The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-02-10
RICE YIELD ON AVOcA GREAT.
Err THAN IN WEST LOUIS.
lana PAST SEASON.
Proninest Farmer Comss From
West Louisiana 70 Cultivate
500 Acres Of Rice Here
This Season

MI. h. y. o8nC8, formerly o.
Thornwell, La, a small town located
on the Abbeville Branch of the
Southern Pacific, arrived in Morgan
City Friday morning on No. 2, anG
will make this his future home. Mr.
Banta was accompanied by Mrs
Banta, while the household effects
stock, implements, ETC., belonging to
Mr.. Banta, arrived in two cars over
the M. L. & T. Railroad the same
morning.
The new arrivals will be located
in town until Mr.. and Mrs. Banta
can effect the removal Of their be-
longing to the new home just fin
ished on Rock Bayou, at the lower
end Of Avoca Island, where Mr.
Banta will cultivate the coming year
300 acres of rice land on property
belonging to the Louisiana Live
Stock Co., Inc. The company has
just constructed for Mr.. Banta a
new cottage, with all necessary
barns, stables, etc., for housing and
caring for stock. The buildings were
erected under the immediate super
vision of Mr.. A. w. Pettigrew. and
i. is stated the new home is me IF
the most L. mfortable country res.
dances IN t:..- section.
The arrival of Mr.. Banta, who
comes highly recommended from
Jefferson Davis Parish, where he
was a successful rice planter, and
the beginning of his undertaking on
reclaimed marsh lands near Morgan
City is considered an event Of much
Importance, due to the fact that it
il probably the first Of series Of
undertakins to successfully utilize
all the previously non-productive
richness Of the soil is proverbial,
areas in this section, where the
richness Of the soil is proverbial,
and where such little effort in the
past has been put forward to make
use Of the thousands of acres of the
finest lands in the world.
Notwithstanding the fact that j.
n. Pharr & Sons, Ltd, now have
over one thousand acres Of unclaim-
ed lands in as fine sugar cane as
may be found in Louisiana; and
Notwithstanding the further fact
hat Mr.. Willie Prejent has for the
,ast two years been cultivating,
Nth success, marsh land, where
dorgan City sportsmen formerly
ank to their waist bands in water
D hunting. snipe and ducks, it seems |
lot to be generally known that there
re yet thousands Of acres Of land
nmediately adjacent to this City,
vhich lands could be, with : very
nah cost, made - tilable - is now
he grounds in the City Park The
net that Mr.. Banta, . Successful
armer from another section, nowl
FTives to undertake to build up the
lrritory adjacent to Morgan City is
mile post in the progress of this
,wn and section.
Only about three years ago .
roniinent financier, man success
d in all q his life undertakings,
Id whose judgment any one in
Eorgan City believes to be absolute
! sound, told this Reporter that he
doubted very much if the lands
ver which he had many times gone
. skiff in places and knee deep in
ater in other places could be made
lend itself to purposes Of sue
'ssful cultivation" OF course, this
D a pardonable error, and Mr..
recent for two years has proven
lccessfully cultivating some Of this
me kind Of land, while the Pharr