The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1884-05-10

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We copy the following letter to th,
Blooming Prairie Tri6ane, pubIishes
III Steele county, Minnesota, which i
from the pen of our esteemed fellow
citizen, s. Il. Carey, residing at Jon
ninga, in this parish. Mr.. q. speak,
directly to the point and facts. just
what is said BY him 10 regard to his
portion Of CaIcasieu can be said Of all
the country bordering On the line If
tie Sunset Raiiroad ii this parish
west Of him
Editor Blooming Prairie Tribune
In answerto many letters Of inquiry
can say Southwestern Louisiana, for
peculiar reasons, has been an undiscov-
cred, unknown country. First, slavery;
then bloody-shirt politics, then opposi-
tion Of stock men and the running Of
'rslI nassenger trains in the night
through TINS 'pv.ss;ful rsnntrv iii
these and more, have kept the conu..;
for a few seattle kings This coun.
try, partly prairie, partly heavy tim.
Der, lies directly on the "Sunset Rail-
road to San Francisco and tie City
of Mexico; l9o miles west of New OF.
leans and 175 east Of Houston and
Galveston, Texas. The most even
climate in the States, (see signal scr
vice reports), therefore, the very
healthest -three-fourths ofaIl diseases
come from taking cold. An even eli
mate gives less liability to colds.
There are no diseases peculiar to the
country. Malaria, in very light
form along rivers, but the prairie is
free from 1t, owing to The Gulf breczes
and excellent water. Water Is plenti-
ful--generally soft temperature 500 !;
wells Ia to 20 feet deep, curbed with
brick OF cypress. These lands are
high above oyerfow---60 az more feet
above the Gulf at Jennings. We are
40 feet above the river, two and half
miles away, The best country for
roads ever lived in land thickly set
with best native grasses, Is easily
broken up, one team sufficient easy
to cultivate, as tools polish OF scour
readily.
Stock raising is now the leading
industry, and all came through this
severe winter with loss NOT exceed
ing per cent they are never fed Or
cared for. and are better than the
common stock Of the North and win
ter better than Northwestern stock,
which Is housed and fed six months,
We have had fresh beef on this prairie
every week this winter up to this
time. Fruit raisiug will be the lead
ing industry In three years time.
Peaches boar Vt two years, and have
been known 10 bear almost consecn-
lively for 40 years, and yaEitIea from
May TO November, Apricots, tigs,
pears, ncctefiHs, olives, plnms, and
pomegranits, do equally 40 wen, and
this Is the home OF tho orange, liking
9f frnitsn largest size and finest ha-
yor--as the 1860 excnrsionists said
t'Much sweeter and better than Cali
fornia oranges.n More than 1000, 600
were faised within d range of a0niles
of Jennings last year. One grove,
FIVE miles east, has sold from one and
half acres $4,000 worth il 1899,
There is q colony Of l50 Iowa peo-
ple, mostly at Jennings, Ia They
have taken Il strip six hll8s wide by
l8 long, al of which was United
States and State lands (otiice at New
Orleans and Baton Ronge), and there
are large amounts ofgagernment lands
left ii tho vicinity, besides Spanish
grants along the streams, Oh Safe al
from &2 10 81 per acre ! think there
are 1900, 900 acres Of United States
and State lands for sale and subject to
homestead and tree enltnre claims III
Gsleasiau and 81, Landry coliRties tar
parishes Is called here.
The climate il justly called peEpet
uaI.sprlpg Iwlll give You j. brief /
the advantages over TcNass We haze
Ia even disigIbntiap ofs rain ever
tha entire year, and saflicant 30
inches. we are entirely surrounded
bv heavy timber except south to the
Gulf base very liglf HoFlheFs deli
cAse fruits IMPLY protected Soil I
easily worked md broken bettsr
aDd ncafer markeis cheaper Mapd
and lumber wood, no0linal price flit. /