The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1870-11-05
Affairs in Texas.

Supervisor Bridgland, OF the
Revenue Department, has arrived
at Washington, the New York
Tribune reports. from the Texas
District, where lie has been on &C
tive duty for seven or eight
months past. He reports that the
illicit distillery business is COM
pletely broken up in that State.
The troops rendered him valuable
service from time to time, in sup
pressing illicit stills. and arrest
ing violators of the law. The re-
ceipts from revenue for the pres
ent year in Texas will be almost
double that of the year ending
June 80, 1870. Mr.. Bridgland
says that the military police, and
the form alton of the State militia,
have driven most Of the gangs of
thieves and mauraders from the
State into Mexico. The military
police is splendid institution; and
has done valuable service in ar
resting or driving out the lawless
bands that have invested Texas
since the war. He says that en-
igrants are pouring into the State
by thousands, and lands are being
readily taken at from three to fiji
teen dollaas an. acre. The var
ious projected lines of railroad
are already under way. The line
from BRENNAN to Austin has now
500 Cinnamon and 800 convicts at
work upon it. The State receives
pay for the labor Of the convicts
He says that there will be 5000
Cinnamon at work on the railroads
in various parts OF the State by
next spring. Lend in Texas that
cost s. an acre produces bale Of
cotton to an acre. This cotton Is
sold at $50 bale on the place. 1t
can be hauled 500 miles in OK
teams, at two cents pound. This
cheap rate is owing to the cattle
feeding on the grass on the way,
thereby sewing the expense OF
feed. He says that when the rail-
roads are completed, Texas will
be a great country in itself. They
now raise enough cattle to feed
this entire country The Difficult
ty is in bringing them to market.
Fine steers a,e sold at ten dollars
each, and now many persons kill
the steers for the hide and tallow,
throwing away the meat. Large
droves are now en- route to Kansas
and Illinois. where it is proposed
to winter them, and let them re-
fatten, and thus introduce good
stock of cattle into those States.
When the railroads are finished
Texas will send hundreds of thou
sands of cattle to the northern
markets.
Mr.. Bridgland gives some very
interesting figures in relation TO
the cotton crop. He states that
we, will have a larger crop this year
than any since 1860, and that the
quality of the cotton will be better
than ever before. He says the
wear after the war there was on
the market 2,6SO,000 bales. The
years 1865 and sc there was 1850
900 bales. In the year 1866
there was 1850, 900 bales: The
year 1878 there was 2, 434 ,OO(
bales. The year Of 1869 there
there was 100000 bales, Thu
year of 1S69-7O there was 100000
bales, and that the crop now stand
ing and to be picked this fall viii
be from 100000 to 3,S0O,0O(
; bales. He has been over the mos
of the cotton country, and make
} his estimates from the returns o
the various State officers in thu
cotton country and from his owl
observations. These figures show
steady increase in the production
while the price now is So pence
gold, per pound, because of an in
, creased demand necessary for it
manufactures, and because GU
own country is rapidly increasing
in the manufacture of the raw ma
terial. Mr.. Bridgland reports tia
corn, wheat, and fruits, are abun
: dant throughout the South-th
largest crops he has ever known
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