Word: bayou
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jefferson used to be the first city in Texas. Standing on the shore of Big Cypress Bayou, 20 miles from the Louisiana line, busy Jefferson shipped cotton, flour, pork, wool, hides, beeves and beeswax over the then navigable bayou waters to Caddo Lake, thence down the Red River to the Mississippi, New Orleans and the sea. During Reconstruction and after, Jefferson sheltered some 35,000 folk, their bustling business centring around the city's slave-built courthouse and its mile of docks...
...through mouldering buildings, grass grow in your streets!" Jay Gould put through his branch line after all, but with it, his unpleasant prophecy started to come true. The railroad made Jefferson's tributary back country independent of the port. That same year (1873) Government engineers decided Big Cypress Bayou was flooding farms and villages in the sandy lowlands, dynamited the natural dam which had backed the bayou up toward Jefferson, thus put the city's docks out of commission, ended its water commerce with Shreveport and New Orleans...
...disappearance of two planters near Mer Rouge, La. Working like a detective, he soon suspected that the men had been liquidated by the Ku Klux Klan. He bearded the local Exalted Cyclops, got from him the admission that this theory was right. Reporter Rogers traced the missing planters to Bayou La Fourche. Dynamiting brought the men's bodies swirling to the surface while Rogers and National Guardsmen stood...
...most places no normal vehicle can proceed. Prospectors have tried boats, rafts, carts with big wheels but still got next to nowhere. At last Engineer Abbot Atwood Lane of Gulf Oil Corp. thought up a contraption combining the best features of automobiles, tractors and boats. Last week, along the Bayou Lafourche, gauping Cajuns watched Engineer Lane's "Marsh Buggy" trundle across quaking fens, swish through deep water, climb over bushes and hummocks...
Among Mayflower's "hazardous ventures" was to put up $300,000 to further the seismic explorations of F. Julius Fohs, an oil geologist. Eventually Geologist Fohs discovered the English Bayou Oil Pool in Louisiana and Mayflower stock-holders received stock in Fohs Oil Co. now worth $2,500,000. Another venture was a $4,000,000 investment in Rhodesian copper properties, a commitment which was long thought to have been fabulously profitable. Actually, Mayflower lost...