New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-11-17
NEW ORLEANS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER It. 1871
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AAN0S Il AVAOAA AVN EN4l
0UR TEXAS CORRESPONDENCE.
RallreaA-Deaeh efaa Old New Orleap
Mopehase-The Great Resources IN
Nasaral Advaneages of ~ Leue Sta
Seate.
Coas1cAxA. Texas, October q, 1871.
EDrroR REPUBLICAN:
Since my last communication # nm thi
place, the onward march Of tho rsilroa,
has been steady. Tho sound Of tho locomo
tive now shakes the air Of our town AMI
quicksns tho hearts Of her sxpeetaa
people - it speeds its flight to within thre,
Or four miles of her suburbs. Business ha,
received . new impetus from its approach
and men are all alive for trade, though
our merchants have been saddened, ani
traffic has paused to pay the last sad honor,
to tho remains of tho king merchant OF
this road, and good citizen Of your city
Mr.. Henry Block, Of tho firm of Block 4
Brittin, on Common street, who died few
days since in Goesbeek. a
This Central road is in the hands of mer
of great energy and perseverance. They
will not tarry long with ~ in their work, bu1
are even now making rapid strides toward
Dallas six miles of the grading in advance
| Of our town being already let out, while oul
woods ring with the stroke of the axe and
the fall of timber, ~ the right of way
stretc hes ON through field and woodland.
Dallas will in few months be the next
terminus of this road. It possesses many
features which must inevitably make it one
Of the most important towns Of the State.
Lying, as it does, ON the banks of the Trim.
ity, which is spanned by . magnificent sus-
pension bridge, commanding the trade Of
twenty ak Of the richest and most produc-
tive counties in this portion of the State,
Ind possessing population formed of tho
best class of people, Dallas needs only rail.
road to unlock its great resources and make
tho portal of import and export of the
finest position Of Texas. This gained, it
must become q commercial centre of inn.
portance aud power.
Of this road, the great artery through which
is to flow untold millions Of wealth, giving
strength and life to our State, to touch
upon some Of her main features which in
duce immigration from the old States and
from foreign countries.
What we want to make her, Q land of
rich abundance, flowing in milk and honey,
and the home of wealth and comfort and
capital and labor. Her natural resources.
her variety OF climate, her vast extent Of
alluvial soil, and the cheapness of lands
here, are all advantages almc { unknown
within the limits of civilization. This il .
subject of vast importance, and yet one of
which there is little knowledge or apprecia.
tion abroad.
The Rev. Father Nugent, of Liverpool, no
tour through this country for the purpose
of promoting the immigration of the farm
ing and manufacturing classes of over-run
England to our land, says he found in the
South and West immigration societies pro-
Tossing to put before the world ali the
features of our country, but he sought in
vain for information Of our great State OF
Texas. He attended the great immigra-
ton convention at Indianapolis, all to no
purpose; he could learn nothing definite,
except what might be gathered from .
Texas almanac he found in New Orleans.
He was told by the people of the North
that the South was no place for emigrants
Texas was particularly represented as q
rebellious fragment of the United States Ia
pretty large fragment). infested by all man
mr. of nOxious animals and poisonous rep
tiles, open to incursiOns from Indians and
depredations from outlaws of every class.
Surely when such reports are put before the
world, swapping at the germ just that which
We need to build up our wealth and great
ness, an influx of honest, thrifty, su6stan-
tial laborers, and keeping from the Old
World just what her crowded population
wants, viz: home and refuge, where land
is plenty and labor is mOney-when sucl,
twOfold injustice is the growth OF ignorance,
surely it behOves us to spread the truth
through every channel and in every land.
l have only space here to give, cOncisely. |
. few facte, which, if circulated throughout |
the overbu.dened States of the North and |
the hungry, starving laboring classes of |
Europe, will soon show to the thrifty farmer |
where his interests lie, and to the honest !
wOrkingman where home may be found, |
and will soon fill our State with an indus
trious, thriving people.
Her climate and seasons are eminently |
to the production of sugar. corn, |
cotton, tobacco, wheat, barley, oats, rye
al the vegetables of the garden-potatOes,
svery variety of fruit; apples, peaches, |
pears, plums, grapes, figs and MELONS, and |
II! things healthful and delicious.
The temperature Of this portion of the
State rarely exceeds $40 or $50 Fahrenheit,
md seldom goes below 2Oo Fahrenheit.
There is constantly breeze blowing from
ne prairles fresh as the morning breath of
he ocean, and laden with the sweet per-
ume Of myriad wild flowers. All miasmic
diseases are unknown.
The soil varies in fertility according to
ne location, being in the greater portion of
he country prairie, and far more produc-
i've than any unmanured land in any of the
Id states, the British islands or the CONT
lent of Europe. The soil is alluvium, vary
ng from ten to twenty feet in thickness
nd entirely unimpaired by . corn crop of
nlrty successive years. In the wheat re-
ION the land produces from thirty or forty
ushels to the acre. This region embraces
6UOV square miles OF country, and is capa-
Ons of people.
The wheat crop ripens here in May, and
lay be harvested and thrown into the
lew York market before the wheat of that
tate begins to grow in the spring.
Inc cotton region is ccextensive with the
neat region, and embraces still more
bout thirty-eight thousand square miles.
he climate and soil are equally adapted to I
gr0wth-twelve bales are raised to the
and, and with improved machinery much
lore may be done. The farming done by
10 natives here is generslly of . cal {
'os, slovenly characters. A living is too {
} bring out their industry. What might t
Ot such q class of farmers ~ Germany, I
ngiand, or the North and West of our own
'untry accomplish Of her gardens, We
N only say she can produce as fine - the
ora can boast. Tomatoes, seven months j
? the year, many vegetables the entire '
'as, and strawberries ut least during one :