The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-06-20
A BUDGET FROM BEAUMONT.
The Rice Crop Promises to Be d
Very Heavy One.
PRICES FOR 1T WILL BE VERY GOOD.
Celebration of the Fourth--SchOl-
arsliip Avards-Airship.

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mont when this years crop is harvested
and IL they do not come in contact with q
market controlled by few commission
merchants. brokers and several of the
larger mills. when their crop is disposed
Of they will possess a sufficient amount OF
| Uncle Sans circulating medium to pose as
authorities ON currency and monetary ques-
tons. This assertion is made because the
prospects for a bounsful crop of rice in
Jefferson county We're never more favorable
than this year The planting season was
not just as the farmer would have had 1t II
his wishes had been consulted and the
acreage Is therefore not so large as many
Of the planters wished, but the conditions
for growing could not have been better and
as result the seed sprouted profusely. the
plant is large, healthy and vigorous. and
n large crop is assured.
With the magnificent prospects of a
large yield also comes the news of assured
good prices. Foreign advices say that the
markets across the water are virtually de-
p.eted--in fact there is shortage in
stocks which this years foreign crop will
hardly supply Then, too, there is to be a
tariff on rice 1t will be effective by the
time the present American crop IS ready
for the market. and our republican friends,
as we'll as a number C: democratic rice
farmers give assurance that the tariff is q
certain preventive for the low price disease,
and If they be correct Jefferson county rice
should this year be sold in the field for 81
10 81 per sack.
But tariff discourse IS not the purpose
of this article. the intention being merely
10 call attention to the extent OF rice farm
ing in jefferson and its attractions AS a
revenue producer not for the government,
but for the horny handed son of toll. 1t is
unnecessary To Anticipate the henefcent eff
fects of the Mckinley. Dingley or any other
mans tariff 10 make rice farming attract
I've to the farmer who wants 10 till the soil
with profit. for last year, while there was
considerable doubt as to whether Mr. Nc
ktnley or Mr.. Bryan would be elected pres
ident. jefferson county rough rice sold
readily at SO to $3.50 per sack In estimate
Ing the value of this years crop last years
prices will be used as basis and IL the
Dingley bin raises this price the Jefferson
county farmer will be the winner and The
Post correspondent NH not complain.
So far as The Post correspondent has
been able to learn there are just forty per-
sens and firms engaged in rice farming In
this county. the total acreage In cultivation
being II go apportioned as follows:
Moore $50; Lowell. 600: Barton, 175;
King, l75; Suggs 100. Hebert Il Broussard.
1900: Stoddard Bros. 500; Murff Bros. $50;
Pipkn Il Wilbur. 800; GIL. 500: II. Denny.
100; Blevins. 200: W. Denny. 100; J, Denny,
100; Joseph HOPES, 500; Niterbo Bros,
1900: McAveal. hoo; FOX * Shoemaker.
500: Hebert & NaylorrSQ Caylor, 100;
Blanch 1926; Carson. 80: Green & Stengele.
500: Beckham. $50; A, Brousaard, 100; De-
Montrose so: Charles VIII, so; Turner
Bros. $50; Delaune. $50; Bussi, so; j. X.
PRICE 80: Ward, 100; Charles Price, so;
Day so: Smith, so; Landrum, us; Ca
rothcrs, 30: Franch, 40; Peterson. 200; Dun
Gle. zoo. Total acres. Ii ,l6o.
Experienced rice farmers inform The
Post CORRESPONDENT that under favorable
conditions fifteen sacks OF rice would not
be an extraordinary YIELD for an acre OF
jefferson county land. but as IT. is best TO
be conservative. the yield this year will be
estimated at only ten sacks to the acre.
This would give the county an aggregate
croD OF III GOO sacks. Last year before the
election and prospective tariff legislation
So per sack WAS regarded as cheap for the
average rice raised in this county, and as
suming that the prices will not go lower
under the vitaliaRng influence of protection,
II will be estimated that this years crop
wtll bring not less than 50 per sack, which
means that when harvested 1t viii be worth
S33l 500 in cash. This amount OF money is
realized from the labor on only forty farms
containing less than 1900 acres, aud would
be sS37O per capita If each farmer had titled
an equal amount of the land. AS has been
previously stated in these columns. II costs
farmer not mere than 81 per sack to raise,
mill and market rice. In other words, to
raise i'll 600 sacks of rice valued at not less
than $334. 500 1t cost the Jefferson county
farmer Sill 600. leaving a clear profit of
sos 200. prof.! OF over 200 per cent.
These figures look attractive, That is
the reason they are published. But they
viii bear investigation, and the probabli-
ties are that they will be found 10 be mod
est. jefferson county contains thousands
Of acres OF land that Ia susceptible to rice
growing that has not yet been touched by
a pillow II Is the same character OF land
that Is now producing beautifully. At
present II can be bought at s. to $40 per
acre. and 500 acres Of II win yield for
time to any man who has the means to put
1t in shape for raising rice,