The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-03-24
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
GEORGES CREEK, TExAs,l
March u, 1881.

March u, 1881.
Mr.. EDITOR: 1 have recently seen a
letter from Rev, D. w. Leath, of
Pocahontas Institute, making some in
quiries concerning Texas, and espe-
cially this part of Texas Bonneville
county,. Believing that the answers
to many of these questions Will prove
of interest to your readers generally, 1
ask space in your columns to thus
answer.
What is land worth? From one to
five dollars per acre, depending on a
variety of circumstances. Some small
surveys, say quarter sections; fair
proportion of good tillable land in cul-
tivation. tolerable fences; plenty of
building rock; water in abundance;
building timber somewhat scarce; fire.
wood plentiful. Such places, of
thirty or forty acres i'll cultivation,
may be had for $500 or $500.
We have two very distinct varieties
of lands in this county: the black lands,
which are the wheat-producing kinds,
and the sandy, which yield worlds of
cotton and corn, but are not good for
wheat. The wheat lands are more
valuable.
There are on the Brazos river, in
this and adjoining counties many
large farms devoted almost entirely to
the raising of cotton; deep sandy soil,
very rich, easily cultivated, of warm,
kindly nature. Corn and cotton on
these lands grow with q perfect rush,
and produce wonderfully-often more
than bale of cotton to the acre.
The Brazos valley lands sell from eight
to ten dollars per acre, they are gen
orally in R good state of cultivation.
els there plenty of water?"
There is perhaps not better wa
tered county in the State than this.
The Brazos river runs diagonallY
through 1t. Squaw creek, Georges
creek, Rough creek and Paluxey are
all considerable streams of never
failing water, fed by numerous springs
of purest limestone. Artesisn wells
are being sunk in many places; water
that will flow to the surface is gen
orally found at $50 or 400 feet.
Stock raising is not followed so ex-
clusively in this county as it was few
years ago. Farming is becoming more
general, while stock raising, on &C
count of the partial failure of tho
range, is in a great measure being
given up. There are no large stock.
of cattle in this county-large in 8
Texas sense. Every man has hi.
home stock-some of them three OF
four hundred head. There are nC
sheep of any consequence in Thu
county. The census enumerator fol
the eastern half of this county tells m'
he found but thirty-nine head of sheer
in his district. This is the more sin.
gular as the high and somewhat rocky
lands are regarded as being particu
larry fine for sheep.
There are solid chunks of wealth il
the sheep business to any one who un
derstands it and will take hold.
Farming operations are greatly be
hind with us, and are getting some
what mixed; as an instance, some ar,
picking last years cotton, while other
are planting this years corn. We hav,
literally picked cotton all winter. Il
the first place the cotton crop was
large one; and next, came the pilln,
of mountain upon mountain in weathe
matters.
| We are all guessing that we vii
make good crops again. A few NOR
such seasons as last and we viii hay
to pray to be kept humble. We ar
likely to get rich and proud, and stru
J around and ask ''Who so rich, 5