San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-07-13
TEXAS TOPICS.


ton meets in Bolton the hrs' "oeA ~
October.
The Sabine Pass and Texas North
ern Railway has force oil ZOo men
engaged on the grading.
The Santa Fe gave in Its road,pea
- .ho Assessor at 1000 n mile, which
the Board of Equalization accepted
The Gililand boys will soon start
1000 cattle from Baird towards New
Mexico, in search of fresh pasturaee'
More than thirty car loads OF ma
cbipery were shipped from San Antonio
Monday to the Villalda@a iniHe' -
Mexico.
The branch road OF the Missouri
Pacific to Bolton, is being graded with
vim and the iron viii be put down al
an early day. ,,
Two thousand and eighteen build
ings purmits have been issued from tho
MAYORS office since the LIST OF NoVem'
her 1s75.-Galuestos, Express.
Texas papers give gratifying &c
ou,to oftbe closing exercises Of schools
throuobt the State, and show awakened
interest in the cause of education
Statistics corroborated at the late
Wool.growers Convention at San An
tonic show that the Texas clip this year
will bring the flock masters the SUN o.
$500, OOO.-Waco Examiner
German carp that were planted at
Houston, by Maj. Robt. Burns IN req
ruary last, and we're one and nan
inches long, are now eight inches ifoin
tip to tip.
1T is estimated that Collin county
will raise 100000 bushels OF "nea'
this year, and at least 5Oo'ooo ouSne nn
will be shipped at an average % ~
cents per bushel.
The capitol syndicate have Written
nuoos,rer lubbock announcing their
readiness to pay the $4,000 for survey
ing etc., falling due July l. and asking
whether they should remit by drai' OIL
New York.
The Gulf. Colorado, and Santa re
Road has purchased the Chicago AeAaS
and Mexican Central Road, extending
from Dallas to Cleburne, but at what
figures is not yet known. Inc ouii'
Colorado and Santa Fe Road Will lake
formal possession some time next week.
Dallas Herald June 81.
The company operating the car
shops have just placed In running oraef
soma ten thousand dollars worth OF the
finest machinery that could be pur-
chased in St. Louis. The rapid IN
crease of work in their departments mas
necessitated this additional purchase OF
machinery and the doubling OF tne
force of workmen.-DdllaS Herald.
Henrietta Shield: Henrietta, as
the termini of two roads, with their
machine shops, ETC., will soon Dc
town of 5000 or G,0O0 people, ana II
the two roads retain this as their ter
mini for few years, nothing can pre-
vent Henrietta from being the best
place in Western Texas. Enterprise is
all that is required, and we do not De-
lieve it will be wanting.
The Galveston NelUs says: IF
railroad freight can be satisfactorily ar
ranged, there is no reason why Calves
ton should not sell coffee largely to even
Kansas City and st. Louis, competing
easily with either New Orleans or New
York. The entire coffee trade of the
State should certainly finds purchasing
point at the port of Galveston, con-
tigious and accessible as it IL to both
South America and Mexico"
San antonio Express: The dam
for the cotton mill at New Braun
fels was commenced on February
l3, and the masonry will not be COM
pleted for a month or so longer. The
dam and wheelhouse together are 30
feet long and 1874 feet in height, with
q base 20 feet in width. There are
three turbine-houses with two water
ways in each. The rock used comes
from the adjacent hills. and is gray