Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-03-02
WALNUT BEND.
Its Flooded Lands and Water
Bound People.
A Few Items About Other Lands
and LeVee Breaks.

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The locality mentioned is one of the
best cultivated districts in the Missis-
sippi valley. The tortuosity Of the
Mississippi and st. Francis rivers
causesth the two t Aow within a couple Of
miles of each other at n part of the
bend, and the food naturally rises
from both rivers to overflow the re-
gion.
By the Council Bend Cutoff, which
occurred May 10th, 1874, twelve miles
above Walnut bend, the country
has been rendered more susceptible
to overflow than il previous years,
though at unusual stages of the river
large sections Of land were frequently
under water, ever before that event.
At the present time there is about
5000 acres of open or tillable land in
Walnut bend, and 825 people reside
there, all but a few being field labor
ers engaged in planting corn and cot
ton when the country is not under
water as at present. The entire num-
Der are now living either in the water
or surrounded by it on all sides.
The first place in the bend under
water is A. S. Rogers, who has forty
acres and FIVE people residing thereon.
He hes a little patch of dry ground
yet, directly around his storehouse.
On Ferd Rogers place fronting the
main river, and opposite Favorite
Island, are 900 acres of tillable lands
all under water, except perhaps a lit
tie ridge in the rear. The country
here is flooded all the way back to
the St. Francis. The people on Rog-
ers' place number 100.
j. N. Rogers place, fronting st.
Francis river, $50 acres open land and
fifty people. Three persons were
drowned here a few days ago and two
some two weeks ago. The stock here
have all been saved as far as heard.
j. L. Stone, below Ferd Rogers
has thirty.acres aud five persons, He
keeps a store and it has four feet Of
water in it.
G. M. Siceluf, at Walnut Bend
Landing, below Stones, has thirty
open acres and five people. The
water is a foot and a half deep in his
store and almost covers the counter,
Mr.. D. Fargason, a brother of the
merchant in this city, has 800 acres
open land and 125 persons on thu
place, which lies just in rear of Wal
nut Bend Landing. 1t is all undei
water and the mules arc stabbed in
Aatboat.
Dunn & Manass' place has 6OI
acres open, and 100 people on it. TIL
laud is all under. The levee, a pri
vate one, broke some days ago, tn
waters washing the new store hous
down. The building cost 5000. Thi
. place fronts, the main river, and is di
, l~rectly opposite the foot of Burdeau,
Island.
The j. G. Berry place, nearly OppC
site Austin, has $50 acres, all unde
) water. 1t is occupied by tenants.
L. H. Dupuy has 200 acres oper
. with fifty people on it, all the Ian
=, under water, except a little pate
= near bis house,
" Captain Theo McGee has 100 acre
open land and twenty people. Ian
: all under water, except a sight'aroun
. his house.
NJ. N. Gaines, $50 acres tillab.
. land and twenty-five people, has
= little dry land around his house.
Frank B. Rogers has $50 acres ope
- land and forty people on it. The
are fifty or sixty acres still out.
Colonel Jesse A. Forrest has 2
:" acres open, with forty people on
The land is said to be all under.
j. M. Sachfeld has 300 acres OPT
and twenty-five people on it. He
back Of Fargason'S, nea the St. Fra
els, and his family and people live
!. the gin house, which stands on rath
tall posts.
of Joe Weatherly, colored, with fl
l. acres and five people, has lands
under.
=. Andrew Taft, with 200 acres op
and thirty people, has all Of the latt
sheltered under his ginhouse, but
=. rather badly situated. His fences
all gone, his houses are too full
water to be occupied, and consider
Bile distress is reported in the vicini
The Faber place, worked by FerG
son & Hampson, has $50 acres OF
no and forty people on it. Except p
.he hapsa little patch, all is covered W
Oh water.
tn Keut's place contains 300 acres o.
m aud twenty-five people on it. Il
for have dry land enough not to n