San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-01-04
sAN MARCOS,
TEXAS TOPICS.


Colonel Paramore, president oil
the Texas & st. Louis Narrow Guage
proposes to put heavy force to worn
in Texas as soon as the work is finish
ed in Arkansas.
w. III. Rossone set out sweet pc,
tato slips on the 18th day Of July, and
one day last week he dug 66S bushels
of potatoes from one acre of ground
Tyler Reporter.
The New Braunfels wooden man
ufatory is said to be doing so well that
il is unable to keep up with the de-
mand for its productions. Orders are
accumulating on hand at q rapid rate.
During the year ending August
81, there were completed ia Texas
1,641 miles of railroad, at an estima-
ted cost for construction and equip
ment of S44, 1915, 900, thus giving the
state a total of 5,938 miles at cost OF
$165, 100000.
-Sumpary from the report of the
Attorney General of the state fixes the
number of felonies committed during
the wear at 1857. Of these cases
1923 were convicted as charged, 20
of whom were sentenced for life, II
received the death penalty and 1868
were convicted of misdemeaners.
Northern sheepmen can. hardly
realize that in many portions of Texas
sheep not only live the year round
with nothing but the natural grass as
it grows Oh the ground, nothing but
the brush for shelter, but even yet no
salt, a weed growing that furnishes all
the saline matter necessary for good
health.
-Teras Farmer. The cotton crop
of the current year is estimated at t.
100000 bales, AGO pounds each, OF
which Texas raises 1,322,OOO bales,
more than one sixth of the entire crop.
Texas produces nearly twice as much
cotton as Arkansas, the next largest
cotton growing state to Georgia, and
exceeds the latter state 437 900 bales.
When we remember that the 6,7OO,
600 bales grown in the southern states
could be raised on sixteenth OF
the state of Texas, we begin to realize
the grand capabilities of our product
i've interests.
Galveston News: A News man pass
ed over the international road from
Austin to San Antonio on Monday
last, and he reports the amount of cot
ton still ungathered in the fields as
enormous. For about fifty miles on
either side the road looks like con-
tinous cotton field. In but few places
has all the cotton been taken from the
fields, while in number not pound
has been taken off. Some of the
fields that were untouched will yield
fully bale and u half to the acre.
The pickers are frequently seen, but
not in such numbers as they are re-
CURED. So great is the demand fol-
pickers in some sections there abouts
that the planters have offered one-halt
the cotton crop for the picking, and
yet failed to secure the labor required.
1t is now feared that much of the cot
ton will have to rot on the ground.
If there is any superf1uous labor here OF
elsewhere there is no necessity for
its remaining unemployed. Up there
anybody-man, woman or child-that
can pick cotton will be well paid for
their labor.
Decatur Tribune; The school lands
of Texas which remain unsold, and
which constitute the great bulk of the
school fund, will be one of the most
momentous questions engaging the
attention of the incoming Legislature.
There remain unseld about 60, 100000
acres of there lands, that were intend
ed by the farmers of Texas to consti-
tute perpetual school fund. How to
preserve it so as to make it perpetual
and at the same time do justice to the
localities in which the lands are loca-
ted, will be questions of grave mo-
ment, and will require on the part of
our legislators the broadest scope of
craftsmanship. Quie a sentiment
has grown up in favor of Withdrawing
these lands from sale and enacting a
law looking to their perpetual lease.
Tothis plan thepeOple who live in close
proximity TO these lands contend will
tend to retard the prosperity of the
section in which the land is located.
Many oppose the sale in unlimited
quantities upon the ground that it is
contrary to the genius as it tends to
create landed monopoly, cOntending
that It Is only a questioned anne, and