St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-08-19
. A SCHEME
FOR BRIDGE
c.. Beck Outlines a Plan for
Building Bridge.
Would Make Land Invest
ment Pay for Construction
Each Purchaser of Lot En-
titled to Shares Of Stock.
Options to be Secured On
Lands and Rights of Way.

To the chairman and members or
the New Orleans and St. Tammany
Bridge Company, and all interested,
a plan to create means whereby the
bridge can be built, for the st. Tam
many members to put in operation:
First, appoint a committee to see
everyone that has land for sale, say
from west side of Vaudeville straight
up to Chinchuba bay, then to Ozone
Park; then to AleXiusville, then to
Claiborne and across to Covington,
which will make straight line north
of about miles. Then all along
the present st. Tammany motor line;
then along a line from Vaudeville to
Lewisburg and Houltonville; then
along line from Vaudeville to
Bayou Lacombe. Along these lines
the roads will be built. Say the main
railroad that crosses the lake to
Vaudeville will stop at stations at
Chinchuba, Ozone Park, Alexiusvills,
Claiborne and Covington, then con-
tinue north to Ramsay and up to
Frankinton, etc. Then there can be
motor lines, besides the one running
now. One to Lewisburg and Houl-
tonville, one to Bayou Lacombe.
These will be the first points bene-
fitted
Now we will count on one mile
wide along all these roads, and see
the people owning these lands and
put this proposition before them:
(Which would you prefer, the land
on your hands, with no prospect of
ever getting, say $50 an acre, with
out bridge, or to obligate yourself
to sell all your land, say for half
mile on each side of where the roads
are to run, for $50 an acre when the
bridge is guaranteed to be built?"
Then the committee are to sell
these lands along these roads for
$250.O0 an acre. The parties own
ing the land will get $50 an acre,
and the other 5000 is to be put in
stock to build the bridge and the
stock given to the party that buys
the acre home. Now We will say
there are nine miles from Vaudeville
to Covington, about 10 miles from
Vaudeville to Lewisburg and Houl-
tonville, about IA miles along pres
ent motor line, five or six from
Vaudeville to Bayou Lacombe That
Is about thirty-fve miles that will be
settled up first. Now take the thirty
five miles and figure on thirty miles
with $40 acres to each square mile,
and you will have 1920 one-acre
hcmes. If sold at $3.50 each, and
5000 of each goes to build the bridge,
you will have $3.50, 900; ard if each
acre is settled by 3 people you will
have $500 people.
Then again if each acre is asses
sed for $50, and people build on an
average a $3.50 home, there will be
$11 100000 in increased assessment.
Now | propose to the Police Jury
OF st. Tammany that it obligate itself
to lay aside the extra taxes that will
accrue through the benefit of the
bridge to the parish, every year fol
ten years, and take stock for it ir
the bridge for the benefit of the
parish.
AS to the merchants and propert,
holders of Covington, Vaudeville
Ahita, Madisonville. Houltonville,
will say if we get the bridge anc
$500 people, or more, l have no
figured on all the people that ar.
to settle around Covington, New
Covington, Sulphur Springs, Connel
ly Addition and around the othe
towns, think of the value it will Civ
to every foot of mercantile propert,
and the benefit it will bring to you
business, if you know how to get it
! say to you all, buy stock in tn
bridge and make it a success; b.
your endeavors, also, especially yo1
property holders. for your merantil
lots, will be worth at least five time
their present value.
The committees must also get OF
items on all vacant lands around tn
towns to be benefited Now to re
capitulate:
The 80 miles of acre homes
will bring, say ...... $3.50 90
From options of land $50, 90
Abound towns from s.
mill tax on $11 $4,000. 1,72S,00
Pr0perty-holders stock,
etc. I11,o
TOtois Sc, ,050, 90
Now this seems to be as if we al
doing lot from the st. Tamman
side, but outside of the s122,0ol
all the money. including the take
comes from people that the bridg
bring over here.
The plan of Mr.. o. w. Crawfor
of the Louisiana DevelopmeI
League, to build concrete sea wa
out into the lake from each side I
lake and fill it in and sell the lot
the benefits to go towards helpin
to build the bridge, viii also hel
We also can expect to get SON
help from the state, say Whatevt
she gets from extra taxation for te
years. What New Orleans people a.
tossdo to help, outside of buying
home acre and building, don't pr
fess to know, excepting that ! expe
automobile people to buy stock. as