The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-01-05

/ ia our day so cheap as Six cents does
| not seem probable, and yet even Al
/ four and half cents per pound large
/ fortunes can be made in cattle breed
! ing. It is only on the limitless plains
/ where land IS OF little or no value
that stock can be raised to great ad-
vantage. But even the plains, bound
less as they may seem, are fast disaP-
pearing before the advancing waves
! OF population. Texas, the great cat
/ tie hive of the country, has during
the past year received 800, 0O0 settlers,
and already cattle growers there feel
! that they must soon look elsewhere
| for untramTneIed ranges. A few more
years like the past, few deductions
of million acres of pasture lands in
a single season, and Texas viii be no
more of a grazing State than New
York, Pennsylvania, or Ohio. Yet,
compare these States, and how do
they stand now? New York, with
her settlements $50 years old and a
population of 1000, 600, has 74S, 900
oxen and stock cattle Pennsylvania,
with over 8, ,000, 900 people, has 721 900;
Ohio, with 3,QgS 600 people khas 749,-
600; Texas, with SOC, ,009 people. has
g, 3,800,000 cattle alone.
NOW Is THE TIBIB TO 90 TO THXAS, ST.
CURE YOUR LANDS AND. STOCK
RANCHES.
The great Platte Valley has over
100000 acres of Hich pasture but
how long will these acres remain
grazing grounds? The Union Pacific
Railroad has already divided these
lands from their eastern to their west
ern extremity, and tOWEs and villages
are springing up everywhere along
it's iron rails, and farms are being
opened on every side of them. It is
no exaggeration to say that the popu-
lation of the United States before the
close of the present century will pro-
badly reach I00, 900, 600 of people.
Then there will be no West to settle
up, no great stock ranges, but farms
and cities and cities and farms every
where. predict that those men who
begin now by raising cattle on Gov
ernment lands, and are wise enough
to buy portion of these lands as soon
as they are offered for sale, will find
before they die that these lands will
be worth more to them than their
herds ever could have been. Your
great Ohio Senator, Benjamin Wade,
once said that he believed within
the present century every acre Of
good land between the Missouri river
and the California coast will be wsTth
fifty dollars In gold" Wild as this
declaration at the time seemed, it has
already been realized in many por-
tiOns of Nebraska, and Ii Is likely to
come true In all our States and Ter
ritories west of the Big Muddy. Great
then, as are the fortunes which are
being made in cattle, still greater will
be the fortunes made In land. Those
who are wisest will make all they can
on their cattle, and the moment the
lands are for sale buy all they can get,
even ifthey have to sell part OF their
herd to pay for their lands. The
Homestead law pTecludes the posi-
bility of getting much land in one
body, but by buying out settlers at
fair prices, sufficient grounds fer graz
ing purposes may be had fer many
years yet.
INFORMATION FOR FARMERS.
YouwhO live on the worn-Out lands,
requiring s., to SI5 per acre, eApend-
ed every two or three years ia fer
tilizatiOn; you who own lands esti-
mated at from 500 to 5000 per acre in
cash capital invested; you who toll
eight months through every year of
your lives amid extreme heat, cold
and rain to provide enough to keep
your families and animals from st8Tv-
ing and freezing during the Tigors of
a Northern winter, can you not ap-
preeiate such a natural Eden as
Texas?
In Texas you can plOw every month
in the year. Your wheat, barley,
rye, oats, etc., etc, are all sOwed in
those Texas golden autumn months
of October, November and December
Your blowing and preparation for
Spring crops is performed in the bTac-
ing airs of January. Your planting
usually commences In February, and
your tending OF the crops" is princi-
pally completed ere the hottest wealth
! er sets in. Now you can watch the
growing crops and ripening fruits
and blooming flowers-you can rest,
read, give thanks and sing songs OF
praise. Texas soil yields most kindly
to the slightest touch of intelligent in
dustry. You can market your wheat
/ six or eight weeks sooner than the
unfortunate of other States thus OBJ
! tanning the cream of prices. You can
use to advantage all kinds of improv-
ed Iabor-saying machinery on your
/ farm. None Of your stock require
| feeding, except what spontaneous
nature provides. You can feast On
your hardy vegetables and roots all
! the winter fresh and nutritious from
| your own garden. You can eat your
| strawberries and cream I'm the last OF
February and first of March.