The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-03-15
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A cotton compress will probably be
uilt at Terrell during this year.
Tie lew national bank of Taylor now
has a full directory, and will be ready for
business within thirty days.
Workmen excavating lot in Tyler
struck vein of tar embedded in a solid
rock. Its origin is mystery.
The Texas Traffic association will hold
its next meeting in Washington, D. c., on
the third Monday in March, to confer with
the steamship companies.
The necessary survey for water works
at Greenville has been com pleted, and the
plans and specifications are to be pre-
pared at once.
Collingsworth county, one of the new
counties of the Panhandle, is said to be
filling up rapidly. Already, school houses
are being built in the various settle
ments.
The handsome new court house of Rains
county, at Emory, is already in an almost
untenable condition. The floor and cell
ing are warped and rotting, and the roof
leaking.
The city council of Carksville is con-
sidering an ordinance which requires that
sidewalks be built in that city, and the
Standard pleads with the city fathers to
to proceed in a hurry.
Last year large number of people left
Kaufman county for Washington Terri
tory. Recently quite a number of the
party returned to their old home, dis
gusted with the far northwest.
The Eagle Springs coal mines near Ell
Paso were sold Thursday for $4,000, with
a cash payment of $4,000. This sale and
the facts in connection with it make it a
matter of incalculable Importance to Ell
Paso.
The Luling signal states that two Con
zales county farmers realized, from twenty
acres planted in sorghum last year, 1000
gallons of syrup, which they sold at 40
cents gallon, and 700 bushels of seed,
which they marketed at 81 per bushel.
There never was such demand in this
section for a diversity of seed for plant
ing. No farmer thinks of depending this
year upon one or two crops, but desires to
plant seeds of almost every different kind
to provide against a probable failure.
This is as it should be.-San Saba News.
Several thousands of trees will be set
out in Wheeler county this spring, but
there is room for thousands that will not
be set out. Comfort and cash value can.
not be as surely added to place in any
other way, and the money cost of them
ranges between insignificant and nothing.
Texas Panhandle.
1t looks as if there would be no special
session of the Legislature. There may be
some reason for calling one, but it is not
great enough to warrant the inhictiou.
Only where some dire calamity could be
aYerted by a congregation of the law
makers would Governor Ross invoke their
aid.-Dallas Times-Herald.
A. j. Baker, lawyer of San Antonio, is
now in Washington looking into a claim,
which L. B. Harris, prominent stock man,
has against the government for 100000,
claimed to have been lost through the
stealing of cattle by Mexican depreda
tions in southern Texas during the years
1872 and 1878.
The immigration movement appears to
be succeeding well in Western Texas,
while here IN the east very little is being
done. We need people as much as the
west does, and people need this section of
Texas much more than they do in the
west. What we need to do is to convince
them that this is so.-Tyler Democrat and
Reporter.
The committees cauvassing San Antonio
for the sale of stock of the San Antonio
Baseball association, report encouraging
progress, about $4,000 of the stock having
been disposed of. Before San Antonio
can secure a position in the Texas league,
$4,000 will be necessary to properly equip
q team, and it is believed that this amount
will be raised in a few days.
Eagle Springs, from the vicinity of
which FL Psso will probably get its first
cheap coal, was, some ten years ago, the
scene of many hard fought battles between
the Comanches, who made their last stand
there, and the advancing tide of American
immigration. Col. Geo. W. Baylor, of Ell
Paso, led his Texas rangers into many
lively brush with the willy foe in that vi |
cinity.-El Paso Tribune.
The trains coming in over the Southern |
Pacific railroad show conclusively. by the |
character of the passengers whom they |
contain. that the climax of the southern !
California bubble has been reached, and |
that the reaction has set in. People are |
beginning to GO away from San Diego |
and Los Angeles, instead of 9rowding |
into those places.-El Psso Tribune.