The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-04-18
sherman, Texas.
From an Occasional Correspondent

Sherman is perhaps the most pros
porous little city of IL, 900 inhabitants
in Texas. But property does not ad-
vance in value. The country about 1t
Is of matchless beauty and the soil
most exuberant. Happily, too, skill
ful northwestern farmers have bought
w.de districts and created villages on
the plains. Wheat fields from the ell
evnted plateau west of Sherman are
visible on every hand, and pretty farm
houses and green pastures, ten and
twenty miles away. constitute part OF
every landscape. The richest contrib
utors to the great resources Of the at
tractive little city are skilled farmers,
who substitute mechanism for manual
labor on treeless plains. An Indiani-
-aH, who was honored with the premi-
nm given to the most skillful agricul-
turist of his State. fortunately for
Sherman, bought 400 acres six miles
west OF the place. He enclosed it
with wire fence and built barn that
cost $4,000. Every square foot of that
farm, except two acres in fish pond
and the spot covered by the barn, sta
bles and residence, is green as Eden
in Adams youth. He cultivates the
place with machinery. Every square
foot has been plowed eight and even
twelve inches deep, and then the
Gods were pulverized by harrowS
before the wheat was sowed. a
drought does him no detriment and
the heaviest rain-storm's delugt
s instantly absorbed. Such wheat
cannot be found elsewhere in Texas,
end the farmer says that this single
crop will pay for the land and i'm
provements. One such farmer in the
county of Travis would revolutioniz'
its industries and popular habits.
HYDRoDYNASIICs.
Sherman wants water sadly. People
and fire companies must rely upon els
terms, and therefore there Is not thai
degree of personal cleanliness esteemed
next after godliness. Insurance rate!
are necessarily high, and especially
when half the people seem to believe
hat insurance companies have beer
Tow and then victimized by those WHIT
insure most generously in order to be
Gene incendiaries. 1t has beer
pre- posed by enterprising citizens
TO unearth a strong subterrsneaI
stream flowing through valley hare
by the town, and distribute its bngh
among the houses and homes
ard through hydrants everywhere
But whisky-headed people are supreme
in the city government, and rough
and tramps and semi-barbarous race
r. ion in Sherman, as in other plum
deved municipalities IF Texas. De
cercy and taxpayers are practicalf
DISTINGUISHED, and men interested il
the well-being of the town are ex
cluded from the management of its af
fairs by the governing class, constitut
ed mainly of Yagrant blacks ant
whites. Taxpayers will invest in moth
ing which these migratory mobs mus
control and confiscate through the mu
nicipal legislature, and therefore Sher
man, like its governing class, is who'll.
uuwashed. IL is needless to say tina
Sherman is sick unto death of Ruta
bagaism, as operative in codes tina
turn over the towns and cities o
Texas to the despotIsm of tn
migratory white and black rabble
Each fixed citizenof Sherman pays, be
sides his city and county and State POI
taxes, which the tramp and city rule
never pays, the sum of three and hal
per cent. ON all his property to the gov
ernments above named. How muc
the percentage paid by these workin
people to Federal power nobody ca
guess. The sum total of taxation, new
ertheless, make industry proftless, an
here, as elsewhere, they are most fol
tunate who make enough to escap
growing, universal popular indebted
ress.
sHERMAN's FUTURE.