The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1900-01-06
and could be successfully used as
an experiment station.

ttlI CADcI1IltlU SUdllOu.
ADVANTAGES OF NEW IBERIA.
New Iberia is city of 5000.
The actual enumeration last spring
was 1856. 1t is easy of accress
from all parts of the State by
means of the Southern Pacific
East and West with three trains
each way daily. There are also
trains daily to the Salt Mine in
iberia, to Abbeville and points in
Vermilion, and to Arnaudville and
the valley of the upper Teche.
Moreover New Iberia standsa at the
head of the navigation of Bayou
Teche; and, when this stream shall
have been dredged and cleared by
the United States Government and
Bayou Plaquemine shall have been
opened by the same authority, our
city will possess an artery of com
merce second to none in our
commonwealth.
BUSINESS AND MANUFACTURERS.
New Iberia is well supplied with a
variety of stores which are doing
an immense retail trade. Our
merchants, who are engaged in the
dry goods, grocery, furniture,
hardware and drug business, carry
stocks which are equal in quality
to those of the large cities. Our
wholesale business is yet IN its
infancy, but the trade of our
wholesale houses has been re-
markably successful. Our manu-
featuring enterprises consists of !
oil mill, l rice mill, 2 large lumber
mills, 2 cistern factories, / steam
laundry, 3 shingle mills, 3 sash,
door and blind factories, 3 brick
yards where handsome press brick
are made, 2 fOundries and machine
shops, and ice factories and cold
storage warehouses. The Avery
Salt Mines are within ten miles of
New Iberia on branch railroad
and the Tabasco Pepper Sauce is
made at the same locality. MI
merous cotton gins and sugar re
fineries are III close proximity
These manufactures are all run
with ample capita. to make theil
business successful and they al
turn out a superior quality Of
work.
BANKS AND FINANCIAL INsTITU
TIONS.
Three bankS-twO national anC
Il
one state-handle the finances Of
New Iberia with capital amount
ing to S135, $4,000; surplus and un
divided profits, 1s1,1S6.29; de
posits $3.50, ,256.24; loans and dis
counts $545,247.O1. Another in
=
stltution, which ts rapidly build
| ing New Iberia with substantial
homes is our local building ant
loan ASSOCIATION. Its capital stocl
| is $1,000, 900, and it has paid non
borrowers on matured stock $40,
689.7 .7S, and the value of propert.
decided to borrowers is $2S,6OC
J, It's assets are 100000. It's an
nual receipts are $4,000.
TRAFFIC OF THE SOUTHERN PA
CIFIC.
ii MIR Thornwell Fay, Manager
assistant of the S. P. r. r., pre-
} sents us with the following officis
|, figures of the business at Me-
Iberia for the past three years:
1 Tons Of Freight No. OF Passepge
Forwarded Reed. Forwarded. Rec
1897. 1867 2I,406 3I,5O7 3I,6s
| 1898. 41,s46 24,133 32,755 3a,6s
{ 1899. .43 ,283 25.04S 37259 36,2l
t These figure are rel,ablelndex
. the activity Of New lberia's buslnes
| They shov lively growth and ca
5 not be duplicated BY any point b
E tween the Mississippi and tile SABINE
7 This company has recently constru'
: ted its double track through Ne
iberia and has put in 5000 addition
al feet Of side track. Their Abb
vile Branch which diverges at Ne
a iberia is now being surveyed
4 Gueydar. Plans have been draw
r for The construction of handson
D new brick passenger depot for Ne
n iberia. This will be thorough
]. modern in all its arrangements, al
t. will be equal to the constantly
, oroas,uo traffic ot the Southern +