The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-03-17
VISIT TO SABINE PASS
GENERAL GARRISON DELIGHTEL'
WITH THE COUNTRY.
Sees Great Possibilities for the Port
and for Nebraska in ENchnnS-
ing Lumber for Corn.

Beaumont Texas. March 16.-General ].
S. GARRISON. commander OF the Grand
Army of the Republic, spent today in
Southeast Texas as the guest OF Judge W.
l.. Parkinson. general agent of the Sabine
Land and Improvement company. The
general arrived this morning, and, accom-
panied by party. which included Messrs.
Lewis a. Baker and Frank j. SAKE. extern
sive lumber manufacturers, with headquar
tiers in New York. visited Sabine Pass, and
made a trip out to the ietties, returning to
Beaumont tonight via Port Arthur
This is General Clarksons first visit to
Texas and he expresses himself as delight
fully surprised with Beaumont and Sabine
Pass.
People in the Northwest do not realize
what this Texas country is said the gem
eral to The Post correspondent after his
trip out to the ietties at Sabine Pass. I'VE
have heard considerable about Sabine Pass
and its possibilities as a deep water port,
but until | made this trip | was under
the impression that 1t low, marshy
country. over which the gulf swept at every
unusually high tide and the principal
avocation of the inhabitants was to strug
gle with the chills and fever. You may
well imagine my surprise when the train
IulItu up 10 Tue utpOt ana saw u cTOWu
OF healthy. robust men assembled and high
dry land famed by most exhilarating and
healthful breeze from the gulf.
Il was also favorably impressed with
the natural advantages of Sabine Pass as
deep water port. The harbor Is COM
pletely landlocked. Is easy Of access and. |
am told that deep water across the bar is
an established fact ] was particularly in.
terested in the water facilities at Sabine
fNt-t . oil. AID Fl
natural outlet for the products of our fields
Last year Nebraska produced 400. 900, 900
bushels of corn the larger portion of which
would be exported If freight rates we're
favorable. With Sabine Pass as the ex-
porting point, freight trains will come from
Nebraska loaded with wheat and corn and
return loaded with lumber. This will give
lead both ways and consequently cheaper
rates both to the farmer and the lumber
manufacturer.
81 regard this az entirely a new coun-
try in point of development and think its
future is exceptionally bright. Yes you
can say that my visit to Beaumont and
Sabine Pass has been pleasant and I re-
gard it as a desirable point either for the
man seeking an investment or the one
looking fo- home.
The general remained In Beaumont to-
night and talked with several of the old
Confederate veterans of Beaumont. On the
trip out to the iettes today he was shown
the old mud fort from which Dick Bowling
and his little band cleaned out fleet Of
Federal gunboats. and he was given an
opportunity to inspect the Clifton, a gun
boat that bowling captured from the Fed
erals and afterwards wrecked. He re-
NAMED In Beaumont tonight. but leaves
tomorrow morning to visit relatives in
California.
Messrs. Baker and Sake the New York
lumbermen, also expressed themselves as
pleased with Sabine Pass and say that 1t
is an ideal lumber exporting point.