"FRANKLIN. Sugar cnue section; large refinery. The highway still follows the Bayou Teche and the interesting i old .southern scenes. COMMERCIAL HOTEL, fills early.
McKcrall Motor Car Co., opp. Court House, has complete automobile service and tourist information. Ph. 2.
CI-IARENTON. Village. Grand Lake, bathing and fishing near.
JEANERETTE. Sugar, rice and corn. Table salt is mined near here at G50 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. Country hotel, not modern. Camp near Moresi’s foundry.
"'NEW IBERIA. The Evangeline country. The highway leaves the Bayou Teche here. Sugar, rice, cotton, tobasco , peppers and salt mines. Wild life sanctuaries southward toward the gulf. HOTEL FREDERIC, modern, good res- j taurant. Inf.—at Hotel Frederic.
CADE. Leave Old Spanish Trail here for St. Martinville, i 6 mi. north.
ST. MARTINVILLE
The old Acadian town where Evangeline lived i» the quaint center for many little journeys. On the bank of the Teche la the spreading live oak where Evangeline and her people landed; nenr by are the Evangeline home, church and other sacred landmarks. The surrounding towns and country are interesting. . Bayou Teche Is on a southerly course here, and theso are the western highlands of the Atciiafalaya Basin, the ancient outlet of tl»e Mississippi River. The Acadians were exiled from Novn Scotia in 1755. Herded in old ships, families and friends torn asunder, some were landed in Maryland, some in Louisiana, most of them to become wanderers searching for one another. After three years the Maryland group worked south seeking their lost ones. Tho French had established Ft. Attaknpas in 1756 at the present St. Martinville. Tho Evangeline party reached At-takapas about 1760. Numerous graveled roads.
VOORIIIES HOTEL is a comfortable, homelike old southern
BROUSSARD. Tlie three largest sugar mills in Louisiana are on the Old Spanish Trail; Raceland, Franklin and Broussard. The bagasse, the stalk after the cane juice has 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. HOTEL GORDON leads. TERRACE HOTEL, 25 rms., clean, attractive. Camp space in grove on Vermilion Bayou. Inf.—Chamber of Commerce.
Billeaud Garage and Filling Station, very complete, day and night shop and road service.
BAl'NE. 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 with French cooking. Camp space.
done so much to develop the rice industry of America. Visitors can learn many interesting tilings from Superintendent J. M. Jenkins.
EGAN HOTEL is best. The INN is new and attractive Camp, in town, 50c.
MERMENTAU RIVER. Store, country hotel, camp
space. A beautiful river.
♦JENNINGS. Another real American city developed by thc rice industry; also fine staple cotton. Evangeline oil field 0 mi. east where one well made nearly -1.000.000 bbls. South 1-1 mi. is Lake Arthur and the village and the hunting club with its nation-wide membership, for south thru the Merinenlau River are Grand Lake, Mallard Bay, a myriad of inlets, wild lands and marshes, and the Gulf of Mexico. Tlie Lake Arthur Club lias a preserve of 11,000 A. Eastward are the Rockefeller and Sage wild life preserves facing tlie gulf for 75 mi. Here lie the natural winter refuges of birds and their feeding grounds, and now the rice fields add to their joys. Ducks and geese in their season blacken the skies, these preserves are their protection. The Jennings Chamber of Commerce will gladly help Old Spanish Trail hunters or fishermen. Tlie HOTEL ARDENNES at Jennings is modern, nicely furnished and lilted. Tlie LAKE ARTHUR HOTEL, at tlie lake, rms. only. Free camp space available.
More Mileage Sta. service day and night; also repairs, genuine Ford parts and other service. C. E. Stackhouse, tlie owner, is attentive. Broussard Service Sta. is good; Dunlop tires, Pan-Ani Gas. Also well liked.
WELSH. Rice, cotton, cattle and a nice little city. HOTEL ABBOTT, new. many rms. with bath. Nice free camp in park, south: shady, swimming pool.
♦LAKE CHARLES. A deep-water port and metropolis of Southwest Louisiana on Calcasieu River and Lake Charles. Fine residence city. Cotton, rice, cattle and gem eral farming; important oil fields near. MAJESTIC HOTEL, 100 mis., popular old southern type. Also CHEROKEE and R1G.MA1DEN HOTELS, moderate. Tlie OAKS, pleasant family hotel. Camp space near lake. Inf.—Association of Commerce.
CALCASIEU RIVER.
SULPHUR? Exhausted sulphur mines near; superheated steam forced to tlie sulphur beds far underground molted the sulphur and compressed air forced it to tlie surface. Large mines now south of Houston. Country hotel, t amp on OST at, Ellemlors Service Sta.
VINTON. l-S.000 A. of rice around Vinton—a million dollar crop A center for four oil fields—Ged. -I mi. south; Ed-crlv ' 5V- mi. east; Vinton Stark, 7 mi. north: Roxana, 12 "mi. south. Tlie oil fields are an interesting study. SHAW HOTEL. 32 rms. modern, good cooking; free car storage. Cabin camp 00c to $1.00. good. Inf. J. N. Wetherill, ,,1- Dillonsion Rank.
LOUISIANA-TEXAS STATE LINE
Snbino River.
Tlie new bridge 3 mi. long was completed November 1027. Tlie cost SI.000.000. was shared by tlie Orange and the Lake Charles districts, the slates of Louisiana and Texas, and Federal Aid funds. Many years spent struggling with the financial difficulties: then when the contractors began, floods and marshes, alligators and posts, sink holes and discouragements, had to he conquered. But this is the story of most of tlie Old Spanish Trail construction, costs that were an acid test of faith, engineering that knew no defeat, builders equal to every demand.
*CRO\VLEY. The “Rice City of America.” As much vice is grown in Acadia Parish as in all California. A county Ls called a parish in Louisiana. The largest rice area in the United States is this Crowley district. When it "'«3 found ill 1885 these prairies could bo flooded artificially, then drained and harvested with wheat-harvesting machinery, men came from all states and large commercial development followed. Streams a foot in diameter arc ceaselessly pumped from shallow wells but the main supply comes from tlitf lmyous and rivers. The network of canals, ditches and fields is best viewed from the top of the First National Bank building. One mile west on tin Old Spanish Trail is the rice experiment station that has