Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 200, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1910 — ’Gators and Insects Hunt New Home [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

’Gators and Insects Hunt New Home

NEW ORLEANS. —More than 1,000,000 acres of marsh land lying within 60 miles of New Orleans are to be drained, reclaimed and transformed from a wilderness Into gardens, homes, hamlets and towns. The work of reclaiming some 50,000 acres within the corporate limits of New Orleans Is now well under way, while contracts have been let for the reclamation of fully 100,000 acres additional in adjoining parishes. This means that within two years the alligator will no longer find aboriginal harborage In the Carnival city, that the breeding grounds of countless billions of mosquitoes will be turned Into highly productive farms on which mosquitoes cannot breed, that hun-

dreds of miles of paved will lead from New Orleans north, east And west, and that for the first time in its history New Orleans will posess suburbs. , The nearest town or settlement of any consequence is now 60 miles distant from New Orleans. Within fifty miles of every large city in the country a million or more people reside, and many industries develop business and wealth for the urban population. This Is the end New Orleans is working to and will have reached, in large part, anyway, by the time the Panama canal is opened to the ships of the world. Meanwhile modern sewerage and drainage within the city proper have practically and wholly solved the city’s sanitary problems, and the discovery of a simple method of filtering the waters of the Mississippi river has given the city a pure water service excelled by none in the world. These systems are In operation and are nearly complete. They have cost the city about $25,000,000.