The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-07-16
TEXAS
FLORESVILLE. THE COUNTY
SEAT OF WILSON COUNTY.
Situated in the Midst of Fine Agricultural
Lands-Preat Inducements offered
to Actual ettlers.

Wilson county is bou ded north by
BeXar and Guadalupe counties, and
has an area of 800 square miles, or
5l2, 900 acres of as fine agricultural
lands as can be found in the state.
The San Antonio river and
Cibllo creek, running streams
of clear water, flow through
the county from northwest
to southeast and divide it into nearly
three equal parts. There are also a
number of smaller streams which add
greatly to the water supply.
Away from these streams water is
easily obtained from wells at an aver
age depth of sixty f, ct. In addition,
the soil and lay of the land renders it
easy to make tanks. On the Cibilo,
near Switzerland Springs a town of
100 inhabitants, are springs, one black
sulphur, another white sulphur,
another sour, that are favorite
resort during the summer months of
people from neighboring counties,
and are highly recommended for their
medical properties in the cure of many
diseases.
The county is traversed by one rail
road-tht san Antonio and Arkansas
Pass, whitu connects at San Antonio
(only twenty miles from Foresville)
with railroads to Mexico, California
and to the North and East. Reaches
the gulf coast at Corpus Christi, and
has a branch crossing the Sunset
railroad at Eagle Lake, and the Gulf
Colorado and Santa Fe railroad at
Wallis and extending on to Houston,
thus connecting Floresville and Will
son county with all the important sea
port towns and all points of the world.
About one-fourth of the county is
mesquite land, one half of it red and
black sandy and the remainder bottom
aud white sandy land. The land is
sufficiently undulatlng to carry off all
surface water readily.
Bottom lands, that is, the low lands
next to the rivers and creeks, have
like the mesquite lands, black and
sometimes shelly soil of inexhaustable
fertility. Fields that have been in Gull
tivation for forty years yield today just
as much as ever. The lands of Wilson
county are adapted to the production
of cotton, corn, wheat, oats, rye, mil
let, barley and SORGHUM, two crops a
year of oats, millet and sorghum being
often made.
Peaches, plums, watermelons, musk
melons, pumpkins, kershaws, pota.
toes, peas beans, peanuts, grapes, in
fact all kinds of fruits and vegetables
grow luxuriantly here. The yield per
acre is as follows: Bottom "a to |
bale; corn 30 to 90 bushels; sweet pota-
toes 100 to 1870 bushels; Irish potatoes
70 to 100 bushels, and peas 70 to 100
bushels. The people inform me that
q great advantage they have over
those who live north of here is that in
five years out of seven they can grow
cabbages, beets, onions, lettuce, tur-
nips, mustard and English peas
through the winter without danger of
cold severe enough to kill them. Frost
seldom reaches below the surface OF
the ground.
The growing timber of the county
consists of post oak, blackjack, live
oak, blackberry. boX-elder, elm, cot
sycamore, hickey, mesquite,
pecan and ash and is about equally
atfording ample tlnber
and fuel for all necessary purposes.
In every community there is a school
house, agin ard grist mill and in many
of them comiol table churches. The
people are law abiding and welcome
all good people that desire to come
and settle in their midst and will aid
them in securing good homes and in
any way they can.
FloresvIlle, the county seat of Will
son county, is situated 20 miles south
of San Antonio on the Arkansas Pass
railway and has a population of 1900
or 1000 people. Iii situated on a gently
rolling hill atfording perfect drainage
for the whole town. The prevailing
wind is from the Southwest, directly
off the Gulf of Mexico, which renders
the days pleasant and the nights de-
lightful for sound refreshing sleep.
The following are few of the most
prominent and progressive business
men of the city, and who are willing
to aid all good people in securing
homes, and who will take pleasure in
answering any inquiries in reference
to their town or county.
Messrs. hurry & King, dealers in
general merchandise and all kinds of
farmers supplies, ETC.; Baugh & Hous-
ton, dealers in lumber and all kinds OF
builders hardware; Warren Bros,
cDnfectioners and dealers in general
MERCHANDISE; Wassennich u Cham
bers, dealers in general mer-
chandise and all kinds of
farmers supplies; Harrington &
Warren, dealers in general merchandise
wagons, buggies and all kinds OF farm,
ing implements.
Q. Selig, dealer in general merchan-
disc and farmers supplies.
Samuel Hassel, livery, feed and sale
stable.
Policy and Lopas, real estate
agents, and who have a
complete abstract of the lands of Will
son county, N. 6. Pickett, Jr, who owns
large quantities of land, and informs
me that he will sell in tracts to suit
purchasers and on easy terms.
Escaped From Jail.
BoNHAM, Tex, Ju'y 13.-J. Gal
braith was sentenced to four years in