The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1886-04-10
SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA.
WORK OF THE ENGLISH
SYNDICATE IN CALCAsKEU
AND CAMERON.

The ssyVaalxins purchaser and
| What rs Being DOne with Nj
RecIalnaing the NHSrsh to Puar,
poses of CiviIizatfOn--Presemt
Cost of lhe improvements
The General Plan of tlne Coma
pamy.
Special Correspondence of The Times
| Democrat.
LAKE CHARLES, La, April /, 1886.
About three years ago there saun.
tered into the Office of the Commits
sioner Of immigration Of Louisiana
Hon. VIM. Fl. HarFis--a gentleman OF
rather slight stature and light weight,
studiously disguised in slouch hat,
flannel shirt and rather well worn
tweed suit. He had companion, and
they hailed from Texas. The com
missioner thought them ordinary
homesteaders. The slouch,hat and
slovenIy-attired gentleman was Mr.. ].
B. Watkins. the head of the English
syndicate which owns about million
and quarter of acres--rather more
than less-of so-called "swamp lands"
in this and the adjoining parish Of
Cameron. He tells me that he has
been studying the South for consid-
erabIe time, and that he regarded the
investment as the most eligible for his
purpose of any his search revealed.
After having seen much Of his pnr-
chsse--and yet comparatively little
it is agreed that such lands at "bit"
(l25 cents) per acre are rather
"eligible" investment. And yet it is
a good thing for the State, for it will
ultimately result in having rescued
from comparative inutility an exceed
ingly fertile tract of land, heretofore
the haunt of wild fowl or the occa-
sional resort of q few cattle. rather
think the public Chat section Of it
appFised of the transaetion) regard or
have regarded the affair as a huge
gobble; of the greatest injury to the
State, and utterly obstructive Of de-
yelopment and immigration; an inn
passable barrier to population; an
irremerliabie and most deplorable in
jury to the State. Anyhow, that was
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THE ORIGINAL PURCHASE
was over 100 miles along the coast
line, and IT is over fifteen miles wide,
at its narrowest point, and about thir-
ty-fye at its broadest.
Its untroddenness, or rather nnex-
has been such that, 10 cut
ting one Of their canals, large lake
was discovered that Is as large as Lake
Charles, and is unknown to maps; and
it is not certainly known that il was
ever visited BY man nnell explored BY
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