The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-04-21

A drove or claim as II runs upon tho prafies
from be9f steers down 10 calves. A person
coming to Texas 10 engage, in pastoral pur-
suits ought to have some capital ofcourse,
but an energetic, upright young man can
come, and by obtaining employment with the
stock men and praciciDg economy, will soon
have very pretty little foothold and start,
one indeed that with perseverance, and
close attention TO business, will make him
rich in ten years. The stock interest
of the state are gradually receding to the
westward before the developing processes OF
railroads and agriculture, but when it is
remembered that Texas has an area OF
274,356 square miles, is thirty-fve times as
large as Massachusetts,, and has only 1,6OO,-
900 population, it will be seen that many
decades must pass before the agricultural
and commercial interests will seriously en-.
croach upon the pastoral interests. Tho
state has several million acres of public
lands and school lands which can be
bought at low figures, and the railroad COM
panies, to all of which royal bounties in lands
we're granted by the state, have mil
lions and millions of acres for
disposal at prices ranging, we opine, from a
dollar to two dollars per acre. All the'r
lands are in the heart of the pastoral regions,
so there is no trouble to get rancho at low
prices. As for climate in Texas, we who
live here think it the most equable and
healthy to be found on the globe. Our win
tiers are mild, barring cold norther now and
then, our falls and springs are delightful,
and our summers on par with summer
weather anywhere, their heats being tenn
pered by our delicious prairie breezes. Sheep
are now considered the best paying Of any
species of stock. They are COM
paratively of little trouble if
watched closely and are no expense except
for few herders. Texas wool, which is
improving every year in quality, always is
marketable and at good round figures. Such
thing as feeding stock in Texas in the
Wlut6r IL uuuohIu Oi' ho ioi ouh os"so'S'
one has but to look at the census reports to
see that Texas, last year raised more cotton
than any state in the union, made all the
corn that was needed, to say nothing OF the
sugar and syrups, her vegetables and fruits,
her wheat and other small grain. If was
not seasonable in Texas, how could all these
tnings be produced. Along the Rio Grande,
TIE border of Mexico, some little irrigating is
done, but only for quite small farms and truck
patches. Dallas is in the heart Of the
thickly populated and agricultural region
of north Texas, therefore it is not in the
stock country. A few counties in the west
and northwest of Dallas county, however,
any amount of cattle can be found. The
principal section for sheep is in west and
southwest Texas. Tic stock interests of the
state are immense, and disposition is manifest
with the stock men to supply themselves
with large pastures and, reducing the sizes
of their herds of cattle or hocks of sheep,
invest their means in finer animals, higher
grades. We believe that we have about
covered all the essential points necessary to
q clear comprehension of what her stock of
all kinds are worth to Texas and how re-
it is.