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Breaux Bridge Railroad Junction Point on Bayou Teche City Water and Electric Light Agricultural High School with 30 acre experimental farm. Beautiful Parochial School Two Telephone Lines Brick and tile fac tory, syrup factory, moss factory, ice factory, cotton gin, saw mill operating. Will remit taxes for establishment of box or canning fac mill -r :i n ' tion address r ' 'ATIN, City Clerk. r x Brid'e reaux Fridge and + Martin Telephone Co., gives best rural and long distance ser vice A. G. BROUSSARD Real Estate Agent for the Valley of the Teche lands that will pro duce paying crps 12 months is the year" Let me show you the lands and the price. I believe we will do business. A. G. Broussard, Breaux Bridge There is money in oil ANSE LA BUTTE Is the heart of a pro ducing field capable of immense development. F. E. DELAIIOUSSAYE Special attention given to ex. amination of lands tiles St. Martinville, La. Bonin Grocery Compan Wholesalers and Retailers in Gro. ceries and Feed of all Kinds, alac largest shippers of corn. Springfield Fire fc Marine insurance Company A. C. GAUI'HIER, Agent St. Martinville, La FIRE INSURANCE CO Lissire Bienvenu, Agent thern Pacific railroad. The N. I. & N. division of the Frisco or system passes east of town about pc L three miles and has a spur run- to i ning into the big St. John Su- I gar factory northeast of town. Pi There is regular boat traffic on lii the Bayou with deep water as- p( sured the year round by the ti, quarter-million dollar govern- gi ment dam and locks two miles hi south of the city. bi ) The present through rates be 1 tween St. Martinville and St. $ 1 Louis territory points is, for the in various classes, as follows: te First, $L25; Second, $1.15; Third, .95; Fourth, .88; Fifth, be S .68; A, 72; B, .63; C, .52; D, ra .42; and E, .36. At an Inter- tr state Commerce Conunmission $ hearing thelatter part 3of this ai B month, in a suit the major o0 f r d HRl EPI8UOPAL CHURCH points of which have ahreadybeen i won, it is expected that these rates will be reduced in amounts varying in classes, from 6 to 24 cents a hundred. With such a reduction in the rates we will be I in a position to compete success- I fully with any community in i this territory. This new rate will apply I equally to all other stations in 1 the parish as does the one now 1 in force. t The social and educational ad vantages of St. Martinville and i of all the other commnunities i will find place in another num ber of this paper. BIG MERCANTILE BUSINEIN Her mercantile interests are 4 considerable, and ample for the accomodation of a much larger trade territory than she now eh- - joys. Two-banks with capital and surplus in excess of $100,- 1 000, and resources approxima- t ting four times that amount, serve as clearing houses for mercantile interests in which, according to Dunn & Co's con servative reports, there is an in vested capital of over $400,000 and manufacturing interests of approximately the same amount. i Parks, seven miles north, is a j village of 200 inhabitants, in i the midst of a thickly settled farming section, has both rail-, roads as above, and is on the Teche. Two cotton gins are r at present her sole industries t but her location is ideal for syrup mill, spinning mill, wood working plant or cannery. Her c mercantile business consists of a C half dozen stores. Inquiries t about special conditions should v be addresed to Mayor Melancon t Breaux Bridge, also situated on Bayou Teche, with 1400 population, is theisecond largest town in the parish. The Baton Rouge division of the Southern Pacific crosses the other two lines and the Bayou at this; point. Reference to the adver tising columns of this paper will give a fair comprehension of her industrial condition and am bition. One bank with a capital of $65,000 serves a mercantile and industria! clientele with inves ted capital of $500,000. Arnaudville, on the northern boundary of the parish has both railroad connections and water transportation, has a bank with $20,000 capital and surplus, and a mercantile investment of over $100,000. The trucking I industry is here most highly de veloped of any point in the pa rish. The population is over K 400. Cade is the junction point of the Port Barre division with - the main line of the Southern i Pacific, in the southwest corner of the parish. A big sugar fac tory is located here, also a cot i