A hand-book of Louisiana, giving general and agricultural features . egion occupies about19,000 square miles, and its vast possibilities in the nearfuture for supporting millions of beings are simply incon-ceivable. The lands of this section are now leveedagainst the annual encroaching floods of the rivers whichtraverse them. Several millions of dollars arc annually spent in enlarging and strengthening these protectingearth walls. When these streams, as they will be in afew years, shall be safely controlled in their annual rises,aed the confidence of the people established in theability of lev
A hand-book of Louisiana, giving general and agricultural features . egion occupies about19,000 square miles, and its vast possibilities in the nearfuture for supporting millions of beings are simply incon-ceivable. The lands of this section are now leveedagainst the annual encroaching floods of the rivers whichtraverse them. Several millions of dollars arc annually spent in enlarging and strengthening these protectingearth walls. When these streams, as they will be in afew years, shall be safely controlled in their annual rises,aed the confidence of the people established in theability of levees to thoroughly protect, then will a fullappreciation of the intrinsic merits of these lands berealized, and high values bo established. Ur. Hilgard speaks of this region as the mostfertile agricultural lands of the State, equaled by fewand surpassed by none in the world in productivecapacity. Alluvial Region of the Mississippi River and Its Outly-ing parishes of this region north of the mouth of Red River are East Carroll, Madison, Tensas and Con- 18.
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