St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1903-04-04
Canals.

are glorious. a low weeks ago
actual work was began on one, the
st. Landry Irrigation and Deyel-
opment Company'a, better known
as the Bradford Canal now comes
the cheering news that the one
proposed by the Union Rice and
Irrigation Company (or ScEell)
will be begun in the next ninety
days.
A meeting of the stockholders
was held in New Orleanson March
%, 26 and 27, and the final details
were completed. The following
gentlemen from st. Landay at
tended the meeting, and all came
back enthusiastic over the pros
poets:
Tlos. IT. Lewis, J. g. Lawler, DR..
Jno. A. Haas, J. Franklin Schell
and O. H. Tewilliger.
A member of the delegation on
his return offered to buy, and did
pay a premium Of fifty per cent
for ground floor stock.
The following dispatch to the Pic
aynne from Crowley throws light
on the subject:
a'rhe Union Rice and Irriga ton
Company, Limited, which is capt.
tslized at $6,000,000, has elected
tie following officers. President,
II, Bird CasseI, Of Marietta, Pa;
First Vice President, J. Franklin
ftchell, of New Orleans; Second
Vice President and Manager, Geo.
w. Angle, OF New York; Third
Vice -Presidelt, Leon Wolf, of
Washington Treasurer, Dir. II. c..
Webb, of Rayne, La; Assistant
Treasurer, John Ell. Myers, of Lam
caster, Pa; Secretary, George b.
Sears, or Crowley; Assistant Secre-
tafy, @. H. Terwilleger, of Crow
ley. This company proposes to
build the much-talked-of canal,
starting with Bayou ourtabieau,
in st. Landry parish, and passing
through the rice belt of Acadia
and Calcasiea parishes. A great
deal of !ime has necessarily been
consumed in launching the enter
prise, but matters have now
assumed such shape, that the COM
pany expects to break the first
dirt in about sixty days. In 1904
the company expects to water
about $4,000 acres Of rice, and TO
greatly increase this acreage each
succeeding season."
DR.. ]. a. Haas, Of Opelousas. is
chairman of the advisory board.
Messrs. Lewis & Lewis and Mr..
e b. Dubuisson are the attorneys
OF the company.
The headquarters will remain in
Opelousas, as at present, iii charge Of
Assistant Terwilliger. Mr.. Sears,
the secretary, will move here
shortly to assume his duties.
Enoughor the canal will be COM
pleted this year to water some
fiTTteen miles in st. Landry parish.
Eventually it will go through
Acadia and Calcasieu parishes.
Mrs. Larcade's announcement
of the spring opening of her milli-
merry store appears in this issue.
1t will be on the lth inst.
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The good weather continues
and the farmers are working hard
on their bella ted crops. Two more
weeks of such weather will put
farmers on their feet.
The cutters on Bellevue street.
from Dossman's saloon to the de-
pot, are being cleared of the rub
bish and foul mud that has long
been a stencil along that section.
Bishop Sessums leetured to a
crowded church at the Episcopal
church Wednesday evening. This
eminent divine always draws
a large audience in Opelousas. lie
is popular here, as he is every
where.
The Bertha Telephone Central
is now equipped with a new mod
ern switch board, which arrived
and was put in place this week. A
lightning arresteris on the way and
will he put UP next week. The
old telephone poles are being re-
placed by new and better ones-in
fact, Manager Pickett is making
things hum round headquarters.
DR.. A. J. Bereier, has moved into
his new office on Court street, one
block south of the postofiice. DR.
Bercier has added TO the equip
inents of his extracting room the
latest improved nitrous oxide ap-
paratus, commonly known as
Laughing gas" or vitalized air,
together with the best known
non-toxic anasthetfcs used for the
painless extraction Of teeth. He
Invites allof his friends to call on
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