| Show Louisiana Surveyors Tackle Tough Problem General land office surveyors of Louisiana have undertaken a task forced upon them by a 8 natural phenomenon more than a century and a 0 half hall ago Long before the Red River valley vaney became populated with planters the sluggish river was blocked by trees falling into the water and gradually stacked up in rafts The Tha waters of the river backed into bayous and into natural land formations forming lakes The problem of the authorities today is who who owns the lakes Detailed accounts of the beginning of the log Jog jam arc are lacking In gen gen- general general general eral land office records but one re re- report report re- re report port estimates that the raft in the Red river grew at the rate of one mile a year during the year 35 pe pe- period period nod between 1793 and 1828 Other reports of an exploration in 1806 tell of one obstruction in the river forming an almost impenetrable Impenetrable mass which extends from rom the bottom to two or three feet feel above the surface of the water a thick thickness thickness ness of 30 to 40 feet and stretch stretching stretchIng stretching ing up the river for nearly yards Removal of ot the obstruction wa was begun in fn 1873 |
