Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1892-09-01
AFFAIRS OUT IN TEXAS.
AN EDGEFIELDIAN, OUT
IN#TEXA:S, WRITES
A LONG AND INTERESTING LETTER
r FROM THE LONE STAR STATE.
THE, LOW PRICE OF SMALL GRAIN,
The Crops on the Route and
Politics in Texas-Read it and
Profit Thereby.

Mr.. EDITOR: On the 3rd day of
August I-took the-train inAugusta,
Ca, forgKosse, Texas. !!
The crops along the road to At
lanta are sorry, and were badly
cultivated. Cotton and corn will
average about two-thirds of a
crop.
arrived in Atlanta about 2 p.
M, and found the place a live one.
The people are full Of energy and
enterprise. There are a great many
fine buildings in the city, and
others are going up. I went to the
State. House. and strolled over the
grounds and through the building,
which one beautiful, well furnished
and pleasing to the eye. l went
to the top of the building, which
is two hundred and twelve feet
high, and there I had a bird's-eye
view Of the city, which was very
pretty. Men walking the streets
looked about the size of half
grown boys.
The next morning 1 took the
train by way of Memphis, and the
crops to the Tennessee line are q
little better than those had passed
through. This line of the road
goes through mountainous
country. I travelled through three
tunnels, where it was as dark as
midnight.
The crops through Tennessee are
some better than those in Georgia,
and in some portions of the State
the land is fine. A great deal of
clover, wheat, and oats are raised
here, also corn, but the farmers
plant the corn entirely toe thick,
even in the poorest lands. saw
corn in this State just as poor as
any 1 ever saw in South Carolina.
| I consider the farmers here poor
managers, that is most of them.
At Memphis I crossed the Mis-
sissippi river over into Arkansas,
on the grandest bridge I ever saw.
One mile of it is iron. The abut-
ment is two miles long, and the
railroad was forty milea through
the swamp on the Arkansas side.
There are a few settlements in the
swamp, and the houses are set on
blocks FIVE and six feet high. This
year the swamp was all oyer-fowed
with water from the Mississippi
river,and the crops all destroyed.
I heard a man on the train say he
commenced planting over his cot
ton the 26th of June, but he did
not expect to make much
I was awfully disappointed in
the State. I travelled through 200
miles of it, and found the land
generally poor. Most of the land
lis low and flat. Now and then ]
saw some land that was very fine,
which produced we'll, but the crop
in Arkansas is not as good as in
South Carolina, l saw great
deal of corn and cotton here just
as sorry as any I ever saw any
where else.
When I got into Texas l saw
someland that was also poor, and
the crops were poor, but there if
no mistake about Texas being gen
orally good country. All around
Kosse the lands are fine prairies
and produce fine corn, cotton
; wheat, and oats, and there is plenty
of land here that will make bale
of cotton to the acre, and twenty
five bushels of corn to the acre
Neither fertilizer nor any kind o.
manure is used on the land around
this place, it is little sandy anc
, it is more level, and the area Of
level lands is much larger than the
,, ridge lands between Johnston ane
the Ridge. There are no rocks
stumps, or roots to contend with
and the lands here don't wash
away when hard rains fall. l have
not yet seen ditch or terrace il
this country to keep the lands
from washing away. The corn here
, is fine, but the cotton is injured
by dry weather.
5 Farmers here can make crol
with one working less than we cal
in South Carolina, as the crops
grow off faster.
Kosse is nice little town with
: about 1000 inhabitants, situated
i on the railroad.
E DR.. B. F. QUITS, an Edgefelc
!: man, came to this place twenty-five