The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-02-16
TEXAS BY MAIL.
Items and Comments Culled from
the Latest State Papers.

Items and Comments Culied from
the Latest State Papers.
The Austin Northern Land and Cattle
company has purchased from H. b. Har-
ris lands oil the Concho for $1O4.9J4.
The sheriff of Shackelford is advertis-
ing the county Jail for rent, ss there has
not been a Shackeiford county criminal
within its walls for about eighteen months,
According to General Stoddard the cat
tIemen will raise funds for the refrigera-
tor at their next annual meeting. Good
enough. Houston has the same geographic
cal advantages and as much money as
when the matter was talked of some
months ago.-Houston Post.
The Brenham Light Guards are drilling
regularly. They are after the first prize
at Austin. What are the Waco boys
doing? And, let us suggest that the Waco
citizen will greatly encourage the boys by
being out tonight and chipping in a
dollar.-Waco Examiner.
An eastern party will arrive here within
few days with view to establishing q
first-class foundry at Ell Pa,o. There is
no enterprise that offers better chances
for pronounced success. There is no
foundry or machine shop within 200
miles OF the city and the country is be-
coming fl led with machinery in every d.
rection.-El Paso Tribune.
plan for a small refrigerator plant
has been laid before some of the Dallas
capitalists, and they look upon it with
great favor. The refrigerator at Ell Paso
was sugg ested to them as a model. This
refrigerator is regarded as the most com
plete one in small way in the country.
1t cost only $4,000, aud is being run very
successfully, and the secret of Its success
| is ascribed to the fact that it is on a small
scale, and has never attempted too much.
| The produce of the establishment is
readily sold, and the proceeds pay good
| interest and handsome ividends.-Deni-
son News.
A gentleman from the Panhandle says
an immense flow of immigration is ex-
pected to that region during the spring
and summer. While not much of a tide
is looked for before spring is fairly open,
there are now great many prospectors
in the country, and lots are gong like hot
cakes in most all the new towns. The
owners of large pastures-and as yet there
are very few small bodies of land in that
sectiOn-realize that the big pasture must
go, and they are preparing to cut their big
pastures up into small farms and sell
them out at retail, as it were, as fast as
the gentlemen with the hoes apply for
them.-Dallas News.
1t is reported, upon good authority
from Ell PasO, that Mr.. John Twohig has
offered the site of Fort Duncan to the
United States government for $4,000,
the amount originally offered to him by
the government and which offer he re-
fused. General Stanley, in an interview
with prominent citizen of Eagle Pass,
recently, assured him that it was quite
probable that the government would &C.
| cept this offer and re-establsh the post
there OH larger scale, and also that he
General Stanley would use his personal
influence with General Sheridan to bring
this about, as he Is and has always been
OF the opinion that this is one of the most
advantageous points on the frontier for
permanent garrison.
Inc freight blockade at Ell Paso, ia
stead OF breaking up, gets worse every
uay' and there are at this time in the
nelghbOrhood of 5000 carloads of freight
10 the yards awaiting the permission of
the Paso del Norte custom house officials
10 cross the river. Most OF this freight ia
from the Texas and Pacific and connect
ing lines, and that road, having most at
stake, Is most interested in raising the
olockade, to which end l.. S. Thorne.
superintendent of transportation. has
gone out to see if the Mexican toll-gate
keepers cannot be induced to brace M
ana move the freight. The Missouri Pa
CHIC had notice from the Texas and Pa
CHG wednesday to receive no more freiobt
IN carload lots for Mexico, and the snp-
position ls that similar notice has been
served on the other connec inc lines of
the Texas and Pacific, and the i,farenee
from the notice is that there il no home
u Clearing the track at Ell Paso in the
Immediate future.
ne tlme Tor the meeting of the State
1--we otOck association at Austin has not
yeO oeeh appointed, and the date of the
lHoe1ipg Will depend upon the local asso-
oia'iohs. Inc Northwest Texas Live Stock
ae9oUiHtlon Will meet in Gainesville. March
o. Inc other associations have not been
neT 70 from. But, as the State association
must meet before the me ting of the In
=" Range association at Denver
n 20, 1t is probable the gathering al
austin will take place some time between
March and 20. 1t is, however, more
man hkeIy that the executive committee
~ 1.at oe called together before the regular
,iSesig az austin for the purpose of con-
he 80; vi 'ne bids for the location Of
Worth Hon 1sOp' s a, bidders being Fort
.. otoddard, who was in the citv recently,
expressed the opinion that the oattIemen
' n raise at the Austin meeting the neces.
I Sy FUNDS to start the refrigerator. and
na' the much talked of Institution will
g g. pun IN operation few months there
be Io,oi me cities that are com peting for
NJ t ~ OF the refrigerator have each
n