San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-07-07
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
HIS EXPERIENCE IN EAST TEN
AS-STILL PINES FOR WEST
TEXAS, AND THE
ALAMO CITY.

On THE ROAD, July 2, 1900
have not forgotten my promise to give
the patient world description of my
travels through the jungles of East
Texas, but 1 have been so everlast.
ingly busy doing battle with those
interesting "animals," the "chiggers''
| and red bug, that to devote moment
| to any other cause seemed fatal to
| myself. I have scratched and cussed
and cussed and scratched, more than
the anti-Hogg men will be capable
of doing November next. After leav-
ing the Alamo City, a tour Of the b.
A. & A. P. was made to Corpus
Christi, and from the general express
sion Of farmers along the road, West
Texas will flow with milk and
honey, and the man with the
hoe will have pocket full of crooks"
this fall. I might tell you all
about the crops along this line, but
as could not tell good stand of
corn from beer stand l refrain.
After taking an annual" in the
bay at Corpus Christi Millions
were pointed out to me within my
reach, If 1 would only invest few of
my spare dollars in Corpus Christi
dirt. BY the way, have you ever dis
tinguished anything about my gen.
eraI make up that would lead one to
believe that / was related to the
Goulds or Astors? Real estate men
must have discovered my secret
wealth, for I was shown very cheap
$4,000 cash property, on which l
could double my money in sixty days,
when a ten-dollar william in my in
side pocket would have filled a long
felt want. But l ramble, / am trying to
lead up to East Texas, but my heart
is so welded to West Texas that
1 am 10th to realize my surroundings,
and come down to those "chiggers"
and seed ticks, l cannot understand
why they are called "seed-ticks,n
for / can assure you that none of the
seed will be allowed to grow on this
carcass as large as "tick's" If an
active warfare will prevent it.
The fiourishing towns of Beeville,
Runge, Yoakum and Hallettsville
were visited on my tour, then a run
into Houston, after lay over of
night and a good breath from the
Buffalo Bayou, II am Informed that
the buffalo are about extinct in this
country, and one would Judge from
the aroma that arises from this
limpid stream, that the dear de-
parted" had been dumped into it.
l am not we'll enough posted to state
whether or not this was how the
name was derived). But to resume.
Passage was procured over the Hous-
ton East aud West Texas R'y. to
Livingston in the head of
the ''piney woods" The sur
rounding country does not favorably
impress me. There is more Hogg and
less hominy, more lumber and less
houses, more chiggers and seed-ticks
than any part of the empire state.
What on the face If the earth a man
wants to stay in this country and par
boil for, when the Golden Argosy,
west Texas, is so easily reached is be-
yond the writer's comprehension.
After a short stay in Livingston a
freight train was mounted and Luf-
kin reached. By the way, right here
must be men toned the genial road
master Burk, who has charge Of the
first division of the H. E. & w. II. Ry.,
and a better or more practical rail-
road man never superintended rail-
road. Fully alive TO the interests of
his people a ride on his division is a
pleasure. Roadmasssr Burk is not
only railroad man in every sense
of the word, but most excellent
gentleman.
Railroad people have the warEest
place in the heart of your correspon-
dent, and why not? Did not the con-
ductor on the freight the other night
give up his cot in the caboose to me,
and had fine nap while enroute.
Reaching Lufkin a junction of the H.
f. & w. Texas and The Texas and st.
Louis, Narrow gauge railway stop
was made, and hotter place there is
not on the face of earth. No wonder
the people are not ambitious, and I'M
like Caesar the people will never be
slain for their ambition. would not
"swap" corner lot in San Antonio
for the whole of this section and be
compelled TO reside here. A run was
made from Lufkin to. Nacogdoches,
which is one of the best towns In this
section, supporting as it does three
three papers. The country around
this place is quite extensively
cultivated and am informed is fairly
productive. But the crops to me
seem far behind West Texas. The
whole town, when 1 arrived, had
turned out to hunt the convicts who
had made their escape from a stock
ade few miles west of here, of which
your dispatches have noted.
To-day a large picnic was held
about three miles east of the town
and, strange to say, candidates were