The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1869-03-17
Shreyenort and Eastern Texas.

A gentleman residing in Eastern Texas, whom We
should Judge, was in favor of making two or three
States out Of her present territory, writes to US as fol-
lows, after spending few days in this city The wri-
ter resides in Smith county:
I have witnessed the permanent il not rapid i'm
provement Of your city with considerable interest," feel
ing that some extent, il lOreshadOwed tie coming
of better day for my section 1t needs no pro
phetc vision tell her future greatness. Situated
the head of navigation and surrounded By large ex-
tent Of very fertile country, with no other Quiet by
Which TO dispose Of or transport its productions, her
prosperity depends ouo upon tie deYelopmcg. Of the
resources OF that country.
Arc the present indications sufficient to warrant
the expectations of those who are investing so
extensively IN real estate boil ly the purchase OF adj
dt0na property and tle improvement of hasalready
owned? This will be answered wien it il remember
ed that between sixty and segcuE thousand bales of cot
ton will be shipped from Shreveport this season. with
propOrOnably large increase OF return freights re-
curing between thirty and forty thousand dollars daily
10 transact the legitimate business Of the place. If
this be the fact her business transactions of to-
day, when the Southern Pacific railroad extends only
forty miles west what will It amount to when that line
reaches the rich prairie counties Of East Texas? The
people of that section feel the importance and the press
ing necessity of having railroad facilities, not for
the convenience OF getting their present crops to
ket than for the Development OF the productive capac
tiles of their soil in the future. NocOuntry has natur-
ally richer soil Or that is susceptible of the
highest state Of cultivation. No people at
tain any great degree Of agricultural prosperity while
the cost of transportation Hbsorhs so large proper
ton Of the price realised frora the sale Of their pro-
ducts as is the viii tic greater portion of the
farmers of Eist Texas.
Admitting these facts, it may be wondered why have
not the people Of that section Of the State taken
active part by Legislative enactment iii such rail-
road enterprises would be calculated to relieve the
trvf rum these 6iSo1 Tho pyt nj
territory, and the great diversity, and often con-
ict Of interests between East and West Texas has made
it almost impossible to adopt any legislation for pro-
.4otinr or Dromo1iu, Tire uf other section
The ;loais OF our State, the energies of people,
an- the time OF legislators, have been sqna,ered
spent and consumed in trui'ess efforts to halmonse
interests that are absolutely Incompatible, if not
tagonistia.
So it is, so it has been for the last twenty years. and
so it will remain until people have the control
and be permitted to legsate in behalf of their public
interests. In short, Mr.. Editor, the great question
with our people is, that of division of the State.
In point of vital Importance, it is swallowing up all
Others 1t is to affect pecuniary, the prosperity Of all
classes of the community, and they cannot, if they
would, turn deaf ear to lis appeals In the late con
vcntion at Austin it assumed proportions and lowered
far above any other and all other questions. rs enc
mics BID it BECOME and used EYER ncAns both fair
and lOa to defeat i before that body but it grew in
the midst Of the most untirrng and ceHsele$s oppoS
i0n, and ITS importance and necessity Is iet to day
from Red river the Rio Grandc, and from the coast
10 Our most northern limits. vIAToR.
No Extra SESSION OF TIE LEGisLATCRE-TI New
Orleans Picayuhe Of the lth is pleased to announce
it, readers, upon the very best Authority shat the
rumor Which has been industonsly circulated that the
Governor intends cal! session Of the leeis-
allure is without any foundation. Cur contemporary
urhcr remarks that the late "scsson fruitful in
misrepresentation, iargcsseS, bonds
without stint, for any and every Object ana in the grant
If monopoies aud inerminable rights to bpggar the
people Another such session without breathing
pe would result in the substantial confscaton of the
State. The only safeguard left is the veto Of the Gov
r'or held over such bills as wcro passed late in the
ession and to call the legislature together would
imply place the State at the feet of its mercenaries
he Governor ACTS wisely and pntriotically therefore,
declining to rci,Ssemble the legislature. lie cannow
eep it off u"ti April, 1870, if lie 50 will and we hope
c will so detcrminen