Lower coast gazette., 1909-08-28

for three million feet of lumber and
timber the dimensions being from 6 by
S to Is by 20 for the diamond mines in
South Africa in just twenty days after
the order was received. After the
lumber was sawed up at Bogalusa it
was shipped by rail to Sliddell, whereof
was put in RATS in the Pearl river and
lowed through Mississippi Sound to
Gultport. Miss, where it was loaded in
the steamer BarkStOn which viii carry
it to Delagoa Bay. whence it will go by
rail to Johannesburg.
The lake at the City Park will be
stocked with black bass the park CON
mission receiving the bass from the
aquarium of the Bureau of Fisheries at
Washington.
The negroes Of New Orleans have
Just erected a sever story. modern, tire
proof building on Gravier and Saratoga
streets.
The Mobile Portland Cement Co. will
arrange for docks in New Orleans and
intends putting coal into New Orleans
from their l0,OO0 acre coal fields on the
Warrior river in Alabama. 1t is pro-
posed to put a fleet of one hundred steel
barges and twelve tugs in commission
and bring the coal to New Orleans by
the proposed inland water route from
Mobile, entering the Mississippi River
through the Lake Borgne Canal, which
would need widening. To carry out
this plan completely will NEAR the in
| vestment of over a milliondollars. Mr..
C. O. Sparrwardt of the company
claims that coal can be laid down in
New Orleans ct Is per cent. less by
this route than as done at present.
The Southern Yacht Club Of New
Orleans is arranging for a big power
boat regatta to occur OF August %.
Floods are reported from Colorado in
the Arkansas river valley.
The secretaries of the Mississippi
commercial organizations met in jack
son last week and organized a State
Association Of Commercial Secretaries.
The Lafayette Parish Fair will be
held from October 9TH to 10th. A big
exhibition hall is being erected at Surrey
Park and a splendid display along all
lines is looked for.
Senator Henri l.. Gueydan of Yer
million parish has been put in charge of
the rice advertising bureau of the Rice
Association of America. Senator Guey-
dan will establish headquarters in
Crowley.
Rice harvesting is on in Caldwell par
ish, where it is being experimental in
for the first time, this year.
Interesting flying machine trials are
being held in France preparatory to
the contests during Aviation-week.
Retail grocers of New Orleans are
proposing drastic measures to abolish
the time honored custom of giving
!agniappe.
Seven cadets have been dismissed
from West Point for hazing Rolando
Sutton, who is a brother of Lieuten-
ant Sutton, into the cause of whose
death a Naval Board has just rendered
a report.
Walter Wellman left Spitzenbergen,
Norway, on August 6, in his dirigible
balloon, bound for the North pole. 1t
is said he was accompanied only by an
engineer.
Three fish hatcheries will be estab-
llshed in Louisiana by the State Game
Commission.
The Louisiana State Board of Health
has decided that the determination Of
rats must be taken up by the Board.
Several p]rostrations have occurred in
New Orleans during the recent hot spell.
1t is now announced that the Frisco
Railroad will enter New Orleans Sep
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The Beinville parish Agricultural
High School will be conducted on a
forty acre farm at Arcadia. The school
will be free to pupils from all over the
parish.
Another case of Charlton is reported
from Lake Arthur, La.
Amite City has secured a fine flow of
artesian water to fill the city wants.
The water was struck at a depth of
$50 feet and comes through a 4 in. pipe
and reaches a height of ITO feet.
The State Game commission has been
offered a TO- 600 acre tract of land in
Avoyelles parish to be utilized as a
preserve.
The Upper Coast steamboat Imperial
arrived in New Orleans last week with
a cargo of 8,242 sacks of rough rice,
getting her cargo from West Baton
Rouge, East Baton Rouge, lbervllle,
Ascension and St. James parishes.
Quite a number of New Orleans bust
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