Jefferson County Louisiana Archives News.....Barataria, La., Items. October 28, 1866
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The Times Picayune October 28, 1866
Barataria, as are aware the readers of the Picayune, is a locality in Jefferson 
parish. As fine sugar cane, cotton, and corn grow there as can be found in any 
other portion of the State. In Barataria Bay the best oysters in the United 
States are taken. The fact is that the oysters of that estuary of the Gulf are 
now held in just as high estimation by the bons vivants of the Crescent City as 
the Romans, in ancient times, did those caught on the shores of the Lucrine. The 
fish of Barataria Bay, as can attest all those who visited Grand Island Hotel 
last summer, are among the best that frequent the waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

Apropos of Grand Island Hotel, which was last season under the able management 
of Mr. Margot, a worthy son of la belle France, it may be stated here that it 
proved so successful that several parties, among whom is that old, energetic and 
enterprising citizen of Jefferson parish, J. H. Harvey, Esq, proposed to build 
on Grand Island a hotel at the cost of one hundred thousand dollars. Their aim 
is not only to excel in architecture and comfort all the public houses thus far 
built at the Southern watering places, but also to equal, if not surpass, those 
of Newport, Saratoga, Niagara Falls, etc.

The small cultivators of that section have reaped an ample reward for their 
trouble and labor. Cotton has yielded one bale per acre on the farm of H. 
Chapron, Esq. The sugar growers will realize fair returns.

Though generally healthy, Barataria cannot brag much this season on the score of 
health. The cholera there has spread and is still spreading terror and death. 
Its victims are numerous indeed. Besides the scourge, the swamp fever has 
crushed in health a large number of people.

The sporting friends of the Pic. will be, no doubt, gratified to learn that, as 
soon as the rains of the fall set in, the hunting grounds of Barataria, which, 
by the by, are among the best in Louisiana, as all the knights of the trigger in 
this part of the world know, will in all probability teem with geese, brent, 
wild ducks, etc., etc.

As a true worshiper at the shrine of St. Hubert, the writer promises to send 
you, as soon as "the November winds lift up their might voices," a pair of 
mallard, the fattest and the most juicy and the most delicate ever shot in these 
"diggings."

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