The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-09-24
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tentious, il IL warm and genial TO deg rec
unkppvn 10 northern lslltudes. Our small
farm nd peasant class would Rssimilale
quite In orally and the more philosophical
and sensible OF the better orders would soon
learn by our trait that they had been payi &
too extensively for the luxury that under
the name Of society is a white elephant to
old W lrld prosperity. IL you pstron!zs
fashionable hotel In Princes street, the
enormit, Of tho bill over an ordinary lateh's
house 10 not composed 80 much OF the SUI
perori'y of the entertainments as the style
and hostage OF the establishment, and 80 II
10 with people who elcl TO live in old couD-
tries, they have to pay heartily for aud
suffer patiently from the social esrnaces that
have tenAciously attached themselves to its
system of living through many generations
At the time of writing there are l9.OOOOOO
acres Of good land in the State Of Texas
available for location, either as homesiends
or by sale, 30 that enterprislng men should
have no excuse for grumbling dlscontentedly
10 poverty at home, especially with such
hearty invitation from Brother Jonathan 10
como and prosper. Land may be purchased
from half q dollar per acre upward de-
pending on the amount Of improvement e1>
pended on it, but that land which Is now
valued at thirty dollars. could have been
bought ton years since for forty cents, ana
that now to DO procured for fifty cents will
Ave wears hence command thirty dollars in a
ready market. The.Detwork of railways that
are now in process of construction all over
the ftate, will, during the next few years,
enhance the value of land 10 ratio that can
not al present be estimated, 30 that now is
the tide in the affairs Of men who intend TO
emigrate to Toxas;it is now that the rich
cresm of prosperity daily bubbling to the
surface can be gathered: tomorrow il may
be gone, and then the proverbial grumbler
will cit down and murmur at every other
person's luck us they choose TO term il.
| Nothing has rs yet been said about the ca'tle
and sheep industry, that in every respect
eclipses her great rival, Australia, both in
point of the capabilities of her
pastures, her abundance of water aud
her more easily attainable and profitable mar.
ke,s. The extent of the Texan nocks and
herds would appear almost fabulous TO the
mind of the large Scotch and English
stock farmer with his two or three thousand
sheep or two or three hundred head OF cat,
tie. Captain King, of Corpus Christi, ia the
poseeasor of thirty thousand valuable cattle,
while Mr.. Collins, in the immediate vlcin-
ity, boasts of flock of over hundred
thousand head of sheep of equality scarcely
inferior to those that blest os our richest
Engllsh meadow land. Indeed 1t is scarcely
considered profitable to run" u smaller
number than ten thousand ewes, while u
man with thousand is of very little conse-
quence indeed. The sheep mott affected is
the improved Mexican variety, very ser.
viceable breed between the pure Merno and
tho native Mexican. This class may be pur-
Chuased for dollar and half per head,
and il yields an increase of ninety
per cent and nearly five pounds of
wool per annum, salesble ut seventeen
cents per pound, it is not 10 DO wondered
that the profits of the farmer amount 10
from so TO 60 per contum, especially when it
Is remembered that stock is maintained on
indig inous grasses, grown on land ut so
cents per acre. and tended by Mexican pas.
turers or shepherds, whose wages and food
do not amount to more than $50 per month
Such is the lucrative character OF the busi-
ness that wealthy and extensive ranchoros
arc ready to mortgage the whole of their pos
sessions, security sufficient 10 satisfy Shy
lock, and pay 10 per cent. 10 obtain addi~
tional capital TO extend their enterprise
| In the same direction. A mortgage banking
company in Texas would DO Il pre- iltable
enterprise and An unqualified success, 40
much does the state suffer from the want OF
such means of accommodation. Money
could b. invested here through that medium
at from ten 10 fifteen per cent, upon ne un.
deniable security rs could be found in Edin-
BUSCH or your western metropolis, were
II not for the evil repu-
tation thet has attached to
Texas more through her msfcrlunes than
her fault of the past. This feeling, it can
not be doubted, has been intensified by the
deprecatory reports that have been pubs
lisbed by class of emigrants whose moral
wor,hessness and business incspSbility
would have rendered them unsuccessful In
any country and any sphere, who havs
squsndered their means and their opportunl,
tee upon RIGHTEOUSNESS and then sought to
cast the blame on the state that they have
injured rather than benellt.ed by their pres
once. Thousands of that type can DO found
here, mon who have not left home TO pro.
mote their happiness but 10 give tho more
uobridled license TO their passions and their
proiligaoy. Give no countenance TO the exs
pressluus of such mon, as II IL we'll known
fact that man can have no more bitter enc.
my than no whom no has trisd TO benefit aud
faile,, an application that equally extends Il
states. Consid, rAblo objection has been
made TO tho sdsptsbility of the climate
to European constitutions which "a Al
insubsIanlial as q great deal moro that ha,
boon spoken and written tho mean tompora-
ture for tho last twenty years over having
exceeded 20 10, while tho mortality returns
are far more favorable than that of the ma
iority of English cities. However. 1t would
DO advisable for intending immigrants Ia
select the fall OF spring of the year so thai
they might In manner DO scclimaled 20 ro
si,t tho moro trying months Of June, July
and August although the writer can otler
his individual testimony that no entered th,
country during those months without suffer
ing moro than y single days sickness, al
though exposed during the hottest portions
of tho day. II must also bo remembered
that tho lobors Of tho agrcurist during ,hes,
months is very light as his crops are then In
process Of maturing. Nor is his hesy,
exertions called forth until August, when
the aeecy cotton bursts forth from It's greer
sepulcher onveloping the green d lds In
canopy Of snowy white. II there Il
poverty in Tex. II 10 as credible I,
one or two causes that Is indoleno,
Ia drink. II must DO acknowledged that th,
average native Texan possesses very It'll,
enargy and ambition, so that II be can pro-
duce sufficient 10 feed and clothe himself
and family, even In the most modest manner
IA contented TO abandoe the remainder o.
biz time TO lazy and meaningless idlensss
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