The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1886-01-16
LOUISIANA.
ANOTHER "EDEN,.
Located I'm southwestern I.Ou.
isKamm.

Ed. PosT:-- have now visited {
considerable portion Of Southwestern
Louisiana, much Of it by buggy, snt
have carefully studied the people
their characters, dispositions, and in
stitutions, as well as the soil, climate
products, and transportation facilities
of the country.
For a varying distance west of the
Mississippi river, the country is
wATERED BY NUMEROUS STREAMS
and bayous, navigable and intercon.
Meeting and which, where levied to
protect from the overflow of high wa.
ters, make unsurpassed sugar and rice
plantations. But in this region there
is good deal of malaria and | would
advise no Northern man to settle
there, This region is bounded on the
west by Bayou Teche, a sluggish
stream whose general course is north
and south, connected on the north
with the Atchafalaya river, and emp
tying into Berwieks Bay, through
which access is given to ocean steam
ers to the Gulf of Mexico. 1t was
along this bayou that those Accadian
peasants, who in l755 we're expatri-
ated by the English, settled, and a
beautiful description is given of it by
Longfellow in his Evangeline.
Water lilies, in myriads, rocked on the
slight undulations,
Made by the passing oars, and resplendent
in beauty, the lotus
Lifted her golden crown above the heads OF
the bOatmen.
Faint was the air with the odorous breath Of
magnolia blossoms,
Fragrant and thiekly embowered with bios
soming hedges of roses,
near iartsd 70 TnSSe w Snores 'hey gaea aong
Beautiful Is tn, the land with Its prairles and
Under g' the 81 feet et'S a sngi. garden of flowers
And the bluest Of Heavens
nenalng f agoVe no. fora and resting its dome on tne
They who dwell there have named it the
% Eden Of Louisians;n .,.., -, n,
u WaebitaS ttSn 'ne Nof'h through 'Ho bayou
Slowly they entered the Teche, whsre 1T
news through the green opelousaS'"
And the old Accadian patriarch is
made by Longfellow to describe the
country thus:
oHsra m hungry winter conpesIs our blood
like the rivers;
Here ere no ,y stony ground provokes the wrath Of
smoothly @ he plowshare runs through the
soil as keel through the water.
blossom and grass a. s'''V' N'' "
dr9ws more IN single night thsn a whole
Here, too, numbsriess herds run wild and
unclaimed on the prairiesj
hSS forssts soS I of tiseSr S Oe nAu i0r 'n'
Down this havon and ia connecting
wateywavs M nrodmce Of that region
con he carried oithor into tbo Mis.is-
sinni I or tbo GnH Of Meyico and
thepoe n the markets ~ Tie world
~ ;nbah;,an,. Loina fovorod a. al
saa.ona S of ,ha naar Nth oLoica of
sansnor,at;on bo;woon water and raiI
Here borderino tbis beautiful
stream ara nIantations Of nnsnrnassed
fertility, upon which can be grown
almost every agricultural product Of
Iowa, besides the staples OF that coan-
toyme,Les "y with Great varietv of
fr5,ts a. tb;s season az the yoar
the orchards are yellow with oranges.
Lands here range in price from $40
to $50 Der acre. intrinsicaIly they arc
,aonn,, r,vo ,,,v,npn noY, ,ps
"o"fh ,"o n'ppAAp poAnA N',
per acre. ana 10 the hanas o. Noashefh a
people Woula eomnanu suas pgars'
fof oo mics lne fallroaa e,ossiy .oi-
lows the techs, plS s' halayet's,
formerly Ferhliiohvills, iorAs' Guy
pfsneh running nofth lhtougn oPe.