Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1897-02-24

There ~ quite little SUIT III rear es'
tate at Cuero as the bright weather
opens. Business is very good and many
strangers on the streets.
Every day brings strange faces tc
Victoria, people coming to see this sec
tlon of the coast country. The land
agents are kept busy
The saw mill and planning mill at Bar
mum is now running on full time, and
the prospect for the lumber business
seems to be more encouraging than for
some time past.
The Taylor Water and Ice company
received from the manufacturers in st.
Louis mammoth steel boiler with
which to drive its matchinery at this
point. The boiler Is Of 150-horse power
and weights $4,000 pounds.
Karnes county farmers are now very
busy trying to catch up with their work.
With two more weeks of good weather
they will he finished blowing. Corn
Planting has commenced in some parts
OF the county.
The Southwest Texas Railroad COM
pany, with capital stock of $3.50 900,
and whose charter was filed with the
secretary of state at Austin last week,
will prove a big thing for Southwest
Texas If the plans of the company are
carried out.
The weather of Bell county has
cleared up and the farmers are getting
ready for planting. Some of them
had to pillow up some of their fall
LII II tIn
Most of them are through planting the
spring oat crop.
Farmers in Polk county have done
very little toward making another crops
owing to the recent dsagreeable wea-
Their, their work being at Il standstill.
Cattle have suffered very much on the
range. but so far very few are reported
as having died.
Trinity has received 1915 bales Of cot
ton this season. The receipts same
date last year We're 1901. One hundred
and fifty bales more are expected,
which will leave the crop of 1896 %
per cent short of the crop of 1895.
The telephone line from Cuero was
completed to Germantown Monday
evening. 1t connects Germantown
,.,.,, To- A,rio+o,.io Ia Doieip ON
+1,o Sor+born oocif,c and mako CON
,,,+ios, ,,,i+h o,o+l,or +o1onbone limo n,
tho A,orsos poss roiIrood ot Cuero.
r,h,o 700 on. f,,. +ba noet two DAVIS in
rroyo,,ta .county, has been all that could
be asked The soil is rapidly drying out,
and next week gardeners will com
n,crce thni,. s1tinr planting i'm earnest,
what militia nlantinr that has been done
has hoen hndly set back by the We
weather.
1rbo,,o is q great deal more land
,,,r,T.od tybon usnal for the time of the
ven, in R,7rleson county and farmers
generallv are further advanced in theii
work than is usual for this season. \
big acreage of corn is anticipated. The
weather lis fine and everybody is hope.
full of good crops
This week has been fine for gardening
in Washington county and some of the
farmers have commenced planting
corn. Owing to the short crop of last
wear there has been about forty carloads
of corn shipped here. There have been
SO many cattle buyers at Chappell Hill
that they have about exhausted the
market
The Fort Bend county commissioners
are engaged ut present III one Oi 'iie
NEST iaporious sessioiis ~ mas ever n''.i
Now roads are oellSg iala GU. In 'arious
sections OF uhe county ana p-a'l,s ior
securing an adequate water supply lor
the new jail whlch Is nearly coiiipieteu'
are now being discussed.