Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1868-05-30
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the iullcial ermine this district, iLousl.
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thy man,
| mentioned tire ~ two hack tia, lherF
was some considerable talk ~ q h0rlieullu-
raj society for Texas, Since Ihcn hr lalk
has continued, and Il Is gratifying ~ know
that the attention II considerable num'
her IN the state i turned In the subject
The Plan GA foot looks 90 an association ul
those who ate Interested In the various
branches of Horticulture, including a.,
orchard, the vineyard, tie flower garden,
the vegetable garden, aud nc might adj,
until the Agricultural Association lccnri,-
an establishment, such attention ~ could
he given TO field crops, The result Of such
an association will undoubtedly be FOR good
In the programme are found annual fairs
for the show OF tie best products, MS well
IL = A 4.
which uaqucsiionnbly there would be n
very large attendance, aud where more
would be learned from interchange OF eN.
perience aud opinion In Que week than In
half n dozen years ploddimg along either
in the beaten track or in the dark. trust
the scheme will meet the approval and sup.
port OF the gardeners aud farmers all over
the State. In this connection | am glad "a
observe that several OF the entcrprsng
farmers of Harris county have determined
10 form n county agricultural society.
wish them every success, and plenty OF
corresponding societies of like character
all over tho State.
If may be pardoned for talking about
gardens, / should like to observe That ms
Texas is the garden spot of the United
States, so is il the best adapted TO garden.
ing of any country know of. We are yet,
to be sure, comparatively new. We have
to learn q great deal about our soil and
climate, which nothing but experience
can teach us. But we are improving year
by year. More and more people every year
are producing fine apples, pears, peaches
and grapes. Some have old trees in full
bearing. know one orchard in this coun.
~ of fifty or more peach trees, not one OF
which has u trunk less than n foot in diam
eter, and which has yielded fine fruit for
now these twenty years. Twenty years
from this zine there will be hundreds OF
such and larger orchards in Harris county
Apples have not MS yet, in the lower coun-
try, proved equally thrifty and productive
Still, apples can be raised here and have
n good promise from n four years old tree
this year. Pears have always done well
here when properly attended to. Neither
of these trees has as yet been troubled with
the borer or the curcu'io, well-known pests
in Northern orchards.
Enquiring the cause of II delay in put
ting up the Masonic Temple in this city,
am informed it is caused by delay in the
receipt of the beautiful iron 'front.' ordered
for the building from New York. The front
Is however now ell ROUTE, HHu VIII uUuUllcsS
reach here in couple Of weeks more. This
Temple will be the finest public building in
the State, when completed according to the
design Oh which it is built, n worthy en-
blem of the benevolent order whose heal l.
quarters in Texas it will be. 1t is hoped
that it will be completed within the coming
year.
A great deal of attention is being at
tractcd by the people of Waco to the propo-
sed route for n railroad from Vicksburg to
Gulyamas, by way of Waco. Whether the
dreams of the projectors Of this enterprise
will ever be realized or not, it is certainly
to be hoped that they will lose no time in
constructing that part of the road which is
to connect the Central with Waco. This
route from the Mississippi to Guayamas has,
first and last, been discussed a great deal
in Texas. | remember, twelve years ago,
the road from Houston to Columbia was
built, il was thought it would even tually
become link of the great chain from Port
land Maine, to the Pacific coast. Nor was
the scheme visionary in the sense Of being
| impracticablc. Another route, long talk ed
of, has been to Columbus, San Antonio, Ea-
gle Pass, and so on. Another, eight or ten
years ago. was the Memphis, FL Paso and
Pacific. The Waco route is still another.
What then2 Shall these enterprises become
the rivals of each other? Not necessarily.
What may be looked for, however, will be,
| to my notion, a trunk line from New Or
leans, by way of Houston TO San Antonio
and Gnayamas or Mazatlan, if the harbor
of the latter be sufficient, while the other
routes, ifbuilt, must make their calculations
to connect with this at San Antonio. The
advantage of the lower route is that it
skirts tide water to the last practical point
on the Atlantic side, when it plunges at
once through Mexico by the shortest route
to the great Pacific Ocean. Another adj
vantage is, that from the Mississippi river
at New Orleans to Mazatlan is but 1900
miles Of this distance 260 miles Of rail-
road are already built, leaving but $50 to
be built to make a continuous railroad from
the Mississippi to the Colorado of Texas,
and but about 100 more to reach San Anto-
MO, and both these gaps are provided for
without reference 10 the route TO the Pacific.
1t is not unlikely, then, that this lower
route NAV take precedence in construction