Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1859-08-10
From the Journal Of Commerce.
CoMAL PARISH, CoMAL Co.,
rpy.e 01et Tu1a 1890

TEXAS, 2lst June, 1859.
According to promise, send letter iron
this far-oif aud fast growing section Of tht
Union. The population of this State in 1851
was 2l2, 2,592, at this date it is upwards u
100000. They will elect Gen. Sam. Iloustor
for the next Governor. Most of the foreign
population arc Germans, who will turu their
attention to stock raising. 1t is tue mUst
profitable business yet followed, i'll proportion
to the amount of capital invested. Stock
cattle from calves to three years old arc
worth 81 per head, ard four-years old bccves
Sis. Large lrovcs OF the latter are yearly
driven or conveyed to California, ST. Louis
Chicago, anu 10 your Empire City Of New
York.
The Texans cut no hay, for there is nc
need of any. The winters are like your
November. Consequently you seein winter:
as in summer, large herds Of fine cattle era.
zng over the praries, che luxuriant herbage
affording them ample means of subsistence
Horses do equally as we'll as cattle Ny
calveyard of PSI mares are looking well the
average value at this time $50 per head:
Mules at three years old, good sizes, $l0O
per head. They are sent to the Brazos river
and New Orleans for market. My sheep
ara looking unusually we'll have three tlmks
Of about | 200 each, attended by three Ger.
mans as shepherds, whose salary uInnunto tu
S45 per MONTH Trey average about l.2 10
3-4 blood 0lerino, AMI are worth about fS5
per head. Shear wo i is worth 81 per head
in your market y2arIy, it it is properly
washed and packed clear of hurrs. Freight
from here to New York one and half cents
per pound. do not claim that Western
Texas, where my ranch is located, is the best
agricultural country, but do claim it to be
the best grazing country in tho Wide 'corld
(you know have travelled in three quarters
Of the globe, and claim to be judge) am
located on the Guadalupe river, near latitude
20 dg. 25 min., longitude IS deg. 80 min. !;
elevation 7G0 leet, about lG0 miles from Mat
agortla bay, my shipping; point, "Lavacca," !"
having weekly packets to New York. The
enterprising citizens are building a railroad
to the city Of San Antonio, within 35 miles
Of my ranch. Another road running to some
destination from Galveston is progressing
rapidly.
The land in this county is we'll watcred,
and plenty of fine timber, live and post oak,
cedar, elm, and pecan trees in abundance,
furnish the rich pecan nuts, upon which my
thousand hogs luxuriate and grow fat. They
range sometimes ten miles, and get quite
Wild Have to drive with dogs, and a Hog
Hunt is as exciting as horse race at EPSON
Course. Even that pays--bacon being worth
- 1-2 cents per pound in San Antonia. This
county is hilly, plenty CT limestone rock. Its
area is l,02+ square miles value Of land per
acre, improved, from 50 to So; unimprovcd,
from 81 to 81 per acre. No swamps, marshes,
Or stsgnant pools. 1t is bigh, dry, and heal
thy country. Thermometer rarely goes be-
low 45 or above IS degrees. The State is
out of debt, and has S2,0O0,0O0 in her trcasu-
ry, set aside for internal Improvements, inter-
est upon which goes tc support common
schools. Texas also owns more than ,5OO,-
900 acres of the best land in North America,
and l5,930,77G acres, besides improved and
anirnp1oyed farm land, upon Which they raise