The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1880-06-17
A COBB COUNTY MANS oBsER-
vATIoNs IN TEXAS.


700 to fulfill my promise that | made
on leaving home. | am now at this
beautiful and lively little town, which
is at the end of railroad ADD sur
sounded by several Of the finest and
most productive counties 10 the State
| was here in 1859, 1866 and 1868,
and wonderful change has taken
place. Up to 1868 very little im'
provements we're made, since then
many buildings have gone up and
thousands of acres of the richest
prairie lands on earth been brought
into cultivation. The wheat crop is
poor, not more than average of or
10 bushels per acre, the grasshopPer
and weeds, or some disaster, made 1t
what they call failure here. Oats
should suppose very foe and will
produce from 80 to 100 bushel to
the acre. Barley is also very fine
and will make from % to 80 bushels
per acre. | have just returned from
out further west on the Brazos and
have seen thousands of acres in
corr, and have never seen any thing
like it before. 1t will certainly
make on an average over 90 BUSH
els to the acre. | did not see one
single crop that did moot look fine
and all sorts of millet, which are OF
several varieties, as fine as one could
imagine. This county, Ellis, and its
surrounding counties, think is the
garden spot Of Texas, and cannot be
beat any where in the known world
as to rich soil or its beautiful plains
of level and elevated lands. At this
writing there has been plenty of
rain and crops of all kinds are as
fine as can be. Cotton is from half
thigh high down to just coming out
of the ground in fact some persons
are still planting. see many wheat
and oat fields cut and cleaned off
lust planted in cotton and the own
ors claim that they will make halt
bale TO the acre There is no guano
or other manures used here ma
nures are hauled from the stables in
Waxahatchie and dumped into the
creek to be washed off. In this sec
ton no hcg, sheep or goat is allowed
to run out and all the fencing now
being put up consists of posts OF
boisdiarc and barbed wire. These
posts it said never rot, but the fenc'
ing costs a great deal, and 10 many
places timber that is not so durable
and which is very scarce is used and
will soon rot, and which is also cost
ly. ,
The range is now playing out aod
stock law will pass ia few years
and this section will be nothing but
one vast farm, and the prettiest
country on earth. This country is
not blessed with good water and
timber like Georgia and it is not so
pleasant in the winter on accoun t OF
the sticky mud and the north winds,
bus time will add many improve
mente and this is bound to be a great
country. The soil will produce any
thing, timber can be raised, water
can be had from artesian wells and
cisterns. these prairie lands ha no
stumps and all Of the labor saving
contrivances are used here, riding
plows of every description and all
sorts of reapers, mowers, binders,
threshers, &c and it looks il it was no
no trouble to farm. Land is cheap,
uuimproved from So to s per acre
a great d. al of it without one stick
of timber; improved land, scarce
and high, but not more than 1T IS
worth as it cost a great deal to i'm
prove, as material is scarce. |
would not advise any man TO move
from Georgia to this country with
out first coming and seeing it, as
a great many would not like it, it is
rich enough and any man who will
work can make more than he will
have any use for, but it will be some
time before be would have here the
pure freestone water like we have in
Marietta, the fine fruita, the fine
climate and a soil that never sticks
to ones foot like tar.
If wanted to live for posterity
entirely and not for myself, believe
would move to Texas. | honestly
believe | could make much more
money here, but as have concluded
that from this time GU. will go for
my own comforts and not for the
comfort of others, will come back
and stick to Marietta and Cobb
county, the most pleasant country on
earth, think. Just let Cobb pass
the stock law and she will be rightly
called the banner county of the
State and the lovIiest spot on this
continent. We need that law to
save our timber and useless waste
of both timber and labor. Let it
pass and all will be we'll
Your friend,
w. =. ANDERSON.