The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-09-06

seen, the seasons have been very good.
Crops generally are very good. The
wheat crop yielded, on an average per
acre, % bushels. Some land made
as, high as 40 bushels per acre. Oats,
barley and rye, 100 bushels per acre.
This country is better adapted to small
grain than anything else. While the
poor of the north are depressed and the
rich have:no fproitable55enterprise in
which to embark capital, we of Texas
are comparatively easy. 1t is true
there is a scarcity of money for schenes
of improvements ana new enterprises,
either mechanical, mercantile or agri-
cultural; yet, we have plenty, and
there is enough demand for labor to
furnish our tables with abundance,
and our backs with good clothes.
Asa rule, Texas farmers are out Of
debt, Texas merchants owe but little,
Texas manufacturing companies don't
incur debt. So we haven't any press
ure on us that would cut large fg>
ure in a financial panic. Our grana-
ries groan under the loads of unsold
harvest while our fields are full to
OVERLOOKING with the yet unharvested
crops of both cotton and corn. Our
steady march to a perfect develop
ment Of the wonderful resources with
which benefcent Providence has
blessed us, has known no break. New
farms have been opened on all hands,
old ones enlarged and improved.
Schools, colleges and universities are
found in every county. Wealthy and
busy cities have grown out Of the
small rude villages OF the frontier.
Railroads check the county in all di-
rections. The wild war-whoop Of the
red man isn't heard beyond his bord-
ers. No wonder thousands Of
people from the old states are
coming every day, and bringing
their household treasures by every
train, to the canaan overlooking with
milk and honey. Why do poor rent
crs stay over there and pay rent every
year what would buy them a good
home in Texas? Land can be had
anywhere, raw land from two to six
dollars, and improved land eight TO
fifteen dollars per acre. We cannot
recommend eastern Texas, for every
body knows that it is nothing but a
poor piney land; but We speak for
middle, northern and western Texas.
Yet, the prairies Of Eastern Texas are
very profitable, and are really indis>
pensible, for all Of western Texas has
to have building material, and eastern
Texas has to have supplies of -four
and meat from western Texas. Dial
las is the largest town in north Texas;
it has some fifteen thousand inhabit-
ants, and does and extensive business,
both wholesale and retail. Fort Worth
is next largest place, and has a more
extensive trade than Dallas, for it has
all of the western wagon trade, being
the terminous of the Texas and Pacific
railroad. There is two-thirds as much
business transacted at Fort Worth as
is at Memphis. As much as fifteen
car loads Of cattle leave that place
every day, while one could not count
/ the buffalo hides that leave on every
train. Then every train goes back
to that place freighted down with
lumber from eastern Texas. 1t is al
most impossible to pass through the
streets for the wagon trains that go
for the forts west of that place. Texas
has plenty of good free-stone water as
far out as the Brazos river. Doctors
will bear NE out i'll saying that there
is but little sickness, and no local
agents to cause sickness anywhere
in this prairie country.
More anon,
ALBERT MOORE.