The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1894-06-20
Trip to Texas.

MEssRs. EDITORS: Anderson County
was pretty we'll represented at the South
ern Baptist Convention which met in
Dallas, Texas, May 10th.
Very reasonable rates wore given by
the railroads and many people, not Bap
lists, took advantage Of the occasion to
visit the great State of Texas, and Incl.
dentally their friends and kin. Between
fifteen and twenty left Anderson on the
morning of the Sth May over the Savan-
nah Valley R. r. They had several hours
to spend in Atlanta, the metropolis OF the
South. From Atlanta they went over
the Atlanta and West Point and l.. &. N.
Railroads to New Orleans, and thence
over the #. & p. r. r. to Dallas, reach
ing there for breakfast Thursday morn-
ing, being on the road from Anderson to
Dallas just torty-eight hours, including
the stop in Atlanta.
To most of our party it was their first
trip west of the "Father of Waters" and
hence the reader can perhaps imagine
what interest we felt as we rushed for
ward on what the Indians call the 'Snake
Wagon" AS we pulled into Mobile,
Ala, on Wednesday morning express
sions of delight at the sight Of Mobile
Bay and the vessels seen thereon were
heard from every one. Leaving Mobile,
the Gulf of Mexico, its arms and bays
were visible at almost every point to
New Orleans. Bay st. Louis furnished
the grandest view seen along the route.
In New Orleans our car, which ran
through Atlanta to Dallas without change,
was run into steamer and thus carried
across the Mississippi River. Along the
streets of New Orleans several orange
trees were seen with ripe fruit on them.
While in Dallas attending the Conven.
ton we met many gudnddln South Caro-
linians. Among them We might mention
BENZ. Carpenter, Eirod, Revs. M. Gas
saway, Vermillion, w. Henry Lewis,
ESQ. In eastern Texas we met Messrs.
John Young and several Of his brothers,
A. F. Alewine, J. D. Wardlaw, and at
Te1arkanna we met DR.. John Brown,
specialist, who has the treatment of the
eye and ear for his speciality. He is be-
coming very popular and has attained 10
prominence in his profession.
Mr.. w. Henry Lewis above mentioned
is an Anderson County man. He was
for several years sheriff of Dallas Co.,
Texas, but is now in the Real Estate bus
mess in Dallas, and has gathered about
him sufficiency of the worlds goods to
supply his needs. He is always glad to
see people from his native County and
spares no efforts to make them enjoy
stop in Dallas. If you expect to 60 West
to hunt home, it would be we'll to write
him at Dallas, Texas, for a list of the
lands he has for sale.
DR.. Watson has, to use his own words,
"some little farming interest in the
Southern portion of his (Ellis) County.
That little farming interest we learned
from others consists of one thousand
acrss of that best black land of Ellis
County, Texas, all in cultivation In one
body. The DR.. was so modest as not to
mention the extent of his "little farming
interost."
The writer visited Sewer County, Ar
kansas, where he met many South Caro-
linians. Among them were DR.. Z. M.
Brown, formerly of Bolton, Thomas
Watt, who moved from Rock Mills last
winter, A. G.. Nardlaw, who went from
Broadway Township, Mr.. VIM. Jones,
who moved from near the line between
Anderson and Pickens Counties about
twenty years ago. ALL Of them express
satisfaction at their move Westward.
The West has its advantages and disad-
vansages. It is capable of such wonder
full development. The land is generally
very fertile.
Labor is higher there than here, and
Notwithstanding all this and moro that
might be said, they have "the poor with
thern."
The western border OF Arkansas offers
now probably the best field for settle
ment to the home seeker. Land is cheap,
water, plentiful and good, and the health
about as in this County.
The most beautiful farming country
we saw was the sugar aud rice farms of
Louisiana. The run from Mobile to
Shreveport furnishes enough to pay for
the trip. Since life consists of "corres-
pondeuoe with environment" every one
should enlarge life by corresponding
with more environments.
Mr.. David s. Vandiver, of the firm Of
Brewnlee d Vandivers, would have been
convinced by his trip that the world was
fiat, but for the Gulf of Mexico. He says
now, if the earth is not round why does
the gulf look so much like a mountain of
water rolled back in the distance. Every
one came home pleased with the trip and
delighted that they went the lower route
by New Orleans. Some Of the party
wished that the tickets had been good for
three months instead of thirty days.
An excursion will be run about the
first of August to all points west of the
Mississippi, and any who can spare the
lime and money will not regret taking
the trip, ONE OF THEM.