San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1881-11-24
TEXAS TOPICS.

The pecan crop Of Western Texas
10 short. Pecans are 100 per cent. high
or than last year.
Cooke county, with population oil
$4,000, has only four paupers supported
at public expense.
Tho Santa Fe company expects to
be running trains into Fort Worth on
or before tho LIST OF December.
Twelve hundred miles OF railroad
have been built in Texas and Louisiana
within the last 10 months, and $25. OOO,'
600 have been spent. These figures are
official.
Connection between tho Texas Pa
cidc and Southern Pacific will be made
by December 1st, eighty miles east OF
Ell Paso. Within tho same time tho
road giving MS direct rail communion
ton with New Orleans will be com.
pleted.
Waco Examiner: Dallas county
has farm, where she works her coun.
ty convicts who arc unable to pay their
fines. Ninety.nine able bodied laborers
are now luxurating in the full light OF
the civilization that "begins with the
plow," and ends when their fines are
worked out.
Even Palestine feels the impulse
of modern Progress. A new city is
going up on the west side of Jerusalem,
outside of tho gates. Along the turn
pike to Jaffa runs the telegraph wire,
and on the plains Of Sharon stands the
large Jewish Agricultural College,
surrounded by model farm and thrifty
nurseries. Bethlehem is thriving
town-largely it is nominally Christian
and it carries on extensive manufac'
lures in mother of. pearl.
THAT was quick job. the organi-
cation Of the new Cincinnati. New Or
leans and Texas Pacific Railway Com.
pany. The books were opened at III
o'clock a. M, of October 8, and the en-
tire amount of the subscription-$3,-
100000 taken in an hour and
half. Fred. Wolfe, of New York, sub
scribed 81, $40, 900, which secures con-
troll, and the remaining 81, 100000 was
taken by Cincinnati merchants and
manufacturers.
The people of Paris Texas, are re-
joicing over the passage of bill by
the congress of the Choctaw Nation
granting the right of way to the st.
Louis and San Francisco railroad
across their territory from Fort Smith
to Paris. This road will connect at Paris
with the Chicago, Texas and Mexican
Central now under course of construc-
ton from. Dallas southwest to Gle
burne and beyond, and northeast to
Paris.
Captain NJ. Corbitt, being inter-
viewed by the Citizen, tells of his
farming operations upon thirty-two
acres of land on the Colorado River
bottom this year. He did all the work
himself, except that performed by q
few hired hands, for few days when
"in q PINCH" which he paid for by
brick-work ut odd times during the
year. He has sold: Eight bales Of cot
ton, at $50 per bale, $500; 400 bushels
corn, at rs cents per bushel, $500; III
tons hay, at SIS per ton, sl72.50; total,
1872 80. And still we are told farming
does not pay in this country.
In describing the exhibitions made
by railroad companies at Atlanta the
Railroad World says: The Texas and
Pacific Railroad shows that the soils of
its lands IRE doubly rich. The sections
of woods, cedar, cottonwood, red and
black walnut, wild china, southern pine,
sweet gum, white oak, swamp ash, Pc
can, ETC., are truly remarkable for
growth and solidity. One section three
feet in diameter gives an idea of them
all, for they are very much alike unless
it comes to mere bigness. In ores the
display includes copper, silver and iron,
and in clays kaolin is shown in abund-
ance. OF course the display Of woods.
both raw and manufactured, is remark
ably fine, for this line traverses the
great sheep ranch of the Union. Cot
ton is also shown Of remarkably fine
auality. Silk. fruits, honey, wine, mar