ton gin, it is the heart of Ot r beautiful upland fanning dis trict. Cecilia, Isle Labbe, Grand I Point, and Bayou Chene are im portant shipping stations, and - Anse La Butte is the centre of a still undeveloped oil field. Articles on the oil, lumber, 3 canning, and fish industries, written by citizens of standing, I r who have naule studies of them - and their capabilities of develop I ment, are featured in this num - bet under the author's own . signatures. SOME AF~ERTHOUGHT8 Friend Reader, whether or not the precise information for ' which you are looking is con tained in the above, none but c yourself can tell. I am averse to I stuffing you with statistics fill ing your mind with fanciful I figures, easily twisted and dif ficult of interpretation. They are available if you. want them and will be supplied you on any subject if you but request them. If I can canvey to you a vivid, general idea of f existing conditions and future I possibilities in this old, new country, exciting your interest to the point where you will write for details, 1 shall have at tained my present aim. The Bank of St. Martinville Recommends Consideration of These Lands 1. Two farms, 140 and 147 acres, both in cultivation and improved, on Bayou Teche, good roads, half mile R. R. Station. Price $4o per acre. 2. 275 acres open prairie pasture, enclosed, Y mile of County seat. Good for any crop. Close to schools and churches, etc. Price $22.50 per acre. 3. 350 acres pasture land, partly timbered, well watered. Price $17.50 per acre. 4. 3o0 acre, hog farm, improved, all fenced in. Most of it heavily timbered with oak, on Lake Catahoula. Finest soil in parish. Price $22.50. 5. 130 acre farm, good improvements, all cultivated, fine light sandy soil, good roads; on R. R. Price $42.50 per acre. 6. 65 acre farm, on Bayou Teche close to R. R. Station. Price $35.00 per acre: 7. i6o acres Rice land at $15.00 per acre. 8. 70 acres farm "Lastrapes" high sandy soil, all in culti vation, 2 miles from R. R. and River. Price $3o per acre. 9. 12o acres "Michel" high sandy land both Rail and Water transportation. Good home costing $2500. All in cultivation. Price $45.oo0 per acre. 1o. 16o acres "Roy" on Bayou Teche, crossed by R. R. ' mile from Church, School and Station. Improved. Price 4o.0,o per acre. All in cultivation. , . 160 acres "Melancon" on Bayou Teche crossed by R. R, } mile from Church, Station and School. I2. ' 50 acres "Patin" cultivated 2j miles from Rail Road, rich alluvial deposit. Price $s8.oo per acre. 13. 170 acres "Savoy" It miles from Rail Road Station. Open prarie land. Price $15 oo per acre. We are not land agents, we own these and wish to sell. Come and see them or write for information. Any crop does well on them. Terms Cash or / cash and balance in 3 to 5 years or terms to suit 'purchasers. 6 per cent interest. BANK OF ST. MARTINVILLE, R. MARTIN, President St. Martinville, La. We Will Gladly Answer Inquiries About Any Lands in. the Parish. Proved Oil Territory I For Development In 1864 Paschal Beverly Randolph, a seer attached to the Federal Bureau stationed at St. Martinville, La., wrote a book entitled, "After Death or the Disbodied Man." The 3rd Edition was published by the Randolph Publishing Co., of I'oledo, Ohio, in 1886. On page 42 of said Book he says: "Jlust like the mighty bay ot oil now underlying the Parish of St. Martin, Louisiana. A body large enough and deep enough to furnish fuel to the world for a century." Imbued with this faith we took an active interest in pros pecting for oil, with the result that the Anse La Butte oil field is now producing oil and "Bayou Boullion" field pro duced oil at 320 feet. Looking up the geological formation ald the surface in dications such as gas and ontcropping asphalt, we acquired large tracts for development i. e. at Anse Anse la Butte..............(producing) 60 acres Lake Catahoula............ (gas and asphalt) 560 acres Bayou Boullion ................ (gas and oli) 4800oo acres Bayov Long ................... . (as) 50 acres "Section 28",. ....... ........(gas) 5ooo acres "Cypress Island ......... ....(gas and oil So ae "'Lake Larose" *-............ ........ (gas) 500o acres ....... .............. (gas) 14ooacres We need capital to develop the oil in these, our terms for sale or lease are reasonable. All these lands are accessi ble within a mile by rail and water. For further information write I1ARTIN & SON, St. Martinville, La.