The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-02-27

part OF the State the mildest and mos
delightful Of any State in the Union
| EXECUTIVE OFFICE.
The Governor left yesterday morn
ing for Waco on important legal busi
ness.
STATE DEPARTMENT.
The following charters were filed il
the office of the Secretary of State yes
terday:
The Mitchell & Lewis Company
limited, of Wisconsin; capital stock
100000.
The Beaumont Printing ard Pub
fishing Company; capital stock, $40,
600. Incorporators: VIM. A. Fletcher
L. P. Ogden, E. D. Crazy, J. N. Gil
bert and VIM. Wiess.
The Pittsburg Lumber Company
capital stock, $1,000. Incorporators
J. E. Robinson, John A. Tapp and j
B. Greer.
CoMPTRoLLER'S DEPARTMENT.
Redemptions of bonds yesterday
were as follows: Oldham county
$4,000; Guadalupe county, $2500; Starr
county, $1,000.
Guadalupe county paid 1920 in
terest.
AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT..
The following from Commissioner
Fosters report will prove of interest
to horticultural visitors. Speaking of
Texas timber he says:
The area of timber in Texas is
much greater than it is generally sup
posed to be by persons not familiar
with the country. By many people
outside of the State it is regarded as a
vast treeless plain, but this, like many
other opinions of the State formed at
distance, is wide of the mark. In
the prairie region the bottoms along
the streams and ravines are skirted
with timber, and in most places there
is that happy admixture OF prairie and
timber land that so delights the heart
of the farmer. Besides this Eastern
and Southeastern Texas is covered
with a dense forest of fine timber,
nearly every variety grown
in the South. The report to this
shows that there are 3d.
537 1867 acres of timber land in the
State.
The "Cross Timbers" is the name
given to two irregular belts of timber
varying in width and entering the
State on the Red river on the north
and running in a southerly direction
across the prairie.
The "Lower Cross Timbers" run
from a point on Red river north of
in Cooke county, south to
the Brazos river in McLennan county,
a distance of about 1875 miles, and has
an average width of from 10 to Is
miles.
The Upper Cross Timbers" leaves
Red river at a point further west,
passing south through Montague
county at the lower edge of which it
divides, the eastern portion passing
south through Wise and Parker
counties to the Brazos river, the west
ern portion veering farther west and
south into Erath county.
The timber growth of the Cross
Timbers is principally post and black
Jack oaks. On the streams and low
ands ash, blackberry, pecan and cot
tonwood trees are found.
On the: gray sandhills in Eastern
Texas the timber growth is mainly
post and blackjack oaks. On
the black sandy land the timber is
OF the same kind but of more
perfect growth. The red lands are
covered with hickory, red and post
)aks, with few sweet and black gum>I
md elm trees interspersed.
In Newton, Jasper, Tyler, Orange
Hardin and parts of Sabine. Angelina,
Trinity, San Augustine, Nacogdoches,
Polk, San Jacinto, Shelby and Pamela
counties. long leaved pine grows in
great abundance.
Short leaved pine, interspersed with |
hickory and the various oaks, is found
rom Bowie county on the Red River
outh along the eastern edge of the
State finally merging into the long
eaved pine region. The area of the
,ineries both long and short leavet |
s estimated at 100000 acres, capa-
lie of producing 64,5S7, 100000 feet |
# merchantable lumber. Along the
treams, especially the larger ones,
Walnut and ash timber is abundant.
n the southern part of the State near
he Gulf and west bordering on the
,lains the live oak is a prominent
.rowth. 1t is found singly or in
Jumps on the prairies and in the
dyes of the bottoms.
The mesquite is tree found more
generally in Western Texas than any
ther. 1t is common growth on the
raj les. A prairie with growth of
6 to 8 years old resembles a
each orchard very much in appear
nee. The mesquite is a small,
crubby tree and produces a bean sim
ar in size and appearance to the
ommon cornfield bean. 1t is very
utritious and highly priced as food
,r horses and cattle. 1t has spread
,pidly over the prairies within the
st few years and now furnishes fire
God in many localities where few
oars 400 there was not a stick of any