The Nevada picayune., 1885-09-10
Texas Correspondence,


 you some jottings by the way, with the impressions made upon me anon as we sped with the swift ness of steam, ever hill and dale, rock and brook, forest and prairie toward the setting sun-the land ofpromisc, the far famed Western Tevas.
 l assure you fl was 2 new experience to me to lay down the tcdium of professional work-the daily administration of pills and portions and assHmo fhe role ot the cattle man If you had seen us from time to time in Ihe car with the ycarlings, Biting them ur and pushing our way through them while the car was in motion. then again gripping our baggage and climbing upon the top ot the cattle cars, when changing trains at tie different divisions of the road, and then again laying for twelve hours at time at feeding stations, like tramps waiting for a train to take us on. you would have been greatly amused no dou6t.
 We came by way of Jefferson,
 Marshall, and Longyiew. Saw no fine country til we entered fine prairies at Wells Point. from
 which place on to Terrell and Dal- las we passed oyer a black land belt of as fine farming lands as are to be found in Texas or anywhere else. This country is a solid farm with scarcely an acre te be seen anywhere mfenccd. The wheat and oat crops which were imm mense have been harvested. The corn is still standing in the fields and shows for itself-will make J0 10 60 bush els per acre. The pastures are dotted with sleek and fat cat tie. The city of Dallas, situa'e ] upon the east bank of the Trinity river, is perhaps tho largest inland city in the state. Dil not see much of it however, as our train passed right through without stop ping. Judging fcom the near proX- imity of the two forks of the Trim ity, and the rather low situation of of the place, I would take Dallas to De a yory healthy city. From Dallas to Forti Worth, about forty miles q 'stant, character of the country is rocky and broken, and better suited to ssn2ll grain and thc grasses and the raising o:
 Fort Worth not many years ago and tor a long while the Dor der ef civilization in the West is literally Getty that is set upon a hill' which cannot be hid. High and elevated, she scts-granl and beautiful for stuation-the queen vity of the West. We spent scv- eraI hours here, and took in the city genetally. We went Upon tho dome of her $l2 GOO Court iIouse, and took sweeping view of tue city and farms, far reaching plai- ries and mountains, skirting tlc horizon in the dim distance, all grand beyond description, How wonderful and marvellous gre the of th.s rushing age of steam and electricity. Here upop these plains, where but few years ago the wild Indian roamed at his will and hunted the buffalo, the elk and the deer, and when the "Fort' had to be erected to protect the people from his cruel tomahawk. Now you behold the modern city with all the improve mcuts and conyenienccs of this fast age, the electric light, street cars, water works &c, What a magic civiiizer the locomotive is As it advances into the regions beyond, and makes the echo and breaks the long silence of inhabited plains by its shritl whistle, cmmigratjou ! pours in ike a flood in it's wake, and states are born anG cities spring up as by the touch of the 1 wand.
 From Fort Worth the next town i of importance is Weathcrrord, the county seat of Parker county. This ] is a place of four or five thousand | inhabitants. IL being some dis :! tancc off the R. R., did not see l much of it. The country along ] here l did not like, 1tis too rough l and rugged. Going on West We now enter the mountains of Wes- /.