The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-03-01

duction OF southern Louisiana and Texas
will reach point during the next ten years
when sufficient rice will be grown not only
for the entire consumption OF the United
States. but also for export in considerable
quantities; in fact. the present export OF
rice polish and bran IL already an item In
the business OF New Orleans.
MORE RAILROADS NEEDED.
AIn 1901 the rice acreage in southwest
Louisiana alone approximated 2,000 900
acres and since then 1t has been very greatly
increased. Many portions of the country
where these enormous rice crops and other
products are to be found are very deficient
In railroad facilities necessary to their de-
velopment, and there IL thus a virgin field
Offering considerable possibilities for rail-
road builders. In fact. 1t Is not hanarding
too much TO state that the local business
OF lines through Louisiana and Mississippi
ought in few years to develop sufficiently
In volume to make It fairly paying propo-
sition. without considering goods originating
In or destined TO points beyond the borders
OF these two States.
We would also point out that all roll
roads now coming into New Orleans are
for the most part Of the year taxed to their
full capacity and are unable to provide
cars for hauling all the freight that 10
offered.
THE port OF New Orleans l. self extends
some twenty miles on each bank OF the
river while the great harbor Of the Missis-
sippi stretches 100 miles above and 100
miles below the city, and along this 400
miles OF front only traokaRe facilities and
cheaply constructed wharves are necessary
to enable the largest class Of ocean steamers
to lay alongside where they can discharge
and load cargo.
As to local terminals, there are con-
venient locations for these purposes OBJ
tainable and where they can be reached
not only from the rear OF the city. but In
its grants along the city front the city has
reserved it's rights and provided for the
contingency Of other roads entering. while
real estate is cheaper land probably will
remain 80 for a number of years. than 1t is
in any city OF the size in the United States
just how long real estate will remain
comparatively cheap in New Orleans is
questionable. The city is growing now
with great rapidity. Since 1900 an average
OF from 500 to 800 new houses have gone
up every year, and the outlook for 1903
creased, that 1908. in fact, will be a record
building year in the city.
80. PLACE TO BUY RRAL ESTATE.
And this applies not only TO business
houses, but to residences also. As the
vast and thorough scheme of sanitary
engineering has developed, carrying with
1t the demonstration that New Orleans
needed only that to become an entirely
boa h,,, Il, L.. -
the demand for residential property here
las 'orrespondingly increased The win
ter climate Of New Orleans is so attractive
that 1t only needed the assurance Of health
full conditions to induce large numbers
of people to make their winter homes here,
and that not in hotels and boarding houses.
but in residences of their own.
In fact, there has been OF late a good
deal OF buying Of residential property here
by people from the North since the recent
marked Improvement in the citys sani-
tation was inaugurated and its beneficial
results made so quickly apparent Those
who have thus invested their money. where
they have done no judiciously, have had
no cause TO regret the step.
As a matter OF fact New Orleans is even
now one Of the best places in the South
for real estate investment for persons who
have a little capital. In the first place
they are able 10 have a delightful winter
home and in the second place the increase
in real estate values has been for the past
five years steady and sure. with the prospect
in view of the great and &C cumulating
impetus Of New Orleans's growth, OF a rise
in the near future that will mean a per-
centage of profit on investments made two
or three years ago that it would not he easy
to match in other fields of financial VEN
turc
But as for that. there is not one Of the
twenty-five or thirty progressive towns
of the South where an investment In real
estate made to-day at rational present
day values and in proper localities would
not double itself in a comparatively short
time. This has been demonstrated In
scores OF instances in the case OF invest
ments made three or four years ago, and,
so far as human foresight can go. the ratio
Of progress in the three or four years to
come must necessarily be greater in these
localities than it has been in the three or
four years just past.
CITY MADE HEALTuFUL
II ia perhaps too much to say that New
Orleanss rapid development Of the past
FIVE or six years is entirely due TO the i'm
proved sanitary conditions Of the city The
city's strength Of position from a COM
mercial viewpoint is NO great that IL -four
ished even when there were intervals of
a death rate that was frightful So doubt
less il would have grown and in a measure
shared the present great prosperity OF
the Southern States. even had the old SLOW
enly conditions and the periodical scourges
incident thereto continued.
Yet il IL inquest ioIablv due 20 the radi-
cal and vigorous measures taken to ohliter-
ate the real state % AFFAIR." in this respect
that the surprising progress 81 the past
three or four years IL attributed There
we're those who al ore time did not believe
that New Orleans ever could he made a
healtl ful city They argued that the prob
lens 81 sanitary engineering were too COM
Ilcat-d and costly to permit 81 their being
worked out to satisfactory conclusion.
The people ~ New Orleans did not argue
that this theory was false. They demon
.iratsd that n IN wac. The problems to lse