| Show LAND thoy hold t acres of I anil in losi los i n i the new orleans bica une prints a table of tin land barous f louisiana and their holdings i f us pur loveil timber and swamp tracts from which it that alien syndicates compa and individuals own more than acu acres one syndicate claim acres several possess ind more and holdings of from 0 o acres are not uncommon lost of this land is owned in alie vest in i n state aut to capitalists of new york and hundred thousand acres the picayune explains that originally the united states owned all of the lands in louisiana other than those which at the time of the cession by france were held by private persons or corporations subsequently what were known as swamp landsi eliat is to say lands that were subject to tidal overflow from the sea or were annually hooded by alie mississippi became the property of the state with the pro ision that it should sell them for alio purpose of raiding rai hing a fund to build levees A considerable territory consisting of prairie and forest land wag retained by the united states to be sold as homesteads such a disposition was made of this land but it Is now largely in possession of Byn dicatos the Pica yunes table includes the swamp homestead and sea marsh lands the last named a lions share of which has been acquired by the watkins syndicate must be drained and biked like the holland coast and some progress in this work has already been made |
