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 ST. LOUIS. 
 
 
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 jfacts Hbout Xouisiana, 
 
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 It is the most fertile State in tihe Union. 
 There are uplands, prairie lands and alluvial bot- 
 toms. 
 Profitable returns from every crop planted. 
 ■Greater diversity of crops than elsewhere. 
 Winter does not consume what summer produces. 
 Truck farmers obtain earliest prices. 
 ^Largest acre yields in the United States. 
 X,arge timber areas yet untouched. 
 Splendid chances for profitable investments. 
 Health unsurpassed by any State. 
 
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 Climate uniform, no extremes of heat and cold. 
 
 Every parish but four accessible by water. 
 
 Orderly communities and open-hearted people. 
 
 Public schools and churches in every parish. 
 
 Higher education readily afforded every citizen. 
 
 Ideal site for sugar, rice and cotton factories. 
 
 Diversity of forest products encourage wood -work- 
 ing factories. 
 
 Lands are cheap, and immigrants rapidly coming 
 in. 
 
 further information address 
 
 J. G. LEE. 
 
 Commissioner of Agriculture and Immigration, 
 Baton Rouge, Louisiana. 
 
Ifotstovical Jacts Hbout Xouisiana. 
 
 Named in honor of Louis XIV., King of France. 
 DeSoto first visited it in 1541, and was buried in 
 
 Mississippi River, near mouth of the Red 
 
 River. 
 It originallj' extended from Alleghenies to the 
 
 Rockies, and from the Gulf of Mexico to 
 
 British America. 
 Father Marquette and liis Canadians descended 
 
 Mississippi River in 1673. 
 L,a Salle descended it in 1682, and in this year 
 
 named the country "Louisiana." 
 Iberville settled Biloxi (Miss.) in 1699, and Mobile 
 
 (Ala.) in 1702. 
 Bienville settled New Orleans in 1718. 
 New Orleans made the capital in 1822. 
 Louisiana transferred to Spain 1763. ,, 
 
 First newspaper Le Afoniteitr, published rn 1 794-. 
 
 Louisiana receded to France in 1802. 
 
 United States purchased it for $15,OOO',0G0' ira 
 
 1803. 
 Centennial of Louisiana Purchase will be celebrated 
 
 in St. Louis, in 1903. 
 The Territory of Orleans was formed in 1804. 
 The Territory of Louisiana was formed in 1805. 
 The Territory of Missouri was formed in 1812. 
 A civil code of laws based on "Code Napoleon"' 
 
 was adopted in 1808. 
 Louisiana was admitted into the Union in 1812. 
 Treaty of peace between United States and England 
 
 was made at Ghent in 1814. 
 Battle of New Orleans (Chalmette) fought January 
 
 8th, 1815. 
 
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 2)e8cviptive. 
 
 Louisiana lies between 2S° 56' and 33° north latitude, 
 and 89° and 94° west longitude, and on both sides of 
 Mississippi River. 
 
 Its total area of land is 45,440 square miles. 
 
 It has 13,255 square miles of alluvial lands. 
 
 It has 5,739 square miles of bluff and bluff prairies. 
 
 It'has 8,103 square miles of oak and hickory uplands. 
 
 It has 7,582 square miles of long leaf pine hills. 
 
 It has 2,556 square miles of long leaf pine flats. 
 
 It has 785 square miles of central prairies. 
 
 It has 7,420 square miles of coast marshes. 
 
 With bluff, and bluff prairies, coast marshes and pure 
 alluvial, all of which are of alluvial origin and contigu- 
 ous, there are 26,414 square miles, the largest area of 
 the richest lands in the world. 
 
 IProJMicts of Xouisiana. 
 
 In 1900, 3,000,000 acres produced: 
 $35,000,000 worth of sugar and molasses. 
 36,000,000 worth of cotton and cotton seed. 
 8,000,000 worth of rice and by-products. 
 
 $ 1,000,000 worth of fruits and vegetables. 
 15,000,000 worth of corn, oats and hay. 
 1,000,000 worth of live-stock and other products. 
 A total of $96,000,000, or $32 per acre, the largest acre 
 yield in the United States. 
 
 Climate. 
 
