The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1885-09-05
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In its Tnamonth edition of Septcm-
Der in regiow of the Southern
trade, the Tisses-Demoerat makes the
following kindly mention of Calea-
sien parish and the town of Lake
Charles: ain Calcasien parish the
saving of lumber has become the
leading industry, and millions Of feet
are shipped each year The business
would be larger if the bar onfthe Cal
casieu river was removed, anG vessels
Of good size could reach Lake Charles,
the shipping point for the district"
The same paper of even date, in a
lengthy and well written review of the
work of immigration in the South, has
this to say of our parish and our Iowa
friends located in and around the
furnishing little village of Jennings
"As late as the spring of 1888 the
Calcasieu prairie, in the parish Of that
name, was very thinly settled, and
scarcely known outside Of the imme-
diate Yiciuage. 1t was used for little
else than grazing, and the few inhabi-
tants were pastoral rather than agricnl-
tural. Through this beautiful and
fertile country only night passenger
trains were then running, and it might
have remained unheeded for years but
that a practical Iowa farmer CHANGED
to visit the region. He liked it well
enough to take up some government
land, and then lost no time in telling
his Northern friends and neighbors of
his lucky find. The Illinois Central
Railway encouraged the solitary pio-
neer, who sent letters to Iowa pa
pers and spread descriptive circulars
throughout several States The COM
mencement of the movement dates
back only two years. To-day the re-
suits Of Mr.. Cary's agitation are pre-
scented in the Iowa colony of over 800
families of intelligent Western farmers,
all settled on government land, and
clustered around the thriving village
of Jennings. They have a church,
schools and horticultural society, fen
ces, comfortable homes and good
barns, a good and growing live stock
interest, successful and profitable agri-
culture, improved farm machinery,
and they are about TO start canning
factory for the fruits which they are
producing in great Profusion-frnits
such as apricots, figs, pears, nectarines,
olives, plums, pomegranates and so on.
Orange groves are doing finely and
bearing well. Within a radius of
thirty miles from the village over
100000, were raised last year.
The coIonists represent the climate as
perpetual spring" Sickness is nearly
unknown, and one of them declares
that "any man who works with judg
ment gets rich"
The New Orleans City Hem of the
LIST inst, furnishes us the following
good news, which shows plainly that
our Northern friends are awakening
TO the fact that no section in the South
offers more favorable inducements to
settlers than our rich prairie lands
"Register Darrall this morning re-
ceived from L. L. Browning, of Dem
ing, Grant county, N. NJ, letter,
stating that be wrote in the name of
himself and three other Young men of
family and means, for information
relative to public lands in Caleasieu
and St. Landry parish, where all four
are DESTROYS Of settling. Full informa-
ton will be sent. That the prairie
region of Louisiana is attracting at
tention and rapidly settling up, is
shown by the voluminous eorrespon-
dence of the Land Office concerning
the same"
Dr. Darrall also informs the N. o.
Pieayaiae that fully 500 families Of
farmers from different parts of the
United States will settle in Caleasieu
and the Attakapas country during the
coming winter We say by all means
let them come. Nowhere in the South
can be found such advantages as oul
lands offer to those who desire to til
the soil, and nowhere in the world
will strangers be more Hospitality re
eeiyed than right here in Calcasieu, as
our people are fully aware of the ad
vantages Of immigration, especially o.
such a class of people as DIR. Darral
speaks.
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