The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-09-01
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These tables show what is to be expected
in the matter of rainfall and temperature,
and in the future it may be expected tn at
the annual rainfall will be increased, as il is
well known fact, accounted for on scientific
principles, that railroads increase the rain
fall of every country. Before the railroads
were built through the great desert between
the states and the Pacific, it was but an
arid, alkali waste of sage-bruSh with scarce
ly ever drop of rain to moisten its thirsty
surface, but since these roads have been
constructed, following in the trail of the
iron track and the locomotive, the clouds
have come, pouring forth their treasures
upon the ground, to make it bloom in many
places. We have elsewhere made allusiOn
to the timbcred reCeSSeS of eastern and
southeastern Texas, therefore we state that
il is to these regions that the citizen of the
state must look, in greatest measure,
for such stores of
LUMBER
as he may need. All through these eastern
counties of Bowie, Marion, Cass, Titus.
Franklin, Morris, Upshur, Wood, Smith
Gregg, Rusk, Harrison, Pamela, Shelby, Sa-
binc, San Augustine, Nacogdoches, Cherokee
| Angelina, Henderson, Anderson, Houston,
Walker, Madison, San Jacinto, Polk, New,
ton, Hardin, Jasper Orange and Jefferson,
found by the million of acres. These thirty
one counties contain, in the aggregate, APP
proximately, 1880 square miles, or 1885,
900 acres of land, all of which, except the
bottom lands skirting the streams, is pine
land bearing the very best quality of tim
bcr Suppose that the land taken up for
cultivation and habitations and the bottom
lands, amount to one-half of the whole, and
we will have left S,92S,00O acres Of pine
lands from which to draw supplies OF
lumber. In addition to the pine for lum-
bcr we have, all along the streams of this
region, countless acres of red and white
cypress, out of which shingles are made,
slaves for barrels, buckets and kegs, and
lumber for some characters of cabinet work.
In the counties of Nacogdochcs, Angelina,
Polk, Jasper, San ,IacintO, Hardin, Newton,
Walker, Orange, Jefferson, Houston, An
dorson, and portions of some of the other
counties. the long-lcafed pine is found,
which Is considered the best. All over this
section of country there are mills saving
the pine and cypress into lumber and shin
giles, but at the towns of Orange, at the
mouth Gf the Sabine river, and B.lumont,
near the mouth of the Ncches river, the
most extensive milling establishments are
TO be found. The mills at Beaumont have a
capacity of over 100 ear loads of lumber and
forty car loads of shingles per day, while
! those at orange have q somewhat larger ca
pacitv, These mills receive their logs by
RATS down the Sabine, Nechcs and Ange-
! lima rivers, the Angelina employing into the
Nochcs. All through the year the woods
mans axe is heard ringing in the depths OF
| the forests, while teams haul the logs to
| little creeks cmptying into the river, and to
! the rivers themselves, and on the bosoms OF
the winter and spring. ireshets they are
/ Al -, ,I,n mills rhnqa lnnnnI
unon the pincries of southeast Texas, while
| IN east Texas all along the lines of the
Texas & Pacific, the Transcontinental, and
the International Il Great Northern rail
roads mills abound that annually cut mil
! lions of feet of lumber. The railroads dis
tribute this lumber throughout. the state,
wherever IL may be needed and
thus one section of the state minis.
tiers TO the wants of another, each
section giving something of its production
In return. As Texas is as yet but new
state, in an inchoatc condition, compare
! lively, II can not be expected that we have
much to boast of yet in the way of
MANUFACTURES,
still we are doing something in that line
! At New Braunfcls, in Comal county, there
IL wooden mill, perfect In all its arrange
mcnts, having the very latest and most inn
! proved nlucllncIN, ulu 'lNi"''' ~ 'Nh'NN
hands II il not very extensive, II Is true
hut Il Is sufficient TO prove the feasibility
and proctcobility of such enterprises i
Tcxns. II uses only Texas woods In the
manufacture of its goods, turning on
yarns, blankets and cloths for gentlemen
wear. Already has the reputation of IL
fnbrics reached beyond our limits, there. be
inc n ,lemand for them In the eastern market
It's cloths for gentlemen's wear are muc,
sought after, being particularly soit hand ,,
become S for It's manufactures, that, durinl
The present year Il has doubled Is capacity S Y,
romai rivcr. and Is exclusively home en-
tcrprise OF the generous and industriouI
German population Of New ,J Brau nSani. a
Columbus. Terrell and Houston there ar,
cotton seed oil mills, all Of which do.
heavy business and oil being Of extensive
capacity. At Bastrop and Waco there arr
cotton mills and there IL one In, process o.
construction at Terrell while hous
ton has but RECENTLY organized