Lower coast gazette., 1910-12-31
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 81. 1910.
Time Flies==TWo Years Old.

WITH this issue The LOWER COAST GAZETTE
completes its second year. These have been
trying years on the Lower Coast and while We
presume we should be thankful that We are liv-
ing, we cannot forget the great storms, the pro-
longed droughts and the excessive ~rainfallS that
have done 50 much to lessen the agricultural and
horticultural results Of this parish, upon which
our prosperity almost entirely depends. We
should not forget the plague of insects, the Ar
gentine ant, and the white fly and to cap the
climax, the present depression in the sugar mar
ket and the unsatisfactory results from our
cane fields and sugar factories. Through all
these things, however. we have lived and estab-
lished the fact that the Parish of Plaquemines
has greater powers of resistance to disaster, and
greater possibilities in it's future in the way of
profitable cultivation, than any other parish in
the state. Our great advantages in soil and
climate, our proximity to the sea, with its tenn
pering influences, give US very great advantages
in the production of early vegetables and gives
us practically the only country outside of Cali
fCrnia that can be depended upon for the pro-
duction of oranges. We are thus led to look to
CllS lululc Win every llOpc VI COllotdll liploEt-
ment in our financial situation.
The extension of the railway now construct
ing through to Pointe-a-la-Hac and Bohemia,
the proposed great improvement in our back
levee protection, and in shell road building, are
additional assurances of the good times to come.
We believe that the history Of the next two
years in this parish will enable US at that time
to give a satisfactory accounting to all of our
friends who have been generous in the support
of this journal and will show them that the
journal has been the main instrument in bring
ing about all of the desired changes and in lead
ing the public toia better appreciation of the
great advantages that we possess.
We don't like to use slang, but there is one
word that has become very expressive and that
is a 'knocker." Knockers are the public enc
mics. Fortunately for us, we have but a few of
them in the Parish of Plaquemines, and we be-
lieve that our efforts have been the cause of les
SEEMING very materially the numbers of that few.
The Parish of Plaquemines, occupying as it
does the lower end of the river with nearly a
hundred miles of river line on each side,
is a big delta formation projecting out into the
sea as a peninsula and yet with the great river
running through the center of this peninsula,
dividing it into two halves. The wonderful ad-
vantage that this gives us in the way of in
creased adaptability and productivity Of our
lands to special cultures may have it's drawbacks
in the required necessity for protection Of our
lands from the river in front and from the sea
in the rear, but we all know that the finest lands
jim the world are similarly situated and we know
that we now have a magnificent river levee sys-
tenn and are gradually developing a splendid
back levee system that we believe will furnish
such protection as will make US feel as secure as
human effort can make US.
There is now an active inquiry for lands in
Plaquemines Parish and this demand is cor.
stantly growing. These facts are bringing us
all to a better appreciation of the good things
that we have and we believe that every resident
of this parish feels now more hopeful of the
future than ever. Let us thank the good Lore
for the good things that we have had in the past
and look to the future years with expectations
of many more good things and perhaps better
things.
Until the advent of this journal in this par.
ish we have never had one that has labored con.
%stantly, persistently, insistently, consistently
sincerely and theoretically for the good of the
whole people of our whole parish. Most Loyalty
have these people stood by US and as the years