The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1897-07-17


There is now under contemrla.
ton llne of railroad from Lake
Providence, on the Mississippi; river
to Mcr Rouge, town on H., G. A.
& N. Railroad, in Morehouse parish.
In regard 20 this proposed road,
We are in receipt Of private letter
asking us 10 fight or oppose the con-
struction OF said road, for the reason
that the projectors of it are asking
aid from'the Fifth Leyce District to
construct the embankment; urging
as an incentive for such assistance
that by building said road with "a
sufficient strong enbankment from
Lake Providence 10 the Bayou
Macon hills that SAID leyee district
would be protected from overflow
water coming either from Boeuff
cutoff or any crevasse in the levee
system above the lake. Such a
condition would naturally augment
the danger.of an overflow aud the
volume Of same to the Tensas basin;
therefore, our correspondent desires
us to register kick.
After cares;illy considering the
matter, we are firmly convinced that
SAID railroad scheme will die a-born-
ing for many reasons. In the first
place said road will pass through
the parishes of East and West Car
roll and Morehouse, and each of
them will be asked to vote a tax to
said road, and it hardly stands to
reason That the people living in that
portion of East Carroll above Lake
Providence, aud those south-ot said
road In West Carroll, would vote
the tax. But, for the sake of tile
argument say they did and the road
: was built, would it not force the
Tensas Basin Leyee Board, for self
preservation, to leyee Boeuf cutoff?
And, IN that event what would be
the effect to East Carroll parish?
As this road is only ''thing
talked Of" and kick at this time
from us, even should we do so,
could not be put in anything tangi.
Die, we VIII simply say, some peo-
pie think, and some think they
think, but we are thinking this road
won't be built. -Richland Beacon
News.
Brother Crisler says that he has
been doing good deal of thinking
about this matter, but Ne believe he
has simply been talking for the sake
of filling up his paper. Now,
Brother Crisler, if you are at all
familiar with the topography of the
country, does it stand TO reason that
an embankment should be built for
the road in the Macon swamp on this
side of the Macon hills, and no en-
bankment built fer the same road in
the Boeuf swamp on the other side
of the Macon hills? Do a little
thinking and see the fallacy of your
own argument? But when you
talk of an embankment for this road
you are talking at random, for the
road is to be a surface road, with a
roadbed simply high enough to put
1t above rain water; the projectors
have no idea Of building anembank-
ment, and they desire you to know
that they used no such an argument
before the Levee Board to obtain a
donation of lands. Discard then
from your vivid Imagination all
nightmare of san increase of danger
of an overflow and the volume of the
same to the Tensas BASIN" Chase
away all -idea of still-born en-
terprise; the prospect could not be
much brighter than 1t is now to
build the road, and the Banner
Democrat adds, for your information
that the men at the head of it have
no such a word as ssfail" in their |
dictionary. Brother Crisler, put on
your thinking cap once more, and
think how much better il would
have been for you to encourage the
building Of a road in these parts
than to 'register a. kick against It."
A word to the wise is sufficient.
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