The Opelousas courier., 1892-08-20
Come to Louisiana.
[Son of the Soil.l

t9Ou III ING SOlt.I
The stable governments which have
succeeded the long years of corrupt
misrule in most of our Southern States
are already exerting o most beneficial
effect. Property of all descriptions,
and especially real estate, is held with
a firm feeling of security, and not, as
formerly, with a we'll defined fear that
the tax collector, under the cover Of
some law, enacted to suit the occasion,
may gobble it up at the very moment
| when the owner is powerless to pre-
vent the robbery.
Agriculturally considered, there is no
State our equal. The products of a
single acre of Louisiana land will buy
the entire crop of a respectable sized
farm in other States. The cost for la
Dor, from preparing to maketing the
crop, is less also, than in most portions
of the country. IF the farmer is a
worker, so much the better-he gains
thereby more than the cost of one man,
because he controls the actions of his
employees to IL greater extent than he
could otherwise do. We can safely
assert that no farmer of intelligence,
who properly diversifies and rotates his
crops, can fail to be successful in Lou
isiana.
Onr climate is decidedly healthy.
Our winters are superb, while our sum-
mers, though long and warm, are so
even in temperature that they do not
feel hot. Our thermometers never get
on a spree and run up into the hun
dreds, o do they get the sulks and
fall back into the %ifties, but like we'll
trained instruments, they keep at o
sober, steady pace and range from 80
to IS degrees, with only occasional
variations. 1t is perhaps better to
come here in the early fall than at any
other portion of the year, because the
acclimating change which every sys-
tenn undergoes with every change of
climate is less severe than at any other
time; but We have known numerous
cases where Northern and Eastern men
have settled here in the spring aud
even i'll the without any in
convenience. 1t was ii sultly July
morning when we first stood upon the
bank of the Mississippi, at the head of
Canal street. in this city, and saw the
sun rise in the Vest, as we supposed,
and we have never had occasion to find
fault with The soil, climate nr people.
We have lived through epidemics, So
called, both cholera and yellow fever
and have been unscathed. We have
tried all climates, from the changeable
atmosphere of New England to the
blisteriDg, ~rainless aud parched air of
the Pacific slope, bat before all and
above all, give us Louisiana.
The most desirable class of emigrants
we can have are working farmers,
skilled mechanics and experienced
manufacturers. We want no aristo-
Gratis or politicians, our wants in this
direction being fnlly supplied-we may
even assert that the supply exceeds the
demand-the market is glutted.
To these desirable accessions every
Louisianian will extend il warm well
come, a genious hospitality and all
needed assistance. No bona-ide set
tier need fear the slightest bulldogiaq,
unless it be by an excess of friendly
attention.
OhSb INV Il al VAIOItfuL tlilG IV B6-
lect and purchase lands. They are re-
markably cheap, and accommodating
terms can be obtained when the entire
amount cannot be paid in cash. Land
can also be obtained on lease for any
desired term of years and, in many
cases, farms will be rented, fully
stocked and furnished. We are pre-
pared to answer inquiries regarding
these lands, and will take pleasure in
doing sc
In conclusion we will say that our
own people must act individually aud
collectively to accomplish the desired
settlement of our %nnoccupied lands
with hardy and thrifty farmers. Do
not relegate the labor TO immigration
Bureaus or any other high sounding
corporation, who in a great majority of
cases, have taxes to grind" at your
expenses. Sell all yonr surplus land
sell it cheap to desirable purchasers
and on accommodating let the
fact be knowR that you have land to
sell and purchasers will interview you
i'm due time.