The Opelousas courier., 1894-04-28

Louisiana, some seventeen years ago,
and has been in continuous cultivation
ever since, without fertilizing, and last
year gave the largest yield of any III
the seventeen years. To be sure, the
field was small, but large enough to de-
monstrate tho lasting qualities OF the
land. -Four miles north OF where the
Midland Road crosses the bayou MalIet,
and just twenty-five miles from the
Southern Pacific main line, is the pres
ent terminus of the road, and here will
be established a new and thriving town
this point. which will not be later than
July /, 1894. The name of this town
has been selected and is to be "Eunice."
The fact that the laying out and build
ing Of this town will be under the per-
sonal supervision and management of
ex-senator G. c. Duson and his brother,
w. w. Duson, the founders and pro-
meters of Crowley, La, is sufficient evil
dence aud assurance of its success.
The grading on this line is all complet-
ed, the bridges are mostly built and
track-laylng Ia progressing as rapidly
as possible.
On both sides of this road, the entire
distance OF twenty-five miles, tho Paci-
tc Investment Company have many
fine large tracts of land suitable for the
culture of cane, rice, cotton, corn or for
other general farming purposes, at rea-
sonable prices and on the most favor.
able terms to actual settlers. They
own, along this line of road, some $4,000
acres, which may be divided up as fol-
lows: $4,000 acres of perfectly fiat,
level rice lands that can easily be Hood
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damming up the many small gullles,
which will act as a drain for the sur
plus water, when It is desired to drain
the lands when the crops are ready for
harvesting; 10000 acres of high, dry
and rolling sugar lands, that are also
suitable for corn, cotton, or general
farming purposes; 5000 acres OF fruit
and galden-tlnck lands, the soil OF
which is OF Il lighter, quicker, or more
sandy nature than those lands suitable
for rice culture =; 10000 acres of these
valuable timber lands, on which can be
found rilnter of every variety known
ii the South-t'mber for fencing pur-
poses, for all kinds of hard and soft
wood lumber, ana for any and all man.
~ufactniing purposes. These lands range
ia prices from 81 to SIP per acre and
eau be purchased in tracts OF any size
from 40 Ia 1000, giving a person as
much prairie and as much woodland
OH his farm as be may want. This is
made possible on account OF the timber
lying on both sides of the streams and
the p~raIIies between. These lands
We're purchased by this Company for
the purpose Of disposing of them to
actual settlers, at reasonable prices,
| aud to keep them from falling into the
hunis of M .ntafnr ~ who uHn!1 nal.
Their sell "r improve them, it being
their desire to have these lands settled
UP at once by prosperous farmers and
planters, and thus insure u paying bust
ness for the midland Branch" in pre-
ference to holding them for the large
increase in value, which this new outlet
will surely give them.
It a man wishes to engage in the cul-
ture of rice, the crop that has made that
section around Crowley, La, famous all
over the United States. here are lands
suited TO its needs, on which he can
raise from twelve to twenty barrels per
acre, the average price for which, for
the last five years, has been S3 per bar
rel, and is raised at the same cost of
wheat in the North. With plenty of
water for irrigatingpurposes which can
be pumped from the inexhaustible
SllCuihS "HItfi tiafSiSS tI1S SCCLIUUs
with a clay sub-soil that prevents the
water from being absorbed by the land,
or seeping through his levees.
1t he wishes to raise sugar-cane, here
are sugar lands that will produce from
twenty to thirty tons per acre, worth
81 per ton at the station. Ii he wishes
to engage in fruit culture, these lands
are the natural home for the peach, the
fig and the plum, while pears, oranges
~nectarlnes, p~omegranates and all the
smaller fruits, such as grapes, black
berries, raspberries and Strawberries
grow to their highest state of perfec-
ton with proper cultivation. It you
are interested in finding a location
where agricultural pursuits are reward
ed beyond the most sangulne expecta-
lions, il you wish to find a home in a
new, and yet ar old country, where ma
ture has exhausted herself in the be-
stowal of her gifts, a country Of easy
conditions and circumstances where
every days toll will bring forth it's re-
ward, we know Of no better investment
you could make than a trip over the
Southern Pacific and Midland Branch
Railroads and investigate these lands
for yourself. Then you could assure
yourself of the healthfulness of this
climate, the fertility of the soil of these
lands, the abundant supply OF pure wa
ter, and the indescribable charms of
these two gems of this southland of
ours, Prairies Hayes and "Faquetai-
que" |