The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1877-06-10

TIE Colon z alton movement among the
tical form and already we read of the
transfer Of numbers of families from the
coal mines OF Pennsy ylvania and the large
cities of the East, to settlements in North
Carolina, Texas and Arkansas. st. Louis
has also organized Colonization Society
with a capital Of $25 600, and clergy man
with two of the most respected merchants
of that city are now in Texas pecting
with a view to the purchase Of large tract
of land to be resold IN small farms to those
of their countrymen who wish to settle in
the country. In q recent number of the
Philadelphia Standard, we find an inter
esting letter from Mr. Charles Boyle, of
Western Texas, from which we make the
following extracts:
l am happy to inform you that our Colo
nv (Brehony) in Western Texas dis in q
prosperous condition. Seven families num-
| bering thlrty-twO persons having joined us
during the last six weeks.
1t is about seventeen hundred miles from
Philadelphia, Pa, to Harrisburg, Texas
the eastern terminus of the Sun Set Route,
lit requires about four days to go there by
rail and costs about $33 90. The cost to
New Philadelphia seventy miles distant
from Harrisburg, is about $35 90, and to
Luiing about one hundred and seventy
miles west and near the Father Brehony
Colony, is about $40 90. Land varies in
price from two to twenty dollars per acre
and may generally be bought for one third
cash and the balance in one or two years.
The climate, is peither too hot in Sum
mer nor so cod in Winter, as that of Penn
sylvania. / have been informed by Mr..
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Of Mexico, that both he and his working
cattle suffered more from heat in one day
in Missouri, than they did all last summer
in Texas. He made forty two bushels of
corn per acre and ak bales of cotton on
nine acres the fret cotton he ever saw
grow. He says that any person who can
plant corn, can plant cotton. He receives
fifty cents per bushel for his corn, and fifty
dollars bale for his cotton.
One man can attend to ten acres of corn
and ei hit acres of cotton, and il is the best
country in the world for man with a
family. child ten or twelve years old
can pick as much cotton as a man, and
make more money in three months, than a
boy twelve years old can in a whole year
, on the coal breakers in Pennsylvania, be-
sides the happiness of breathing the pure
air, and not requiring fifty per cent, of the
clothing, also being of infinite pleasure to
the parents, that the minds of their dear
guage and obscene practices Of those in the
city or town factory.
Texas is no place for twenty one year
old babies or children in pantaloous, but
manly men and sensible women do
better here than anywhere else than
know of. Its cheap and rich lands, with
climate where crops are continually grow
ing, where cattle, swine and poultry thrive
without any attention from the hand OF
, man.
There are Thousands of acres Of improved
land to rent, at from three to seven dollars
per acre cash, or half the crop, the farmer
furnishing everything except provisions fol
, the family. Practical farmers do we'll or
those terms but the man who has a few
hundred dollars to buy his own team, farm
ing implements, and provisions, until the
crop is made, does better. He only gives .
third of the corn and One-fouEth of the cot.
ton as rent. A man with FIVE hundred dol.
lara when there can buy his own land, and
make . good start. I can prove from the