The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1881-03-23
OUR TOWN AND PARISH

The completion of railroad through
the Red River valley is now assured,
and our Town and Parish will be re-
lieyed from the isolation which mas
hitherto lain as an incubus upon
them. Work will begin here on the
Pacific road at once. The placing OF
tics and laying rails will be rapid as
the Company will operate both ways
op towards Texas and down to Nc"
Orleans. Sanguine persons believe
that trains will be running IN Sep
tcmber. There seems no reason 10
doubt that the entire line from Ne"
Orleans to Texas will be in opera
ton before the close of the present
year. .-
Nor is this all. Hitherto shut in
almost entirely for portion of the
year by low stage of water, we
shall now have the outlets afforded
by two railroads, and perhaps three.
The Morgan road has already adj
vanced beyond Opelousas hither
ward, and will reach this place prob
ably as quickly as the Pacific is COM
pleted, whence it will be projected
due north and connect US with Ar
kansas. The third road will be built
from Natchez (Vidalia) coming al
most in straight line west to this
place, but that will not be so speedy
q realization as the other two.
The prospect thus opened to US is
as cheering as the heart of man
could wish. The lands of this Par
ish rank in fertility with the best in
the State. Equally adapted to cane
and cotton, they give to the planter
his option which to cultivate. The
: plantation adjoining, and nearly sur,
rounding, this Town yielded nine
teen hundred hogsheads of sugar in
1860, with the usual quantity of mo-
lasses. On both sides of the bayous
Boeuff, Robert, Rapides, and Of the
River, the rich loan of centuries OF
deposit invites the husbandman to a
garnerage that will crafty his most
! sanguine hopes. Skirting these deer
border lands in the rear are stretch
= es of uplands,r where the soil is moi
80 rich, but upon which near sis
hundred white immigrants have set
tied within six or seven years, ant
e found them preferable to the soils o
: Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi
q whence they came. These upland'
S are interspersed with pineland wher'
y fifty years ago, when the lowland
we're sickly, planters and town PEG
. pie had summer cottages in which
9 they found relaxation and health
). and inhaled the "terebinthine odor,
9 which Mr. Timothy Flint, in hi
IS book of travels in this country, Oh
J. serves was as pleasant to the olfac
tories, as inyigorating to the frame
y No more need Of summer resort
70 now. No section of the whole conn
h try is freer from disease, or is NOR
y uniformly healthy than this Parish
ID And for those who do not wish t
W cultivate either Of our staples, an
l. who. distrust the durability of tn
10 uplands, there is wide stretch 9
a prairie where stock, can be raised
8 a minimum cost. gs, q So s#say&
2 This Parish has been, except prt
Of baby St. Mary, the richest of th
q country Parishes. Vernon and Graz
:, have diminished it's territory, br
~ when it's unequalled advantages sha
he be realized, it's lands occupied an
to worked, and its manifold industri'
to developed, it will be capable of SUI
II porting one hundred thousand il
=, habitants. Lethargy and gloom ha,
~ y, in thepast ten years fastened upt
~ its people, and with good cause, b.
do the railroad and telegraph will VOL
such a change that ten years hem
e. it will not be recognizable throug
., the spectacles of to day. 5.''.
u Everybody should buy their Spri
re and Summer Clothing at Hustmyre
,es .And ,chy9 Because he is selling tht
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