 No extremes — mild winters and cool summers. Aver- 
 age temperature in South Louisiana, 53° F., in North 
 Louisiana. 45° F. Rainfall, from 50 to 60 inches an- 
 nually, well distributed throughout the growing season. 
 Autumns generally dry and cool, favorable to the har- 
 vesting of the staple crops, rice, sugar and cotton. 
 
 (BeoloG^ ot Xouisiana. 
 
 Louisiana is very young, and from the annual de- 
 posits of Mississippi River, still growing in area. Soils 
 are of recent geological epochs, and produced through 
 agency of water. 
 
(5coI09ical Korison of Xouisiana. 
 
 Sekies. Stage. Characteristic Materials. Characteristic Fossils. 
 
 Cretaceoas ...Ripley Limestone, gypsum, salt, sulphur, oil Exogyra costata and other ex- 
 tinct shells. 
 
 Eocene Midway Clays and impure limestones Ostrea crenuli, marginata, and 
 
 other extinct shells. 
 
 Eocene Lignitic Sands, claya and calcareous boulders Turritella mortoni and other 
 
 extinct shells. 
 
 Eocene Lower Claiborne Sands, clays and marls Ostrea falciformis and other ex- 
 tinct shells. 
 
 Eocene Claiborne Lignitic sands and clays Fragmentary leaves of extinct 
 
 plants. 
 
 Eocene Jackson Sands, clays and marls Zenglodon cetoides and extinct 
 
 species of shells. 
 
 Oligocene Grand Gulf (Lower) Sandstones and sands Fossil leaves. 
 
 ^®°°®°^ Lower LaFayett^^^'^^ } -Sands and calcareous clays Generally wanting in fossils. 
 
 Pleistocene ...LaFayette Sands, clays and gravels No fossils. 
 
 Pleistocene ...Port Hudson Sands and clays Species of living shells, plants 
 
 and vegetables. 
 
 Pleistocene ...Bluff Formation Loams and Loess Species of living shells, plants 
 
 and vegetables. 
 
 Recent Alluvium, delta and shell 
 
 beach formations Soils, silts and shell beaches Living plants and animals. 
 
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 IRivers anD Mater Courses. 
 
 All the parishes of the State, save four, accessible by 
 ■water. Length of navigable waters in the State, 3,S1» 
 miles. Coast line bordering the Gulf, 1,256 miles. 
 
 Hcjricultural Divisions. 
 
 ALLUVIAL LANDS. 
 
 Are protected by splendid levees maintained by local 
 levee boards, assisted by National and State aid. Di- 
 vided into: 
 
 1. Lands of upper Mississippi River and its outlying 
 bayous, and include the parishes of East Carroll, Madi- 
 son, Tensas, Concordia, and parts of West Carroll, 
 Morehouse, Ouachita, Franklin, Caldwell, Catahoula, 
 and Richland. Soils extremely fertile. Chief crops, 
 cotton and corn. Fine grass and live-stock section. 
 Lands are cheap. Timber abundant, mainly hardwoods, 
 with cypress brakes. 
 
 2. Lands of Red River, including parts of Bossier, 
 Caddo, Red River, Natchitoches, Grant, Rapides and 
 Avoyelles. Excellent corn, cotton and alfalfa lands. 
 Hardwoods abound. Live-stock grown successfully. 
 
 3. Lands of lower Mississippi and outlying bayous 
 (Lafourche, Teche, Terrebonne, etc.). 
 
 The parishes are Pointe Coupee, West Baton Rouge, 
 Iberville, Ascension, St. James. St. John, St. Charles, 
 Jefferson, Orleans, St. Bernard, Plaquemine, Terrebonne 
 Lafourche and Assumption, and parts of St. Mary, Iberia, 
 East Baton Rouge, West Feliciana and Avoyelles. These 
 are mainly the sugar parishes of the State, in which are 
 nearly 400 sugar houses, costing, with improvements 
 attached, over $100,000,000. Cotton, corn, rice, oranges 
 and vegetables are also grown. Hard timber abounds. 
 Also extensive cypress swamps. 
 
 BLUFF AND PRAIRIE LANDS. 
 
 Include partly or wholly the parishes of West Feli- 
 ciana, East Feliciana, Livingston, East Baton Rouge, 
 West Carroll, Richland, Morehouse, Caldwell, Franklin, 
 Catahoula, Rapides, Avoyelles, St. Landry, St. Mary, 
 Iberia, St. Martin, Lafayette, Vermillion, Acadia, Cal- 
 casieu,- and Cameron. 
 
