The Opelousas courier., 1883-02-10

lduuS dI0 dSScoscu VII VIC dsCidSS VI
about $500 per acre. The parish is
divided into nine school districts, and
some fifty schools are in operation ten
months of the year. The taxes are
levied as follows: lands $2,376,040, live
stock $727, $50. vehicles $S5,200, me;
rhandise $267, 200, poll tax $3.50. ~iE
yer ware S20,340, corporation property
S644, $50, parish property $2,858,200
vACANT LANDS
Aie abundant aud consist of three
classics State lands, which may Yet
t. had III seven townships such lands
may ie had at from soc. per acre aud
upward, and some excellent farms may
ite obtained in This manner. Hon
WIN. IL. Harris, Commissioner Of Agii-
culture and Immigration of Louisiana,
1T New Orleans. may he addressed on
the subject of State lands. United
States Government lands may be had
lii torty-eight townships. Concerning
such lands the United States land off
GERS of this district may be correspond
ell with ut New Orleans, La. Private
lands are for sale in all parts of the
parish at from $I.25 to SIS per acre for
wild aud from $5 to $50 per acre for
improved farms. Such lands in Hi
nois. Indiana and Ohio would be- worth
from $50 to 500 per acre. Titles are
good aud investors when dealing with
the gentlemen mentioned in this review
AN rely on honorable treatment.
Cotton is the staple product, aud
usually from one half to one and Il half
and even two bales of 500 pounds is
made per acre, owing to the season,
care 10 handling, etc. Sugar cane is
grown quite largely and the usual pro
duct is about two ~hogsheads of sugar
and two and ii half barrels of molasses
per acre, the gross value of which is
about $l75. Deductiug all
and with proper handling, sugar plant
ing will pay a net profit of SIS per
acre. This, it will be seen, exceeds
the profits in wheat in the Northwest.
Corn yields Is to 40 bushels per acre,
and with proper cultivation, so bush
els, Oats, IS to 60 bushels. Rice is
also successfully and proftably cult.
waited and yields 35 to 45 bushels per
acre. As high as $50 bushels of swett
p"lh'"es are gown per acre, and I.i-il
p"tai""a reach peri, rtinn All ntlsvr
s""i c'"I'S ami vegetables grow VIII
Whichever cultivated, and fine a.nning.
for large market gar.i,its to suppl, VITA
r"iil Vegetables iiir northern aud Ell I
rin rtfire are ii"W .auusl. ttaiis;nn,iat..t
tlrr'itirs 1ri"g "",; i;irc: aud III; !
Lini.. attention has !n.-u !, 4,
10 ithtt rit!inie. i,nt 1t il Il sirr.ss at,l
Il t'.fitAbt'' nrrf;aatinn. GRAPES 1T
tntt't tail~ttrs att s,Uwn with success
amt Is1''ts r1"Hl Sfnrk ~Ilisi.l. +, a...
III atr chief industries ~ 81 L,nd,y
IL II shawn hy tie assessment of ii...
>i.'"k Soin. hIoniv,i stock has l.-s,, !
an :iiicri. The raising of fine ]s.Iou....i
should occupy IL greater exit ~ !
HE iahabitahis nj this parish. MS TIL.
water, the mild climate and
Lht more than me hundred varieties of
nat Ne grasses, all abundant and nutri
nous. make it n stock ~raiser's paradise.
fortunes await any one who will
pursue this occupations. Domestic
ike Glover, Timnihy, Millrt
mt Blu" Grass, grew we'll and WELD
-it'A nio;is icturns ALnnt s.tie half tr
y Landry is psairie, open and fire.
""tf''ansh Ready la
a. - ~ 'F"if' ihr 'hei' al the
- Wes', VINO are Infatuated
X : "a.'.'s' m"''o y detlshtei
e Sc @I 900 ~, mon VIVA n capitai
abaat S.;ooo " SIV,uoo mere, IN
49,. un,e' cteate iof themselves
- - .o'hes' aha shch are inVlt-
y,ah .a1aanan lito iss advantages.
,]arria. i an;ta hasa - sound, ana no
.ia,,t a. esal 49, 80 9a.len q 90 least sum
;es anu lenclngs Inc vaiie-
.saarai nan;n.aaa arc FiI'e,
svcaaasa MaassI ash, hickofy'
n,aaraas !oiy cypress
10 weeds 49, Ing. valie.lss OF Vaiua-
,,;lI naon go lasiee me a~.tentlon
,itnra waaoa a"ue nsNaIs anu iuf
otn,a sS.a.ago anu othss man
Fam a. -. 90 naao ,ai' n aIe SOY 81
watareS ~ 20 ny paIlsil
treans afsssai g. snss aoa aus aha
. vioat;on bas;ass thsns.sN'. niles ~
md watering every nnrtian, Rnt littis
+ the parish ia subject to overflow, and
part OF the great Southwest could
'e more desirable as a field for immi
rants from a sanitary point of view.
Many Northern and Western men, as
vel as Canadians, have located in ST.
landry and even further South, and
iley are no more subject to malarial
evers and epidemics there than 10 Iii
'ols OF Minnesota The summers are
lot 80 exceedingly hot as some urge,
3 Inc fresh anlf breezes, ever keeping
air IN motion, tempers the effects