The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-03-09

The New Orleans Daily States q
March 9Th says:
Some details Of the trip Of the con
gressmen who are to visit the 18th
mus Of Panama and Louisiana thi,
month were receive In the city today
Those who are to take I'm the Lou
isiana trip will gather at the st
Charles Hotel on March Nth. On
that morning they will take the gov
ernnent boat Mississippi and go up
the river to Donaldsonville, WHERE
they will inspect the dam erected
under authority III congress. This
trip Is made In the hope that the gov
eminent can I've induced to cooperate
with the Atchafalaya and Lafourche
levee districts In constructing locks
there. After examining the Plaque
mine locks the party will return To
Baton Rouge, where 1t Is understood
a reception will be given by Gov
Blanchard, who formerly was chair
man of the committee on rivers and
harbors, and which will he partici-
pated In by Col. s. NJ. Robertson. On
the 9th a visit will be paid to the
mouth Of the Mississippi river. The
members OF the party will then go
down the Atchafalayy. stopping al
Morgan City and at Franklin to- view
the place where the inland canal will
have its beginning.
March 18th the representatives will
leave the boat ut Franklin and go by
rail through the interior, to New
Iberia, stopping en- route to go
through one Of the big sugar refinei
les and across a plantation. At New
Iberia a visit will he paid To a big
cypress mill. From there they will
go to Avery's Island at the invita-
tiun Of Civil Service Commissioner
John A. McIlhenny. to see one Of the
FIVE great salt mines la the State
They will go by way Of AbtMviile to
SEE the rice fields, to- Gueydan. tn
Crowley, from there to jennings to
take In the oil fields, then to sulphur
tn zee the mines of which they have
been told great stories. That night |
they will return to Lake Charles tn
see the pine lumber region. c.
March % the members Of the party !,
will leave Lake Charles and going b. |
way Of Alexandria will see Red river.
They will proceed up to Shreveport
10 get u glimpse of the gas fields, and
then move on to Monroe to inspec,
the Ouachita. disbanding there.
The party Of fifty. which goes to
will break up at Colon, and |
several representatives will land at
New Orleans ON the return. Two oil
these are members of the rivers and
larbors committee, and they will
DIN other members of the committee
who are not going to Panama al
he st. Charles Hotel March 18th.
Those congressman. not member
II the rivers aud harbors committee
who will land at New Orleans ON the
'eturn from the lsthmus, will not
AXE the water tour. They will be
he guests Of the United Fruit Com
,any from Colon to New Orleans.
The members OF this party are: Rob
,rt +. Froussard. Louisiana; William
l. Kodenberg, Illinois; James A.
West Virginia; K. G. Ellis.
Bird s. MCGUIRE. delegate.
indian Territory; B. q. Dawes. Ohio.
Often, Wisconsin; Chas. F.
scott. Kansas; Andrew j. Barchild,
Pleasant Chapman,
Illinois; j. Il. Robinson, Arkansas;
fred Lands. Indiana; Earnest F.
Icheson, Pennsylvania; Joseph 4.
tansdefi, Louisiana; Sylvester G.
smith. Barkerstield. Cal; J. w. Lang
ey. Kentucky; James NJ. Gulger. Jr..
forth Carolina; Joseph v. Graf. ILL.,
'ois. and Edward l.. Taylor, Jr.. of
)hiU.
The members OF the rivers and har-
,ors committee who will go to Pan
una are: KansdeIl. Louisiana, and
lcheson. Other members of the COM
nittee who will arrive in New Or
cans ON March 20 for the tour of the
state with Ransslell and Acheson are:
Hack burn b. Dovner. West Virginia:
Roswell p bishop, Michigan; DE AIva
!. Alexander, New York; Geo. p.
Massachusetts; James II.
)av ids0n, Wisconsin; James Me-
4achiun, CALIFORNIA;; j. Adam Bede.
Edgar e.. Ellis. Missouri.
and John Ii. Bankhead,
bahama: stephen NJ. Sparkman.
Geo. r. BURGESS, Texas:
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