Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-07-20
TexasLetter.

EEIroR REPORTER. While reveling
DER the pine clad hills Of Mt Nebo,
and taking an occasional stroll to Ok
lahoma. thence visiting the cullioca
fonts of Iuka, ! must confess, open
confession being good for the soul,
that did not appreciate your paper.
the people or country. as it deserves.
After having travelled over six or eight
counties OF Texas, conversing with the
people, relative to the varied indus
tries OF the country; and viewing the
rolling prairies, grooming under fields
OF corn, cotton, wheat and oats, until
my eyes were sore. could but long
for a hill, or huge tree, such as one at
my we'll house, on which to rest my
weary brain. As l can only give a
synopsis of what have seen in short
sketch; I will confine myself to Hill
county. as our people are like sheep,
you know if one leaps into we'll they
will all follow, all trying to flock to
the same place.
We're to know, the people have
met, whom l knew in Tishoming. Col
bert and Franklin, don't think they
would fall short of 800. The aspect OF
the country, soil and climate are very
different from ours. Instead of being
confronted on all sides by dense for
ests. We behold the vast prairie, as far
as the eye can reach, slightly undulat-
ing. with occasional ravines. Hill
county is one solid corn, cotton, oats
and wheat field, with towns from five
to eight miles apart The soil, be-
tween the Trinity and the Brasas, is a
black, waxey land, as rich as heart
could wish. The thermometer has
been from SO to 100 for the last week,
yet the gulf breeze which blows from
south to north, from in the morning
until next morning daylight, renders
it more pleasant on the prairie. than
in the timber. It rs the finest country
for sleep you ever saw. feel like !
could almost take an Epimenides nap.
But don't let my wife know this; for
she has been fearful that I would in
jure myself sleeping, for some time.
She need not fatter herself that will
get out OF the way, without divorce;
for ! feel rejuvinated, fully 20 years.
That makes US the same age.
I have watched closely, the indus
tries of Texas, since have been here.
There is more old corn in Texas than
would do Mississippi five years. and
the present crop will make from 40 to
60 bushels per acre. Cd corn is 25
cts per bushel. The shuck Of the new
crop is yellow. Oats 16 cts per bushel
and wheat is 40. have walked around
after the threshers for miles during
the last two weeks. And oh! what a
lovely sight. to see the reapers and
binders, the oat and wheat threshers
and the corn shelters in operation.
The power moved by ten large mules,
and sometimes by steam, they look
like thing OF life. They fresh from
$500 to 5000 bushels OF oats Fer day,
from IL to 1900 bushels OF wheat per
day. 1t takes from four to six hands
to feed corn sheller-throwing it in
with large scoops, shuck and all.
People here waste more than would
do us in Tishomingo. They tell me
can pick up more corn after they have
gathered. than we make.
Of an evening the prairies'are aglow
with fires. burning the oat and wheat
straw, which our old COWS would rel
ish In the bleak, cold winters, as did
Lazeras the crumbs that fell from the
rich mans table.
Should you publish this scribbIing.
I'll tell you the difference between our
people and Texans. A. p. r.