Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-05-26
CENTRAL TEXAS.
Hts Soil, Productions and General Adj
vantages-A letter That Will be
Read with Interest by Dissatisfied
TannQasQeaRG.

Hts Soil, RrOOuCIlODs anu 0eneEat AO-
yantages-A Letter That VIII be
Read with Interest by Dissatisfied
Tennesseeans.
To the Union and American.
HILLsBoRo, Hill County, Texas,
May 81, 1S74.-If you will indulge me
with small space In your columns, it
will afford me pleasure to give your
readers some facts with reference to
Texas, and especially this portion of
our State. l have now been a resident
of this State for twenty-four years, and
traversed all the finer portions of it.
In viewing our magnificent prairies at
this season, extending over thousands
upon thousands of acres, awaiting the
hand of the cultivator, feel that it is
wrong that the facts concerning it
should be shut out or withheld from
those who are seeking
HOMES IN THE FAR WEST.
/ am aware that most persons look
with suspicion upon accounts given of
Texas by her own citizens. rnis is
natural enough, for we are interested
in having this beautiful land filled
with good population and would be
supposed to give all the cclofing pos
sible which would be favorable to our
cause. Hence, we only ask those who
desire TO change their homes to come
and see. / think / can safely assert,
without fear of contradiction, that no.
where upon the continent can there be
found, In one body, as much
COOP LAND
as there is in this county, and the
very smallest proportion of it in cul-
tivation. Most of it consists of what
is called "black waxey prairie" the
most durable and productive soil we
have. In scope of territory twenty
miles in length and ten in width, there
can scarcely be found one acre of poor
land; and when / say poor, / mean
land that would not bring forty bush
els of corn per acre and half bale of
cotton, about an average estimate of
the productive qualities of our soil.
These lands can be easily purchased at
the rate of from 50 to So and 81 per
acre.
TIMBER
is not so plentiful as one would like.
In some instances we have to haul our
fencing as far as eight and ten miles,
but more frequently less distance.
However, there is great economy of
late in fencing, since laws are In force.
requiring persons to keep their small
stock up.
is plentiful In many portions of the
county there arefne creeks and supply
of water is easily obtained by digging
wells. This particular section has by
some means been sadly overlooked by
emigrants and those seeking homes in
Texas. Our lands are as cheap as any
l know of IN the State, and there can
be none better, while we are in easy
access to
RAILROAD COMMUNICATION,
and only twenty or thirty miles from
the flourishing city of Waco, upon the
BrazOs river, where there are some of
the finest institutions of learning in the
State. We can raise successfully
CORN, COTTON, WHEAT, RYE AND OATS,
as well as all other small grains, with
all the vegetables and fruit grown in
any other country. As for sweet pota-
toes, we defy the world TO beat us. The
common average per acre is thirty-five
bushels of corn and half baleof cotton.
Most persons would make larger esti-
mate, bat l am giving these facts for
the benefit of those who may contemplate
making this country their home, and /
would not for any consideration make
false impression upon their minds.
All l ask is for your people to
COME AND SEE.
| have visited most sections of your
State, and am confident that If Tennes-
seeans could ever behold our fair land
at this particular season-robed IN her
spring garments and her bosom be-
decked with the most fragrant and
beautiful flowers in their widest
fancy, they could not imagine a more
beautiful sight. We don't wish to al
lure by these accounts those from their
homes, who are well fixed" surround
ed with all the conveniences of life and
are making a comfortable living, for
there are those who, if transported to
the realms of eternal bliss, would fail to
find things to their notion. But there
are many who, since the devastating
civil war, having been broken up by it,
dislike to remain so near the scenes of
their misfortune. To them and to any
who wish to emigrate l offer
A TEXANS WELCOME
to this beautiful land. Most portions
of the State are in easy communication
with railroads, and
THE POLITICAL OUTLOOK
of our State is fair and betokens good.
The white population is largely in the
ascendency; hence we may never an
ticipate such a state of affairs as exist
now In Louisiana, and other of our
down-trodden and oppressed sisters, re-
sulting from the colored influence,
manipulated by gentlemen of the
"carpet-bag" persuasion.
write this communication not to in
jure Tennessee, but to help her people,
and hope that my letter may meet the
eye of some one to whose benefit it
may rebound. s. G. UPsHAw.