The Natchitoches enterprise. (Natchitoches, La.) 1888-1965, 1915-03-18

The trade of this city in cotton
alone, has amounted this season in
round numbers to $3.50, 900. Quite
a neat sum and the question is,
what has become of all that
money? (Then like now. gone to
Kansas, Missouri, to pay for meat,
meal, lard, corn and oats. Oh!
how long will we continue this
F. practiceO
We were shown by Mr.. Willis
Holmes, at his store in this city, a
sample of rice from a cask of 800
pounds, raised upon the farm Of
Mr.. l. Wlthers, in the hills of
this parish. 1t will compare
favorably with any rice raised in
the low lands of our State or
South Carolina. eve knew a
farmer in Ward seven this parish
who a few years ago raised all the
rice he and his neighbors could
use. He passed out of the bust
ness, there waJno one to take it
up.)
We are enjoying at this writing
cool and pleasant weather; and as
our weather items last week were
rather mixed, we refrain from
further comment.
MAYOR DeVargas advertised for
bids to repair the Dyke on Jeffer-
son street, John Laplace was then
Secretary and Treasurer of the
city.
Business fat, nothing in fact
worthy OF the name, doing.
Roads drying up rapidly, and We
hope for little life in the Spring.
(How much like now0
The most fertile lands on Cane
River, Red River and the innumer-
able bayous. are smilingly inviting
the hand of the plowman. Thous-
ands of acres untitled that will
produce 40 to 80 bushels of corn.
or bale of cotton per acre, and
still white people will settle upon
the poor bill barriers, when by the
labor bestowed upon these poor
farms, if applied to the alluyial
lands of the river, would yield
TENN ten fold. The best lands can
be had for less than SIS. per acre,
and the chance to procure them
will not occur again in a century ,
perhaps. To those farmers of the
frozen North, we extend cordial
invitation, and will take pleasure
in imparting such information as
they desire. (The same invitation
is still out.
Edward Ezernack has been ap.
pointed Clerk of the Court by
Kellogg: and &. j. 9. Pickett, tax
collector. The latter informs US
that he will refuse to collect the
special judgment tax of 10 mills,
levied ON the rolls of 1873.
Warehouse War.-Starvation
Rates of Storage! 1t will be seen
that our Grand Ecore friends have
become entangled IN the little
game of 'cut-throat" now being
successfully played by the Red
River steamers, and are ripping
into each other at a terrible rate.
As the game only affects those
who play, we suppose the shippers
who pay don't care a dollar who
looses among the warehousemen
so they get freight stored cheap.
That girl that sent a large
boquet of early flowers to the
JUNIOR editor of this paper, last
week, had better be, careful in
future with what she ties her
flowers. She has no brothers we
know, to wear gutta purcha arm
bands, and the Senior Editor is a
married man, and limited about
something you hold up a stocking
with. Look out darling, or you
might get us bound up
The store of Mr.. Wills Holmes,
corner of Front and Washington
streets. was broken into on the
night OF the 18th, and robbed of
over $500. in merchandise.
We intreat our farmers to plant
corn more abundantly this year
than in the past. There never
has been to our knowledge, q
surnlus of carieals made in this