The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1863-08-06

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The value of the crop of 1889 made
by David Dickson on his main planta-
ton in Hancock Co., Georgia, was es-
timated at $55, 1000, with force of So
full hands.
The cotton crop is raised, Except the
small crop of Sea-Island cotton in the
interior, and not upon the unhealthy
coast line. The principal cotton region
is unrivalled for salubrity and good
health, and the average summer heat is
not SO great as that of the lower part
of Philadelphia. The average extreme
of the heat Of each day in summer is
greater in st. Louis than in New Or
leans, and tho former has no tsmpering
breeze from the Gulf [See Blsdgett's
Climatology of the United States.
Texas, upon less than one-quartsr of
one per cent. Of her aers, produced in
1860, 4o5, 100 bales Of cotton, or about
one.half the entire quantity required
by manufacturers in the United States. y
The capacity of Texas to produce
cotton is estimated at 2O,OOO,OO0 bales
per annum.
Each slave owner desirous of produc-
ing 8 bales of cotton per annum must
invest $1,000 to $1,000 in an able bodied
negro, and must build quarters and fur
nish tools.
Each free man desirous of producing
bales of cotton per annum, must pur-
chase only the tools required for eulti-
vating corn, and his intelligent labor
will give him from 2 to 16 bales where
the work of the slave will yield but 8
bales or less.
BY which process will Texas be SOON
est developed! To cultivate all her
cotton land would require capital in
vested in slaves, of twenty five hundred
million dollars.
CAN WHITE MEN WORK AND THRIVE IN
! TEXAS.
| Witness the following extract from
Maroy's Exploration of the Red River:
"The road Immediately after leaving
Fulton, Ark, leads to an elevated ridge
dividing the waters that flow into Red
River from those of the Sulphur and
Trinity, and continues upon it, with but
few deviations from the direct course
for El Paso and Dona Ana to near the
Brazos River, distance of three hund-
red and twenty miles, and mostly thro'
the northern part of Texas. This por-
ton of the route has its locality in a
country of surprising beauty and fer
tility, and possesses all the requisites
for attracting and sustaining a dense
farming population. 1t is diversified
with prairies and woodland, and is
bountifully watered numerous spring
brooks, which flow off upon either side
of the ridge above mentioned. The
crest of the ridge is exceedingly smooth
and level, and is altogether the best
natural or artificial road l ever travelled
over for the same distance.
After leaving the ridge, the road
crosses the Brazos near very extensive
fields of bituminous coal, which burns
readily, with clear flame, and is very
superior in quality.
i From the Brazes, the road skirts
small efiuents of that stream and the
Colorado for TWO hundred miles. The
soil upon this section is principally a
red argillacesus loan, similar to thai
in the Red River bottoms, which is SO
highly productive.
As this route is included within the
thirty-second and thirty fourth parallels
Of latitude, it would never be obstruet.
ed with snow. The whole surface of
the country il covered with a dense
coating of the most nutritious grass,
which remains green for nine months
in the year, and enables cattle to sub
sist the entire winter without any other
forage. -
The line of this road east from Fort
Smith would intsrssst the Mississippi
in the vicinity Of Memphis, Tenn, and
would pass through the country border
ing the Arkansas River, which cannot
be surpassed for fertility.
July Is, 1852.
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We find the son good at all places
near the mountains, and the country
well wooded and yatered. The grass