San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-04-06
TEXAS TOPICS.

the Brazos river mt Waco. Eighteen
miles of iron are at the terminues ready
TO be laid beyond the river as soon as
the bridge can be completed.
The late census shows 1000 insane
persons in the State that ought to be
under medical treatment. A strong
pressure is being made upon the Gov
ernor TO use half amillion OF the cash
balance to care for them In proper
manner
-Goliad GUARD, March 1S: Goliad
county has IA population OF near oooo:
There are in the county 62,066 head OF
cattle, GS93 head of horses, 1928 head
of sheep, 361 goats, and over 1880 head
of hogs, on which taxes are paid, as
sessed mt s55O,O00. The amount OF
land rendered for taxes is 45O,O 900 acres,
valued at S701,77O.
On the 10th of March, sixty head
of cattle, known in the market as grass
Texans" averaging 1,OC6 pounds, were
sold in St. Louis at $3.50 per 100
pounds to Eastern shippers, which the
St. Louis Republican asserts was the
highest price ever obtained III that or
any other Western market.
State Treasurer Lubbock recently
purchased in New York $4,000 of
Texas bonds of the class known as long
seyens, due in 1904, at lao, or $l4O on
the 500. Thes, bonds have twenty
two years yet to run before maturity,
and the state thus saves $l54 in interest
on every 500 bond. The price paid
looks large, but if not paid by the state
until maturity the interest alone on the
$4,000 would have amounted to SOL
$50 more than the state treasurer paid
for the bonds. There is probably no
other state in the Union whose bonds
are worth to-day in the great financial
centres $40 on the 500. These are
better than government bonds.
The Texas Pacific road is now re-
ceiving through freight daily from San
Francisco to New York and other east
ern cities. The freight is now brought
over the Southern Pacific to El Paso,
over the Texas Pacific to Longview,
over the international and Great
Northern to Houston, and from there
over the Galveston, Houston q Harris
burg to Galveston, and there shipped
by steamer to New York. This is
round. about way, but freight can be
taken over this route cheaper than via.
Omaha and Chicago. One train was
received at Galveston a few days ago
consisting of twenty-five cars, loaded
with lead, wheat, -four canned goods
and wine. As soon as a junction is
formed by tie "Sunset" and Southern
Pacific the route will be shortened sew
eral hundred miles, and the business
between San Francisco and New York,
over the Texas roads, greatly increased.
Galveston Ne1US: The cattle trade
of the Kansas prairies, the Indian Ter
ritory and Texas is attracting attention
as one of the colossal industries III the
country. The drive from Texas and
the Indian Territory this season, it is
estimated, will not fall short of 100000
head, to Kansas City, st. Lonis and
Chicago markets. This estimate is
based on contracts already made. and
includes only limited portion OF four
r-old cattle. The average piice con
tracted for is $13 for yearlings and $40
for -year-olds. The Philadelphia
Record, which takes some interest in
this subject, is of the opinion that
although the outlook for prosperous
cattle business in the summer OF 1857
is unusually good, the extent OF the
cattle trade during the next few years
will exceed the widest predictions OF
the most sanguine. Great as 1t has /
been in the past, the future, no doubt,
will far exceed it, and that immense |
lnoccupied territory comprising the |
Indian Territory, Western and South
western Kansas, Texas and the Pan
Handle of Texas, will soon become, and |
for years remain, the great meat centre |
Of the world"
Taxes on some $4,000 tracts of |
land, in organized counties, owned by /
non-residentS, are paid to the comp |
troller. The time for the payment of |
their taxes is from October l to jan
nary l. The owners delay paying the
taxes until the latter part of December.
and then there is rush of thousands
of payments at the comptroller's Office.
It is impossible at the time to record
the pay meuts and issue receipts for
Them, because the available force of the
Office, from January l until March, is
occupied upon the lists of lands IN un-
organized counties, which are assessed,
advertised and sold, if taxes are unpaid,
by the comptroller. When this bust
ness, which under the law is imperative
and has precedence, is disposed of, the
comptrolleT's force then makes out lists ,
Of the payments which have been made !
N TIE lands in the organized counties !
belonging 10 non-resideuis and the lists /,
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