The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-18
EBW ORLEANS WORLDS FAIR
CRY WANTS To CELEBRATE
PANAMA CANAL OPENING.
GON. Sanders sf louisiana says Her
CIAin % Better Than san PrancaseO's
Roll WeeVtI Daa sSme Coed ~
Teaching FARMERS 70 VARY Crop.

san Francisco may want that exposi-
ton Of 1918 IN celebration % the opening
Of tine Panama Canal. hut Gov. J. Y. San
ders of Louisiana says "a can keep on
wanting. for New Orleans has got a cinch
on Il. Gov Sanders. who is at the Wal
dorf rame up 20 Washington the other
day IN a sracial train with the Mayor Of
New Orleans and some seventy five other
distinguished Isouisianians to SO about IL.
and yesterday he said that a. a result he
snsi the other memhers Of the delegation
wer.. satisfied that " the Federal Govern
ment elects To 10 any celebrating New
Orleans will be 1T
The Governor stands feet = in his
socks. ard n broad in proportion. He
~aid he was horn forty-Ons years ago IN
what - known as the swamp portion If
southern Louisiana. and that he - the
smallest and most anRmic oG all his fam
ily 4 graduate 81 Tulane University
and educated for the har. he has been in
politics since Isoc. when he was elected
10 she Legislature on the anti-lottery
ticket. In 1910 he was elected Speaker
Of the House and in 1904 became Lieu
tenant Governor He was elected Gov
ernOr in ieOs.
San Francisco 10 1000 miles from the
Panama Canal. and Ne are only i.2oo,
said Gov. Sanders. 1T takes twenty
one days to get from San Francisco down
there. while you can 20 from New Orleans
in four man from San Francisco Clsn
reach the Isthmus IN nine days II he goes
by way 1T New Orleans. Then there are
other considerations.
Ration Rouge ~ growing very rapidly.
II now has q population % about 95,ts0.
of which fully I5sH0 represents the growth
in the last ten wears. There II a steady
immigration from the middle West and
North west of farmers With means. Why.
down there they can raise crop every
month of the year, and don't have to
spend ak months feeding their cattle
and living N the labor of the other siN.
Why. I have seen more snow IN New York
to-day than have ever seen in nv whole
life IN Louisiana.
The majority II the farmers " the
West and Northwcsf that come into the
country raiss trucs. ana during the winter
they ship carloads and traInloads Of
vegetah les and Strawberries and what
~ generally called garden .ass up
North. The Strawberries are ripe now
and in fact they have been ripe since
September.
This new cultivation has heen going
on during the last ten years. hut IL ~
only during the last few that the TRUCK
ing industry has reached any great pro
portions We now ship traiBloads who're
hve years ago we shipped carloads
They begin planting strawberries ABOUT
Oc;ot'sr !. and keep II up every two weeks.
and YOU carr get spring vegetables down
there any day Of the year
The boil weevil proved 20 h. not
an unmi,igAt@d curse On the contrary,
IL has resulted ia good. II has made the
cotton planters 90 IN for diversified
farming. Up To the time that the boil
weevil scare came our people were
raising cotton almost exclusively and
bought What they ate from other sections
Of the country. The boll weevil brought
home tO them the Necessity Of grow
ing al home what they ate. and nov they
are raising the hogs and corn and grita
that they used tn hly outside. Two years
ago our cotton crop Was a little over
a million and a quarter Balsss. Last year
" was only a little over a quarter Il a
million. Yet 1n the first ~ January.
this year. the city and county hanks
had bigger balances on deposit than
they had two years ago. Las; year for
the first time Louisiana shipped corn
to Texas and To Europe. and IL graded
up with the bcst 81 Iowa corn.
Yes, the bOll we~vtl was a bessing
IA Disguise and IL will eventually prove
greater one. One tale 81 cotton il
usually rpckoned az the average yield
this means a gross earning 81 80 an
acre. A. IS vents IL amounts tn not over
S75. Now II ~ nothing unusual for our
truck farmers to grow SEM "a tJn an
acre Rruss The Increased earning power
has sent up the price OF land
For another thing. We have under
taken Recently the building II modern
roads. and W. have made more progress
10 this direction IN the last twelve months
than any other state in the Union. Sincs
I became Governor. about twenty months
ago my pet scheme has been tho utili-
lation - the State convict force for
this purr0-e and this has proved very
attractive Co Our parishes. which are
the same as counties IN other States
To-day our roads are inD per cent better
than they were a year ago. And "a for
automobiles; Why. We have world II
them down IN Louisiana
We ar. going ~ for manufactures
~ various kinds all over the State.
don't think louisiana will ever again l..
a solely cotton producing state. for We
shall never rely upon u again a. the only
crop. ~ course ] do not think that We
shall ever drop cotton altogether. bat
oar farmers have learned the value 81
diverSiiisi crops and have seen how much
they can he made To pay
In the southern part 81 the state sugar
cane - raised almost exclusively and ric..
~ raised "a m" southwestern. The~. arS
/ old industries with ne every one knows
7 Iiut are engaged now m a great des
Of reclamation work. There have been
: large areas 81 SO-Called swamp lands for
many years regarded a. worthless. but
u was discovered some years ago that
l all they nseSied was ditching You 49,.
most 1t them lie IN basins which have
4 ridges AZ the outer sdg~- and are aioV.
, the sea level - that when You dig a
B ditch through the ridR" the water drains
. itself OF and Won have. as a result, some Of
ths. most fertils land IN the world
! There ~ one factor that has greatly
helpe,i in the reC.ni development II
I.OIILsis,sR and that ~ the building of more
! railroafh. The state has doubled IT.
I railroad mileage in the last ten years
/ That ~ one safe Way Cf estimating the
! progress Of the people.
As for education. Ne have got one 81
| the finest pubic school Hyriems IN the
world. since I have b~en Governor the
people have voted more money for public
| srhools pro rata and the taxable prop
I sVty being taken into consideration than
any al her State Or country in the world