The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1883-01-20
TEXAS TOPICS.

Nearly s14,0OO,0O0 worth oi cattle
re now grazing in what six years ago
vas absolutely Indian country in Texas.
Bolton journal: While NJ. ]. 4.
Pope and Mr.. George j. Butler, of this
place, were out on surveying tour in
he southwestern portion of the county,
ass week, they discovered very good
article of stone coal on what ia known
" Hog mountain.
Now we want to change our tacticf.
We are goiEg to advise the farmers to
plant no corn Mt I'll, and TO plant all
cotton, and in 4 few years more Pamela
county will be one "huge poor house,
and will draw her rations from the state
government along with the penitentiary
convicts. This is what the all cotton
policy will bring them to sooner or later
anyway. Pamela INdtchmdn.
-Terdn: We have discovered coal
live feet thick, and good quality, with
good roofing, ten miles north of Breck-
inndge, the county seat; and those who
have examined this coal say ID is in ex-
haustloss quantities. East of these de-
p0sits other discoveries have been made,
and there is no longer any doubt in the
minds of welliniormed people who
have taken the trouble to examine for
themselves that Breckenridge is about
the center Of tho coal belt which ex-
tends from the Indian Territory to the
southern borders of Stephens county.
Iron is also abundant in this county,
ind is found contiguous to tho coal
fields. In some places covering cir
cumfeIence of thirty or forty feet, 10
found places where oonYulsion of ma
ture seems to have precipitgted pure
iron ore to the surface.
-Hillsboro Mirror: On Tuesday a
locomotive unfit for service passed up
the Missouri Pacific railroad, which IVES
the cause Of considerable destruction
a'ong its route in this country. While
passing through j. T. Ficklin's plac e,
tn, grass in the pasture caught FIR, m
Goals from the engine, and it was with
much difficulty that this entire
pasture, including seventy-ive tons Of
hay adjoining was saved, after the
burning of about 125 acres of grass and
loss of considerable fencing. Follow
ing the train up the road, fires were
discovered first ut Patterson's field
north OF town, then in Warren's pasture
aud lastly in Will Schodeld's pasture.
Tho two latter named pastures wers
hlied with an elegant growth OF grass,
which had been reserved for winter use.
The fire spread very rapidly, burning
everything in its way. At Schofield's
Ut least 200 acres of the finest pastni-
age in the country, together with three
quarters of mile Of fencing and posts
were destroyed, and it was only through
great exertions that the cribs and
dwellings were saved. H. Il. HUFF lost
about 1876 acres of his pasture, and our
townsman, j. ID. Warren, Loaf about
twenty acres and 400 yards of fence.
The dwelling of William Hamilton,
]. +. Tait's crib aad dwelling, and The
gin Of Messrs. Bowls & Moore were
saved by mere scratch. Mr.. Warren
Informs us that some twenty five hands
were turned out on his lIlnce and fought
fire nobly, to whom he is indebted for
saving his entire farm. There were at
least 200 hands ont from the surround
ing farms fighting fire, divided into two
different gangs, one fighting north, the
other south, and when they met, virtu
my htopplhS tne uit, lney ION upon
the ground exhausted. He says at one
limo it seemed as though every farm in
The neighborhood would certainly be
destroyed, notwithstanding the great
number who were ont fighting the hr' .
Besides the pastures and fences de-
ssroyed as above enumerated, at leas I
1000 acros OF prairie was burned of.
This is quite - serit US lois at this sc a.
son Of the yeas, pNtuIage being worth
at least 50 per acre.