Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-05-03
DOTS OF WESTERN TRAVEL.
BoNHAm, TEXAS,
Anril 12fh. 1893.


ED. EAGLE: In compliance
with promise I proceed to drop
yon a dot. And to begin at the
beginning, / left Taylor's the
oath on the $50 a. M, north
bound train, stopped over at
Memphis thirty hours, crossed
the Father Of Waters, which by
the way, just now has his big
coat on. At p. m, 25th, run
out sixty miles when the engine
took q jump, went of the track
and came near ditching; result,
a delay Of six hours, two behind
time at Little Rock, and three
at Texarkana. Put in at Bon
ham with a lost day, minus some
extra change that ! might 9TH
erwise have had in my pocket.
SO ! paid for the ticket and the
Jump too, but / am glad 1t is no
worse. Ileft Texarkana yester.
day morning at $50 on the Tex
as and Pacific Railroad, and ar.
rived here yesterday at A p. m.
/ advise you not to travel over
the above road when you come
to Texas, unless you are oblig'
ed to do so, as / was. In going
to Fort Worth and all points
west of that place be sure to 60
by Jefferson and Dallas, though
you will miss seeing some splen'
did country by doing SO. This
county and Fsnnin and Lamar
are fine counties. Bonham is a
beautiful place, we'll situated on
a rich, level prairie, and If il
were not for one thing, viz, be-
ing all fenced up here about, |
would as soon drive a stake
here as in any part of Texas |
have ever seen, and I have seen
q great deal of it, as l have..been
through on a former trip, be-
tween thirty and forty counties,
east, north, south and west. The
mud is the great trouble here
just now, but the sun is fast
drying that up. If you want
plenty of distance and black
Jacks and towns with names but
no houses or people, I advise
you to locate in Bony or Red
river counties. There is GER
taiuly a grand opening there,
but it is like the opening at the
Mammoth Cave, filed with emp
tiness. There you will have
room to sneeze without fear Of
disturbing your neighbors.
suppose lands could be hat
there for the taking, by virtue
of the right of discovery, al
they seem to be in the mali
wholly u~noccupied. Wild lands
I learn can be bought in THU
county at FIVE dollars per acre
Farming is backward here, no
farther advanced than in La
Fayette, though it is about one
degree farther south than Ok
ford. 1t strikes me that it il
very foolish to work at least one
half the lands that are worked
in North Mississippi, with all thu
grand lands in reach that are
, lying in the Western world
From what / learn this is q flint
fruit, vegetable and grain coun
try, not much for stock unless
they are attended to on account
Of the failure of range here
The stock country is rapid,
moving west. Water learn il
better here than in most part
of Texas. This water question
, consider to be the great draw
back to Texas.
j, This region presents a splen
did appearance at present, bu
! / suppose O summers drough
would probably alter the ap
pearance of things veay much
About fifteen hundred inhabi
tants here. One thing tina
, strikes a new conner from sucl
, a town rs Oxford is the con
, spicuous absence of sidewalks
. This much needed article o
city life, more SO here than a
many other places, l suppos'
will be supplied by the cit,
> fathers at some future day
when they may have time an
money to appropriate in tina
, direction. Show this to all in
/ quiring friends. More anon,
r. G. HEWLETT.
G. A. L0Qan, ESQ.