 Products, sugar, rice, cotton, corn, grasses, and live- 
 stock. The chief rice section of the State, with 500 
 miles of irrigating canals. 400 artesian wells, and 32 
 large rice mills, found in the prairie parishes of this 
 division. Fertile soils, far above overflow. Ideal loca- 
 tion for first-class farms. Magnolia, beech, ash and gum 
 fill the forests. 
 
®ak anD Ibichor? XHplan&s. 
 
 Include wholly or partly, the parishes of Caddo, Bos- 
 sier. Webster, Claiborne, Union, Ouachita, Morehouse, 
 Caldwell, Catahoula, Lincoln, Jackson, Bienville, Red 
 River, De Soto, Natchitoches, Sabine. West Feliciana and 
 East Feliciana. Small farms, self-sustaining. Products, 
 cotton, corn, oats, vegetables, and live-stock. 
 
 Oaks, hickories and short leaf pines are the chief 
 forest trees, and abundant. 
 
 Ube ''%onQ Xeaf pine" 
 
 Region is made of parts of Calcasieu, Vernon. Rapides, 
 Natchitoches, Sabine, Grant, Winn, Bienville, Jackson, 
 Ouachita, Caldwell and Catahoula on the west, and St. 
 Tammany, Washington, Tangipahoa and St. Helena on 
 the East of Mississippi River. This is the great timber 
 region, and sawmills are abundant, cutting millions of 
 feet of the finest lumber in the world, and shipping it to 
 every section of the Union, and to many foreign countries. 
 Products are corn, cotton, vegetables and fruits. Large 
 quantities of vegetables grown tor the Western markets. 
 
 Mbat Can be (Brown In tbe State. 
 
 Almost everything known to the temperate and sub- 
 tropical countries. Wheat in North Louisiana, and 
 
 oranges in South Louisiana, are types of the diversiiied 
 agriculture available here. 
 
 SUGAR CANE is grown largely upon the alluvial and 
 bluff lands of South Louisiana. There are 400 sugar 
 houses, many of them of large capacity, consuming 1,000 
 to 1.500 tons of cane daily. Sugar cane in small patches 
 grown extensively in North and West Louisiana for the 
 manufacture of syrup. The yield is from 400 to 800 
 gallons per acre. 
 
 RICE is grown on the alluvial and prairie lands of 
 South Louisiana. There are about 45 rice mills in the 
 State, which prepare the entire crop of the State for 
 market. In the prairie section 500 miles of canals and 
 400 artesian wells furnish the irrigation waters. On 
 the Mississippi and its bayous the water is obtained 
 directly from these streams. Area in the State capable 
 of growing rice, very large (over 1,500,000 acres), and 
 crop can easily be doubled at present rate of consump- 
 tion without endangering prices. Recenic experiments 
 in alluvial lands of North Louisiana show their ability 
 to grow this crop. 
 
 COTTON is the chief staple in North. East and Mid- 
 dle Louisiana, producing annually about 700,000 bales. 
 It is grown in alluvial, bluff, prairie, the oak and hickory 
 hills, and the long leaf pine lands. There are about 20 
 
cotton seed oil mills and S cotton mills In the State. 
 More are projected. 
 
 TRUCK GROWING is extensively practised on tne 
 Illinois Central, Mississippi Valley, and Missouri Pacific 
 railroads. It is also a large industry on the lower Mis- 
 sissippi River and Bayou Lafourche, as well as around 
 New Orleans. Hundreds ot car-leads of vegetables go 
 annually to the Western markets. 
 
 STRAWBERRIES are extensively grown in the par- 
 ish of Tangipahoa, and in early spring are shipped in 
 large quantities to Chicago and other Western cities. 
 
 RADISHES from Roseland (Tangipahoa parish) are 
 quoted daily in the Chicago market reports. 
 
 ORANGES AND POMELOS were once grown exten- 
 sively and profitably on the lower coast. New groves, 
 however, are rapidly replacing those killed by the un- 
 precedented freeze of 1899. 
 
 FIGS can be grown throughout the State, but consti- 
 tute an important crop in South Louisiana, where two 
 canning factories convert them into the finest "pre- 
 serves." In South Louisiana. Loquats, which ripen in 
 March, and Pomegranates, are grown. 
 
