The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-03-07
BOSSIER'S RESOURCES
Halt! here is the best place to stay.

Would that we might take these words
to heart and say, ''The gods have spoken,
and Bossier forever.
/ Bossier Parish is not only the pride of
Louisiana, but is a gem in the map Of the
State and the South; for here the hand of
Nature has scattered diversity of soil
that adapts itself to almost every plant
sand hills for fruits, fertile valleys for
cotton, grain and hay, dotted with crystal
springs as pure as Nature can distil.
Boosters genial cline has not fallen
short in it's attractions, and Progress, like
an Argus-eyed creature, watches every
point on which advancement might be
stamped. At the State Fair held in
Shreveport during the past fall Bossier
won the laurels she SO we'll deserves, and
to-day the searchlight of progressive his
tory falls full and fair upon the foreheads
of Boosters fair women and braye men"
Our splendid Governor, Hon. N. c.
Blanchard, said in his speech in st. Louis:
If you have not been to Louisiana, be in
of his soul he spoke for and loved his
State, and, while not citizen Of Bossier,
she is dear to his heart through the ac-
quaintance of so many of her people, and
no doubt was among the foremost thoughts
in his mind when he stood in the old
Cabildo representing his Southland to the
world.
Rome may be ''the lone mother of dead
empires and the city of the SOUL" but
Bossier is the living mother of great
achievements and enterprises and South
ern genius which, under the restrictions of
the past was chained like Pormethus, is
now through its untrammeled influence
leaping the bounds of wonder and cringes
not at the bar of Northern gold.
On the sites of antebellum slave quarters
school houses are now standing and where
wolves once howled and panthers scream
ed the school boy walks with his mothers
kiss fresh upon his face.
Swamp lands that for ages have been
, the home of the alligator and the snake
' may soon become drained highways DER
which the tread of mans civilization may
: sound. Under the protection of levees
= farms are being titled, and the songs of
: human mothers, blending with the prattle
of their children, are heard in places that
once knew only the notes of the wild goose
: and the swan.
:. And Bossier is being thrilled by the dis
! - hoy
, border. Man has stolen from Nature her
secrets and turned them into his own gain
North Bossier seems destined to become
one of the centers to which great beliefs
. and experiments are trending. In the
hills five miles west of Plain Dealing g
= huge derrick is completed and within g
few days machinery will be installed te
= search the depths of the eternal hills fol
y wealth. While in the Phelps Lake bottom
few miles further west, every effort i:
being made to sink other wells of a like
h nature. Men who for all their lives hat
n relished the aroma of home raised twis
r. burnt in a corn-cob pipe are now loungine
is on the cushioned seats of hotel Hobbies
,e painting pictures on the rifted smoke o
# two for a quarter Havanas. Their rock,
ID hills are cones from which natural gas i
blowing, the swamp and unfertile part
are being pierced by oil shafts, through
- which the crude article is flowing in pay
ing quantities. Wilder dreams than Leon
ards are becoming realities of to-day, TO
the genius of different minds are working
~ hand in hand for the advancement of dis
es covery and science.
he Natural peculiarities that were unques
ue toned mysteries to our fore fathers have
nc through the researches Of geology an
d. physical geography, become land mark
of that point the scholar to wonderful reali
d. ties in the future, and Tennyson's min
went beyond the narrow confines OF hi
d. century when he wrote
.n "For l doubt not through the ages one increasn
purpose runs,
oy And the thoughts of men widened with tt
OF process of the SUNS
VI -, Is it a wonder that we who know Bessie
m love her?-the land of summer and
oK, song-the nursing of Southern skie
where every verdurous field answers
- the calling blue; where the rose an
cypress vine Chamber above latticed wiz
dows; where purple mists and splend
rainbows span the bloom scented meat
Il ows and arch and lyric hill top, losir
n