The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1881-05-14

tOontracts nave been made with Eng
lish steamship lines to carry $4,000
Swedes and Norwegians from thei
country TO Hull. en- ronte for America
They will be welcome. We receive N,
more industrious aud law-abiding citi
zen's TO our shores than the Swedei
and Norwegians. Every acre of unoc
cupied land in Noble county, Mimi.
has been taken by an English colony
Why is it VIC can't induce some Of
these Norwegians and Swedes to settlC
in this State, and why is it that Eng
lisll colonies don't locate in some ol
our parishes where the land is rich and
cheaps Can our commissioner of i'm.
migration answer this question IN
o. Times
We would suggest that the citi-
gems of each parish, where immi-
grants are wanted, to meet and con
suit among themselves as 10 what they
are able and willing to do, There
never was better time than the pres
ent for persons having land for sasc, to
dispose of it. We can hear of NUM-
bers who have fine lands for sale, but
we are not acquainted with their prices
nor tlsclr terms; and yet you will hear
these same people speak of the great
necessity and want of immigrants to
develop the vast resources of our State.
Now that the tide of immigration is
turning in this direction, it behooves
every one of us to offer all the facili-
ties VIC can to those who may wish to
come and live among US; make them
feel that it is to their interest to settle
among us, and show them that they
are welcome The proper mode of
doing this is through the medium of
your parish paper, so that those who
can read may learn.
Louisiana is one of the most inter
esting States in the Union, not only on
account of the romantic incidents of
its early history, but for the peculiar
features of its landscape, and its unique !
social character and life. 1t has very |.
mild winters, and of its products the
orange, lemon, lime and other troP-
ieal fruits grow in profusion. The best
soil is on the river bottoms, which are
exuberantiy fertile, and productive in
sugar cane and rice. Cotton aud sugar
cane are the great products of this
State. Louisiana has no parallel on
the face of our globe in the natural
advantages which she enjoys for trade
with the interior and outside world.
New Orleans, our main port of entry,
is known as the greatest cotton market
in the world. The Mississippi river
and its tributaries afford not less than
fifteen thousand miles of navigable
waters, communicating with vast ex-
tent of country, illimitablc in its re-
sources, exhaustless in fertility, and
embracing nearly every variety of eli
mate.
In the southwestern portion of the
State we have as fine prairies as can be
found anywhere, affording nutrition to
myriads of cattle aud horses the whole
year round. And all we see is not
prairie, for we have fine pine forests,
oak, cypress, and other varieties of
timber suitable for all purposes. In !
we have vast amount of I
country which only needs {
tbe sturdy farmers TO cultivate the
soil, in order to make them comfort
able aud happy, and our State pros
porous. If those who seek the
of our State, and have lands
10 dispose of, will heed our sugges-
lions, the problem will be solved.
Way THEY CoME HERE.-Wages
N Europe are so low that the wonder
is how people manage to live. Yet .
they not only live, but serape together
enough money to ernigrate. Such
statements as the following, FROM an
exchange, seem almost Incredible: /,
Sixty cents day is considered good
wages for working man in any of
the European countries, except Great
where the wages are someN hat h
higher. In the Tyrol silk region and
in Italy, they often do not get more
than ten cents. In the country in
Germany ten cents is the common pay.
Women there cften get but FIVE cents
In Sweden men often work from four
in the morning till nine ia the evening,
and do not get more. During the late
war many poor women in Berlin were
hired to knit stockings for the soldiers
for five cents. The profits of the poor
who keep petty shops, sell trinkets in
the streets, or act as suffers do not n
average more than three or four cents.
BARRIERS in Berlin, since the raising of
their prices, get five cents for hair cut
ting and two and a half cents for shaw
ing. Servants t'hotels get from three
TO eight dollars q month. Servant
girls in private families often get but