The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-12-03
TEXAS ITEMS.

The San Antonio Herald of the 2lst ult. gives
the following notice of q new manufacture about
TO be commenced there: "A number of gentle
men, who have investigated the subject In all its
bearings, have united together in the formation of
joint stock company for the purpose of estab-
fishing factory to manufacture the Leibeg meat
extract. These gentlemen have thoroughly studied
lne matter IN relation to It's safety as an invest
ment for capital, its benefit to the producing and
lsborDg classes, and its general effect upon the
material wealth and prosperity of Western Texas
IL is comparatively new industrial enterprise
but It's projectors are guided by the experience OF
two successful establishments which have been In
operation In South America for several years. In
1854 M. Giebert started a little factory at Fray
Bentos, on the La Plata, killing only fifteen ami.
mails per day, and in 1865, in less than one year,
his agent in Europe made Q contract for
hs s d demasS PGU om Fer gsss1 whilst
ket was for $50 lbs. monthly In July 1866, a new
company was formed in London, with capital
OF half million pounds sterling. On the 18th of
May, ls6s, the new factory commenced working
killing for the first day at the rate of l50 animals
per day, and soon after at the rate of 800; and
now during this present month of November, this
new factory is killing at the rate of 500 per day.
From these facts the great and increasing demand
can easily be perceived. An animal will yield
about two.hlrds of its weight in clean meat
ready TO be cut up for manufacturing thirty
pounds OF meat will yield one pound of extract,
the value of which in England is about So % gold
from 10 to IL pounds of extract, besides hide tai
low, horns and bones. Nothing whatever is
wasted; the hides. tallow and horns are sold
separately, while the bones of the animals after
serving as fuel for the engines which perform the
work of the factory, are shipped to England as
bone ashes. where their market value for manure
is $25 per TONI
The Houston Telegraph says: az Ten years from
this time the Pacific Railraod will be completed
across the State, branch roads will be running
0ireCtiOn- 0rla nd
Texas Railroad will be completed and daily trains
running TO and from the Crescent City the Central
Railroad will have reached its destination and all
the other roads now projected will be in running
order; the ship channel will be completed and
vessels from all the great ports lying at anchor at
the city Of Houston, and Houston will be city of
fifty thousand inhabitants. Ten years hence the
teeming millions of Texas will be the happest,
most prosperous people on this continent"
In an article entitled Fortunes in Texas for the
millions" the Telegraph says: "We have learned
OF number of young men who have formed
themselves Into sets, rented farms and are now
preparing for the next years crop. This is a
move in the right direction. There are thousands
OF acres Of land under cultivation in Texas, now
idle for the want of laborers and there are young
men enough in the State now idle, because there
are no shady situation for them, to cultivate every
foot of the open land and with proper industry
and MANAGEMENT each one of them could
clear thousand dollars next year. Just
think OF 1t, and see how foolish you to imagine
that you were made for something more noble
than to till the soil. Let our young men unite TO.
gether in twos, threes, tours or MORE 20 out into
the country, rent farms or hire themselves out and
60 to work. 1t will make corn bread and fat ba-
con taste sweetly to you; you will enjoy sleep as
you never have before; it will develop your con-
sttutlons, secure your health and add years to
your lives. You can find farmers who will furnish
you implements, animals and provisions to be paid
for out OF the CROP and at the end of the year you
will find yourselves with capital of your own to
work on the next year. and with II better capital
than money, viz: A love of labor and a respect
for that class, upon whom all other classes are
dependent. Good lands, not 10 cultivation, can
be bought in Texas at from so cents to S. per
acre. according TO location, and lands in cultiva.
k5s Ksve i s y by Yd a1 oa
of the crops. Lands in cultivation can be rented
at rom II to 80 per acre, or a part of the CROP"