Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1915 — Outdoing the Dutch. [ARTICLE]

Outdoing the Dutch.

New Orleans is literally outdoing the Dutch. On Saturday last she started the pums that are to drain dry in three days 45,000 acres of swamp land. Within those 72 hours the value will rise from SIOO tp S3OO an acre. And this Is but the beginning of a project whereby a swamp area of 10,000,000 acres is to be redeemed by state backing. Financing such reclamation projects is not difficult. In this case the state v of Louisana lent its credit in a general way, but the owners of land are required to pay 75 cents an acre a year for 40 years. The state drainage bonds were thus doubry secured and sold at once. The drainage plant opposite New Orleans, which is doing the work, cost only $234,000. With the water will go the mosquito pest and the perils of diseases of insect infection.—Wall Street Journal.