The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1918-07-22

and the vast quantity and variety OF
the products of the sea. Mr.. Buie
stated that of all this he had known
but little, having considered Terre
bonnie parish rather a country of
great salt marshes while, he said
during the entire days drive, with
the exception of in the immediate
vicinity of the gas wells, he had
passed nothing but settlements and
farm lands.
Following the meeting a commit
tee from Houma and Terrebonne
went to Raceland to meeting where
committee of Lafourche citizens
was appointed to take immediate
steps toward the formation of road
district preparatory to bond issue
toward building the road through the
>Lafourche district and work was
begun along this section.
The second great development
came through the visit of J. B.
Fauntleroy. This federal officer had
become interested in Terrebonne
through the report made to him by
Engineer Buie upon the latter's re-
turn to New Orleans. Mr.. Fauntle-
roy came to Terrebonne to pass upon
the project in the matter Of recon.
mending federal aid.
He came, he was shown, and he
capitulated. He now knows Terre.
bonnie parish, or a part of it, at least,
for what it really is. He admitted
after being driven over about $50
miles of the roads already built here,
that he, like Mr.. Buie, had always en-
tertained mistaken notion as to the
real Terrebonne. He saw the vast
fields of growing crops. The mile
upon milE of splendid land, cult
waited and producing, but being
farmed under great difficulty and
disadvantage owing to the lack of
hard surfaced highways to Houma
and to New Orleans.
Sugar Factories Established
He saw that, with a good road to
New Orleans, the production of food
stuffs would be largely increased, as
these could be transported direct to
the markets of the South's metropo-
lis by motor truck instead of having
to depend upon the slower and less
convenient railroad freight service.
He saw that a new and good road
direct from the Bayou Lafourche to
the Terrebonne, where no roads exist
now, immense tracts of wonderful
land would be opened for settlement.
Homes would be built, post roads es-
tablished. Crops could be hauled the
lew miles necessary to the sugar fac
tories already established.
He noted that the proposed high
ways traverses beautiful section
Tar superior to the majority of the
mllage of the great motor routes of
the country-through a section about
which the tourist at the present time
knows nothing. An old, settlement
section, too, where live oaks sweep
over bayou banks and brilliantly clad
oirds sweep like flames through the
boughs of green and the boards of
Spanish moss.
He saw-but there were so manv
things OF interest that count was lost
OF them. Suffice it to say that all
details of his visit appeared to inter
est nm to a remarkable degree. His
statement that he favored the grant
ing of federal aid to build the road
and suggestion that it be Construct
ed' IN one job, across the entire width
OF the parish, was enough to show his
opinion of Terrebonne.
Since the visit of the two eno;.
neers, Terrebonne, like Lafourche
mas gone to work to perfect all the
prehmnaries. No time will be lost
TOT the Importance of the work. and
It's advantage to this section, is now