The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1912-09-13

Of improved Louisiana real estate in
this section Of the state.
capital, Welsh boasts one of the big.
gest and best equipped country mills
in the state, q concern that does hund.
reds of thousands of dollars worth of
business annually and furnishes en-
ploYment to very cOnsidera bic num-
Der Of workmen. The Welsh Machine
Shops, is a manufacturing establish
ment that manufactures annually a
large number of deep we'll pumps, and
strainer for both water and oil wells,
and in addition does a general ma
chine shop business. The Armstrong
Machine g. Well Works Co. has one
of the best equipped machine shops in
Southwestern Louisiana, and t h e
farmer who cannot get, his work done
at this shop, would find it useless to
take it to any other in this section of
the state. The Welsh Pop & Bottling
works is an establishment that is doing
q very considerate business and is con-
stanty widening it sphere of influence.
Welsh also has we'll equipped auto
garage which. makes, Or mends almost
anything in the line of machinery,
Welsh also has a Cement Block &
Brick Plant that furish cement brick
and building blocks to this and sur.
rouuning communities, for all XII nds
of building purposes.
Brick Buildings. within the past
three years business men OF Welsh
have erected first class brick buildings
that are today housing from eighteen
to twenty of the leading departments
of business in the city, and in tbs
connection we may say that more than
two-thirds of the business in Welsh is
now conducted in BRICK building,
while new ones are even now in pro-
cess of building. We believe we can
safely assert that welsh has built more
brick buildings within the past three
wears than all the other towns in
Jefferson Davis parish combined.
Railroad Facilities; IN Welsh are
equal to those of any town in the par
ish being situated on the main line
of the Southern Pacific and regular
stopping point for all trains. We have
four passenger trains each way dailv
that permit those who do not wishing
to drive to the parish seat to come on
the train at anytime in the day or
night from either way.
Good Roads: Welsh has splendid
system of roads radiating from her
in all direction, being situated on the
transparish graded road which gives
ON east and west outlet, and also hav'
ing g. number of we'll graded roads ex
tending. north and southeast and west
IN addition to the parish road, it is
possible to drive either team or q car
70 Welsh, from almost any section OF
the parish, in almost any KIND OF
weather.
Welsh is essentially atowa OF homes
and home owners, fully eighty percent
of the residents of the city owning
their homes, and giving to them that
care and attention that either renters
or owners OF rental property do not
care to give And while Welsh lays
claims to no boom, still within the past
Ave wears large number OF new
homes have been built here. vet in the
face Of the continued steady building
there are few vacant houses In town,
there being at the present time prooa'
bly less than half dozen dwelling
houses vacant and but two empty
bnsiness houses and one OF these be-
longs to q Jennings firm.
Electric Lights; Welsh has o private
alec,ric lighting company that is at the
present time furnishing electric lights
10 practically half the business con-
Germs OF the town. aud expects to ex'
tend it's lights further 10 the near
future.
In fact Welsh offers you every