The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-05-27
The Result Of /. Case q 4sssss Fever"

We find in late number Of the
Dispaf Itch, a Ieltes from
Texas, signd by j. 0. Farrell, for.
nhrly of Irwin county, which ought
to cure every case of Texas fever in
Georgia for the next two years. We
make some extracts from il. He
writes from Smith county to his rro-
Their. asg
Tom and / have travelled over nine
counties, and from what we have
seen, and from what men who have
lived in Texas all their lives, and say
they have been i'm every county in the
State, tell us, am decidedly OF the
opinion that it would not be to your
interest to leave Georgia and come 10
this country. Now, my reasons ior
thinking so are these: LIST, in good lor
what they call good) moral sections
improved lands, and poor improve
ments at that, are selling at from hve
to ten dollars per acre. Remember,
now. we were told and written &c,
that we could get these improvements
at from two to five dollars per acre.
The figures have given you are cor
rect for the timbercd lands in Eastern
Texas. Higher up, North and West,
improvements are much higher, and
from fifteen to twenty-five dollars
per acre. Under the present system
of labor, unimproved lands i'm this
country consider worthless. 'WhyT
says somebody. Well, when L see
you will tell you why. l have not
been out to S. ID. Ander's yet, ana
from what hundreds of families tell
me that have moved 10 that section,
or OH what they call prairies, it is use
less for a man to move there if he
wants to raise any children. They
say the pneumonia kills them in piles
all over the prairie country. owing to
these heavy Northers. The peO-
pie that tell me all this have lived on
the prairies and moved to this and adj
Joining counties. / was told by one
man before l left Georgia that this
was the poorest county in the
State, and from what have seen of
nine counties, it is by one-half the
best county in the lot. Enough on
the land subject.
Now. we were told that we could
get thousands of corn at 311s cents
per bushel; we paid one dollar in
gold. We were TO get pork at 4 cents ;
we paid 8 cents in gold. Salt at five
dollars and fifty cents a sack; flour,
very common, ten dollars per barrel
i'm gold, and other things in proper
ton. Corn is now worth one dollar
and seventy-five cents per bushel, and
and bacon % to % cents per pound
So you see everything we heard was
exaggerated or false. Now there are
some lands South of this, in Angeli-
ma. TYLER, Trinity and Houston coun-
ties, that you might get for less than
above rates. Tom and went to look
at them, but the ID himself would
not associate with the inhabitants OF
those sections. They rob, steal, muir
der. and commit all the, depredations
imaginable for human beings to be
guilty of.
Now for market facilities. 1t costs
us fourteen Collars per bale to get cot
ton to New Orleans, and ten dollars a
bale to reach as good a market as
Hawkinsville, or haul it yourself 20
miles over the worst roads you ever
saw. Big Creek hill is as smooth as
a pavement to the most of it, and TO
sum up the whole matter in as few
words as possible, when you leave
Georgia you will leave the best coun.
try that know anything about, and
| have seen some of every State from
the Potomac River to the Gulf of Mex
leo. and from the Atlantic TO the Pa
cific, and if l live until next winter,
I'shall retrace my steps, and move
back to Irwin county, Georgia, which
I consider the poorest, though the
best country ever saw, taking every
thing into consideration. tbs long
ways the best range and game country
| ever saw.-Macon (Ga.) Telegraph