Vermillion Bay; Louisiana

An island in Vermillion Bay, on the coast of Louisiana, has a solid mass of salt at a depth of twenty feet so hard that it requires be mining with dynamite and grinding in steam mills. About 200 tons a day are taken out.

Columbus Ledger-Enquirer – April 13, 1883

Charbon in Louisiana

Cattle Disease Gaining Foothold in Two Parishes

Special to the News,

Crowley, La., June 18 – Charbon, the cattle disease, is gaining quite a hold among the cattle of this parish and farmers in a number of sections have lost some valuable animals. The disease has already broken out in Calcasieu and Vermillion Parishes and it is thought that it has gained such a foothold that it will be a hard matter to stamp it out before fall. Dallas Morning News – June 19, 1904

People Marooned by Louisiana Flood  

Water Higher In Two Parishes than Any Time during Twenty Years   Special to the News   Estherwood, La., Oct. 12 – Flood water in the lower coast country of Louisiana is rising and many people are marooned in houses and on mounds. Loss of live stock has been heavy and represents a monetary loss of $100.000.

  In Cameron and Vermillion Parishes the water is higher than it has been in twenty years and boats are kept busy rescuing families and saving their household effects. White Lake, twenty-five miles south of Estherwood, which is part of Mermentan River, is backing up over hundreds of acres of rice land and driving people to the high lands.  These people raise many hogs and chickens, all of which have been drowned.

A Broken levee at White Lake has flooded 5,000 acres of reclaimed land.

In Jefferson and Calcasieu Parishes the rice crop is 50 per cent loss, owing to the recent floods there.   Today the rain stopped and the temperature is down. The high waters have caused three weeks delay in the work of the United States snag boat that is clearing out Quetortien Bayou.

Dallas Morning News – October 14, 1913

Game Preserve for Wild Ducks and Geese

13,000 Acres Offered to State of Louisiana

                                                                                              Largest In the Country

Game Commission Will Hold a Meeting Next Week To Formally Take Over The Deed and Close All The Arrangements.

 New Orleans, May 30 – A game preserve for wild ducks and geese, covering 13,000 acres and said to be the largest in the country was today offered to the state of Louisiana by E. A. McHenny, of Avery Island, and Charles Willis Ward at Michigan.

 This property is to be held in trust by the state exclusively as a game preserve.  An additional tract of 37,000 acres will be deeded to the state for a period of ten years, making a total of 50,000 acres. President Miller, of the state game commission, has heretofore met with little success in protecting wild game because of the lack of a preserve, and his attention was called to the gradually diminishing numbers by Dr. A. K. Fisher, of the federal department interested in this work.  President Miller had almost despaired of solving the problem when he was notified to visit Avery Island.

                                                                                          Inspect the Reserve

An inspection tour with Messrs. McHenny and Ward on the latter’s yacht was made and a portion of the 50,000 acres looked over.  The game official was stunned when he was informed that this land would be given to the state for the purpose of a game preserve. The property is in Vermilion Parish west of Vermilion Bay.  It was originally sold by the state to various parishes for 25 cents and acre, but the owners in buying it up were sometimes forced to pay more than 35 cents and acre.  The only stipulation provides that no wild bird must ever be killed within the confines of the preserve.The game commission will hold a meeting next week to formally take over the deed and close all arrangements.

Montgomery Advertiser – May 21, 1911

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