 JAPAN PLUMS AND LE CONTE PEARS are grown 
 for the Western markets in East and South Louisiana; 
 
 while the native plums and the Kieffer pear are grown 
 all ever the State for home consumption. Peaches and 
 apples are found at nearly every home 11 North Louis- 
 iana, and in several instances the former are success- 
 fully shipped to distant markets. 
 
 TOBACCO, of three distinct types, are grown in the 
 State. Perique (see Exhibit) upon the alluvial lands, 
 is used for chewing, smoking and cigars. Yellow leaf 
 tipon the light sandy lands, for smoking and chewing, 
 and cigar varieties upon the bluff and yellow sandy 
 clays. Fine Sumatra and Havana wrappers are grown. 
 
 ALFALFA grows magnificently upon the alluvial lands 
 of the State, five to eight cuttings per year, and lasting 
 several years. Upon uplands, when properly improved 
 and inoculated, it can also be successfully grown, giv- 
 ing three to five cuttings per year, 
 
 CRIMSON AND RED CLOVER can be grown any- 
 where in the State, if sown in the early fall. 
 
 RESCUE AND ITALIAN RYE GRASSES, if sown in 
 September, will afford excellent pasturage throughout 
 the winter and good hay in early spring; while Ber- 
 muda, Crab, and the various Carpet grasses, with Les- 
 pedeza, afford the best of pastures throughout the sum- 
 mer. 
 
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OATS, BARLEY AND RYE, sown in October, afford ^ IPegCtableS HtC ©tOWU 
 
 excellent grazing from December to April, when, if stock 
 be withdrawn, excellent harvests of grain may be ob- 
 tained in May. These furnish the finest and cheapest 
 winter pastures for stock. 
 
 WHEAT can he grown successfully upon the red lands 
 of North Louisiana, and flour mills are only needed to 
 increase larger production. 
 
 COW PEAS AND VELVET BEANS are grown suc- 
 cessfully in every parish, the former constituting the 
 chief restorative crop for the sugar and cotton planters. 
 The latter is especially valuable upon poor, thin lands. 
 
 CORN is our chief cereal, and is grown in every par- 
 ish. It nowhere receives the attention and cultivation 
 which is necessary for maximum crops. By proper 
 rotation, preparation, fertilization and cultivation, yields 
 could easily be doubled. Crops of 100 bushels in South 
 Louisiana, and 70 bushels in North Louisiana, per acre, 
 have been obtained. 
 
 FORAGE CROPS, including sorghums (saccharine 
 and non-saccharine), teosinte. millets, cow peas, Span- 
 ish peanuts, artichokes, chufas, and velvet beans, are 
 extensively grown. 
 
 Lespedeza striata, alfalfa, cow peas, Bermuda antl 
 crab grasses, furnish annually large quantities of hay. 
 
 In every garden, an attachment to every farm and vil- 
 lage lot. Besides those usually found in Northern gar- 
 dens, there is grown also okra (gumbo) and globe arti- 
 chokes, favorites in the South. 
 
 Beets, cabbages, cauliflowers, lettuce, mustard, onions, 
 peas, radishes and turnips are grown throughout the 
 winter. 
 
 Two crops of Irish Potatoes, one in early spring 
 and one in the fall, can be grown each year. 
 
 SWEET POTATOES of many varieties, and of great 
 excellence, are grown on every farm, and the aggregate 
 yield of the State is enormous. 
 
 FIBRE CROPS, jute, hemp and ramie, could be grown 
 profitably anywhere in the State were there a successful 
 decorticating machine available. 
 
 Stocft IRaising 
 
 Can be very successfully practised. Abundance of water, 
 native grasses nine months, and cultivated ones three 
 months, cheap concentrated foods, such as cotton seed, 
 cotton seed meal, and rice bran and polish, crops of 
 alfalfa and cow peas, easily raised and cured into hay, 
 together with mild climate, are conditions favorable to 
 
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 successful stock raising. Home-grown horses and mules 
 of superior excellence are in evidence everywhere 
 throughout the State. 
 
 Hog raising, universally practised In the Northern 
 part of the State, where they are cured into bacon for 
 home consumption. The industry could easily be quad- 
 rupled, if pork factories could be cheaply reached. 
 
