San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-02-02
TEXAS TOPICS.

TEXAS TOPICS.
The exports of wheat during 1881
were 25,000,000 bushels less an during
1880, and the exports of corn Al, 900, 900
less.
-Cuero Bulletin: During the year
1881 there were ninety.si marriage
licences issued by the county clerk Of
De Witt.
The British steamer Deepdale,
from Cardiff. Wales, arrived at Calves
ton on the 10th of January with cargo
of 1926 steel rails for the Texas & ST..
Louis Narrow Gauge railroad.
The contract for grading the
northeast division of the Texas Central
railroad has been let to Col. i. r.
Terrell. The line will run from a
point at or near Ennis to Paris. The
work will commence at once.
During the year 1881 Texas built
1,411 miles of railroad, and in 1882 will
build still more miles of road than last
wear. This wonderful railroad devel-
opment, in measure, indicates what is
going on in the way of improvements
in other directions.
The average yield of wheat in Mon
tana is twenty-five bushels per acre,
though thirty, forty and fifty are often
rasied. The wheat is of very supo-
rior quality, and better even than Min
nesota or Dakota wheat. 1t contains
large proportion of heterogeneous or
flesh producing matter. Its weight is
six per cent. heavier than Eastern
States wheat.
The heavy rains that have pre-
vailed all over the State during the
past two weeks, while retarding other
farming operations, have been of meal
culable benefit to the immense crop of
wheat now growing throughout Texas.
With reasonable weather from this time
until after harvest Texas will astonish
the world with the finest crop of wheat
ever grown in the South.
1t is stated that Laredo, the ter
minus of the international q Great
Northern, is place of many natural
attractions and resources. Its citizens
claim population of 5000, and while
of course the great majority of the in
habitants are Mexicans, there are many
Americans coming in and erecting sub
stantial business houses and dwellings.
It is said that much of the adjacent
country is fertile and we'll adapted for
raising cotton, corn and wheat. The
town is nearly 100 miles further south
than New Orleans, and it's climate pos
sesses advantages not enjoyed even in
Florida.
-Weatherford Times: Mr.. F. M.
Peveler, of F. M. Peveler & Bros,
Hood county, informs us that his farms
of 400 acres, under cultivation, have
upwards of two miles of rock fence
gathered from their lands. During the
past year they had 100 acres in cotton,
200 in corn, and the balance in wheat,
rye, oats and millet. The crop was
fair one, considering the season, but
did not produce as much last year as in
1877. During that year their average
yield of wheat was 374 bushels to the
acre, 1t bales of cotton, with an aver
age of l bale to the acre, and 60 bushels
of corn.
The Southern Pacific enters
promptly upon the field of competition
for transcontinental freight and travel.
Our California correspondent reports
that the programme is to run steamers
from the New Orleans and Galveston
termini of the road to Europe to carry
the heavy freightage of California
wheat, and to bring back emigrants,
who will be carried from Liverpool to
San Francisco for $50. To do this the
Southern Pacific Company is having
steamships built. The cars which bring
the wheat from the Pacific to the Gulf /
will be so constructed that they can be .
fitted with berths on the return trip.
The completion of the short line to
San Diego, on the Pacific, will greatly
shorten the distance from sea to sea,
and the completion of the line to Gal
weston will make it still shorter only
1900 miles in length, and that, too, far
below the snow line, the neighborhood
of which SO much interferes with the
winter business of the other transcon-
tinental railways.