Louisiana Reclaimed Lands Make Fertile Farms: A Pamphlet Full of Information Concerning the Prairie Marshes and Cypress Swamp Lands of Louisiana and How They Are Being Reclaimed. Compiled

by J.F. Merry

$200 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

First edition

Chicago, IL : Passenger Dept., Illinois Central Railroad Co., 1909. First edition of this promotional. 8vo. 28 pp. Illustrated from photographs, map on rear wrapper. Detailed railroad company promotional for immigrants to Louisiana, especially those seeking to pursue various agricultural vocations, for the state's reclaimed lands, i.e., lands that are composed of silt and decomposed vegetable matter, which is the natural accumulation of centuries, and, when

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