San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-06-08
TEXAS TOPICS.

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One thousand head OF cattle wer'
Mt Abilene on the Goth awaiting cars 10
SHIPMENT TO Northern and EASTER
markets, and 5000 head at COLORADO
City.
Abilene is becoming an important
wool market. The total amount OF 10
ceipts for the season up TO the Zotii o.
NAV were $4,000 ID. To the same time
last year 10000 ID.
-Castroville Quill: We learn that
company of English capitolists have
purchased the bat cave belonging tc
Sam G. Bennett, and the bat cave on
the Frio and the one on tho Clpoio'
They intend to manufacture ammonia
Manufactures will be erected in Uvalde,
San Antonio Ond Boerne.
"A new industry has sprung up IN
Western Texas. The shipment OF buf-
falo bones to eastern markets has Deen
an immense business for several years,
but the "mine" has been about worked
cut. and those engaged in gathering
homes have turned their attention to
capturing prairie dogs. One man has
captured, and shipped to st. Louis re-
Gently, about 200 of these animals. he
expects to realize handsome profit on
the business if he can find sale for all
he catches.
Orange Tribune: It is estimated
that there are now in the mill-looms at
Orange more than 100000 pine logs and
a quality of cypress largely in excess OF
the supply at any previous time in the
history Of the place. In addition to
this, there are in the Sabine river,
owned in and to be shipped from Or
ange, over 10000 hewed railroad ties.
To keep up this supply there are EN-;
ployed over two hundred teams and
over six hundred men in the forest and
swamp. To manufacture and ship this
material at Orange there are employed
over 400 men.
-Uvalde Hesperia7o: We took lit
tie trip down the Leona last Sunday to
the irrigated farms on the ditch, about
eight miles below town. 1t was indeed
refreshing to see the broad fields of
waving corn just coming into silk and
tassel, with promise of an abundant
supply of roasting-ears. The oat crop
is particularly good and will yield large
returns. The bitches are in first-rate
order and irrigation is carried on extern
sively. Oats, wheat and ribboncane
have been succe ssfully grown on some
of these farms, so we are informed. the
latter producing as high as eighteen
joints.
The town of Rome, Starr cou 1ty,
which, like its ancient namesake, stands
upon the hills, and from it's throne of
beauty, for it certainly has magnih-
cent location and view, rules its own
little world of some 400 inhabitants.
This town is few miles distant and
opposite to Mier, in Mexico, and was
twenty-five years ago, a place OF con-
siderable mercantile Importance, at
which time many large and well-con-
,tructed buildings were erected, whose
white walls, cleaning from afar high
above the river, upon the bluff, where
ocated, presents to the eye, wearled
with the sight only of barren hills, des-
ert and chapparrel, most grateful and
pleasing relief.
AT Carrie, the county seat of Ia
oata county, sixty-fve miles from Lare-
10, there stands the quaint old castle,
Quilt by the Englishman Redmond, with
is port holes for musketry, and pieces
IF cannon, now planted for corner posts
,nce served to protect the knight err
amt and his wealth proving savages.
From this point the road winds along
he crest of continuous line of hills,
rom which one catches magnificent
-iews of the river, glimmering like
molten silver in the sun, as it bends
onward through the hill, while grand
Jew of the Clerralvo mountain chain
n Mexico, with their myriad conical
peaks towering like a bank OF dark
LIQUIDS in the southwest horizon. The
timber is more abundant and of larger
growth, and patches of Il light red
Danny land in the valleys, and in the
bends of the river Called Vegas are
and Mexican ranches are
numerous along the river. Forty miles
rom Carrie we reach the ranch of
'alaneno, composed of some fifty fami-
les