The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1871-09-07
Texas and the Future.

Texas and the Future.
In addition to the natural resources
of Texas, her future is most brilliant.
immigration is bringing With it wealth
intelligence and refinement. Schools,
colleges, churches, and railroads are
being rapidly constructed thorough,
out the State. Steamers are now
plying on the waters of the Rio
Grande, Brazos, Colorado, Trinity,
Sabine and Red Rivar, bearing rich
freights of merchandise, and return
ing with her products of sugar, cot~
ton, rice, wheat, corn, cattle, beef,
tallow, hides and wool. The State
now owns about 5O,OOO,00O acres of
land, and has wisely set apart 100
acres to heads of families and 80
acres to single men. The State lands,
though on a distant frontier, are of
good soil, and can be bought at
81 % per acre.
The unimproved lands, in good
settlements, can be bought at from
50 to SIS per acre, on accommodating
terms to actual settlers. AS a gen.
eral thing, they are well adapted to
the cultivation of the staples, and
admirably suited to stock raising.
The uplands, with their never failing
streams of purewater and pleasant
groves, enjoy salubrity of climate
unsurpassed. The alluvial lands of
the bottoms have no superior. The
high rolling prairies, redolent with
verdure, generally rising with hills
and gradually sinking into lovely
valleys, combining richness of soil
with beauty of nature, present scen>
cry we'll calculated to rivit attention
and gain admiration. The climate
is of alternate spring and summer,
the country most delightfully."- famed
by the breezes of the Mexican Gulf.
Flowers bloom and vegetation grows
all winter. The temperature of the
summer does not present a higher
degree of heat than is experienced
in the Northern States. The cool
ness of the nights and mornings are
quite pleasant and exhilerating in
summer. Northern and Western
Texas is free from epidemics. The
diseases are of mild kind, and yield
easily to medicine. In beauty, fer
tility and climate, it is the most per-
feet garden of nature.-New York
Tribune.
The East Texas Bulletin says in
that county the prospect for haIf>
crop cotton yield has vanished within
the last three weeks. The continued
drouth has caused the forms to shed,
and if fresh squares should form,
they would not mature. We will
not make third as much cotton this
year as last. Corn enough to live
on is made. There has not been a
rain here, sufficient to do vegetation
any good since the 10th of June, and
the summer has been the hottest that
we have had for ten years. The
crop of Eastern Texas may be brief.
ly described as failure.
.BoIs D ARC SPRINGS. There is
quite an excitement in regard to
some chalybeate springs recently
discovered on Bots d Arc creek, in
Fannin county, twenty-five miles
from Paris. There are 500 persons
encamped at the springs. We have
heard of some wonderful cures effect
ed by the waters. The springs are
twelve in number, and their waters
appear to be peculiarly adapted to
the relief of dyspeptics.- Paris
Press.
DIR. Josiah Hough started on
Tuesday last with one of the best
outfits of men and horses that has
ever left this section of country, for
the far West. He is to receive
herd of 1000 head of fine beef cats
tie at Hubbard's creek, when he will
take up the line of march for Colo~
RADIO Territory, and will probably
winter on the head waters of the
Arkansas. - Weatherford Times.
One of our exchanges has this
paragraph: An extensive sulphur
mine has been discovered in Louisi-
ana, the only one of the kind in this
country. 1t is on the gulf coast,
and the sulphur lies over four hum
1red feet below the surface and |
extends out under the sea. When
reached the sulphur deposits arc over
one hundred feet in thickness and of
great purity. The mine is worked |
BY a company with ample capital
and experience, who have every
facility for doing it scientifically. |
The deposits are so remarkable both |
n regard to quantity and quality,
md are so ready obtained, that
enormous profits are expected to
accrue to the shareholders.
M. Rochfort has had his troubles
increased by the elopement of his
laughter aged 16, with young man
If Is. She was at school in Jersey, |
t is said, whence the pair went to
London and were married. The |
mother of the bridegroom, however,
followed them, seized her son and |
packed him off to the colonies,
while the bride was sent back to
Jersey.