Lower coast gazette., 1910-05-14

.orEICI.J ORGAN Of
D, ,o,rEnINES PARISH POLICE Jukl,
pr ,oIrEMINEs PARISH SCHOOL boAHD,
rL I,0rs PsrIsu EAST BANK LEvEE plsT'or'
"< AXE BoRGNE BASIN LEvEE DlsInr''
GRAND PRAIRIE LEEhE DHl"''
BURAs LEvEE DISTRICT
TERMs:-ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR IN AO'N''''
r.o.oa Of the pointe-a-la- Hache PoStoFlee do
'Vi Second Class Mail Matter.
SATURDAY, MAY IA, 1870
The Good Roads Question III '"'
., Parish.
As the state legislature will soon pc III ~,
;on Of Ration Rouee, We think 1t becomes .I
Jn+, Of every public spirited man IN the DIS
- plocuemines to aid in the good roaus pr'p"
,anda that has been so actively +hot
Gov Sanders since his inauguration, ""U w
rron,ises much to the whole state. As we nav
pfton unmarked. the Parish OF Plaqueh'"es 10
49, fortunately situated than many OF us he's"'
sams 90 far as the lettering of its roads Is con-
oorrod The parish running out to sea as aro"s
neninsula, carrying the river IN us ce"'et'
nroot;ca)lv two hundred miles OF roaos' :"
h,ndred miles Oh each side OF the river '"
r.at .fter We urged upon our readers 'aS.
wear the property of beginning at 'he oo ..s
House and opposite the Court house u"
West hank of the river and there Duilo'ns a.
mn and down as little as we might or as -
.s uo could and to thus make a start anu we
sbo,ld hone finally to settle this dlftcu' pfoo-
lom The latest scheme and one tha1 seems '"
no unite feasible, is for the legislature
sa tEo~ suhmissior OF a constitutional amehol'e",
aforn, road districts in suitable Typographical
localities and +, issue bonds, protected ny aoe.
o,ate t~ayation for the purpose OF MI,
tho roaos and finally liquidating the bonas. ine
D, ;.b Of 81, Bernard, which has been the p",
,oor on the Lower Coast in the matter OF soou
roods has already carried its shell ROAD GOWN "
tho Terre aux Beuf road, some ten Niles uo ""
tho c;tv limits, leaving about thirty-hve miles ol
rood r. be built for US to have a good roao IRON
Nou, Orleans TO the Court House at Polnte-a-'a
Hache. If this road were built We oelleVe 'nA
nroperty values all along its line. would oe sei'
p,otor;allv enhanced. A sale has recently pes'
modo Of the upper part of the Poydras plahta
t;on 2 80 arpentssfrontage having been solo 10
$40 600, or a basis Of $4,000 per arpen' iio''
running forty arpents deep, although Oh 'nS .
tho nublic road 2. 50 arpents frontage OF d 81"
low denth had already been sold. ALE thls mo
a,tss tho full ~value.of about s.. 1000 per front al
len, for lands along the line OF the she' fU'
within easy reach of New Orleans lof marA'
garden purposes.
The advantage of the road to those gong
tho n,r;Sh seat of Pointe ala Hache and TO al
intermediate point would be wonderfully gre
and the parish would have automobile vlslto
by the score every week and prooaoly eve
dav. if the roads were put in order Tor tha' pu
nose and our advantages receive such adVert
mo that it would be impossible to get othef"E
Il takes a good deal of confidence TO 10
sufficiently far into the future to ask poster1ty
,on;date the bonds of such a road. Inc Dulloi
mn Of the great West, however, was done by j
such foresight of the people OF the gf
West. The farmers themselves as well as
railway builders anticipated the wealth that
70 come from the increased population later
and the development of the agricultural .
mineral wealth of the country. If the road
,rict Of which we write, that is from Poydras
pointe-a-la-Hache could be organized, 1t IS
TO- infer that long term bonds, sufficient to pl
,hs road could be foated and long bel
tna bonds would fall due the property will n
.subled in value, just as surely as the anas
Indiana, Illinois and Iowa have doubled tr'pp
or ouadrupled in price within the lives OF a
gle generation.
On the West bank of the river it would
comparatively easy to inaugurate and bull
shell road from Algiers down into the ora
country, altogether some sixty miles OF d'sta
By paralleling the Grand Island railroad thrc
the marsh lands below Algiers some ter
twelve miles of distance would. be cut on
then it would be plain sailing, or may we
plain motoring, all the way down to buras.
y On the Eastbank Of the river below 70
Ala. Hache there is a stretch OF tine terri
thirty or more miles long, which would Ju
the building of a; shell road along the
This country can be made as fine an Oh
growing country as the other side of the
provided the back levee is raised sufncl
- H. .. .oo,op of tho COO ri