Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1897-11-10

ana oysters CONTINUES 10 equal, IL NOT
exceed, the supply.
At West Point, Fayette county there
is fine pecan crop. The pecans are fall
ing and are being gathered.
Several prospectors are at. Alvin This
week and the real estate men are
looking for revival of business.
Since the rains the truck farmers
around Hitchcock have been very busy
planting their vegetable crop for fall
and winter.
During the past ninety days over
thirty-five new buildings have been
erected in the town of Canada, and
about seven are now under constitute
tion.
There was light frost in low or
swampy places throughout Milan
county last week. 1t was so Light as to
harly affect the cotton bolls, but heavy
enough to kill tender vines. 1t will
stunt or kill sweet potato vines. The
frost is regarded as a great blessing
from n sanitary point.
The epidemic that has been killing
horses in other sections of the state
has reached Rockport, eleven horses
dying at the Trips settlement on the
Both from the effects of it. 1t is re-
ported as bad in San Patricio county.
Stockmen are very much alarmed, as
they know of no way of checking the
disease.
Fayette county rice farmers around
Orange are busily engaged cutting and
ln1 In tn nj
baling their hay. There is no finer
forage made for horses and cattle than
the tender straw and half grown heads
Of grain. 1t will effect great saving
in corn, oats and hay.
The truck growers of the Corpus
Christi section are still working with
the railroad company to secure n fast
freight and refrigerator car service to
northern markets. AS result on Sat
urday, November 10, there will be an
other meeting held at Corpus Christi
of the gardeners of Aransas, Bee. San
Patracio and Nueces counties, and ad-
ditional plans will be formulated to
lay before the railroad company.
The Sabine Land and Improvement
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erect cotton sheds, etc, at slip No.
with a view of handling cotton through
Sabine Pass this fall Messrs Donald
Il Co of Mobile expect TO have atsteam-
Ell in here some time next mouth if The
proper facilities are furnished, ana
other brokers have signliicd willing
ness to handle cotton here also in the
near future.
\ meeting of the directors of The
Taylor board of trade will DE held
Tuesday, November 2. which all far
mers and landowners of Williamson
county are invited to attend and dis
cuss the feasibility of planting a pro
portlonate number of acres in wheat
for next years crop. The movement;
is brought about on account of Tie
present low price of cotton.
The Green-Stcngle Irrigation com
pany, which recently procured its
charter from Austin, is the beginning
of scheme that If carried to a sue
cessful end land there is no reason
to think otherwisel, will be of as much
benefit and enrich the country around
Beaumont as much as any of the nu-
merous railroads row in contemplation
headed in this direction. At present
there are thousands of acres of land
off to the southwest of Beaumont that
are almost perfectly level and would
be most excellent rice lands but for
the fact that during the hot sum
mer months it is impossible to obtain
the necessary water to keep the plant
fioulishing and in a productive state.
The newly organized company pro
poses to dig irrigation canals through
this land and put in all the necessary
pumps to keep water of as much as
is necessary. 1t has been shown this
year, even with the extremely dry
summer and the ravaging storm, how
immensely profitable rice culture is,
mud while the plan as proposed viii
take considerable money, the returns
will come rapidly in. Mr.. w. W. Green
enc Of the incorporators, is an energetic
rice farmer who is thoroughly familiar
with rice culture in all its phases While
Miss Jeanette Stengle, a successful
business woman of Beaumont and also
rice farmer, is another one of those
interested in the carrying through of
the new company.
Good rains have fallen this week
at West Point. The ground is in con
dtlon for fall blowing. Stock water i
plentiful at last. Yearlirgs are selling
here for $3.50 per head.
At Yoakum, Dewitt county, splen
did rains have fallen and the outlook
is bright and encouraging The town
is enjoying continual and substan-
tlal growth and indications point to the