The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1871-08-19
EDiTORllL CORRESPONDENCE.

lyon ! Iayo Travelled over several
uurHos 10 thi Staia ari hayc been
4 com family moving from one point
l4 another From Galveston ] caur
~ railroad 10 Uuuat9n ana from
|. there 90 tbi point, tao present icf.
minus ol the Houston and Texas
Central railway. The country from
Galveston 90 Houston, which place
Is growing very rap and when
the railroad to New Orleans is com
plctcl, will be the leading place ia
the State, is m open prairie tor O
hundred miles until We struck the
the BRACES river country at Hemp
stcoi extension ofthc Nh Line rail-
road branch to Austin. The couu-
try from Hampstead west, on the
Air Line road through Washington,
williamson and Travis counties, is .
probably the richest in Texas, or,
ut least, the lands are worth more,
aud the lass Of citizens are Of the
very best order. From Hampstead
the road rams on the BRACES linz as
farupas Beaumont, when the Waco
branch takes the Bru-o RIVER line
and the Central DIVORCES straight
north Gp a liuo fo Dallas ar} s'er
lah, ia holtaeu t,Ag,, and RUS
between the Trinity and the Brazos.
At Bryan, which Is a very flourish
ing town, we left the railroad and
went west across the Brazos river
into Inrlcson county and attended
the meeting OF the District C0urtiu
that county We saw the crops
upon the celebrated Brazas river
bottom plantations, and had a fair
opportunity to judge Of the crops.
1t Is necessary, however, for your .
readers to understand that this ls
what is called a dry year aud that
not q drop otrain has tallenin Wcs- I
tern Texas, except small showers in i,
specially favored localities, since the ,
goth day of May, and that this is
nearly three months and is an un-
usually dry spell; yet, with all this
draw back, we are utterly astonish-
ed at the crops, for where the corn
was planted early and well worked,
the yield will be at least sixty bush ,
els per acre in the bottom and thirty c
to forty on tho post,oak and prairie
lands; but the cotton crop is very
inferior, aud is, in fact, almost an
entire failure. On land that ought +,
and usually does raise q bale of cot {
ton to the acre, there will not be a
yield OF over two hundred pounds'of
lint. This description of crops mp.
pllost TO all middle and western Texas
and the people are @mplaining very
much at the failure in their crops;
yet they are making, to us, u WON
derfol good crop for the season.
Land along the railroad is worth
from two to five dollars per acre I'M.
improved, and from ten to forty dol
lars for improved land in specie, as
no other kind Of money is used here.
The Brasos country is regarded.
as the finest lands in Texas, and the
country north Of this point, inclu-
ding Freestone, Limestone, Dallas.
Navarro, Mcclellan, johnson and
Collin is even superior and is the
most desirable point for immigra.
ton from our State, Ms the climate
and soil is more like our own than
any other. The river bottoms ia
hmestanc, black bnck-sho land. like
the prnries around West Point, Mics.
and the post-oak and open prairie is
really Of the same grade with thin
Tier soil.
t nave been perfectly ~astonishcl
9 AZ inc hurn0ev q Mississippians I
. have met in this sectloa Of Texaa
Nearly every fifth mao ". meet
! IS from our State and you tccI l--.
G fectly at home here, AMI tho imni,
grafton from our State will increase
to this portion Of Texas.
o Water is very scared for stock and
the wells are limestone and The water
i is intolerable to drink, 10 one not
used to that kind Of water. The
number of railroads building here IN
astonishing, and the improvement
to the country Is equally great
The Central win DO completed to
Dallasinfour months, and this point
, will then take its place as a second
! lflass station md the majority Of ira
u ders will follow up the termini.
= These railroad tcrmini build M
10 like onehantment. The cars have
Us been running hcreonly three mouths