The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-11-17

WEDNESDAY, MORNING ::;; NOV. II
BRIEF COMMENTS an "TEAAs
NOTES"
rANNIN COUNTY.

FANNIN COUNTY.
"The average crop per acre IN ran
min county this year was, wheat, twen-
ty-fiye bushels; corn, forty ousnels
oats. sixty bushels; cotton, one bale"
The figures disclosed IN the para
praph exhibit q wonderful capacity iof
production. Where 1t ID considered
that nearly the whole area OF fahhih
county is equally as productive az
those portions now cultivated, the iu'
ture wealth of the county can scarcely
be over estimated. The writer OF TINS
passed through this county In 1857,
distance of forty miles, travelling on
the old stage road, entering the county
near Ken!uckytown, In the Southeast
corner of Grayson county, ana leavihg
IL near Honey Grove In the direction
of Paris, and was struck with wonder
at the vast area of rich black lands,
stretching as far US the eye could reach
on either hand, and the evident signs
of an increasing prosperity to be seen
amongst the people. The war had
closed the Trockmorton admihlstra-
ton which promised SO much for the
State, was ended and the country was
passing under the rod of military rule,
and yet In spite of the political clouds,
which threatened to degrade the popu-
lation, oil along the way were signs OF
returning industry and enterprise,
and q determination to turn to good
account the munihcent gifts of ma
ture, u real soil, genial and healthlul
climate. stout hearts and strong arms
with fixed resolution to better their
condition whatever political ills might
come upon them. Blessed with u sec
ton of the finest country in the world,
with comparatively few negroes to en-
tice into their midst freedman's
bureaus and political carpetbaggers,
the whole population seemed as one
man resolved to devote themselves to
the development of the country. Con-
fident that the time was not far dis
tant when white men would again
rule the State, they, in common with
their neighbors in other Northern
counties, betook themselves speedily
to their own local advancement, t.
the task of developing the land OF
widening the area of cultivation In
their own midst, of inviting immigra.
ton from abroad of men OF labor anO
of skill and enterprise to aid in the
great work before them, and to show
to the world that the land they livec
In was made a land of promise. Mr.
Goss of the Bonham T" Neps, - who was
printing his paper in room in thu
Courthouse was pouring blast afte
blast into the ranks of Radicalism ant
military misrule. The town of Bon
ham was throwing aside its lethargy
and signs of Improvement were begin
ming to be seen, and trade and activity
with the surrounding country, to reap
pear. New and substantial store
houses were being built and old one
renovated, and dwellings put In order
and where fences had fallen down an,
gates become unhinged, by the reigi
ofneglect during the war, the hand o
industry and care was again to be seen
and thrift to resume Its sway. 1t wa
In Fannin MS In all the northern coun
ties, quiet determined spirit to maxi
the land in which they lived, garden
filled with flowers, fields yellow will
grain and white with cotton, and hill
and vallies the homes Of an industrfou
and contented people. And this re
solution formed under political burden
resulting in Acknowledgement and
general curtailing of all rights clear t,
the citizen, the whole people deter
mined to work out in spite ofthem all
and the present improved state Of tn
country, the largely increased popu
latioD, the improved mode of agricul
ture and the general state of advance
ment in all the arts of life prove hoy
well they have stood by their resolu
tions. nn7s
The county Of Fannln has five hun
dred thousand acres of land, NOR
than halfof which, when brought I'm
der cultivation, has the same produc
tive power as the lands which during
the present year have yielded twenty
five bushels Of wheat, forty bushels o
corn, sixty bushels OF oats and on,
bale Of cotton to the acre. VIVA
wondrous wealth lies before the PEG
pie of that county, and yet Fannir
is but an average of all the counties il
Northern Texas. embracing an area O
thirty thousand square miles ~ r.