St. Landry democrat., 1891-02-28
Locals on Louisiana.
GATHERED BY EDITOR G. W. SMITH AND
PUBLISHED IN HIS PAPER, THE DEN
TER GOWA) SENTINEL.

GATHERED BY EDITOR G. W. SMITH AND
PUBLISHED IN HIS PAPER, THE DEN
TER IoWA) sENTINEL.
Newspaper property is very high there
Ponies, good ones. are worth $50 to you.
Sweet potatoes bring readily $1.0O per
barrel.
People 60 barefooted there in winter
time.
Fish are most abundant in the rivers
and bayous.
A good fat Southern cow in the fall
time brings ZIG.
10 cts. per quart.
The cstern water is the finest water we
ever drank.
You can purchase oak posts in the tree
for cts. apiece.
We saw a few banana trees, but the
frost has cooked them.
Blackber and dewber~ies grow very
prolific in that section.
Groceries and products are little higher
there than in Iowa.
There is money in sheep in that section,
if care is taken there.
The birds were singing there in January
as they do here in May.
Oxen sell for $50 per yoke. By the way,
they use oxen for horses.
The ice is manufactured there. and purer
and cleaner ice you never saw.
If you have catarrh or rheumatism that
climate is the best you can find.
Geese, ducks, cranes and brants are very
numerous, especially in the winter.
1t is lawful to sein fish there, ard one
can catch more fish than they can use
A healthier breeze than that which
comes from the Gulf was never inhaled.
The lofty pines make an eternal
greenness, and one Can hardly become
lonesome.
The air is so preserving there that
a carcass will not decay, rs here, IN
months.
We are shivering here in Iowa. They
in Louisiana are enjoying the lovely sun
shine.
The churches in the cities have good
membership, Baptists and MethodisEs pre-
vailing.
No discount on the grand State of Iowa,
but she is a little in advance of the, poor
man without farm.
A poor man can get start in Southern
Louisiana, while he will continue to live
from hand to mouth in Iowa.
A laboring man can get from $50 to
So 60 per day in the saw-mills, but is com
PEELED to keep pace with steam.
In the summer time it is not too hot lin
the latitude of Lake Charles) and in the
winter time it is most delightful.
We saw beautiful oranges on the trees.
They think nearly as much ofappIes there
as we do of oranges here.
Louisiana is a poor place for doctors.
In all Lake Charles, of 1000 inhabitants,
we saw but two or three doctors shin
giles"
A rice grower with half the energy
and push that the North have,
can realize at least $25 per acre from his
land.
Schools are not plentiful in the new dis
tricts. but in the towns and cities they
have good schools. Lake Charles has
fine college.
Mosquitoes are plentiful there in sum
mer. Frogs by the millions, and their
music seems as if the whole creation was
turned into vocal organs.
In passing through Southwestern Lou
isiana, by rail, we saw large deer canter
off into the woods. They tell in that coun-
try that the deer are plentiful. Wild tur-
keys are also abundant.
Railroads are being built in that section
and the North are pouring in and securing
themselves homes at slight ex pense, Com
pared to the same here.
Coon are as plentiful there in the woods
as rabbits are here. The 'possum are in
great numbers. A large black timber
squirrel, the size of our common rabbit, is
numerous.
The Southern hog when not fattened is
compelled to stand twice in one place in
order to make q genuine shadow; but
when fattened on sweet potatoes, they
make as sweet pork as you or ever ate.
Remember we are not booming Louisi-
ana, but are speaking of what we saw and
learned while there. You ask US if we
would enjoy living there. Yes. We would
not hesitate going tom brow if it was pos
sible.
The sportsmen shoot the aligators, not
only for sport, but for the skin which
brings good round" sum. The part
that is taken from the lower part of the
animal is the only part that is of valuable
use.