The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1891-10-28
PEcos. Texas. Oct. Is. IS

i PEcOsi Texas, Oct Is, 1891.
Elitors of PORT GIBsOS REyEuIE:
When far away from home we fee
more attached than ever 10 friends for
whom we feel an interest, therefore |
feel | eau say something Of interest TO
the young men of old Claiborne who
contemplate a change of location in
seeking a fortune more easily made,
and more sure than cOttOn-planiing.
This NJ first sight is a country not
calculated to captivate the stranger, MS
they here have tO dig both wool aud
wafer out Of the GROUND. There is no
timber or forest land in this great val
ley, which is about three hundred
mics long by sixty wide, the most Of
which is said to be of superior quality.
In this immediate section il is a sandy
loan, yielding easily TO the pl0w, and
producing wonderful crops with but
little labor. The only growth is mes
quit bushes from five to ten feet high,
from winch all the fre-wOod comes.
the roots only being used. The cost
of grubbin9 Of this land on an aver
age is about five dollars per acre. The
cost of land varies much in price, from
three dollars per acre TO twenty dol
lars. unimproved. Improved land,
with the needed houses aud say about
from forty to one hundred acres in cul-
tiyatOn (in hundred and sixty acre
irac) would bI ing a price high up IN
the thousands, and all this can be ac-
cOmphished in very short time by
energy and industry. Many young
men who came to this valley within
the past five or six years with little or
no capital. by locating a homestead are
now OIL the rOad to wealth aud case !;
aud to prove This will give few fig
ures that must convince the most i'm
credulOus, that this is the promised
laud for The boys OF nerve and muscle,
Alfalfa is the great hay producer of
this country; il is cut five times a year,
producing from one and halt TO two
tons pel acre at each cutting, for con-
Yenience will say eight tons per acre
per year. IL is now selling at $1,000
per ton. You can readily sec the pro-
tit looming up. The cost Of this is as
follows; the land being taken up ms n
homestead costs really nothing, the on
ly requirement is TO file your applica-
tiOn aud make an improvement worth
Sl00-ihe first year aud remain cOntin-
uJusly for three years and n patent is
then issued by the staie-s0 much for
q legal possession OF The land. The grub
hing costs S5 90 per acre on an aver
age, the wafer privilege costs $3.50 |
per acre for all land irrigation. This
becomes fixture aud goes with the |
land for all time 10 come and is only |
paid once. Alter the first year a tax
of one dollar per acre a year is payable
TO the water company for the purpose
Oi keeping up repairs. This constitutes
tie cost except fencing which is not
very expensive, rs they have a stock |
law. After The alfalfa is sOwn, which
costs about $500 per acre, Il stands
for many years with only the cost of
cutting and baling.
But what lays alfalfa aud all other
products in the shade is onions. was
On farm a few days since aud saw a
,rop OF onions being gathered, the flu
sst have ever seen, the product of
which | was told was about eight hun
lrcd bushels to the acre. They retail
IN the market az seven cents per pound,
put by the car load from three 10 four
,ents. Now make your calculation.
md you will wonder why everybody
lOesn't raise onions. II Is certain
Iure crop to net $1,000 per acre. The
lext comes grapes aud in the naar fu-
.ure pecans, each of which will net
rom four to six hundred dollars per
Icre. And in fact everything you put
nto the ground yields most abundant
y. The secret of all this is irrigation
llways plenty OF water aud never too
much. There arc now four companies
this valley, aud ms Others arc
leeded they will bo on hand. Is Is
system when needed, opch