Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1886-03-27
ALETTER FROM TEXAS.
What Former Citizen Of This County
Thinks Of the Lone Star State.



Many dark hours have hung their cur
tains along our pathway during this
time, while ever and anon the few
bright ones would loom up. before and
around us, making the heart rejoice on
our pilgnmage through life to the silent
grave. During this fleeing period Of
time our observation and experience
have taught us some few lessons relative
to the present prospects, and the future
probabilities Of this State.
Permit your Texas correspondent to
congratulate the CHRONICLE on the ex-
tenslve addition that has been made to
il. 1t is a welcome visitor to our little
family circle arriving regularly every
Monday evening
Our apology for seeking this medium
OF communication is the continual So
licitations of many friends and acquain
tances in your vicinity, the home of our
childhood hours, that by this means
they may read and hear, if they do not
believe, some OF the facts which may
be communicated to them in the series
OF letters we propose writing. We do
not propose painting the picture with
beautiful and brilliant colorc nor do we
desire that our communications so dry
and inelegent that they will not add
something the subject matter of your
most excellent paper, or be thrown
with the rubbish of the Temple"
The population of this State is in
creasing rayidly. Immigrants arcIcom-
ing from every State North and East;
the consequences are, we have the habits
customs and apinions of the different
sections of the Union, to some extent,
centered here. We have many good
and some bad people all mingled togeth-
er in one great push for gain. We
have the shrude and sharp trader that
will watch every point to corner you.
We confidently believe that crimes of
some grade or description or character
are more frequent than in the older
States in proportion to the population,
how to explain this fact we know not,
unless the worst element OF society in
the older States evaded the penalties OF
law and fled to this State "for city Of
refuge" but by the energy and vigi-
lance OF our officers the violaters OF the
law are hunted and driven out of their
lurking places and caught and made to
appear before the high tribunals OF just
ice, and FURNISHED accordingly.
After these preliminary and general
remarks, we propose in this, our first
paper, to state some facts in regard to
the soil. In speaking of this soil we
have reference to Hunt aud adjoining
and adjacent counties Our information
concerning other sections of the State,
is vague and imperfect it having been
learned from cursory perusals of vari-
GUS newspapers and from persons that
have travelled through those counties
and sections.
We will state here for the informa.
ton OF some of your readers that we
do not propose giving chemical anal
ysis of the various grades or qualities Of
the different soils nor to fix their geo
logical data, but such information as
can be learned by observation and ex
perience and that of others. In this
immediate locality we have three grades
or qualities Of soil, each different in it,
productiveness and its adaptability fol-
cultivation, and in addition to these
three, we have soil that is different
from either or all of them.
The first in importance and quality
which we shall notice is the black wake
This is the brag soil of the State will
majority of the farmers, and is with
out any doubt the best soil in the State
for grass, corn, wheat and cotton. The
peculiar qualities of this soil, are differ
ent from any lands found within thu
wide range of experience of the farm
ing class east OF the Missippi, these pc
culiarilies, or the prominent ones, arr
first its color, second its unpleasant anC
we might assert, its very disagreeable
sticky or gummy nature while wet
third its depth, fourth the positive alb
sence of any rock or the smallest parti
cles of sand and its power or quality o
supporting and sustaining the crop dur
ing long week and months of dry, no
weather. First then is its color or it
no color, for it is abolutely, scientifi
cally and chemically the absence of al
color, which is black. 1t certainly Ina
the right name, the black varie. w
cannot convey the idea in a stronge
light than to state iis"J cOvey of tn
blacklist OF black crows might alight il
a field devoid of any vegetation an
we'll ploughed and they could be read
ia, datected hv their LIGHTER shade Z