The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-05-06
Texas Railroads and Manufactures.

Eds. CreScent-Since my short communication
on Texas and Texas Railroads. have been pleased
to the citizens of that State awakening up on
the subject, both in the eastern and western parts
of that growing State. Railroads and manufacto-
ries will in some day, be the means of putting
Texas where her natural advantages enttle her to
be, viz: far in advance of any of the Southern
States in manufactures, and in the extent of her
railroads.
The citizens of Eastern Texas begin to call for
extension of the contemplated railroad from
New Orleans to Attakapas The people of West
ern Texas calling loudly for railroad from
Matagorda Bay to San Antonio That is all right,
and the proper spirit is thereby aroused-I mean
the spirit of rivalry between the two extremes
Make railroad in the east and one in the west,
and my word for it, the people in the middle or in
termediate space will soon connect them together,
so that we will have one continued chain from New
Orleans to San Antonio in few years. The rich
| and broad savannas of Western Texas are better
adapted for the construction of railroads than any
other Southern State. The grades will be less,
and consequently the cost of construction less than
in any other State in the South. Then the fac-
ties for erecting manufactures are still greater
She has in the west water power, { mean avail
Union. She also has, right at her door, one of the
best markets in the world for the sale of her man.
ufactured articles. The raw material can be and
is now raised Immediately around where her man.
ufactories ought to be, which she can raise as
cheap as any other State, and then all the trans
| portation and commissions are saved There are
Germans enough already there to run the ma
chnery, and they are still coming by hundreds. 1t
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and most faithful aborers known. The Rio San
Marks, within half mile of it's source, is 20 or &c
yards wide and from to 8 feet deep-is constan
never rises nor falls more than nches--ha, fal
sufficient and water enough to keep twenty thou
sand spindles constantly going. Gen. Burlesor
lives the side of the mountain, right above, and
within 40 yards of the Spring. Immediately be.
low, the spring is said TO be about 30 feet deep,
and that it is so clear and limpid two-bit piece
can be on the bottom.
| The Rio Comal, within one mile of its head is
some 80 or 40 yards WIDE about feet Deep very
clear and rapid, does not rise nor fall more than
2 or inches; the whole of the river can be used
with fall of some eight ten feet. 1t has water
in abundance to keep forty thousand spindles con,
stantly moving. ..-.
The San Antonio river, within or 3 miles of it,
source, is some so 60 yards wide has water
and fall enough to turn constantly sixty thousand
| spindles. There various other rivers and
mountain streams, sufficient to turn one hundred
thousand more spindles, such as the Guadalupe
Banco ETC.; besides, most of the water above men
toned can be used twice. by erecting dams below
They are all in beautiful and healthy region,
or 5000 feet above the level of the There i
one drawback on Western Texas, and that is tn
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