The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-01-22

and thrifty at home, expressed Q1Sap-
pointment or discomfort at their success
Governor Bob Taylor to Fort Worth on
Tennessee day at the Spring Palace,
eighteen months ago, would be made
prouder of his old state by coming in
contact with the thousands of prosper
GUS Tennessee-Texans assembled
there. The TenneSsean who becomes
and runs back is like the
cayote wolf that fled from Leshia'S gate
at the slightest sound. He is lacking
the courage necessary to build up a
new home in new country, and the
energy and industry to maintain one at
home.
Trent is not so very far from Cole
man, scarcely one hundred miles,. but
it must be terrible place if the widest
of March winds prevail there all the
year round. If that be true, the how
ling mother that has Just swept that
shelterless plain, has likely blown
LeshIa and his new home back to old
Giles.
This is windy county; it is some
times disagreeably so; but these winds
have their advantages as well as incon-
yeniences. The soft southern breezes
of summer, modify the scorch1ng heat
of the sun and makes outdoor exercise
pleasant while the mercury registers
from 80 to 100 degrees in the shade.
Sun-stroke is unknown and the hottest
days that come finds the cowboy en-
gagged in the round-up-the hottest OF
All rational labor-the farmer at his &C
customed work and the pedestrian on
the streets without protection from the
sun. Then, the nights are always cool
and refreshing, and but Tor fear OF
frightening of the WHO DeasIs OF tne
the outside of his prairie home with the
heavans for his coVerlid and conscience
for his pillow, sleeping the sweet slum-
ber of the lust, and arise in the morning
refreshed and vigorous, gTsteInt 70 ms
That is how we ii nd ft in Coleman.
When one undertakes the discussion
of the merits and d6merlIs OF STATE
more than six times the area OF Ten
nessee, possessing every variety OF Gil
n1ate foRndI from the banks of the Ohio
to the shore of the gulf, he should know
what hs is talking or writing about.
Your Cuero, correspondents is a Moneys
and while he blows hot ana cold alter-
natelv, it seems that he has found the
-0fritter tree and honey pond" In De
Witt county; although, If We have TO
take his word for it, he earns all he gets
by. working his crop from January TO
January each year. rms Is soHletnlpe
new for Texas, when heretofore the
DeopIe were accused OF not WORKING
their crops at all, but it may apply to
De Witt county, or at least to that por-
ton of it where hogs and other animals
may run at large:
Hmm in De Witt county. II your cor
RESPONDENT means Hochheim, which Is
situated on the east side OF the Uuauac
lupe river in the Northeastern part OF
the county, it is fine section OF coun-
try-perhaps as good as any in the
State-but it is all under fence ana
there are no hogs running at large
there. 1t is an old and thickIy settled
locality embracing the rolling prar1e on
the waters of Cuero Mccoy and Brusky
hn f.lU UallAV.
ruling price of land there is above the
reach of the ordinary immigrant.
The "hogs at large" and the "gravel
roads'' are not found here, but may be
farther east amongst the mckory an1 ~
black jack ridges on the brakes OF
Sandy Fork and Irish and Chocolate
Creeks, country so poor that nothing
but razo-back hogs, goats, cayotes ana
Lizards can subSiSt. The region Is all
gravel, so it is likely that the roads are
gravel; but there are no gravel roads on
the rich praries of Texas, In De Wltt
county or anywhere else.
have no doubt that the gentlemen
named made good crops or corn anu
cotton in De Witt county, but since he
does not say what they made In Denton
or Dallas counties, comparison IS out OF
the question, But when we take INTO
consideration the fact these two eoun-
son Outstripped De Witt in population,
agricultural production and wealth, one
Would naturally conclude that they are
better counties.
While we may be permitted to doubt
that one hand worked and picked sew
enteen bales of cotton and cultivated
and gathered eight hundred bushels OF
corn. the assertion that there was no
| "laying by" but that it required from
January to January to cultivate anu
Gather q crop, is explained. And now
| let me stop right here to tell your read
ers that that is not the way we WORE
crops in Coleman county. Wheat Is
| soWn from September to November ano
| harvested in May and early part OF
| June. Barley and rye are sown either
| i'm fall or spring and harvested i'll June
oats is sown in February and harvested
! in June, Corn is planted in March anC
gathered in September. COTTON Is
planted all along from April to July
| ft is often planted on wheat land attel
| the wheat has been hauled up and the
| picking is generally over the hrst day
of December. The first crops OF mile
and sorghum are planted in April, th'
second in July and August. oorh II
laid by in May. So you see we do no
work fGthirteen months in the year" t.
raise crops in Coleman county; anC
then we are not confined to corn ant
cotton as they are of necessity IN ID
Witt. Our small grain crops which re
mnire the least labor are more protitab1
than either corn or cotton, Walie COTTON
the o0IV sure crop in De Witt, scarcel.
paws the cost of production, partlculari..
when one has to work from anuary q
January TO make IL, 81
The renter is not at the mercy OF tn
! landlord Gin Texasi both parties ar
bound by solemns obligatio W hioh the.
enter, into before work begins; But
y iiEa fhs Fentsr m Tennessee, place
/ bimseif at the mercy OF the esamerchanl
) This is aneyil which possibly will neye
Z be overcome until the renter pushe
{ ont and secures for himself chea
hom6iin Western Texas. q
3 Your Cuero correspondent repeats th
z assurance that he is not writing Ia th
J. Interest. of Immigration, and we al
J therefore hound to believe that ne n
which f. this moment being attempte
in De Witt county,
Success to the Herald and prosperii
q to ''Old Tennessee"
= " II. N. REAKLEY.