Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1934-06-07

cient arm of the ocean. Now, the
delta, like the claws Of birds foot,
grasps the land projected into the
gulf. It's large fingers form net
work between the shallow bays to
catch the 400 million tons of sedi-
ment annually carried down by the
river Meanwhile the levees rise
higher and higher above the sur
rounding country, and the jetties,
built by Jas. B. Eads, prevent the
river from shoaling at the mouth.
Louisiana is land of immense
dykes, land-locked bays: inland
lakes, sluggish waters. cypress
swamps, and marshes like the Ever
glades.
All these apparently discouraging
factors have been turned to profit.
Sugar, cotton, rice, corn, all fruits
temperate and tropical abound. Our
earliest strawberries, radishes,
muskmelons, cucumbers, peas and
tomatoes come from Louisiana. In
| exhaustible tons of pure salt, in
thickness from 100 to 1900 feet
| have been mined for many years.
1t is $3.50 pure. No publication is
needed and when pulverfZed, it is
ready for the market. Abundance
of cypress and pine make 1T the
second largest lumber producing
state in the union. The largest saw
mill. sugar refinery, and oil re-
/ fnery are here. $3.50 of the sugar
cane, and three-fourths of the sugar
in the states are produced here.
Louisiana is our greatest rice state.
The fur industry exceeds that OF
Canada. Here is the worlds cotton
center. The state claims to have
the smallest church in the world, at
Bayou Goula, only the priest hav-
ing room inside while the people
worship outside 1t claims the first
rural mail delivery, and the first
standard gauge railroad, built in
1881. 1t has $500 miles of rail
wav. and $4,000 miles of good high
ways.
With all these facts and figures
:
appreciate the country we are about
to enter. Coming from the west
over the Old Spanish Trail, U. ;
No. 90, a noble highway running
/ across the continent from Augustine
/ to San Diego, we enter the state
few miles east of Orange, Texas
: We find ourselves amid orange
: groves, sugar plantations and rice
fields. Oranges are very cheap II
: the orange belt, and much Julclel
: than when they come north to US
But as soon as you get away from
t the orange belt, they grade then
{ and price them very much the sam'
) as we do here Rice fields once
! seen, will always be remembered
The fields are plowed and planted
, like wheat, and never cultivated
: The fields are left in parallel or un
dulating ridges, which follow th'
: levels Of the ground everywhere
f giving them a corrugated appear
{ ance. This prevents washing, ant
/ lends them readily to irrigation
/ II
yeritable paradise for hunters am
) fishermen Fresh and salt waite
: fish abound, and there are numer
/ Gus duck clubs here.
e +. Crowley. a noble little city, is tn
e capital of the rice country. One
V half the rice acreage of the state
. is in Louisiana, where they rails
i 19 million bushels a year. valued a
' about 10 million dollars. Some 0
i the largest rice mills of the worlt
: are here. Passing through Grow
' ley we received quite an ovation
The little girls in play platte
ropes OF white clover, which wit
great merriment they stretche'
across the street as we passed un
der, with the car.
= The fine home of Senator Brous
sard is in New Iberia, in the Acad
i ian section. Nine miles south 0
: this is Avery Island with fine tror
ical gardens, and with every va
riety of tropical plant This is
u game preserve and bird sanctuary
Il where egrets and herons by tn
! thousands live unafraid. Fift
: miles farther on the trail we eros
y the Atchafalaya river, the deepes
> in the world. This river, natural
: connected to the Mississippi, fol
y tunately drains aboIt 1870 Of it