Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-10-14
For the Herald and Tribune.
LETTER FROM TEXAS.

MISSOURI CITY, Texas, SEPT, 80 1896
The cold wave struck us Tuesday
night, %, and you ought to have seen
them putting on their coats and shiver-
ing, although the thermometer only
dropped to fifty nine, that is three de.
gress above temperate; it did pinch aw-
fully. The cotton worm has visited the
late cotton, and has stripped the leaves
entirely off of part of the cotton, but
they say that the balls that are on it
Will open yet. was out in the tim Der
land in Brazos Bottoms on the large
farm; the cotton was planted early and
looks fine. Some OF it is about eight
feet tall, but / noticed scarcity of
fruit. On this large cotton there is no
more balls than on the cotton four feet
tall on the prairie. A man near here
got his hand skinned and terribly lac
cerated yesterday in cotton gin; some
think it will have to be amputated,
INV Va Jul "eoV CltlZeu6 klOrmery OF
Missouri, Mr.. Waddell, sold his farm
OF 24O acres with house and barn to a
Mr. Chippy, of Illinois, for $4,000 per
acre. He. bought it two years ago at
$40, 80 you see, land is advancing in
price. 1t is. s.whispered around that Mr..
Waddell is 'goingto put up big hotel
here soon, as he has some lots, and Mr..
Chippy will bring his family by the
middle of October to take charge of the
farm. He left his son here TO take
charge of things while he is gone. He
says there are perhaps twenty five other
families that will come to the coast
country soon. If family comes here
with enough to start a team they can
come nearer paying for a farm in two
years than anywhere have ever been.
There are sections of land here in the
coast country with some improvements
10 sell at 80 per acre that any industri-
Gus man can make money on farming,
besides selling off part of it an advan-
ced price, as Mr.. Waddell did his, and
live like prince. You may ask if the
land is so good, why don t they hold on
to 1t? Speculation is ono cause, dis.
satisfaction another. There never was
a place that every man was satisfied,
ana some men never have ANYTHING
they won't sell if there is any money
made by selling, so the world wags.
Land is advancing in price every day,
there is SO much here to settle up, yet
that 1T can as yet be bought cheap in
some places. | am not intere in
the sale Of land, am no real estate
agent, but speak from my own personal
observation. If anyode wishes is ask
me any'questions about the climate.
ETC., and will address q
letter to box 365, Stafford, P. O., Fort
Bend County, Texas, enclosing two
stamps, l will answer such Just as
see it-no two men see alike. may
not tell it as some would, but will give
my own opinion. l heard novel way
'f building hog pen here. I've often {
'ead of burning corn for fuel, but here
n this prairie country they bale up
leap of hay, and sometimes it gets
iamaged so it is not fit for the market !
10 they make hog pens of hay bales.
There is great many railroads in
his coast country, SO no one can buy
and much over five miles from a sta
ion. Pears, strawberries, peaches,
weet potatoes, watermelons, cabbage, y
'eans and other vegetables do well and u
ome early don't see why this might u
lot be the garden spot of the South,
With all the railroad facilities at hand '
0 ship North, East or West. Hay is
hipped West, and vegetables North. II
'ery early hay is cut here all the time j
rom the first of May till the fifteenth Il
November. JACK RABBIT. g