♦FRANKLIN. Sugar cane section; large refinery. The highway still follows the Bayou Teche and the interesting old southern scenes. COMMERCIAL IlOILL, tills eailj.
McKERVLL MOTOR CAR CO., opp. Court House, has complete automobile service and tourist information. Pli. 2.
CHARENTON. Village. Grand Lake, bathing and fishing near.
JEANERETTK. Sugar, rice and corn. Table salt is mined near here at GDO ft. depths. Fresh and salt-water fishing and bathing. The Bayou Teche is one of the most interesting waterways in America; all South Louisiana is filled with pleasant and unexpected scenes. Camp near Moresi's foundry.
BEAULLIEU MOTOR CO. Est. 1021, well equipped ■ shop, filling station, open until midnight,
*NEW IBERIA. The Evangeline country. The high-wav leaves the Bayou Teelie iiere. Sugar, rice, cotton, tobasco peppers anil salt mines. Wild life sanctuaries southward toward the gulf. HOTEL FREDERIC, modern, good restaurant. Inf.—at Hotel Frederic.
Westward travelers may branch at New Iberia for St. Martinville.
CADE. Leave Old Spanish Trail here for St. Martinville, 0 mi. north.
ST. MAItTINVILLE
The old Acadian (own where Evangeline lived IB the quaint center tor many little Journeys. On the bank of the Tccho ts I ho spreading live oak where Evangeline nnd her people landed; near by are the Evangeline home, church nnd other sacred Inndmnrhs. The surrounding towns and country are interesting. Bayou Teche is on a southerly course here, nnd these nro tho western highlands of the Atehafalaya Basin, the ancient outlet of tho Mississippi Klvcr. Tile Acadinns wero exiled from Nova Scotia in 1755. Herded in old ships, families nnd friends torn asunder, some wore landed in Maryland, somo In Eoulslnnn, most of them to become wanderers searching for ono another. After three years the Maryland group worked soulii seeking their lost ones. Tho French had established Ft. Attnknpns In 175(1 at tho present St. Martinville. Tire Evangeline party reached Attnknpns nbout 17G0. Numerous graveled roads.
VOORI1IES HOTEL is n comfortable. liome-Iiko place.
BROUSSARD. The three largest sugar mills in Louisiana are on the Old Spanish Trail: Raceland, Franklin and Broussard. The bagasse, the stalk after the cane juice lias been pressed out, was formerly used as fuel, now is made into celotex for insulating material. Visitors are welcomed.
*LAFAYETTE. A commercial and transportation center and growing fast. Cotton, corn and rice production meet in this Parish and westward the interesting rice fields prevail, flooded in growing time.
HOTELS—THE GORDON, remodeled and modernized. HOTEL EVANGELINE, new. TERRACE, country type, clean, comfortable; parking sheds.
Camp space in grove on Vermilion Bayou. Inf.—Chamber of Commerce.
BILLEAUD GARAGE and Filling Station, very complete, day and night shop and read service.
RAYNE. Rice and cotton. The plains of southwestern Louisiana are now a vast rice growing area. Wells 300 to 400 ft. deep pump three to four million gallons of water daily. The COMMERCIAL, good country hotel, remodeled.
’"CROWLEY. The “Rice City of America.” As much rice is grown in Acadia Parish as in all California. A county is called a parish in Louisiana. The largest rice area in the United States in this Crowley district. When it was found in 1SS5 these prairies could be flooded artificially. then drained and harvested with wheat-liarvesting
machinery, men came from all states and large commercial development followed. Streams a foot in diameter are ceaselessly pumped from shallow wells but the main supply comes from the bayous and rivers. The network of canals, ditches and fields is best viewed from the top of tho First National Bank building. Ono mile west on the Old Spanish Trail is tho rice experiment station that has done so much to develop the rice industry of America. Visitors can learn many interesting things from Superintendent J. M. Jenkins.
HOTELS—EGAN HOTEL, brick building, steam heat. THE INN is comfortable and well kept. Camp, In town, 00c.
INF.—Association of Commerce.
MERMENTAU. Village, gen'l. store, service stations, country hotel, camp space, fishing and hunting.
MERMENTAU RIVER. A beautiful river. Fishing and hunting.
’'JENNINGS. Another real American city developed by the rice industry; also fine staple cotton. Evangeline oil field 0 mi. east where one well made nearly 4,000,000 bbls. South 14 ml. is Lake Arthur nud the village and the hunting club with its nation-wide membership, for south thru the Mormcntnu River are Grand Lake, Mallard Bay, a myriad of inlets, wild lands and marshes, and the Gulf of Mexico. The Lake Arthur Club has a preserve of 11,000 A. Eastward are the Rockefeller and Sage wild life preserves facing the gulf for 75 mi. Here lie the natural winter refuges of birds and their feeding grounds, and now the rice fields add to the joys. Ducks and geese iu their season blacken the skies, these preserves are their protection. The Jennings Chamber of Commerce will gladly help Old Spanish Trail hunters or fishermen.
HOTELS — The ARDENNES at Jennings is modern, nicely furnished and liked. The LAKE ARTHUR HOTEL, at the lake, rins. only. Free camp space available.
MORE MILEAGE STATION—C. E. Stackhouse. Center of city. Every kind of service and supplies. Very complete equipment; all night service. Camp space 25c. Screened cabins, good beds, stoves, showers, clcctrict lights, car sheds; $1.00 and $1.25.
WELSH. Rice, cotton, cattle and a nice little city. HOTEL ABBOTT, new, many rins. with bath, well furnished; good dining service. Nice free camp in park, south; shady, swimming pool.
•LAKE CHARI.ES. A deep-water port; metropolis of Southwest Louisiana. On Calcasieu River and Lake Charles. Fine residence city. Cotton, rice, cattle and general farming; important oil fields near.
HOTELS—MAJESTIC, 100 rins., popular old southern type. CHARLESTON, new, modern. CHEROKEE and RIGMAIDEN, moderate. THE OAKS, pleasant family type. Camp space near lake.
INF.—Chamber of Commerce.
CALCASIEU RIVER.
SULPHUR. Exhausted sulphur miues near; superheated steam forced to the sulphur beds far underground melted the sulphur and compressed air forced it to the surface. Large mines now south of Houston. Country hotel. Camp on OST at Ellonders Service Station.
VINTON. 1S.000 A. of rice around Vinton—a million dollar crop. A center for four oil fields—Ged, 4 ml. south: Edgerly 5% mi. east; Vinton Stark, 7 mi. north; Roxana, 12 mi. south. The oil fields are an interesting study. SIIAW HOTEL, 32 rins.; free ear storage. Cabin camp GOc and $1.00, good. Inf.—J. N. Wetherill, at Calcasieu Bank,
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