The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1899-05-06
4 GOOD INVESTMENT

lhe New England Newspape
League is composed of eleven news
papers of prestige and influence
: having a combined circulation O
over 600, 900 copies reaching ev
cry quarter o: the globe. A par
ty of able correspondents travel
ling in a car specially equipped TO,
the purpose is making a tour ol
the South with view of learning
OF its agricultural, commercial and
manufa cturing advantages, which
are to be given the widest publicity
possible to attract the attention OF
prospectors and of idle capital, of
which it is estimated there is over
two billion dollars in the New En-
gland States alone. This under
taking can be carried out only at
great outlay of money and as the
South is to be the principal bene-
fciary it is right that this section
should bear the main expense of
the expedition. And this brings
us to the point that directly con-
Germs Lafayette in the matter.
Approaching the importance of
the movement and the advantages
it offered to localities standing in
need of capital and manufacturing
industries, the Business Mems AS !
sociation intercepted the party of
newspaper men EN- ROUTE to
Crowley and Lake Charles and sue
ceeded in effecting an ARA nge-
ment with the New England News
paper League by which the town
and the parish of Lafayette will
have special ard favorable repre-
sentation in the "write-up" of the
South by the league. and it is cer-
-ainly not unreasonable to expect
some returns from the money we '
nave naturally been called on to q
out up for this privilege.
Withrespect to advertising, COM c
nunlties occupy the same relation e
oward the outside world as does F
he merchant. The merchant ad- a
'ertises his wares that the public
nay know of them, and he creates d
demand for the goods that "
'ould otherwise remain on his IL
ands because knowledge of them o. -
'as being Withheld from the con- .. ..
umer. Towns, cities and sections r r
I country enjoying great natural
esources are built up and Develop /
d in proportion to the extent OF III
ublicity given to those natural al
dvantages. A gold mine is of no
lore value than tract of ordin-
ry land so long as the presence
I the precious metal remains un- ii
:scovered: Lafayette parish pos q,
:sses soil and a climate without d,
superior, due to its peculiar ST.
lation. A climate that is agre- el
,le and healthful and a soil of as
Extraordinary fertility, making it er
ossible to cultivate with profit all
&c staple products of the country, TO
e natural resources of incalculable M
lue that afford the best perma- O
mt security possible to the invest ra
ent OF capital in Lafayette parish. H
nd facts and figures are not want o1
e to show that the town of La
yette, with its good transporta- of
m facilities, hemmed in by one
the most productive sections OF
untry in the world, is an inviting
Id for a cotton mill, furniture H.
,tory, wagon and carriage -
anufactory, and other manufac- -
ring industries of minor impor- -
nee. on
1t was this phase of the question Br
at prompted the Business Mems of
to interest the COM oil
unity in availing itself of the rare &c
portunity the New England or,
ewspaper League offered, Of pre- fie
nting the claims of the town and tn
: parish of Lafayette to the pros Nj
ctive investor. The Business ne
ems Association has engaged to
AXE proper presentation of the
tural advantages of Lafayette Of
rish and the town of Lafayette sut snt
rough the medium already indi- bal
ted, and the strong statistics and no, no,
:eresting data that are to be sa" saw
omitted in support of all claims laiI
vanced it is confidently expect ina ina
will not appeal in vain to capital An
d to trained labor, for we need ant
ained labor as we'll capital, to 90 o1'