The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-02-09
TEXAS BY MAIL.
ITEMS and Comments Culled from
the --latest State Papers

Tteyns and Comments CuIleu IRON
the --latest State Papers.
po,. oouptv,s annual assessment for
the Immigration association VIII amount
10 $19,41S, payable quarterly IN ADVANCE
The Fort Worth and Denver has, in the
I,st few month";, bought over $o0,OOO
worth of Fort Worth land for terminal
facilities.
The Panther City Fenclbles are drilling
,ir,nrv IN order to be efficient in drill by
the time the international contest comes
off at Austin.
There were $4,000 acres cultivated IN
der irrigation on TOyah creek, In Pecos
comfy, Texas, last year and the area VIII
be much larger for 1883.
The coal finds in the Gordonville sec
tion are promising, thus furnishing an
other good reason why the Sherman and
Northeastern railroad should be built
Sherman Register.
President Burgess put ten men to work
nm the Fort Worth Union stock yards
Friday clearing the ground preparatory
TO building the pens which will begin just
as soon as the force now at work is
through.
The directors of the proposed Alliance
roller mills at Greenville have perfected
their organization and applied for a
charter, and will soon begin active work.
The thing now necessary is the decision
as to location,
The completion of the Fort Worth and
Denver road will be great thing for all
the Panhandle country. 1t will give us
through line from Fort Worth to Denver,
and will very soon give us connection on
the west with the Kansas Southern, thus
opening gate through which will pass
scores of immigrants from Kansas, com
ing into Texas to find cheaper lands and
a warmer climate. Besides this it will be
a great means of advertising our advan-
tages.-Wichita Herald,
A good many Texas mules are being
shipped to Louisiana. For several years
Texas mule raisers and dealers have found
a ready market for their animals in the
state named. The city of New Orleans
J takes all the large mules for dray pur-
poses and the plantations the smaller
ones for use in agricultural pursuits.
Texas is raising more and better mules
every year. The climate is better adapted
to their production than is that of the
older states and big hardy mules can be
raised here at less cost than in most
other states. But on the markets of the
country they command as good prices as
the mules produced at a greater expense
in other states. This gives the Texas
mule raiser greater profits than his com
petitors make.-Dallas News.
In three or four days one of the largest
live stock commission houses in the north
will have established in Fort Worth the
only agency of this sort outside the great
market cities. The James H. Campbell
, d. Co. house is the one referred to. The
full intentions OF the company in taking
this departure have Lot been made public,
but this much is certain The original
purpose was to locate the agency at Dali
las until the securing of the Union stock
yards at Fort, Worth made it impracticable
to transact all the business at any otheI
place.-Ft. Worth Gazette.
Police circles are excited at Fort Worth
over covert charges made against certain
members of the force of Matchmaking, and
the matter has reached the county attor-
: ney, who says it shall be fully investi.
gated The specific charges are very
damaging, and to reporter city Official
stated yesterday that they were simply
outrageous. The facts are in possession
of the city marshal, and he will present
them to the city attorney. This matter
is the talk of the city and will be investiI
gated by the county authorities. The DO
lice conmittee of the city held a meetinf
yesterday, but it WAS secret one, an
nothing can be learned.