The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-01-11
THE SOUTHERN CANAAN
People, Products, Railroads
and New Cities.
MILLIONAIRE SPECTATORS AT WORK.
Cotton, Corn, Sorghum and the Grape
in Abundance.
General Photographs by the Herald
Commissioner.

COMMISSIONER.
NEW ORLEANS. Jan. 0, 1879
10 shake the dust OF old habits and the impulsion
Of old paths from their feet the old race Of slave
holders write on their doors &c. T. Tv again and
leave for Texas. A few try Arkansas en- route but
there the carpet-bagger seems securely fastened
In the States behind him, and the ntermnable
van pushes toward the setting sun, to the broad
empire OF rowing stock and mingled wheat and
cotton-Texas-the land where the black man Is In
m everlasting minority, where the white woman
can work with her hands without shame,
where the boys can grow up to tame
Wild horses and to run their own errands, and
where living Is cheap and land welcome and the
golden year is already come. We bid old
brother God speed and hope for him country
where he need not feel the old disposition to say,
lyon uns'' to another stranger brought there from
= more northern climate. In Texas they are sup.
posed all to sit down together, as at the Pente-
costal feast Of new religion unlike the Chivs
and Micks and Yanks OF California, who are
scarcely supposed to be well fused up to this late
day.
The activity Of emigration to Texas has led to
decomposition OF several publications which show
the condition o! the State nearly up to the present
time.
GALVESTON
has doubled its population since 1865. 1t has
poor harbor. with only twelve feet Of water but it
has the largest cotton press in all the South Like
New Orleans, it has been hampered by heavy pilot
age and towage rates. 1t has theatre and o big
hotel, and exports about three hundred thousand
bales of cotton. The Sea Island cotton is grown
In this region little inferior to that OF
South Carolina bringing from forty-fo cents
to ninety cents specie in Liverpool; sugar cane
and sorghum are cultivated in large quantities
back of Galveston, Rnd rice and tobacco are also
staples.
GREAT GROWTH OF TEXAS.
Six hundred miles Of railroad s being laid an
nualy IN Texas and the grape, castor bean, broom
corn, corn barley and wheat grow vigorously.
From 500 to $1,000 Will buy good farm In Texas,
and 1t il q common thing for two boys to
raise Q dozen bales OF cotton and 500
bushels OF corn without any assistance.
A good deal OF butter is made in Texas,
- might be supposed from the enormous
quantity of stock. Prices, however, have crept up
~ the State become settled, and beef cattle have
advanced 20 per cent within the past two years.
Texas sheep have been good deal annoyed with
disease called the lombrize and scab which has
somewhat cut down the 100000 pounds OF wool
reported by the State.
lives mainly in the Red River country in the north.
east, and In the coast counties. The small cotton
the sssa Ssnssy pay s Su
labor big plantations almost always turn
out failures The destiny OF events is to
ground which witners under the ambition Of
the most capable exertions which are to rebound
to one mans profit bears vigorously for the poor
mans family. An English company obtained q
large tract OF country in Southern Georgia. worked
apa
ssss me s's all IS. ssl's South
: large tract Of cotton land, ana with black
labor working in gangs. Much Of this years pro-
whites, working upon their little patches. A rail-
road branch was pushed up into some OF the east
bales OF BAGS Of cotton are said to nave out
OF that country this season, which had hitherto
TEXAS coNNECrED WITH ST. LOUIS AND KANSAS.
About the LIST Of January communication will be
practically established between Houston and the
Kansas and Texas road already runs Pullman cars
right through the Indian Territory, and Austin and
Eastern. States than New Orleans. The cultiva.
ton Of sugar and the growth OF jute, to
without res e OF nj
the southern country. II the newspapers there
would drop politics and open their columns to
AGRICULTURAL communications and suggestions the
South would speedily receive consideration from
all parts Of the North, The sugar crop, under the
cussion as to whether it is yet to
become gigantic feature OF our agri-
cans re S5 e G' s before To s a
can strike 1t, requires an intensity OF labor by day
3 and night which voluntary agent would prefer to
ehirk. The cost OF seed setting for four acres Of
sugar caue is about three hundred dollars, which
IL just equal to the yield OF acres production
In sugar and molasses. The Old sugar lands yield q
thousand pounds to the acre and fifty gallons OF
moasses, but new land often yields three thousand
grinding machinery, &C., is very large and the ket.
Ties alone cost $780, Texas affords splendid OPP
wANrrrA rrrprs
particularly In tanning hides, for 1t Is said that the
dwarf and scant timber Of Western Texas produces
Of the state the water power is magnificent, par.
ticuary on the Comal, San Marcos and San Antonio
One of the most nourishing towns in Texas is
Jefferson, on the Big Cypress Bayou, Just above the
Red River RAFT and at the head OF navigation (;
$4,000 bales Of cotton are wagoned to this town and
sent down the overlooked land to New Orleans.
million Of dollars has been spent in Jefferson to
from 1900 to 5000, and the business amounts to
10000, 600 per annum.
q ~ A GOOD DEAL OF IRON
Is found on the hills Of Northeastern Texas, and in
Jefferson are tie furnaces and f0undres OF George
A. Kelley the pioneer works Of the kind. In Mid
be raised for less money than dozen chickens in
Georgia; All the great ferries Of the Canadian,
deeply cut up with teams, which have come from
Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas and Missouri, to seize
upon the virgin soil Of Texas. and this kind Of
Wagoning life has made the Republic OF Sam
Houston bivouacking country, lu of energy,
vfcissltude and nopefulness. Some portions Of the
State are deficient In springs of water and there
IL no reliance except cisterns. great proposal
with the Texan Is to have -
INLAND STEAMBOAT NAVIGATION
between the tributaries Of the Mississippi and the
Texas rivers which empty into the Gulf This can al
IL designed to take up the pr0xmate water courses
from the Rio Grande to the Sabine, so that live
stock can be moved on arks or barges over the
whole system OF Western rivers without loading
cattle into sea-g0fng vessels, where they become
sick, starved, and perish in enormous quantities.
The want Of timber In Texas has led 70 an exten.
pose Of hedging. The state Is full Of potter's
and other clays which can be utilized.
The mineral resources Of the State are little
known, but plenty Of iron 10 found in about forty
counties, although the only iron works are near
JEFFERSON, as Aforesaid. There are about six thou.
sand square miles OF coal in the State, but not one
pound has ever been used for the production OF