The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-06-24

ExzE Ezzs&Esss, fS-zS Al HON A.
The Echo has heretofore rsfrafnel
from camrncEfing npon the contracts
outlay, etc, made by The Mexican-Na
tioual railway IN this section, from Tho
tact that il was not in possession o.
/ Sufficient data to enable it 10 make :
! trufhful and intelligent repOTt-ons
that would be Of more than passing
/ interest 30 our readers. Mr. r. d.
Gain, representing L ". Stevenson,
agent Of the company at New Orleans
and Mobile, who was among Us last
| summer for q short while to start the
operations Of the company, having re
turned for the purpose Of winding them
up, has placed at orr disposal statistle5
OF an interesting character relative TO
the progress Of the road IN Mexico /;
the states and towns through which Il
il nov running, and viii pass through
when finished; their population and
Yields Of their silver miRss, elc- Al
Of which the Euso VIII give to is
readers as time and space vii adIzits
as It viii be a sourre Of information az
valuable nature and instructive ss
well as interesting. Con6ainE OFT Hs-
marks 10 This section fer the present,
we are informed that the company
hare, within the past 81 months FuE-
Chased and saved into tzmber and iuns-
bsr ever Eve million fees zt var1ous
IriIls-pr7BcipallE at Mr.. D, J. Coos
MI Al GOaspgzs-aHd Ar. Il c,
DFers mill s. Lake Charles Ihev
haFe paid ont over sixty thousand
d0Iizrs Tor logs rafting. saving etc,
and furnished freight fer over forty
Iirht drafs vessels III ar additional ex-
psudi4ure Of sixty o5d Thousand dol
lars. making s total Of over one hun
ire5 aud twenty Thousand dollars CIT
cuIated In or community and sur
rounding country They ROW have a
steamer and large sehoOneT-the latter
Of over 100000 feet caPacItF--bO haul
ont and repair On one Of the several
shipwsys around the lake. There Are |
about ! 500, 900 feet Of lumber yet to !
be shipped; bat if the same energy is /
evineed in procuring vessels as during /
the past six weeks, II viii not be long
before this business Will be brought to .
q close in this sectioB-mueh to oDr /
they renew their con
tracts. for It is to such energertic com /
panies that We must look for patron I
age 10 build M OUT cities in the pine .
woods Of Louisiana, that will compare .
with and rival those Of the Northwest /
ern lumber regions.
Over one and half million feet /
have been shipped during the past |
month. and over three-quarters Of ! /
million feet during the past two weeks, |
under the direction Of Mr.. Quinn, and .
there has Just loaded one Of the largest /
vessels that has ever been N the /
lake or its tributaries, the " Mary [
CLARK" and the company's vessel, the .
4" Texas-Mexican," still larger, will load !
as soon as she is repaired. 1t is
source Of qualification to the Echo to
hear Nj Quinn say that the pine Of
this section. although heavier than that
east Of the Mississippi river, has more
and he regards it as more
durable, especially when that gentle
man has handled the pine timber Of
Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia
Alabama and Mississippi. /
or individuals desiring
timber and lumber in large Or small (
quantities viii find it TO their interest /
to visit this section or send men of ez- /
perienee to investigate the quality Of
the same before purehasig elsewhere. /
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