San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-02-08
TEXAS TOPICS


Gainesville has shippend over H.
900 bales Of cotton this year.
Orange will have fifteen steam
saw.mills in operation by spring.
One man in Jones county raised
three bales of cotton last year and
hauled it fifty miles TO have it ginned.
An extensive foatingcannery and
fish.oil refneryis being built at victo-
ria and will be launched in April.
-Longview Democrat: A phenom-
enal hail storm caused general com
ment, Tuesday. 1t was heralded by
thunder and an obscurity that suggest
ed twilight, then for many minutes
down.pour of hail followed that was
surprising.
An English syndicate, headed by
Francklyn, own county; another
foreign syndicate, own about sixc oun-
ties; the Gibson certificate syndicate
have, for the present, large claim on
Terry and Yoakum counties; the
Rhomberg syndicate, of Austin, filed
on several hundred sections of school
land, in counties attached to this sur
yeyor's district Graham Leader.
-Galreston Ners, January 81:
There was nothing "one-hoss" about
the cotton clearances yesterday, and
even Captain Dan Baker, who has
done duty at the entrance and clear
ance desk at the custom-hou for the
past fifteen years, will admit it. The
clearances were as follows: Steam
ship Victoria, for Liverpool. with $685.
bales; steamship Horton, for Sebasto-
pol, with 1850; schooner Cellna, for
Boston, with 20O6, and the schooner
Abbott w. Lewis, for Providence, with
1914 bales. The total kicks the beam
at 10, $50 bales, which is not a bad
DAYS work even for the future great"
cotton port of the gulf.
Fort Worth Democrat: There
can be no greater injury to state
than the system of parcelling its terri
tory to few capitalists, who cannot
utilize it themselves, and who do not
want people to occupy and cultivate it.
Syndicates and cattle do not make the
state-far better to have 100 poor,
brawny, honest tillers of the soil on
twenty sections of land, than one
capitalist with 100000 head of cattle
on 100 sections. Men and women
constitute the state, and no commu-
nifty can ever be prosperous, educated,
rich and great where vast landed pro-
prietorships exclude population or
subject settlers to the poverty and
abasement of tenantry and slavery.
-1e.ras Wool Grouer: 1t is an old
saying and true one "where there is
will there is a way" A certain
young gentleman less than three years
ago embarked in the sheep business
in Texas. He started without expert
ence, with little cash, but great
deal of determination and grit. He
took G85 sheep on shares, agreeing to
pay all expenses of holding them, and
paying the owner of the flock one-half
of the wool and one-half of the in
crease for three years. He is now in
dependent, and his independence is
his reward for close attention to his
business. In his vocabulary there is
no such word as fail" and now that
he has demonstrated the truth of the
old saying quoted above, he desires us
to write encouragingly for the benefit
of those commencing as lie did few
years since. In letter just received
from him he says: Don't discom-
age the boys, but tell them to take
heart, for there is certain success
ahead if they will only keep a stiff
upper lip and pull for it. "