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+ Editor Lake Charles Echo:
Having spent some time IN LAX
Charles, and having noted its fin
location, its advantages eommel
cialiy, and it's favorable prospect
: for the future, / thought that PEI
. haps / might say word or two il
regard to some of the needed i'm
: provements that would greatly ben
eft the people, improving thei
health, identifying the town, ans
; enhancing the price of property
! | have been i'm nearly every parisl
in the State, and the towns of any
note, and do not know of a tow
in the State that has 80 beautifn
IA location as Lake Charles. Sitn
ated as it is, on the high bank of a
beautiful lake, the ground suffi
cientiy rolling to answer all drain.
age purposes, a prairie of vast ex.
tent ON the east and southeast, and
the lake on the west, all combine
to cause a fine breeze to blow daily
during the hot months of summer,
and render the town a pleasant
place to live iii. Having all these
advantages it could be rendered
still more healthy and agreeable at
a very small expense In passing
through the town YOU very seldom
see o shade tree. There are few,
1T is true, but as general thing
they are far apart.
Why is this, when they could be
procured so cheapf The swamps
and forest furnish in great abund-
ance maple, China, catalpa, and
other varieties, and the expense of
procuring and planting is very light.
If each property owner wOuld get
a few trees and plant them in front
OF their property, in a few years
there would be beautiful row of
shade trees on each side of the
street, enhancing the value of the
property and identifying the town.
Persons from a distance coming
here, seeking locations, will pay
more for property that is supplied
with shade and ornamental trees,
than they will for property that
is not.
But this is not all the benefit de-
rived from shade trees. 1t is a well
established fact that shade trees
promote health. The leaves absorb
the malaria or poisoned parts of
the atmosphere, deriving life and
vigOr from it, and thereby render
ing the air pure and healthy. This
alone should be sufficient induce
ment for property owners to plant
trees.
There are but two gentlemen in
town who have planted shade trees
with any regularity, viz: Capt. j.
w. Bryan and Capt. Green Hall.
These gentlemen have trees
planted at regular intervals in front
of their houses, and / do not be.
lieve they could be bought at any
price.
A person walking along the hot
sidewalk, the sun beaming down
upon him, experiences "a wonderful
change of temperature as soon as
he enters the shade of those trees.
There he will find a cool breeze at
all times, when there is none what
ever in the sun. We could go on
and multiply other benefits derived
from shade trees, but we think
those already given should be suf-
ficient to induce all the property
owners to plant trees. 1t is only a
wonder they have not done 80 ere
this. Go to any town in the West
and y0n will see rows of trees on
every street.
If yOu think the foregoing wor-
thy of insertion, Twill try hereafter
to give my ideas of what might be
made of Lake Charles, noticing its
advantages of location, facilities
for exporting and importing, and
its natural and acquired advan-
tages for the transaction of all
kinds of business, local and foreign.
1t may induce some one who is
looking for u location to stop OFF
at Lake Charles and examine and
ascertain for himself.
MORE ANON.