. The street railway review . f which he was the discoverer, he called Pekitanoui,meaning Muddy Water. The pious French soon established Cath-olic altars far to the northward, and pierced the wilderness of Mis-souri to explain hell to the savages. Next came LaSalle, whoseexplorations gave Europeans their first accurate geographicalknowledge of the Mississippi and its vast basin. LaSalles first ex-pedition was a victor>-. .\t the delta of the river he buried a silverplate, engraved with the arras of France, claiming the entire rivervalley for the French king, and naming it Louisiana in his h
. The street railway review . f which he was the discoverer, he called Pekitanoui,meaning Muddy Water. The pious French soon established Cath-olic altars far to the northward, and pierced the wilderness of Mis-souri to explain hell to the savages. Next came LaSalle, whoseexplorations gave Europeans their first accurate geographicalknowledge of the Mississippi and its vast basin. LaSalles first ex-pedition was a victor>-. .\t the delta of the river he buried a silverplate, engraved with the arras of France, claiming the entire rivervalley for the French king, and naming it Louisiana in his LaSalle, Louis XIV found a means of extending his do-main, and sent out expeditions to colonize the wilderness. In a fewyears a miniature France mined, planted, fought and worshiped inthe American forests. The Catholic missions became guarded the frontier. Frenchmen became addicted to to-bacco, and the Missouris and Illinois learned the use of firearms. c 546 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. [Vol. X, No. WORKHOUSE. Crozat, who held the first Louisiana charter under the Frencliking, ruled the colony by the same laws that governed Paris, andthese were the first laws of civilized society that ever existed be-tween the Gulf of Mexico and the Falls of St. Anthony. Later, theMississippi Company was appointed to succeed Crozat, and underthe new regime liberal inducements to French miners and mechan-ics were advertised. The tide of immigration swelled. Famous FortChartres 65 miles below the mouth of the Missouri was built in1720, and was for a long time the strongest fortress on the conti-nent. The Mississippi Company started the cultivation of wheat inIllinois, and that of tobacco, indigo, rice and silk throughoutLouisiana. The lead mines of Missouri were opened in the hopeof finding silver, an experiment which nearly wrecked the companyfinancially, and put the king in a bad temper. It cost him 50,000,-000 livres yearly to support his colonial subjects while the
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