RED RIVER PARISH BIOGRAPHIES - WALTER, H. C.
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Submitted by: Carolyn Shank
carolynshank@msn. com 
Submitted: September 9, 2007, 9:32 pm

Source: La. Oil and Gas Journal
Date: Pub.ca. 1910

Title: MR. H. C. WALTER BOOSTS RED RIVER'S LAND

MR. H. C. WALTER, the live and popular agent for the Globe Lumber Company, 
Inc., of Sibley, Louisiana, is optimistic over Red River's future and 
particularly its ever enhancing land values. He has devoted intelligent 
thought to the subject and his observation and opinion are worth something.

   He came to Red River, he said in an interview with a "Louisiana" 
representative, in the early of 1898.

   "At that time land was being offered in different parts of the Parish at 
twenty-five and fifty cents an acre. This did not include the timber land 
which could be purchased at one or two dollars per acre. I bought, myself, 
from the New Orleans Pacific R. R. Co., eight or ten thousand acres of land at 
one dollar and twenty five cents an acre. I sold 2,100 acres of this land 
within five years for $28,000 cash. I bought a  lot of land and did not pay 
over two dollars and a half an acre for it. That was about nineteen years ago.
Today this land has increased in value over five hundred per cent, and I think 
this is but the beginning of an enhancement of land values here."

   "It is wonderfully fertile, this soil," continued MR. WALTER. "It will 
produce with a modicum of effort and expense high-grade cotton, corn and sugar 
cane. It is fine for grapes, peaches, plums, apricots and strawberries. The 
bottom lands can't be beat for alfalfa and the uplands will produce hay in 
abundance."

   MR. WALTER concluded with enthusiasm: "Tell the world we welcome 
immigration: we have room and to spare; we want more neighbors and are ready 
to divide with them. Tell them we have many schools and the best of schools, 
churches, frateral organizations, everything. Tell them to come and we can 
show them better than we can tell them."




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