Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-08-25
BRowNwooD, TEXAS.


Ed. SOUTH KENTUCKIAN:
A trip from Kimble to Brown coun-
ty, Texas, is necessarily one of inter-
est and pleasure; however such it
was to me if others think otherwise.
The distance is about two hundred
miles, through an ever-changing coun-
try and embraces four counties, viz !:
Mason, Llano, Mccullough and San
Saba.
AS have said before, Kimble is
very high and mountainous and
might very appropriately be termed
solid mountain. Its neighbor and
northern boundary is Mason, which
might be termed "rolling plateau"
or STAIRWAY" to Kimble. The most
noteworthy change from the county
seat of Kimble to that of Mason is
timber, soil and rockville the hills
of Kimble are bare and barren the
table-land of Mason is productive,
of not gully good timber, but corn,
cotton, wheat, oats, in short, is adopt
ed to all kinds of small grain; and
sandstone takes the place of lime ; so
with such change one would imag-
inc that everything "runs smoothly"
in Mason. Just so with but one sin
gle exception which is peculiar to
those unacquainted with the nature
Of the country-it is the water streams
which refuse to run at all on the sur
face only when compelled by contin-
ued rains; the cause | record is that
the parched tongue of the earth in Ma
son is sand. Water can be found any
where in the channel of these streams
by digging few feet. l saw a man
take small stick and drive it about
one foot in the sand and procure wa
ter. There are some handsome dwell
ings in Mason county and Fort Mason
the county seat all built of the beau
tiful grey sand stone.
Passing through Mason with the
north star as guide we crossed a
small portion of Llano county, and
was then at the bottom step of the
STAIRWAY to Kimble"-the county
of Mccullough.
The solid prairie or rather bound
less, better expresses tit makes Inc
feel as If | had been OH the top of the
Courier-Journal building and had
reached the street with swimming
head. Here are ten thousand times
ten thousand head of cattle that roam
at will over this boundless country as
yet unsettled with the exception of a
few pastures-50000 acres were being
fenced into one pasture as we passed
through. Hold l have misrepresent-
cd the county settlement. One solid |
block of prairie dog buildings is Me-
Culough. Chip, chip, chip, is the
password and salute as you pass
through their streets, which they in
variably give the passers-by. Dog
town was once the name of McCul-
ough, county seat-now Brady City )
but these everlasting" dogs, "whence
did they come and where did they
z" is the question.
Continuing our northward course
we crossed a corner of San Saba coun-
ty-Llano and San Saba are Spanish |
Applications which these counties and
Il number of others have retained
since the evacuation Of the Spaniards.
They called the county seat and river
on which they built the county seats
by the same name, for instance
Llano is the county seat of Llano
county and situated on the Llano
river.
These Spanish names are musical
and poetic when pronounced by a
Spaniard who alone give them the
true accent.
Now we are at the bloody Colora-
do. This river rises on the Staked
Plains-the great sand desert, and its
water is colored to an orange red by
the red sand. Crossed we are in the
Gland of the living" BroWn county,
the railroad county. Yes 1t is even
so. The Gulf of Colorado and San
Tafe are advancing the course of EN-
pire regardless of the lamentations of
the old Westerners whose freight
bills have been a stumbling block to
settlers-Rachaels MORNINGS could
not be heard in their "roarings."
This road comes through fertile
Browns, county seat Brentwood, and
is pointing its course towards San
Angelo, the county seat of Tom
Green county.
Respectfully,
TODD COUNTY.