 By growing a succession of crops, and permitting, 
 with the aid of movable fences, the hogs to gather them, 
 pork can be produced here as cheap as anywhere else in 
 the world. The following crops are used: Oats, sugar 
 corn, early sorghums, Spanish peanuts, corn and whip- 
 poorwill peas, artichokes, chufas and sweet potatoes. 
 
 Cattle raising, both for the dairy and beef, is rapidly 
 growing. Improved breeds are being rapidly introduced. 
 Jerseys are everywhere in evidence. Guernseys. Hol- 
 steins, Devons, Shorthorns, Red Polls and Herefords are 
 found scattered over the State, rapidly improving the 
 native cattle and fitting them for the dairy or the 
 shambles. 
 
 Large numbers of cattle are annually fattened at or 
 near our oil mills on cotton seed hulls and cotton seed 
 meal. Small farmers can find profitable winter em- 
 ployment by fattening ten to twenty head of beef cattle 
 annually. Possibilities of successful beef raising, very 
 great. 
 
 fforests 
 
 Of immense areas prevail over the State, containing 
 every wood required in the arts. Timber and lumber 
 trees of every description to be made into staves, hubs, 
 spokes, trays, oars, hoops, buckets, baskets, barrels, 
 houses, doors, mantels, windows, etc., are to be found 
 in our forests. 
 
 Oaks, hickories, pines, cypress, ash, beech, elms, 
 gums, magnolia, maple, cottonwood, dogwood, poplar, 
 willow, etc., are the chief forest trees. 
 
 Area of standing long leaf pine, 6,000,000 acres. 
 
 Area of standing short leaf pine, 4,000,000 acres. 
 
 Area of standing cypress, 1.000,000 acres. 
 
 Area of standing hard woods, 6,000,000 acres. 
 
 ffisb an5 ©ssters. 
 
 There are 1,250 miles of gulf coast waters which 
 afford an abundance of finest fish and oysters. There 
 are over 7,000 square miles of oyster grounds, under 25 
 feet of water, belonging to the State of Louisiana, which, 
 if properly utilized, would grow oysters enough to sup- 
 ply the entire country. Capital invested in the oyster 
 industry of this State will be sure of remunerative re- 
 turns. Canning factories of large capacities are badly 
 needed. 
 
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The fish of the gulf are unexcelled in variety and 
 quality. 
 
 The numerous streams and lakes of the State abound 
 f.n excellent fish, which furnish sport to the amateur 
 and food to the people. The fish and oyster industries 
 are both capable of immense expansion and enormous 
 profits. 
 
 Shrimp, of the largest size and finest flavor, are eaten 
 fresh, or dried and canned in great quantities for the 
 market. 
 
 The spoonbill catfish of our lakes and rivers, is now 
 furnishing a valuable substitute for canned salmon. 
 
 Fish from the gulf, rivers and lakes should supply the 
 markets of the West, and will do so at no very distant 
 ■day. 
 
 JECucation 
 
 Is given by public schools, liberally supported, in every 
 parish: private schools and colleges, and State institu- 
 tions of learning. The latter are: 
 
 State Normal School, at Natchitoches. 
 
 State Industrial Institute, at Ruston. 
 
 State Industrial Institute, at Lafayette. 
 
 Louisiana State University and A. & M. College, at 
 Baton Rouge. 
 
 Tulane University, at New Orleans, has colleges ol 
 arts and sciences, letters, engineering, law and medi- 
 cine. 
 
 Sophie Newcomb College, for girls, is also a part of 
 this University. 
 
 There are graded schools in the cities and towns. 
 The Methodists have Centenary College, at Jackson. 
 The Catholics have colleges in St. James, St. Landry 
 and New Orleans. The Baptists have a college at Mount 
 Lebanon and Keatchie. Female colleges or convents 
 exist at Baton Rouge. New Orleans, Convent, Alexan- 
 dria, Shreveport, Monroe, Clinton, Mansfield, Keatchie, 
 Fort Jesup, Minden, Homer, and Arcadia. 
 
 The above are for whites. 
 
 Negroes have separate public schools, and the South- 
 ern University, supported by the State, and a half dozen 
 or more colleges and universities supported by privatt 
 or missionary contributions. 
 
 ■|RailroaI)s in tbe State. 
 
 Illinois Central, main line, Chicago to New Orleans. 
 
 Louisville & Nashville, main line, Cincinnati to New 
 Orleans. 
 
 Queen & Crescent, main line, Cincinnati to New Or- 
 leans. 
 
