Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1904 — This One From New Orleans. [ARTICLE]

This One From New Orleans.

New Orleans, F b. 8, 1904. We arrived in New Orleans a« 5.55 this evening, and must sa* *e were agreeably surprised with this city as far as we have seen it We left Batom Rouge, La , at 1:55 Sunday and went from there to Lucher, La., to the largest cypres* mil in the United states- We went out to the mill and went through it and found it very interesting; they out 180,000 ft of umber here in 24 hours, as they run day and night. After looking hrough the mill we went to their logging road and rode out into th* cypress swamps where they get their logs. It is* about 20 miles to the point where they are gettiag their logs now. They have been ontting for 12 years in their lumber and think they have enough to keep them cutting for about 9 years longer. It was about 2 miles from the mill to were we struck the timber and to give you some idea of the extent of their holdings and the amount they have out, we went into the swamp for about 16 miles and they had out the timber for about 1 mile on each side of the track for this distance and also about 2 miles farther in, than we went, and by thinking that they have enough timber to keep them cutting for nine years longer that will give you an idea of what amount of land they hold. Io order to build their road bed out into the swamp they load the sawdust, blocks and waste from th>mill into oars and build the grace to lay the ties on, as the ground is nearly always under water so they would not be able to get dirt to build it for tLe season and another reason they could not dig any in the swamps for the roots cf the trees.

There is no one ever goes into these swamps but Negroes and Finlanders or Italians so you see we went out of the beaten path when we went in there, but we came here to see the country and we were going to see it. We saw the largest sugar refinery in the United States, and some of the largest and best sugar planations there are in the sooth and it was certainly very interesting but our space would not allow us to describe them. The weather here was a little off the last 3 days as it has rained a good part of the time and the thermometer is standing between 75 and 80 and it makes us wish we did not have an over coat

to carry.

DONNELLY.