The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1884-01-19
The North American Land and
Timber Company.

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Learning that Mr.. Watkins, repre-
senting the above company, was ii
town, stopping at the McCIeIant
House, our anxiety to know more .
his enterprise, induced US to impor
tune bin with an Interview. We mus
say, We were much pleased with hin
and interested in his intelligent anc
practical views in regard to bis under
taking. He says all we said in oul
last issue is correct, except that his
engines are slightly heavier than we
stated, and that his company is not q
lumber, but timber company.
Mr. Thompson, the company's en-.
giaeer, is in the field, making exam,
nations and surveys, with view OF
more properly advancing the work,
which commenced last, "Wednesday,
with one dredge. The other will be
ready shortly. A boarding house
barge, for accommodating officers and
operatives is nearly completed, and as
soon. as finished, the construction of
two mere dredges will be begun and
finished, with the usual dispatch with
yhicbsthe company has characterized.
its operations. The steam plow en-
gines and PIows will Propel themselves
overland through the prairie down to
the marsh, or place of operations, as
soon as pointed outby Mr.. Thompson,
which will be in a few days. The
steam plow engines are to be used
not only in blowing, but as well in
narrowing, with harrow thirty feet
in widtb, in propelling heading ma
ChiBe when harvesting, tbreshing out
aHd Fqlling down tie standing rice
straw fat to the grouad, SO as to ia
cilitate ploSng it in. Twdbarges and
steam yacht are to be psed in the
canals and river to tr9RsPort the crop
to the points of shipment
This enterpsiss is one % practical
in all Of its branches, il desigas and
machinery, that the most obtuse minds
cant help but see in it all the Gle
ments of success.
Operations are to be commenced on
the highland borders and extended
into the marsh as the levees and canals
are constructed, and this year the hope !
is to get in some ten thousand acres
only, which, of itself, is no small thing
when this acreage will, at the least cal
yield one hundred thousand |
barrels Of rice, worth at the least calcu-
Iation, three dollars per barrel, or three
hundred thousand dollars. Croakers
need not whistle at this, because this
will do just what they say,
We believe, as everything is SO simple
md practical, ...-
Mr. Watkins glatifed as with the
statement that this is not q stock
but an agricultural one and
,pecially adapted to the culture Of
ice, and confirming What we have
,ften repeated an these columns Our
interview was a most pleasant and in
eresting one, and ended with the re-
lsar4 that he would he meA Supplied
With ducks during the winter, as rice
iclds were peculiarly attractive to
Lemg and with the usual facility Of a
critic mipd, full Of expedieDts, Nj.
". replied, lin that case, a duck pack
.ry would be the order Of the day"
3ut leaving all jest aside, this is an
Enterprise properly located and start
d, which will, in due time, loom up
nto proportions 50 beneficial to every ;
ne in Southwest Louisiana, that we
redict this section, will he in the near
uture the richest and most desirable \
ortion of our State. ....s
This capital, together with that of !
ur saw mills, is the kind we like to
ee come among us, and there is no
ecessity Of an explanation why.
Try my ffty-doIlar buggics.