, 1881-05-19
ELI PERKINS IN TEXAS.

COLLINS, und II. l.. DAkln,
ELI PERKINS IN TEXAS.
Wonderful Railroad E10ona in n Wons
derfnl Sinte - Tho IkaLs,.fsslt Going
WsAt-Cr0px to tho IEio Grandr-'Chc
Garden OF Eden Around sun Antonio
Social ChnNges In Texas-Thc Ger
n1aDa-NeW BrAuufe1~.
Special Corr<spaatdtntt o. The Chicago Tribune.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex, May l4.-Six years
ugo Travelled through Texas. 1t took It's
then twenty-five hours to ride by stage from
Austin to San Antonio. We furuud SIX
streams then, and. when we came to tile San
Marcos md Guadalupe Rivers, tile watur
filled the bottom of the concl SO tint we Ind
to stand oil the seats. T.-iay we cuine over
OIL the new international & Great Northern
Railroad in five hours, and passed over the
salllc rivers OIL splendid steel bridges.
CLIMATIC CHANGES.
Thought tt1efi, with tirn. llazen, tint west
Of SAN Antonio was the dry zone. thought
them that Texas, from Austin TO San An.
tonl0, was Il pure grazing country, where
only irrigation would insure goM crops.
But since then the black prairius have grown
over With mcsauite-buslses, atd the ralu-bclt
has moved .ip tu the Rin Grnnde.
Itllen, IN 1915. drew line from BIstnarcK, on
the Northern Pnct!ic. about 100 miles west NJ
the one hundresltll parnlei, down to North
Patte, nh the Union Pacific; CoIyer, oil the
kans0s Pacific, D01ge City, on. the Atcllt-
snn Topeka Il Santa FG; Ctsco, oll the
Texas j. Pacific: md Austin, M the Houston
& Texas Central; and satd. "1Inre ia the
dronRl,t-flnc. West ut these points crops
are not sure" That drnuRllt-tine would slo
SIX years ago. but it want do now. The
1lnttire OF the country llns steadily changed.
They are raising crops III Texns clnse up to
the Kiu Grande. The lreuRlltline should
run from Dodge City, Ill Kansas, to Eugle
Pass, OIL the tio Grande.
THE DEsElrr BECOMES TIE GARDEN OF
EDEN.
To-day ind the country from Austin to
San Antonio Md beyuni Is onu grand enr-
den,-and such u garden! have never sesn
eighty niles Of such splendid growing crops
ms l hive seen to-,!ay between Austin
allA Sun Antonio. In tuany plnces
thu eye eau sec for miles, but nut a
blade of grass Is III sight. 1t Is
NIL cotton, wheat. oats, and corn. The corn
is Mp to lny shoulders, the WHEAT Is all l,eadpt
out aud tho oAts ate almost ready to cut
They do not look like growing outs. The
fields look like giGnn1'c bins Ut sultd onts.
AASAG HaC s!i1u3 IEtAo u hNltIl WI uE0~
dnce from sixty 10 100 bushels to tho acre.
Fields cnn BIZ sclected which will prUtuce
even 1e5 bushels. Northern fur,llers will nut
believe this, but tho Texns farner will tell
You that l25 bushels of outs OIL M acre III
1'uxas hog.wnllow is not n phenomenal
crop. Six years ago tllfA land cnnld lave
hcen bought for from SGtn $40 per mere. Now
" IL worth FROM &25 IL 2:S5. Tllt same soil
can by lm1ellt, r.!llots fron, the railroads, fur
hucksliot l'0tfom lal,us III 1Ell!u1s. 1t pro-
tuces Dn! OF cnttIn, tr fr0nl tlfly to seven
ty.ilvc bushels Ut cnrl,. Occasionally will lo
!"tt standing u! thu wlient-tluld all old lust
year''s co1ton.stak pix seet high. As well rs
KrVzing phys. such land has t., CONT undur
tho hue; mn simply astonts.etl to s.', 40
much splendid lalid nlld 81 little poor la,,a III
Texus.
THE CHANGE III TEXAS.
One cause af tile rallroatl-boom III Texas Is
western portion. wlIare L WIS thuilgtlt to be
q purely grazing country. RatIronsl.iilen
doi't eare ,wtre they build railroads IN ling
~ tug track !,r runs 9ysx % pIack baSEs"t ,; soll
tSwns S,lr!t land vl!! flli np with sctlfcrs.
The land IL 10 rich In Texas that tliey do ,lot
caIl 1t lalMI. When q farmer wants to sell
What VII. you give me for ten acres Of
Tlla uuw.railroati builders go right ahead
building roRtls, regardless Of towns. Lust
Year tho international IL Grent Northern
built depnts VIII! no i!onse Within m!lv q
tliem. 3lnny Ut tlese dcpots will ship 10000
bales Ot cUttun tElts ytAr, and IN five years
tllere Will BIZ now town around them.
soclAI. CHANCES IN TExAs.
When ynl! lnnk around you lIere md SEQ
tile !ieW elslllzAtlntl when you travel t1r 4
week ami never seq pistol, a pair of spurs,
or Il EntlurNrn. you uEfs:
"Wlluru Is ihs traIl;iona! .Texau? Whore
Is ny man who r0tle through tuWu firing Ills
revolver with ol,p lanl. Singing hts tiat with
gnn West, il1 Inns gnlo 10 .Arlzo,la, Or
furteh tho rio Gralitie iiltn Mex!eo.
Il will bo hard ut first Tor th9 alGo-lloyel
GMo a Ts.ay r. ayTFis Da4 i tn +, sxS ; " 70 Ss g.
Ao,e.. Here IN Sal, AnttMlo Bco tho satl!e
wa rklng crowd See III Chlcag,'. :rlle old
nd0be tMusea arc. about all kHAa;, tIntnl
paH}ts TIKI @ ths placs ,,la o. tas o4 spanlYt
gu ohio buggy. Tilera IL la%-and !,1 ol!a
q crlns 70 carry y cdllceaie'l revolver.
Actually the only sl.Ootlng 1lAye st,all was
With u ln,w anu arrow 9t y scll01l ,plcnio
rcprlfnan'ieta by tho ynuux ladles. hePrtuand"
ct III TexHs for shooting awall0w.
TEMPERANCE AND pt,IlrIca
Te'uporunce bus nalo y wondvtful stside In
TuxAs. In .lHny s0otiuns It IL tutAl abstinence,
sliu hsvs NOT sesn dE.!nken mail ~ tho staie.
nn9 day ba Republican, ut luast nnu-haIf OF 1t.
uAllas. thD !Mrxcst K,ld lIttlst uAtcrprisMk town
y thv horsh. went Republican when 81. Louis.
wtlttsr., Tue ru,lttMds havu brt.uxht In oouO
Aepubticaa lAb'ttf4. Tbs new iulu,ixtanls aro
s4 aas sasn Tsass T. 1ss sp