The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-04-01


porate limits should now put their
thinking caps on and get ready tor
the coming FIVE mill tax election ON
the 10Th day OF next month. They
should carefully and ihonghifully con
over the probable prospective increase
in values resulting from a narrow
gauge road westward as a feeder to
the commercial aud financial welfare
of our town.
We know that there is a lack OF
confidence amqng our people with re-
gard 10 the building of the Lake
Providence & Western Railroad. and
must admit that the lack of confidence
is but natural, seeing that SO many
roads in this vicinity during the past
few wears have been built upon paper
ouly but we have il from reliable
source that we eau safely venture to
say if the tag is roted the road DiH De
built and of this we have no earthly
doubt whatever. Therefore now is the
time-ihe food tide for the future oi
Providence, which if taken and made
practically available, the future of our
town and suburbs will be crowned
| with steadily growing prosperity, aud
in consequences. al immense increase
i'm values OF lands anu tenements IL
every direction.
Ii is true that according to sh'
present assessment roll five mill tn1
will barely net per annnn say SlOoo
but in our opinion, within five year
after the road is started Tie 8 mill Ia
will cut another sort OF fig;ue aiio
gether; aye! more than quadruple II
present mcageruess, because OF III
crease industrial pursuits consequen
upon the building of the road. increas
of Inhabitants and naturally th
steadily increasing Of the corporate
area
The interior Of our parish wi
necessarily be improved all along III
route Of The road. Large and s'na
farms WILDE oprnd up and profiiabl
cultivated. with steadily increasin
acreage, until the present was
places, now virtually yaiueless, exceI
for the timber growth, will becon
:, real garden spots.
This prospective view OF the pre-
able future is cuueervntively reas"
e able and free from al ything ike G
D trayayance. ALI, bul says the o
o jector, VIVA, are you going 10
r about the water?
e A, frs, glance this inquiry might
Y regarded a. a regular poser. especial
# when il refers 10 the old 'let FER ri
;" big muddy Mississippi but even
re ieclors will admin that the danger
jnundaiiun has been becoming annu
, ly much more modified, and il
hoped will soon be as safe aud secu
!. as anything that human hands can |
a conplish.
:. Tornadoes, hurricanes. cyclones a
floods are the natural dangers Il
exist upon this vast continent, a
many of them cannot be foreseen
!. PROVIDED against. Take for ins'aI
the river rushing past Providence
year ago today i, was well up towal
l. The top of the embankments. III
n far this spring t has moi been over
rs natural banks. aud there is no pres'
rs probability of its cunning over |
y spring.
v. The Mississippi is an cratic ri'
'e draining the eastern aud vest
" sheds from the AIleghenies
ID the Rockies. and no positive
nj cula.ions can he made rs To The
ey ume of water that may come doS
Ell but there are human agencies al W
KS along the eastern and western pia
diveriing away the water from
no tributaries to the big stream for I
he poses of irrigation. decreasing
ID volume year after year as the cout
psi becomes populated. This is esprci
rs, so i'm The vast West. and the day Is
,rn far distant when Overfiows VIII
ssh come things of the past for wan
re. water, and not because of levess
mo sc. which we do mol believe in.