The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-05-24


Fredericksburg and Comfort is
the obstacle that will consume
; most time. This cut will be sew
enty feet deep, but the benefits tc
accrue to San Antonio will be very
great, for the products of that
beautiful region must largely find
sale here at the metropolis of the
southwest. Their building ma
terial will be in demand, and
health and pleasure seekers will
find access from here to those
beautiful evergreen hills, a most
enjoyable convenience. The diff
ference in temperature is quite
astonishing.
Llano has already improved
rapidly, but her future looks bril-
liant. In 1870 her taxable values
were s563, 900; in 1889 it is S3,0OO,-
900.
In 1870 she had 1910 inhabi-
tants; now there are about 10000
people in the county.
In 1880 they had one gin and
mill, and now there are eighteen,
four of which are run by water,
and fourteen by steam. There are
four church buildings and fine
two-story educational building, in
which an excellent graded school
is kept. There are four teachers
and elocution and music are
taught In 1880 there was one
piano and now there are twenty.
1 visited an old Spanish Shaft"
situated on Dancer" mountain,
about eleven miles southeast of
Llano, and l have little doubt that
L discovered the source of supply
for all the bugs and crickets and
grand-daddy long legs disable in
all southwestern Texas. There
was enough in sight at the mouth
OF the cave to drown our electric
lights for a week. There are ira
ces there yet of the route by which
the miners trudged along down
the mountain to a place in the
creek a mile and a quarter away,
where they snelted the ore. In
the creek every now and then,
some one finds a bit of pure silver,
and in Llano / saw nine ounces of
pure unadulterated silver, which |
Mexican had brought in and ex-
changed for 50 worth of goods
San Antonio Express.
Sometimes people are led to in
quire, in a doubling manner, what
this particular section of Texas,
that is Comanche and adjacent
counties, is good for. Because no
gigantic bonanzas have as yet
been developed in the way of oil
wells, minerals and the like; be-
cause there are no great natural
water powers, as In Burnet for in
stance; because there is, in fact,
nothing in the apparent resources
of this country to produce wide
spread sensation; the impression
prevails to some extent among our
own people, that this section is
never destined to prosper and
grow in wealth like some districts
which they think have been more
highly favored by nature. Now
the fact is, that there is no portion
of Texas which offers greater in
ducenlents to thrifty, energetic
small farmers than this same sec
ton The day is rapidly coming
when the cheapness and variety of
feed viii make us among the fore
most in dairy products, in hog pro-
ducts, in fine stock of all kinds.
In no part of Texas can a greater
variety of crops be successfully
grown upon a small farm in the
same season. Corn is drug on
marke. at % cents; oats Is cents;
there Is wheat enough left of last
years short crop to bread the
county six months longer, and an
extra good crop now reddening;
hay Of all kinds, sorghum cane,
nlllet and red top clover, are
already proven successes; cotton
Yields as much per acre as in the {
coast valleys of the Brazos and {
Colorado rivers; fruits are abun- !
iant and prolific; potatoes and
other garden stuff are produced in t
unlimited quantities. Everything {
grows. Why should we want {
booms which turn out boomerangs l
and bonanzas which develop into {
'bust-ups?" Let us pursue the
even tenor of our way, encourage q
railroads and other improvements {
Tor cur benefit, stay with the coun- t
ny, and we shall in few years i
rival the blue grass regions of I
Kentucky.-Comanche Chief L
A Beatrice (Neb.,) gentleman
ias a white steer 6 feet high, IL
.eet Of heart girth, that measures }
10 feet from the base of his horns