The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-06-19

did not meet the approval of the police
and he Immediately began firing at
the black but his aim being wild the
negro escaped. Constable Mozard
Girouard was truer in his aim Mon
day. when finding the negro near his
home, he shot him in the LEG breaking
the bone and cap,ucii the buck. Had
he missed his shot NJ doubt the negro
would have killed him as he was at
tempting to draw MS weapon.
The crops in this section are look
ing much better since the rains ami
with Il few more good showers the
yield will be up to the average.
Land Drainag, In lafayette Parish.
To The Advertiser:
Being impressed with the great i'm
portance of the move t. secure needed
drainage for a large and important
section OF Lafayette parish, attended
the meeting of land n and citi-
zens OF the first, second and eighth
wards held in Scott the 1854 instant
for the purpose of considering avs
and means TO establish a drainage
system that would meet all require
ments
1t was a very representative gather
inc of citizens, and much earnest in
terest was shown in the discussions of
the subject which took place. There
was a p%erfeco unanimity Of sentiment
as to the absolute necessity existing
for the proposed drainage, and as to
the most feasible method of raising
funds to carry out the undertaking.
And a committee of fifteen landowners
five from each one of the three wards
Interested was appointed and iu-
Structed to take the necessary pre-
liminary steps to put into effect the
views and conclusions of the meeting.
In point of the value and extent of
the practical benefits that are bound
to result from this movement carried
to a successful end, it is to be regard
ed as one of the most important
events in the history of LAFAYETTE
pan lob' II diOt VI lob ldtluS ana
lands subject to overflow can be. great
ly improved by making them more
productive, and their productivenes SIS
can be largely increased by means of
drainage.
There are hundreds of acres of land
in this parish: especially in the second
ward, that are now yielding crops of
cotton and corn less than one.half of
what they could be made to produce
under more favorable conditions of
drainage. Think of what a great
difference it would make in the pros
perity of the farmers in that section of
the parish if they harvested every
year crops twice as large as the crops
they are now raising. That this can
be done with the help of drainage
there is no doubt, and the cost of the
drainage would be ten or twenty times
less than the amount of money these
farmers are losing each year on &C.
count of the lack of drainage.
The owners of land in the district it
is proposed to drain by the aid of
canals will show good business sense
by going into this venture, because
they will certainly get back one dol
lar or more for each dime they will
spend in good drainage. If such an
arrangement could be carried out
satisfactorily ! would not ask for a
better business speculation than to
bear the entire cost myself, of putting
in an effective system of drainage for
these lands on condition that the far
would pay owe TO me every
year not all, but only One-half, of the
crops harvested over and above the
average crops raised on these lands
before the drainage system was es.
The land owners and residents in
in the proposed drainage dis
trict are taking a sensible view of this
whole question, and they should o
until they attained the good OBJ
ject they have started out to accom-
plish. And in this important UNDER
which will benefit the whole
parish in a way, our fellow-citizens
the first, second and eighth wards
receive all the encouragement
and assistance it is possible for US to
give them.
N. p. Moss.
La, June Is, 1907.