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FIND OLD LA SALLE PAPERS IN PARIS Thursday, July 3, 1930 In Musty Filee Manuscripts Have Lain Forgotten Until Now; American Value In the musty files of the French naâ€" tional library, searchers have found hitherto unpublished correspondence of the great French explorer, Robert Cavalier, Sieur de La Salle. Time has proved the value of his prophetic vision in foreseeing the American middleâ€"west as the potential granary of the world, says a special United Press dispatch from Paris. For two and a half centuries, these letters, among the earliest known docâ€" uments concerned with American hisâ€" tory, have laid unâ€"read in a bundle tied with silk cords. They were eviâ€" dently intended as the memoirs of the explorer, written from â€" ample notes which he composed, as he and his priests and warriors travelled by canoe through the great lakes, tribuâ€" tary rivers and down the Mississippi. * To Continue Research Convinced that other letters of La Salle exist which may throw an enâ€" tirely new light on the French inâ€" fluence of American development, ofâ€" ficials of the national library will continue their researches in the damp caves. â€" Strangely, the La Salle docuâ€" ments were very well preserved. The yellowing letters and memoirs of the scholarâ€"adventurer attest his keen appreciation, 250 years ago, of the fertilé lands watered by the Ohio, Missouri and Mississippi rivers. Sought to Reach China La Salle began his travels with an attempt to reach China by descending the Ohio river, convinced that it enâ€" tered the Pacific ocean.. Despite this chief interest, however, he found time to write at some length of what he saw in the great river valleys of the midâ€"west. ; "The Sieur de, La Salle, having alâ€" ways had a great inclination to make discoveries and to establish colonies which may be advantageous to religâ€" ion and useful to France, passed from Canada in 1666." The explorer then proceeded to describe, with the enâ€" thusiasm of a child and the accuracy of a matured explorer, the wonders of new lands. Prefacing a part of his memoirs in the quaint style of the 17th century, he says: « He ‘had his first glimpse of buffalo in the regions south of Lake Michiâ€" gan, which is now the great Chicago area. He called them wild oxen, "Which bore instead of hair very fine wool, quite serviceable in the making of â€" garments and hats, and whose leathers are much better than those in France." . j La Salle, on his long and severe trip down the Mississippi, saw and recounted with startling accuracy the future agricultural possibilities of the vast basin lying along the river. He was particularly impressed by the imâ€" Hemstitching â€" â€" Pleating Covered Buttons â€" Pinking Quick Service 354 120 N. Green Bay Rd. MRS. ZAHNLE mensities of the prairies, "so ideally suited to grazing and to the planting of grains." o den Dogged by Hard Luck Misfortune pursued the explorer in the last year. After planting the arms of France at the mouth of the Mississippi in the spring of 1682, he f PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY Note how chea perate applia Alotcg e w 3) oriies of Tor uol rate w H. C. REYNOLDS, DisTRict SUPERINTENDENT 51 SOUTH ST. JOHNS AVENUE HIGHLAND PARK 2000 THE PRESS OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS ELECTRIC IRON ELECTRIC REFRIGERATOR ELECTRIC ELECTRKC A m J. W. KEHOE, District Manacger EVANSTON, ILLINOIS CLEANER TOASTER returned to the gulf two years later with the intention of establishing a permanent «French settlement in Louâ€" He mistook Martagorda bay for the mouth of the Mississippi, landed there and then spent two years in unsuc» cessful journeys to find the great 181@NA cent per hour cent hour enables you to use the many convenâ€" iences electricity brings to the home for only per kilowattâ€"hour after 12 kilowattâ€"hours per room have been used each month. (Effective August 1) 3¢ ELECTRIC FAN of a % cent O :z hour +Â¥ under this bw'o’:a:'(& MEW PAbG â€" river. His colonists and soldiers were convinced he had never seen the Mississippi and they gradually drifted away,: tragedies following upon disâ€" contentment. His harshness of manâ€" ner, more than his lack of success, caused several of his followers to asâ€" sassinate him in a fit of bitterness.