The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1878-07-11


agents that will pay you for them at
the pens. suppose the sheep rails
ing could be carried on successfully
in connection with it, but | am not
ext erienced in either enterprise. |
think the one you alluded to would
be a safe one, for | see that all that
engage in such business seems to be
making it profitable, for people make
money here and they don't seem to
care where an article comes from SO
they get it. Some that could go to
Fort Worth at any tine almost, buy
from the littlo towns above mentions
cd. In fact the farmer don't wish
to be gone.two or three days with
out a load of something to carry up
with them. In reference to their in
doleace or industry | think they
average with our Georgians for in,
dustry, hospitality and economy, for
we have here on one side perhaps
German, clever, hospitable man;
while nearer by lives an Albanian,
perhaps as clever, but not as hospit-
able and generous while a little
further off lives clever Scotch Irish,
kind people from Minnesota and
others from kentucky, Illinois and
Tennessee, and occasionally you
find an average Texan, perhaps he
has been here all his life, while
many had only come in as pioneer
settlers. This is about the average [
suppose of West Texas settlement.
The water in wells is hard or strong
lime, but since | have got sccustom-
ed to drinking it, it suits me as we'll
as any, but it was bad to me at first.
Some tell me that use cistern water
here that it is some healthier than
we'll water but the we'll water is as
clear as water ever gets to be. You
may stand at noon and let the sun
be shining into a well and see deep
in the water it is so clear. | don't
think the-springs afford as good wa~.
ter here as those farther west, in
fact they are scattering here. There
is a perfect tide am told of emigra-
ton coming to Texas, while | am
told many return home or ito their
old States shorn, Disguised with mud
tired of hard living, mad at every
thing that pertains to Texas and
sick with chills and poor and almost
wish it vas sunk in the gulf of Mex~
leo or Pacific Ocean. don't know
that could tell you where the tide
of emigration is mostly from, but |
think from all parts of the world, for
lhud Swedes, Germans and people
OF other nationalities here.
IScad a statement in paper Of
some Vermonters returning to their
native State and it is stated that
many objections they raised to Tex
as were false, but SO goes the world
some people love fruit, while Others
love vegetables, or what suits some
may not suit all
Unimproved land can be bought
at from Sl.50 to So 90 per acre, the
latter land being private property.
| koow of some land fifteen miles of
Fort Worth at those figures and was
on the land the other day, it is black
sandy prairie, in large creek valley,
by timber some half
mile off, as far as two or three miles
away. But am told there is plen>
ty of school land near Clebourne,
this county scat, at from 81 90 TO
$500 per acre, timber and prairie
connected. am not posted 10 ref
erence to the prices ofimproved land
and if | was s5le to buy any kind
would buy the unimproved and i'm
prove it to suit myself, (but this
school land is offered to suit poor
man, provided he was able to build
a shanty he could soon 60 to work for
it is offered on twenty years time at
six per cent per annum, but | am
not able to buy team and build a
house, SO | will have to continue
renting until | get SO can buy, but
if live that is all l covet in this
world, is a little home and health in
this country to make living.
Lumber is cheaper than it has
been since the Railroad was COM
pleted. 1t is now selling for Sl.40
cents per hundred at Fort Worth,
the great lumber market for this
country, as there is no timber only
post oak, walnut or elm, and it is
hardly fit to saw into lumber. True
several have used post oak lumber
but it warps in the sun. At the so
called Panther City you can obtain
assorted pine lumber at Sl.40 per
hundred. This name was given to
Fort Worth by some writer in pa
per printed there from the fact that
it was the terminus of the railroad
and be said it was the identical place
where the panther lay down.
Yours respectfully,
w. J. DELAY.