The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-12-05
From Over Our Great State
Snow and sleet fell at Monroe November

Snow and sleet fell at Monroe November
9th.
Capitalists are investing freely in lower
coast wet lands.
A few flakes of snow fell at Alexandria
Wednesday morning of last week.
The good roads of Iberville Parish are
exciting interest throughout the State.
Fire early Sunday morning destroyed
$4,000 worth of property in Cottonport.
Henry A. McGregor, seventy four years
old, dropped dead while visiting friends in
New Orleans Monday.
1t is thought that more cotton will be
planted next season than for five or six
years in Ouachita Parish.
Many of the farmers in the Estherwood
section of st. Landry Parish have their
ground plowed and are ready to plant next
season.
There was over 5000 bales of cotton made
in Rapides Parish last year. The crop will
reach, if it does not exceed, $1,000 bales
this year.
All planters in Assumption whose crops
WEE totally destroyed by the floods have
made arrangements to purchase seed to
replant next year.
The prairie section of ST. Landry made
more cotton than the wood and bayou Sec
tons. Fifteen hundred pounds was the
average of seed cotton to make bale of
500 pounds.
The States says the investment for ter
minals of the Texas and Pacific Railroad
forms one of the strongest evidence they
have had of the confidence of Eastern
capitalists in the prospects of New Orleans.
Louisiana ranks twenty fourth in popu-
lation and thirty first in land area among
the States. The entire area of the State
lies at an altitude of less than 500 feet above
sea level, while the average altitude is es-
timated at 100 feet.
From 1900 to 1900 pounds of seed cotton
have turned out 500-pound bale in West
Feliciana Parish, while it only required
about 400 pounds of seed cotton to make
a 5OO-pound bale, as against 500 last sea.
son in Ouachita Parish.
Winnsboro, Franklin Parish, Nov. 27.-
The first snow of the season began falling
here to-day, at 10 o'clock, lasting two
hours. This is the earliest snow for this
section within the recollection of the oldes
) citizens. Rain is badly needed in this
section for stock.
The New Orleans Times Democrat es'
Inmates the cotton growth in all sections fo
7 this year at 1875, 900 bales. Louisiana
) is credited with 100000 bales. The croK
has been picked and ginned with unusua
rapidity, and farmers have been free sellers
at current prices.
Building operations in Shreveport ar
, steadily increasing, says the Times. Build
) ing expenditures for November exceed
those Of November, 1911, 500, 1916 and tina
f of October, 1912, by S30,061. Many per
. mits were issued for the construction o
] residences in November and the total cos
r of these residences amounted to $50, 431
SIC, 261 more than for November, 1911.
. The Minden correspondent of the New
/ Orleans Times-Democrat says: The oil
average of 1900 pounds to 500 pounds o
! lint has been the rule here this season
I Some planters intend adopting the com
, mendable idea of winter blowing especial,
j the lands intended for cotton next season
in order that the frosts and SHOWS ma,
( reach the habitat of any insect that nigh
prove an enemy to the crop next year, be
! sides burying the seeds of many noxiou
weeds and grasses to depth that will de
. stroy their fecundity.