The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-02-23
AROUND THE STATE.
Items Of Interest Gulled From the
Louisiana Press.
Big Corporation Formed to Exploit Caddo
Oil and Gas Fields-Canning Factory
Projected at Independence-Abbe-
vile Wants Fire Prevention
Bureau Abolished.

4 InS railway mail S6PVlC6s
The Brolssard Cotton Oil Mill Con
pany, Ltd, was organized at Brous
sard with a capital stock of $40, 900.
The tri.annual convention of th
Association of American Railway Ac
counting Officers was held at New Or
leans.
Travellers entering Louisiana an
nounce that forest fires are destroying
considerable timber in adjoining
states.
4 Experiments in grass culture will b
made at Algiers under the supervision
OF the United States department o
| agriculture.
| A company with a capital stock o
| 800, 600 is being organized at shreve
port and will build a tWenty-mile au
tomobile pike.
DR.. w. E. Hawkins, of St. Landry
parish, sold 1000 acres of pine lands
to the Crowell & Spencer Lumber Co.,
of Alexandria, for a consideration Of
$4,000.
The first annual convention of the
Society of Southern Florists and
Horticulturists was held at New Or
leans and proved successful in every
particular.
The Louisiana anbi-tu berculosis
| league accepted the tender of tract
of land in St. Tammany parish and
will establish sanitarium for con-
sumptives.
A company has been formed at In
dependence to build and operate a
first-elass fruit and vegetable canning
factory. The enterprise is backed by
Chicago capitalists.
The national house of representa-
tives passed bill permitting the Lou
isiana and Arkansas Railroad to build
bridge across Bayou Bartholomew,
in Morehouse parish.
The store of Durio s. Martin and
the adjoining residence of Mrs. Louis
Rogers, at Arnaudville, ST. Landry
parish, were destroyed by fire, entail.
ing loss of about S35, 900.
The farmers and business men of
Iowa, thriving town in the south
western portion of the state, recently
organized telephone company and
are now engaged in installing the
equipment.
The Citizens Oil and Pipe Line
Company, of Shreveport, has been
absorbed by the Caddo Oil and Gas
Company, Incorporated under the laws
OF West Virginia with capital stock
of s3,ooo,ooo.
Iae Ozone Lumber Company, Ltd,
is erecting sawmill at Verda which
will have capacity of $1,000 feet
daily. The company recently pur-
chased $4,000 worth of pine timber
in the vicinity of Yerda.
The town council of Abbeville
adopted resolution petitioning the
representatives of Vermilion parish in
the state legislature to exert their ut
most endeavor TO have the Louisiana
Fire Prevention Bureau abolished.
Alexandria taxpayers voted unan-
imously in favor of the proposition to
issue bonas 10 the amount OF So2,OOO
Tor tne purpose OF erectlng q city nan
ana extending Inc sewerage water
WORKS ana eIectrlc l1gn5 systems.
Inc steamooat fSea River sprang
leak "hlle oelng loaoea with cotson at
alexandra ana SANK IN t"enty-nve
feet OF water. her cargo consisted OF
nearly thousano oaies OF cotton'
practically all OF Whlch mas neen re-
covered.
A. Q meeting OF tne male members
OF the congregaslon OF y. Josepn,s
Cathollc church, at MarksVlIle, over
$40, 900 was subscribed to the fund be-
ing raised for the purpose OF building
new hrick church to cost about
90 80 - = s'.>' :
The Onelousas orooressive 1eaone
mas andeFtaken the WORK OF securing
a bnnns of S3f00 from tho hJ1sinass men
.
OF that city, which will be used IN