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 Texas & Pacific, main line, El Paso to New Orleans. 
 
 Southern Pacific, main line, San Francisco to New 
 Orleans. 
 
 Yazoo & Miss. Valley, main line, Memphis to New 
 Orleans. 
 
 Vicksburg, Shreveport & Pacific, Vickaburg to Shreve- 
 port. 
 
 East Louisiana, main line, Covington to New Orleans. 
 
 New Orleans & Fort Jackson, Fort Jackson to New 
 Orleans. 
 
 Shell Beach Railroad, Point-a-la-Hache to New Orleans. 
 
 Watklns Railroad, main line, Alexandria to Lake 
 Charles. 
 
 Houston Central, Arkansas & Northern, main line, 
 Alexandria to Little Rock. 
 
 Texas, Shreveport & Houston, Houston to Shreveport. 
 
 St. Louis & South Western, Memphis to Shreveport. 
 
 Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf, Kansas City to Lake 
 Charles. 
 
 New Orleans «& North Western, Natchez to Bastrop, 
 La. 
 
 Natchez, Red River & Texas, Natchez to Trinity, La. 
 
 New Orleans & North Western, Stamps, Ark., to Sib- 
 ley, La. 
 
 Louisiana & North Western, Magnolia to Bienville. 
 
 Louisiana Southern, Junction City, Ark., to Ruston, La. 
 
 Shreveport & Red River Valley, Shreveport to Cous- 
 hatta. 
 
 Natchitoches & Red River, Natchitoches to Grand 
 Ecore. 
 
 Branches of Y. & M. V.— Ethel to Clinton, Slaughter 
 to Woodville, Miss. 
 
 Branches of Southern Pacific — Schriever to Houma, 
 Schriever to Donaldsonville, New Iberia to Avery's, New- 
 Iberia to Abbeville, Baldwin to Louisa, Cade to Arnauld- 
 ville, Lafayette to Alexandria, Crowley to Eunice. 
 Crowley to Gueydan. 
 
 Branches of Texas & Pacific — Baton Rouge Junction 
 to New Roads, Donaldsonville to Thibodeaux, Bunkie to 
 Cottonport, Mansfield Junction to Mansfield. 
 
 There were built in 1900, 2.52 miles of new railroad in 
 the State. 
 
 Cities of tbe State. 
 
 NEW ORLEANS, 
 
 The chief commercial metropolis of the South West. 
 Population, 300,000; 30 miles of river front; 6 miles of 
 wharves; next to New York in exports; imports steadily 
 increasing; six continental and three local lines of rail- 
 
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roads; river trade enormous; ocean trade, 3,097 ships of 
 4,643,064 tons; total commerce, 9,000,000 tons; banks 
 handle $250,000,000 exchange annually. 
 
 Largest cotton port in the Union. 
 
 Largest sugar port in the Union. 
 
 Largest rice port in the Union. 
 
 Largest lumber port in the Union. 
 
 Largest stave port in the Union. 
 
 Largest foreign fruit market in the Union. 
 
 Over 2,500 manufactories: capital, 550,000,000: pay- 
 ing out $15,000,000 annually in wages, and producing 
 $70,000,000 in products. 
 
 160 miles of electric railways. 
 
 Six large grain elevators. 
 
 Value of commerce, $600,000,000. 
 
 Exports, $120,000,000. 
 
 It will have a United States navy yard this year. 
 
 It has several private dry docks. 
 
 $14,000,000 being expended in drainage and sewerage. 
 
 Large number of building and loan associations. 
 
 Large number of churches. 
 
 Excellent public schools. 
 
 Seat of Tulane University. 
 
 Seat of Sophie Newcomb College for Girls. 
 
 Ideal site for manufacturing of all kinds. 
 
 Splendid hotels, affording luxurious homes to those 
 seeking a delightful climate. 
 
 Average temperature lower in summer and higher in 
 winter than in any other section. 
 
 It is the Carnival City, it is the Creole City, it is the 
 city of attractions to the capitalist, tourist, novelist or 
 historian. The quaint old city is combined with the 
 new progressive city, and together offer the largest at- 
 tractions to all kinds of people. 
 
 SHREVEPORT. 
 
