Lake Charles
a city of Louisiana, is on the Calcasieu river, and on the Kansas City Southern, the Louisiana Western, the Lake Charles and Northern, the Louisiana and Pacific, and the St. Louis , Iron Mountain and Southern railroads. It is on Lake Charles. Its public buildings include a Federal building, a ing, a public library, city hall, sanihotels. Its industries include the manufacture of lumber, ice, machine shop products, etc. It is the center of petroleum and sulphur producing region. an important lumber and Pop. (1910) Pop. (1910) 11,449; (1920) 13,088. the Pfahlbauten of German, the habita-