The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-12-09
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mort If seems that the farmers,
during the year or two OF initial de-
yelopment, had organized a httie
state bank with a cash capltal OF
10000. When the bank examiner
came along in the late spring OF
1910 he found deposits in that little
hank of a million and a quarter OF
dollars! o
| "Where did that money come from :!
will tell you. It came from this
city-from Chicago-from the sale OF
/ single seasons crop of strawberries
alone.
i What A Negro Farmer Did.
II heard the other Cay of an old ne
gro farmer in north Louisiana who
had an acre field he did not know
| what to do with. A merchant in the
town nearby suggested onions. III
| ouy all you can grow On that lot,
he told old Nose. Nose planled
onions, and when he cashed IN az
The merchants he received a cheek
for more than $1,000. They were
mighty good onions, and there were
/ lots of them from a single season $
growth.
81 know of another case Of yam
| kee farmer who is now cultlVatlng an
artificially drained farm in south
| Louisiana. He received a check from
the Godchaux sugarhouse for S22oO
for the sugar cane he had cut from
Ito acres Of land. Mr.. Graves in the.
Louisiana booth has personal knoWl-
edge Of this transaction.
aDoWn in st. Bernard parish they
are developing the trucking Industry,
as they are doing all over the state
land a railroad, which only recently
entered Louisiana, has purchased looo
refrigerator freight cars Tor the
Transportation of food products TO
Chicago and other northern cities
from the truck farms along its line
in that parish or county alone. With
in the past month OF two 1t mas al
so purchased 1900 other refrigerator
ears for the handling of perlshaole
products grown elsewhere IN Lou
isiana.
*sUp near Shreveport they have
recently opened up the greatest nat
ural gas wells on the continent, and
low cost fuel is attracting manufac-
turing industries in numbers. In the
Caddo and Jennings oil fields are
some of the greatest Oil producing
wells in the world.
"Along the coast line west of New
Orleans there are the greatest SAT-
. and sulphur mines in the world.
; They are so great that no man has
yet been able to learn how great
they are. The salt mines, cut out in
10 huge halls and domes of crystal
salt, are worth a days time of any
man to visit them. This salt is W
, per cent pure.
Sulphur Deposits Huge.
"The sulphur deposits are SO huge
in extent that they are commonplace.
The method of mining is unique.
Small shafts are sunk deep into the
solid sulphur bed, and steam Jets
t melt the sulphur and force it to the
surface. The cost of mining is SO
cheap that Italy, the great sulphur
producing country of Europe, cannot
! compete in any market where the
Louisiana mines are pitted against
it in direct competition.
'Louisiana's oyster beds are the
most extensive in the country her
sea food is noted the country over.
Her pine and cypress and hard-
wood forests have made many a man
/, d millionaire, and will make many
another millionaire before they are
= exhausted.
Within the state of Louisiana lie
1000 miles of nayigable waterways
which forever guarantee the farmer
and the shipper low freight rates IN
and out.
Such is the plain unyarnished pic
ture of Louisiana.
You may hesitate to believe me
when tell you some of the marVels
OF Louisiana soil. And yet | shall say
nothing that cannot be proved.
Because Of the fertility of the
soil, the open winters, and their ab1l-
ity to grow several crops on the
same land each season, the truck
growers of Louisiana experience no
difficulty in making their land pay
them $1,000 per. acre per year. And
truck growing in Louisiana for the
northern markets is in its infancy.
What Soil Experts Say.
PROT. Fermir e. Bear, the soil ex.
pert of the Ohio State Agricultural
College, says there are millions OF
acres in Louisiana SO rich in nitro
gen that each acre can be made to
yield one thousand 5o-bushel crops
of corn without one ounce OF fertl'
lizer. AS a matter of fact, such lands
might be dug up and used as fertili-