San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-03-21
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH, q, 1888.
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
| WriteS--His Impressions of
Yoakum--HiS Muse Runs
Into Poetry.
YoAKUM, March 10th, 1888.
Daily LIGHT:
This is the latest phenomenal city OF
southwest Texas, and we don't know
any other town throughout this entire
section so pregnant with rich promise.
To make there's the lands,
And plenty of willing hands,
To push it to the foremost ranks,
Ranks, ranks.
Then wherefore should we try,
To let fortune slip us by,
When we have gold galore in the banks.
Banks, banks.
This 10 the latest echo from the fugi-
tive muse of the press, the rhyth is
cimbric. The surroundings here are
SO poetic, that one cannot avoid uncOn-
sciously. drifting into poetry. The
town Is beautifully located upon a twin
ridge, running horizontal east and west,
iIO" LILO 0ooG oohh VI VIC l<u hOOo
river. The prospect north and north
west 10 . scienic poem-msjestic, but
not grand-where the sweet home
prairie joins the historic woods Of
Brushy and Hope, through whose south
ern boundary the famed old "Sugar and
Salt" roads ran-''Sugsr" going east and
salt" going wess.
The settlement In the vicinity of
YOakum was first located by
John May, Pat Saver. the Doughertys
and Douglas in '34. They were Cstho-
lic-Irish, and were served by the ia
nous Padre Muldoon, the noted impre-
sariO editor, and friend OF the nOn-Latin
colonists-the same priest who baptized
your worthy citizen, Col Andrews-the
Most Rev. DR.. Odin, afterwards arch
bishop of New Orleans. and Father
Lynch, British chaplain at Houston, now
archbishop Of Toronto. The descendants
of these early pioneers, are around to-
of their fathers. YOakum is on the main
branch of the Aransas Pass railway, be-
tween San Antonio and Galveston. and
it is the terminus OF the Waco division.
1t spreads itself into two counties as 1t
lad orter" and Is equi distant between
Cuero, the county seat of Dewitt. and
Hallettsville, the county seat Of Lavaoa,
about 81 miles from each; it is 80 miles
from Flatonia on the Southern Pacific
The soil of the prairie, tributary to
this town, is black alluvial loan, inter-
spersed with light sandy (gypsum) on
the ridges; both are famous for their pro-
ductiveness. Properly cultivated, these
soils will yield during average seasons
from one-haf to q bale Of cotton, and
from forty to seventy-five bushels Of
corn to the acre. Lands are worth from
five to twenty dollars per acre. Good.
industrious farmers will be welcomed
and encouraged. Every industry is rep
resented in the town, There are some
eighteen general stores, six hotels and
niture store. etc. There is fine stone
built Catholic church and school about
half mile from town, and no doubt other
denominations will early follow.
Real estate is booming. Messrs. May,
McCarty, Morris and Nelson, along with
the railroad, are the chief owners. Two
weeklies are about commencing 10y oak
um's Yesterday" E, |. Coyle, editor, and
the "Graphic,' printed on the Halletts-
vile Herald press by the same COM
pany.
Pulitzer, the major proprietor Of the
World and Post-Dispatcb, came here to
prospect for the location Of plant for a
daily. He has invested in a lot and will
call it the Times. 1t is also rumored
that he will run a cOlOred cartoon week
ly similar to Puck, with Henry Ryder
Taylor Grosvenor- Hastings, Of the San
Antonio Gossip, editor-in-ohief, and 80
we are pretty we'll fixed, thank you, in a |
literary sense We don't want the earth. |
but il it is chuoked at us We must needs |
accept it.
The division round house and |
yard Is here. and the pleasant-Albert |
Dusky-railroad man flourishes like q
bay-tree. A young tough from Wiscon-
sin came into the artists gallery to have
his picture taken on Saturday, whether |
he was ham-fatter, the end man, or the |
rear brakeman, we could not discover. |
He wished his photo taken a la Sullivan,
which tickled the cowboys to death.
We got our eye-glsss to bear on him,
and he enquired of the artist If that
damp dude" was hired to spoil his |
facial expression; we sucoumbed. The |
artist got the machine to bear on him,
when cowboy jerked the lasoo which
the victim had inadvertently slept into,
there was yell, a mixture Of tossed |
anatOmy-and the picture?-it was never |
taken. In the name of the profit
wealth. AMERICAN KMoRN.