The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-06-02

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healthy locality may be obtained
cheap. 1 certainly have no desire to
divert emigration from your country,
but do earnestly desire to show poor,
honest, hard-working men, who are
struggling year after year for a bare
living, where and how they may bet
ter themselves, and to do this I know
no more effeefud way than to draw
some comparisons between this and the
old country in which l was born and
raised. ! left Hardengan county three
years ago last January. 1 was born
and raisedin that county, one mile from
Porter's Greek, in district No. u. I
came from there directly to this county.
| did think that country to be in
great measure worn out when l left
there. | have been back since and
had my impression of its worn out con-
ditiOn very much intensified. l have
been living with my family in this
county three years; h;sre paid during
that time to doctors $24 TO- There [
rarely got off with less than S75ep per
annum, often over hundred. Hhve
not had a death from starvation" or
other cause. Am not ''too poor to
get back, had I the least desire to do
SO. SomerveIl county. forty miles
southwest of Fort WORTH ON the Texes
Pacific roilroad, and fourteen miles
northwest of Morgan on the Texas
Central railroad, is a small county,
and is perhaps as well watered as any
other county in the State The Brazos
river runs diagonally through it.
Paluxey is broad, rapidly flowing,
remarkably clear stream, empties into
Brazos, two miles from Glen Rose,
county seat, about centre of the county.
In Paluxey valley are a great MANY
of the very finest springs. Browns
White Sulphur Springs, one mile from
the county seat, are noted for medici-
nal virtues, and are becoming quite a
place Of resort. Squaw Greek is as
pretty stream as I have ever seen in
Texas, Tennessee, or anywhere else
1t Is a famous trout stream. It's valley
averages about two miles in Width,
most of it now in cultivation-as fine
wheat lands as can be found this side
of California. These lands were all
Milan county school lands, and were
sold to present settlers at prices rang
ing from one to three dollars per acre,
on ten years time. Plenty of other
lands in the county for sale on just
as favorable terms. The farmers of
Squaw Greek are now reaping; they
will make from fifteen to twenty-five
bushels per acre. A late frost injured
the more forward wheat. Brazos and
Paluxev valley lands are superior to,
anything [ ever saw in Tennessee for
cotton, and can perhaps be beaten
only by the famed Mississippi bottom
lands. One other class of lands we
have denominated the "post-oaks, +"
not so desirable as to productiveness,
but wonderful for making a crop in
double-quick time. This class, of land
is quite cheap. Last year a great deal
Of land in this county produced more
than full bale to the acre, nor is this
uncommon; and then peculiar beauty
Of farming here is the fact that it does
not take small eternity to make a
crop. 1t is not the iacessant pillow,
hoe, plow, h'e for SIX or'seven months;
| like it is in that good old State. This
is the order: Plant your crops in time,
in good order and then ''stand from
under" and see them Grip" With
half a chance they 80 booming. TheEc
is not so much attention given. to stock
raising in tfIis coanty as there was {
few years ago; not because it does pot
pay as we'll, but because it is supposed
to pay better further west. Most o
the large stocks of cattle have beer
removed to the more western counties
yet do call to mind at this writing
many of my friends and neighbour
who are quietly and easily making /.
living for their families, with thei
little stocks of IS or 100 head of cat
tie, or small flock of sheep. Nor i
this all. They are laying up ducats
When l read what Mr.. w. says 0
that being a good stock country, an,
call to mind how I used to struggle Il
5 that good old land six months in tn
year to make something to keep sou
{ and body of my old COWS within hail
: ing distance of each other the othe
six, and when I then institute a com
parison between that grim time an
place, and this-when my cattle tax
care of themselves the whole yea
round--I smile broadly, and wish Al
e my old neighbors were out here, ha
;. little farm an so or 100 head of cal
o tie.
e will end this with word abou
is public schools. The apportionmen
n for public free schools in this Stat
e last wear was So Der coDita- Tbi