The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1873-12-18

use to the country. Double the present app
pr,priation win then make it % usesand
indeed, q source of benefit % the people.
OF all the Offices 10 be appointed by Gov.
Coke. this is the most important, and he
will, hope, select anan whose knowledge
Of his business can be youehed for. If the
present salary is not enough TO grt first
class man il is 60 be hoped that the
Legislature will increase It. The pres
ent organization is fafce-on of the worst
acts Of Governor Dayis's administration.
No one can travel, even IN ono county il
Texas, but he INSIST observe the different
soils over which be passes. II q good aeri-
cultural chemist is attached 10 the bureau,
and the counties compelled by law 10 send
up a portion OF s0iffrom each division, to be
Analysed, 1t viii Afford such information rs
will bc OF great use to the farmers, as well
as to new corners. This Will lead to inn
proved cultivation and corresponding IN
crease Of crops that in comparison the cx-
pense viii be nothing.
EnueRATIoN AND LAND OWNERS.
wish to say few words now about the
immigration which is largely coming to our
State. We are getting many, very many.
Of that class that has made the 'sgreat
Vest not only the admiration of ourselves,
but of the European-thc very wonder OF the
world. Strong and healthy men and vro-
men, with small means but stout hearts
honest, industrious, both able and willing
to work. Such people as cut the forests
and have built up the great cities of Ohio.
Kentucky and other States
Another class that is coming in large num-
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of the rule of negroes in Mississippi.
Florida, South Carolina and other States
have packed up the remnant of their
worldly goods and have sought home in
our lovely State, attracted by the rich lands
and genial climate
Still another class Of immigrants arc COM
ing in numbers. The genial climate and
rich lands have already attracted large
number of farmers from the extreme cold
of the Northwestern States, where it takes
all of the five months Of spring, summer
and fall productions to feed their stock dur
ing their seven months winter
Take it as a whole the immigration of
last year may be said to be first class, and
will add to the wealth of the State socially,
morally and politically. 1t lays now with
''TnE LAND OWNER,
to say whether this immigration shall in
crease largely or continue languidly to exist.
The day for selling large tracts of land
ceased with slavery. The generality of peo-
pie now want, but from one to two hundred
acres, and the most of them have but little
money to pay down.
The practice heretofore has been, to sell
lands Cne-half cash and the balance in one
or at most two years, with ten per cent in
IL,
many, in fact the larger number can comply
with. Many of them have sold their pro
perty from whence they have come, one-fifth
cash and the balance in annual payments.
L know on this trip l could have sold over
four thousand acres of land in tracts Of one
hundred and one hundred and fifty acres, if
my instructions permitted me to sell on such
terms. Many of those with whom talked
used much such language as this: II want
to buy small track of land, / can only pay
one hundred dollars on the land, and have
enough left for meat and bread for my fami-
ly; you see | have good team and wagon,
If can get land on these terms, I can raise
enough for my family and to pay the balance
IN four yearly instruments. You can't be
injured to sell the lands in this way for the
Improvements / will put on will be better
security for the money than anything you
can have. y Others have said to me, Il
have sold my property back in the States,
l got but little cash and the balance in four
or five payments, and l must buy on the
same terms here; am willing to pay your
usual interest of ten per cent, though
only get seven per cent in our State
Now l appeal to those parties who have
lands to accommodate this class of people
sell them lands at reasonable rates and on
easy terms. Those who own l2rge tracts,
divide them up into squares of one hundred
acres; if man should want more, he can
buy two tracts adjoining. In dividing in
this way you generally give fair share OF
good land and what we call back bone.
assert that league of land SO divided, and
of ordinary character, that by the timeofour
settlers arc placed on it the value has risen
ten per cent, and when eight families arc
settled, the balance of the land viii BRING
you twenty-five per cent. increase as readily,
if, indeed, not more so, than when first put
in the market
/ speak by experience in this matter, and
only regret that the parties whom we repre-
sent did moi give us authority to sell on the
terms indicated, because If could have
spread the term as indicated, should have
been able, 1 believe, to have settled between
thirty and forty families who would already
be preparing for next years crop.
Parties who are DESTROYS to try this sys-
TEN, and who have lands near the settle
ments, who wish to realize, and will send
their list of lands to DeCordova s. Withers,
we will superintend the dividing and selling
of the same, giving the personal attention
of one of the firm.
This plan followed out will soon, to use a
good quotation, make the Wilderness bios
som like the rose The school house and
the church will rise in many neighborhoods
where now the grocery holds sway. vii
lagos will spring into existence, and the
great civilizer of the nineteenth century
the printing prcss-have a new home and
last, but not least, the amount of taxes viii
be increased and the rate thereof lowered.
Some time in January thu ''Wanderern
will take another trip; until then he re-
mains most truly yours.
WANDERER.
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