The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1874-06-25

ton the most profitable crop. Thi
was probably true in the past for only
eighteen months ago the best wEea
growing secsim Of Texas had realt,
no market. jefferson city and Shreve
port, on the Red river, being iron
one hundred and seventy 1--WE TO two
hundred miles, and the terminus oi
the 81. & T. c. r. r., only one hun.
dred and thirty miles north Of Galves-
ton, fully two handred miles from the
settlement in northern Texas, but now
with the competition of the N. X. 4
T., through the Indian territory, the
H. +. & c. from Red river 70 Calves
ton, the T. 4 p. from Dallas to
Shreveport, the Transcoatineital from
Sherman to Te1arkans, gives them
facilities for shipping; besidss steam
Aouvinl ssillss ~ stBsiagsesestede in
many Of the smalles towns, which will
create . home market - veil % ship
ping facilities. Before the railroads
penetrated the interior, the farmers
raised little corn for bread, bought
their pork from the North, branded
their cattle once = ycsr, spent their
time Auntiag or loa6ng in the villages,
and get rich from their herds Of cat-
tie. But you would be surprised q
the cheer!ess, dresry appearance Of
many farmers who number their
wealth BY thoussnds-a delapidated
log house for dwellings, rail pen for
barns, % shrubbery; hsvo mt seen !
current bush nor cultivated strawber-
ry in the State, all from absolute
was going to say laziness, but / think
the climate has something to do with
it; my most intimate friends know me
to have been person Of some in
dustry. yet must now confess have no
more disposition to work than persons
living here fifteen or twenty years.--
But why the climate docs not have
the same effect to prevent persons
from playing croquet or base ball, ]
do not know. In travelling through
the country you generally know what
you will have for supper while STOP
ping at . farm house-the inevitable
corn bread and bacon, seldom any
butter or milk to be he'd, that too in
the finest stock country in the world.
We inquired once Of our host If these
Texan COWS were not good milokess,
or why there was no milk or butter
to be had. "Oh yes" said he, ssbut
you zee our Texans cannot milk On
hossshack.n Sone Of the larger towns
are haxing good hotels, hut impart all
their buttsr and e9gs from the north,
but tho hotels ID the smaller towns
while stopping in . town boosting Of
three k0tels, asked gentleman which
was tho best. He said it was like the
boy telling . strsnger the road to the
village, Ii made no difference which
he took he would wish he had taken
the other before he would get there,
that's the way We generally felt the
next morning.
Texas can boast of an inexhaustabje
supply 4 yellow pine timber, located
in different SECTIONS Of the State, the
other most valuable is the hois larc
-called osage in the Nor,h--which
here attains : growth of over two feet
through, very valuable for posts, rail
road ties. wagon and carriage, or 9th
or manufaoturcsiit is almost indestruc-
table. Stakes driven in the ground
here twenty-five years ago, when the
town was laid out, are apparently sol-
id as ever. Tho native pine makes very
good fencing and framing timbers,
very excellent flooring, but much of
the furnishing lumber for good build
ings como from Chicago and St. Louis.
Apples do well in northern Texas,
though have met but few orchards
Peaches are abundant and seldom fail.
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