 Population, 25,000; on Red River, with tributary coast 
 line of 1,000 miles, and eight railroads completed, and 
 four prospected; railroad center of North Louisiana; 
 handsome public buildings; electric railroads, lights 
 and fire alarm; four banks, capital, $700,000; large cot- 
 ton receipts: oil mills, fertilizer factories, railroad shops, 
 a cotton mill, cotton compresses and other industries; 
 graded schools, male and female academies; liberal hos- 
 pitality and great business push. 
 
 BATON ROUGE. 
 
 Capital of State; population, 15,000; situated on first 
 bluffs of Mississippi River; handsome State capitol; 
 
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 state penitentiary: deaf and dumb asylum, blind asy- 
 lum: location superb; four banks; one insurance com- 
 pany: sugar refinery: oar factory; two immense lum- 
 ber mills: two brick factories: two ice plants; a hoop 
 factory: a barrel factory: two oil mills; a fertilizer 
 factory; electric street cars; railroad and river facili- 
 ties excellent: surrounded by finest agricultural lands: 
 seat of State University and Agricultural and Mechani- 
 cal College, and State Experiment Station; health ex- 
 cellent: people refined and progressive. 
 
 NEW IBERIA. 
 
 On the Teche; population, 10,000: several banks: oil 
 mill; rice mill; lumber mills: cotton factory; in midst 
 of rich sugar section; excellent schools; progressive 
 city; refined people. 
 
 LAKE CHARLES. 
 
 On the Calcasieu; population, 9,000: large lumber 
 mills; rice mills: three banks: sugar factory; two 
 foundries; one fence factory; several brick yards; steam 
 laundries; car shops; full of push; situated in Calcasieu 
 parish, which has increased in taxable value nearly 
 ten times in ten years; in midst of rice fields; twelve 
 
 miles of street railways; electric lights, water works 
 and ice plant. 
 
 MONROE. 
 
 On Ouachita River; population, 8,000; three banks; 
 two oil mills: one cotton mill; two cotton compresses; 
 railroad shops; ice factories; large cotton receipts; 
 splendid shipping facilities: fine schools; business cen- 
 ter; excellent streets; refined and progressive people. 
 
 ALEXANDRIA. 
 
 On the Red River; population, 6,000; railroad center 
 of middle Louisiana; banks, oil mills, ice factories, and 
 other industries; on confines of sugar and cotton lands; 
 rich agricultural surroundings; cultivated people, full 
 of enterprise. 
 
 OTHER TOWNS. 
 
 Crowley, Natchitoches, Opelousas, Donaldsonville, 
 Plaquemine, Lafayette, Franklin, Thibodeaux, Ruston, 
 Minden, are all towns of over 2,000 inhabitants, and are 
 striving for higher aspirations, and larger developments; 
 each have one or more banks, several manufactories, 
 and are centers of trade. 
 
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■flDotnes in Xouisiana 
 
 May be obtained by addressing the following: 
 
 United States Land Office, New Orleans, La. 
 
 United States Land Office, Natchitoches La. 
 
 Hon. Jas. M. Smith, State Land Office, Baton Rouge, 
 La. 
 
 Hon. J. G. Lee, Commissioner of Agriculture and Im- 
 migration, Baton Rouge. La. 
 
 J. M. Lee, Jr., West Monroe, La. 
 
 A. V. Eastman, Lake Charles, La. 
 
 Dr. S. A. Knapp, Lake Charles, La. 
 
 D. L. McPherson. Abbeville, La. 
 
 W. W. Duson & Bro., Crowley, La. 
 
 S. L. Cary, Jennings, La. 
 
 P. M. Welch, Alexandria, La. 
 
 Development Club, Shreveport, La. 
 
 Young Men's Business League, Baton Rouge, La. 
 
 Wisner & Dresser, Monroe, La. 
 
 E. C. Drew Investment Co., Monroe, La. 
 
 Capt. J. F. Merry, Ass't Gen'l Pass. Agt., Dubuque, la. 
 
 Mr. E. Hawley, Ass't Gen'l Traffic Agt., 343 Broad- 
 way, New York City, 
 
 Frank Y. Anderson, Land Commissioner. Birmingham, 
 Ala. 
 
 E. C. Moncure, Land Agt. V. S. & P. R. R., Ruston, La. 
 
 S. P. Colvin. Land Agt. V. S. & P. R. R., Ruston, La. 
 
 N. E. Calhoun, Land Agt. V. S & P. R. R., Calhoun, La. 
 
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