The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-08-23
TEX AS.

We take great pleasure in re- producing
the following letter written by a gentle
man in Texas to Northern paper. 1t has
become SO common for the Empire State
of the South to be misreprented by news
paper correspondents, that her friends
everywhere should lose no opportunity to
defend her and represent truthfully her
vast resources and matchless attractions:
If there ever has been a region kept
down and its progress and growth retard-
ed by unjust representations and unwar-
antable prejudices, that region is the part
of the United States known as the State
of Texas. Our broad domain has been
vaguely identified in the minds of some
with the country known as the Great
American Desert" and in the opinion of,
perhaps majority of the northern people,
but the lurking place of the desperate,
the wild beast and the wilder men. These
impressions believe, are now becoming
and will ere long be entirely obsolete, and
| am glad to note that there now seems
to be a decided change of opinion taking
place concerning our State. AS Texas
grows older and more fully developed,
the vastness of her resources becomes
more apparent, and the people are be-
coming educated to the fact that no state
in the Union offers more and better in
ducement to the einigrant, capitalist and
all classes of producers, than does our own
vast and fertile prairies of the north and
west where land can be bought at a mere
nominal price, are now rapidly filing UP
with good class of agriculturists, still
| there are millions of acres yet waiting for
| the plow. The dense forests of the east
and southeast afford fine opportunities for
the investment of capital.
The demand for lumber is constantly
increasing and is more than equal to the
| supply. s.-.-..-..
| Our mineral resources, too, are worthy
! of mention All the common minerals are
found in more or less profusion, through
out the State, while deposits of iron and
copper are found here which bid fair to
equal in richness any in the country.
| The adaptation of many portions of the
State to the growth of cotton and other
southern productions, as we'll as the cereals
of the north, gives US sure. advantage
| and no finer grasing and stock raising re-
gion is to be found anywhere than that
| afforded by the plains of the frontier
with their numerous streams.
! Our climate notwithstanding any doubts
to the contrary, is mild and genial, ma
king pleasure to live here, and advanta-
geous to the agriculturist and stock raiser
The most prevalent forms of diseases are
/ those common to any new country and
which materially decreases as the land is
/ improved. sas
Business here, as elsewhere, is begin
ming to1ook up, and all industries are be-
/ ginning to revive. Emigration is coming
in rapidly, but we want more; we have
/ plenty of room, and men who come here
to work and to aid in developing the State
will be received with open arms and every
proof of our peoples hospitality. While
we do not claim that we are entirely ex
empt from the drawbacks incidental tt
any new region, we can make the asser
tion that we have no more than our share
/ that an ara of improvement and progress