The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1912-08-30
Parish Seat Should Be Located In
Center.
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parish seat we're located in the center
OF the parish.
Every man living on the east side OF
a line drawn north and south through
Jennings, would have to travel a
distance Of p miles additional every
time he made trip to the parish seat,
II it Is located at WELSH iastead OF
Jennings.
The people living between the lines
drawn through Welsh and Jennings
would as whole average as far from
one place as the other.
Now TO sum 10, the people living
WEST OF Welsh would have to travel
% miles further with the parish sea
at Jennings than they would with it az
Welsh, and the people living EAST
Of Jennings would be handicapped in
the same manner with the parish seat
located az Welsh, while the people
living between these points would not
be effected as mass one way or the
other.
A study OF the map on this page
will show you that there are ap-
proximately 3lI square miles of land,
OR almost exactly half of the parish,
located west OF Welsh, and the
equivalent of only about 60 sections
located east OF Jennings. Therefore
there would be the difference between
these two numbers, or PSI more square
miles west OF Welsh that would be
disconnected by the location of the
parish seat at Jennings, than there are
East OF Jennings which would be dis.
commoded, by its location at Welsh.
This means that if there was but an
average OF one man living on each
square mile of the parish aud he went
to the parish seat but once during the
year. PSI of them would have to travel
- miles further IN making the trip t
Jennings than to Welsh, making
total of 1851 miles additional travel.
Or If each man made four trips to the
parish seat--a not unheard Of number
for the wear, they would travel a
combined distance of II ,044 miles more
with the parish seat located at Jen-
nings than they would with it located
IN the center OF the parish. Ell
An W hen the country is littl etter
settled up, and there is a man located
on every quarter section, this distance
would be multiplied by 4 making a
total distance a. l76 miles that the
people would have to travel further
each year, with the parish seat located
at Jennings, than with it located at
Welsh.
Now should these men conclude to
take their wives with them when they
went to the parish seat this distance
would be doubled again. making an
annual grand total of more than
$4,000 miles that the people of the
parish would have to travel, if the
parish seat was located in Jennings.
in excess Of that which they would
have to travel il the parish seat was
located in Welsh, the center of the
parish.
Now MIR. Voter, you, who are loca.-
ed between tie lines drawn through
Welsh and Jennings, you, to whom
the location of the parish seat will
make no material difference as far as
distance is concerned, are YOU willing
to impose this immense burden upon
your fellow men and neighbours living
in other sections of the parish? 1t is
a very vital question to the people
living on the 81 square miles of
territory located west of Welsh,
whether they will be compelled to add
y miles to every trip they make to the
parish seat or not.
With the parish seat located at
Welsh practically every person in the
parish could drive to the court house,
transact the days business and return
in the same day, and as nv esteemed
friend Hon. }. o. Modisette of Jen.
nlngs says in regard to this matter:
ut ought to be worth something to
a farmer, merchant or other business
man, to be able to to return to his
home in the afternoon after the courts
OF justice adjourn for the dav, il he
be summoned as a witness or a Juror,
and then return in the morning for
the next days session."