The Richland Beacon-News from Rayville, Louisiana • 10

THE RICHLAND BE AC ON-NE WS, Rayville, Louisiana PROGRESS AND PROSPERITY EDITION 11 at to help the idea of diversification ing at home and producing cotton lower cost. parish over the past decade. The progress of the parish during ton situation is changing. The South changing. Our Southern farmers has from time immemorial dominated must diversify to progress.

It is up the cotton industry. ihat, too, is to every business man in this parish our parish has been growing cotton and producing hardwood timber. Our timber is practically all gone, the cot RICHLAND" this ten years has been wonderful. A liv E. A.

Jones net worK of gravel roads has been constructed over the parish connecting every community with each other and with the principal centers of trade. Our police jurors who have inaugurated and conducted this work, have been far-seeing in their projects, and the It is well at times that we make approximately the same. figure would be 20,000 acres. inventory of the virtues and worth of our surroundings. It gives us an idea of the improvements that have licr-n made over a period of years and The increase in assessment of is largely accounted for in the added values due to gas field de- renews the pride that all esidents of velopment.

the great old parish of Richland feel, The assessment for 1930 on gas fey UUilLIV UV! -TO THE RICHLAND PARISH SCHOOL BOARD on the completion of another modern FIRE PROOF Hih School building: and Gymnasium for the fast growing town of RAYVILLE! system of roads in the parish stands as a monument to their endeavors. We dare say there is not a parish in the state with a better and more comprehensive system of roads than has Richland Parish. In the educational field we are ex-coiled by none and equalled by only a lew. During tne past ten years a wonderful school system has been perfected through the untiring etrorts of our scnool board and Superintendent ol ii.uucaT.um lveebler, bacKed by tne cooperation of tne lax payers, wno nave neiu bacK notning wnen asKed to enlarge and modernize tne Richland scnool facilities. The response to the calis of the school board has been nothing snort of marvelous, and in our estimation shows more clearly than anything else the cause for the great development of the parish in every line.

Whenever you find a whole parish of people who are willing to put up the money for the better education or their children as are the people here you have found a parish that is bound to go to the front. The spirit of our Ricnland people is wondertul and with 1 this spirit nothing can stop its constant progr ess in every line of endeavor. With four modern and highly developed high schools, magnificently equipped arid with a splendid staff of teachers; with the most modern gram-, mar schools it is possible to build, efficiently equipped and with the very best teachers it is possible to secure; and with the motor busses to carry every child far enough from a school pleted at a cost of $25,000. This little community now boasts one of the largest and most modern school plants of any place its size in the State of Louisiana. Above is pictured the Start High Srhool building, at Start, Ia.

The main building was built several years The annex which is seen in the j. tur has just recently been com- fields, in the parish was as follows: Oil and gas land equipment, Pipe lines, $2,324,180.00. Gas wells, $369,000.00. Manufacturing plants, $1,221,260.00. The assessment on lands was as follows; Class A agricultural lands, $1,264,520.

Class agricultural lands, $1,422,330. Class agricultural lands, $330,180. Cutover lands, $1,241,250. These figures give us some idea of the scope of the development of the WE had the pleasure of furnishing and applying JOHNS-MANVILLE 20 YEAR BONDED ASBESTOS BUILT-UP ROOFING ON THIS BEAUTIFUL BUILDING not to be able to walk there, Richland parish is equipped to give every child within its boundaries an education that will fit them to meet every demand of life. The writer has lived in ESTKAY SALE whether they are natives of the parish, or, like the write, those who have c-ome in i iter years to make it their home.

Richland Parish is truly well named. As its name suggests, it is one of the most fertile of the delta parishes of the state. We are very fortunate in having these wonderful alluvial lands which compose the greater part of its area. The year of 1930 is the only general crop failure that this parish has experienced in its history. Prior to that time it was our boast that we had never known a crop failure.

At this time Richland is experiencing the greatest growth in its history, due to the unprecedented development of thousands upon thousands of acres of cutover lands. In years gone by Richland Parish was known far and wide as being a great hardwood timber section. In the course of time the timber has been largely removed and these lorests are being converted from cut-over lands to hundreds of small farms, bringing new people into our midst, and within a very few years this development will have made Richland into the banner agricultural parish of the state. As an evidence of the great development of the parish from a region of forests and timber lands to a great agricultural section we quote some figures secured from the files of Assessor 12. B.

Lipscomb showing the comparison between values ten years back with the figures of today. A wonderful change has been wrought in a short period of time, as can be seen from the great increase in farming lands and assessment of values. The total assessment figures have increased from $12,283,426 in 1921 to $16,186,189.00 in 1930. The number of taxpayers from 3,821 in 1921 to 5,677 in 1930 and the amount of total taxes paid from $315,717.62 in 1921 to in 1930. In that length of time the agricultural lands have increased from 83,101 acres in 1921 to 95,198 acres in 1930.

An increase over the ten years covered of 11,797 acres. The figures for 1931 are not available, but will probably show an increase of some thousands of acres. It is thought that the assessment and tax figure will be State of Louisiana, Parish of Richland Second Ward Justice Court. Whereas, on the 27th day of April, 1931, one yellow cow, marked crop and split in each ear, weight about 700 pounds, age 6 or 7 years old, was duly estrayed by L. P.

Arender, the owner being unknown. Now, therfore, unless the owner of the said cow shall come forward and prove property and pay charges according to law, I will on SATURDAY, MAY 16th, 1931, proceed to sell for cash, at the front door of the court house in the town of Rayville, for not less than two-thirds of the appraised value, and in no instance shall said stock be released, except on the statement of claimant and one dis-interested reliable person, and upon the payment of all costs. Done and signed in my office at Rayville, Richland Parish, Louisiana, on this the 27th day of April, 1931. J. C.

SALMON, 5-2-3t. Justice of the Peace. several different locations before coming to Louisiana, where the school systems were considered up-to-date and complete, but is frank to admit that the school system of Richland parish excells any he has ever seen. Although we have enjoyed a great development in our gas field in the southwestern part of the parish, our population is basically agricultural and probably will always be. We look for much more development of the gas field, we want more manufacturing plants and industrial enterprises, but our agricultural interests will always be the main producers of wealth in Richland.

We are glad that this is true. An agricultural section is always to be desired over an industrial section. With the coming of industries there is brought an undesirable element into every community. People who are not our kind and who do not assimilate as do our rural people. As long as our basic industry in agriculture our citizenship retains the true type and spirit of Southern hospitality and friendliness.

This being so and realizing that our hope of future growth and expansion lies in the development of our agricultural possibilities, it is to be hoped that with the leadership of the business people and the bankers our system of farming can be more diversified and a more stable system be developed. For the past quarter of a century IMSnilE IR(D)(D)IFnM(B CdDMIPABJY Incorporated! Monroe, La. 666 LIQUID OR TABLETS Cure Colds, Headaches, Fever 666 SALVE CURES BABY'S COLD MO 11 InllLi A. 11 JftllL A I IL LOUISIANA! THE STORY THAT STARTLED THE WHOLE WORLD! HOT lk)HUuvyLJ Hi The story by ETHELREDA LE W2S and ALFRED ALOYS1US HORN I 1 I 11 Ml I I METK.O'GOILEDWYN'MAYEK.'S Road Show Production ff Vv Beautiful White Goddess 66 of the Blacks rui rrri to) rvn 9 9 fo) 9 mm 19 AITPIA 1 1 You'll meet her. Nina the white NssiJ who ruled a nation of blacks in wL, jkaui deenest Africa.

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