Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-07-24
letter from tas aa6issssksfs' Land Cd
WATERPRooF. LA.; July 20. 1908.
Editor Tcnsds Gazette,
st. Joseph, La.

tition which we placed before the
Police Jury at its last meeting,
and which petition was laid aside
without suy action being taken
thereon, We beg to state for the
information of those who are in
terested in this parish and who
help to pay the expense of Police
Jury meetings and other affairs
dealing with the welfare of the
inhabitants and their interests,
that this petition was :one asking
the members of the Police Jury
( TO arrange to have q few thou
sand booklets printed descriptive
of this parish. these booklets to
be issued free to any citizen that
might wish to mail them. We sug-
gested that these booklets be filled
with interesting reading matter
describing our lands, water,
schools, climate and transporta-
ton facilities, accompanied by the
necessary illustrations. We find
that several of the more thiekly
settled parishes have followed this
plan,. and we believe that it has
been indeed one of the main rea-
SONS why their lands are covered
With healthy crops, titled by
healthy men who have immigrat-
ed. People in adjoining States
have wrong idea of the existing
kconditions in this State and es-
peciaIly our section'of the State.
1t is our idea that the right way
to show homeseekers and others
who might wish to come to our
asections that it has splendid OPP
portunities open for them. When
ever this State and this parish
shall have been advertised as are
other parts of our Southland,
just then will you find labor, con-
ditions change, and industries
that have not been tried here will
he successfully undertaken by en-
Eterprising men from new places
just then will your idle farm prop
erty become valuable. Introduce
ing homeseekers to a country that
has been misrepresented to them
us being swampy, idle, negro-kill-
ling, mosquito and disease-breed-
ing country is like introducing a
new article on the market in lieu
of widely advertised and we'll
known one. You know what eff
fort has to be put forth to change
the custom, even though the art
icle that hasno been advertised
ibe a much more meritorious one
than the first, as is the case with
our lands. We are satisfied that
the present members Of the Police
Jury, or those who succeed them
at some future time Will find that
even though it is not of their initi-
alive, that this plan must be
carried out if we ever expect to
allow Tensas to take her place
among the prosperous sister par
isles.
We, too, are human, and think
that we might be thanked for any
matter brought before the Police
Jury which does not cost any
money and OH which they did
take action. We refer to the soil
survey which the government will
make for any parish that so de.
Fslres, upon the petition of the
Police Jury and their Congress-
man. This will be similar to the
one already made of DeSoto par
ish, this State, aud Houston
county, Texas. In this latter in
stance the soil survey disclosed
the fact that the soil was adapted
to the producing of different crops
than those the farmers were tug
ging 'their lives away to produce,
and the final result is that those
people now know, without guess
ing, what seed to plant, and how
to handle their soil and have been
immeasurably benefited there
from. We received the informa-
ton from Hon. Chas. Schuler,
Commissioner of Agriculture and
immigration, Mt Baton Rouge,
and impaired the fact to the Po-
lice Jury, advising that they take