Louisiana capitolian., 1881-11-08
I'M MIGRATION.
Au Interesting letter ON the Sub
ject.

Au Interesting letter ON the Sub
| ject.
! EDITOR CAPITOLIAN = Your fre
quent articles on the subject of immi
grafton and the persistence with which
you uphold Louisiana and her great
resources, leads me to offer some
hints to strengthen you and aid you
if possible, in your efforts to further
the interests Of the people of the
State. AS preface to what
will have to say on the sub
ject, you must submit to the remark,
that, when paper works for the
good of a community with the deter
mination which has characterized the
CAPITOL1AN from the day of its birth
to the present moment, and / believe
newer failing in any work it has un-
dertaken, it is entitled to and should
receive the consideration and conf
dence OF the people.
Your recent little trip into Texas
has convinced you what / have long
believed, and which your partner,
Mr.. LeSueur perhaps knows, that,
take Louisiana as a whole, it is by
far a more desirable place to live, has
greater resources, combines more ia
cilities for making living and accu
mulating wealth than Texas and /
may say any other State in the Union.
| have "been about some n my lite
though lay no claims to being a trav-
eler, and | have found no section of
coantry in the South which is more
inviting to me in its general aspects,
than the State of Louisiana. Other
States, however, have taken the lead
of her in railroads, manufactures and
Immigration. This no doubt, in a
great measure, is due to the so-calied
reconstruction measures and rotten
radical administrations and military
usurpations under which the people,
for ten or twelve years, were forced
to live. And since the advent of
those who are legitimately entitled to
control the governmental affairs, 1t
has taken all the energies and capital.
that could be mustered up to recu-
perate and restore them to a normal
condition. But it seems to me that
the time is when Louisianians have
it in their power to rise from their
recumbent position and step out up
on the high road Of prosperity and
greatness.
To take a horseback ride over each
parish in this State, ore would be
surprised to see the thousands upon
thousands of acres of the most fertile
lands, to be found on this continent,
lying idle; bringing in no revenue,
doing no one any good, but burthens
to the owners, cankers upon their en-
ergies, their labors and their pock-
cts. You ask if these lands are for
sale ? Oh, yes, all for sale, can be
bought almost at your own price. |
But who is the owner? Don't know,
How is a man to get ite Don't know
and so on. AS an illustration of what |
mean would say that a man NOV |
ed to Baton Rouge year or so ago
and after being here a few months he
liked the place and people so well,
he concluded he would try to pur-
chase a vacant lot and build on it. /
He knew there were hundreds Of
hem in the corporate limits Of the
,ity, but who they belonged to, what
we're the prices of them and could
hey be bought, have ever since been
oazzling questions. He searched the
;ity papers in vain for advertiseme nts
n inducements to purchase, and is
-et at loss to know to whom and
where viii one go to buy a vacant
Dt. | do not wish you to think the
entleman has authorized me to ad-
ertise for one, but I am telling you
that is a fact and wish to suggest to ;
our readers that if any Of them have
acant lots for sale and feel any in t