Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1881-09-21

WHO IaOOr IOf wages usually receive
from eS to sl5 per month and
rations.
THE USUAL METHOD OF FARMING
is on shares. The planter furnishes
land, mules, gear and implements;
the laborer does all the work, finds
aud clothes himself, and receives
one half the crop. Although white
labOrers are rare the people would
gladly give them employment ut
first.rate wages. Employ ment
would only be given to farm laborers.
There is no demand for skilled labor.
The parish improves but slowly aud
there is not enough work for mechan.
les, builders, etc, already living in
Jackson. II, however, the tide Of
Immigration just beginning TO turn
in this direction should assume any
magnitude their wants would fur.
nish employment for skilled labor
ers.
AZ yet there are no factories of
any kind in the parish. Several
mills aud gins are run by water
power. The perennial streams fur
nisl this power in abundance.
There is any quantity of fuel easily
obtained for s,eam.power. 80 that
hereafter should the condition OF the
parish ~ to population. etc, justify,
factories at various kinds conld he
run at n moderate degree of ex.
pense.
VERNON, THE COURT HOUSE TOWN,
has fallen of To some extent in pop.
Hlaiion since the most populous por,
tion Of the parish has been cut off.
There is, however, considerable bns.
mess dOnc there, and the few citi.
zens remaining are pubic spirited,
intelligent and full of hospitality.
1t is said by those whose means
of knowledge are beyond quest ion
that Jackson parish offers greater
advantages to the emgrant than
any other of the hill parishes Of
North Louisiana. Its small p0pula.
tion and comparatively large terri
tory will enable one To procure any
kind of land. improved nr nnimprov.
ed, ut very low prices and on long
time. Ii has all the different soils
of that part of the State. bold peren.
nial streams, iiue timber for lumber
aud other purposes, good range for
stock. and last, and Of equal impor
tance, the means of reaching mar
ct are good and will he better.
THE PRESENT RATE OF TAXATION
fur all purposes is only 10 mills and
the assrssed valuation of property
in 1880 was only s3lS,OOO
The people are anxious that the
stream OF immigration should be
turned in their direction and to se.
cure it will offer most excellent
terms. Already agents of Northern
capitalists have been prospecting
in Jackson and n-igbboring parish
es-in,ending to buy largely of her
lan,ls-ihe long leaf pine especially.
Should this meet the eye of any
one WHO ,irsir, $ to live in Louisiana,
let hi. ponder over the following
figures. applicable to the northern
paIt of the State: In 1880 many
farmers gathered % bushels of corn
to the acre, worth 10 cents per bush
el, and one hale of cotton, worth ut
a low price s4j. This without fer
tilizalion. Potatoes, peas, cane,
vegetables, Jnte, etc, all produce as
bouniiiull,. Our farmers live splpn.
didl, aud saw" money for their chill.
dr-n wthou; any knowledge Of that
~ stem of farming which, in other
portions al the Union, is the means
OF producing large crops of OF poor
land.
Let the same method I've practiced
in Louisiana and it would he diff
cult To compute the returns.
The writeris under special obliga.
tions % n. NJ. Smith, Esq, Of Yer
non. whose readable article in tho
Vienna Sentinel furnished figures
and facts difficult to bc obtained
els,'w here.