or eighty acres or less of such
lands at two dollars and fifty
cents per acre to be located in o body, In con
formity to theiegal subdivisions OF the public
lands, and after the same have been surveyed
And every person owning and residing on
land may, under the provisions of this section,
enter other land lying contiguous to his land,
which shall not, with the land no already
owned and goreunip0 axpap1 I'm tho a. IA