The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-11-22
WITH THE PASSING THRONG.

Mr.. Adckes states that business conditions
/, in Walker county are better than they
have been for many years. our cotton
CROP said Mr.. Adickes, will turn out
about the same as last years yield. That
section seems to have been unusually ia
vored this season, and while the yield was
cut short nearly everywhere else the crop
OF Walker and adjoining counties was
equal to the average OF past years IL was
all planted with the expectation OF getting
only Alp to cents per pound for the
staple. Instead of this the farmers have
secured S-4d7 cents, and OF course they
are happy and prosperous. The mercha'tS
are doing a good business, and the iarin-
ers have paid off debts that uaa peei
standinE In some instances, Tor seNerai
wears They are buying things that they
have heretofore considered luSurics such
as furniture, sewing machines, matHhss'
etc No one who has not been among
them can understand how much q" peV
cent increase in the price OF cotton meens
( to the farmers of this state fNe-ceu'
cotton had made them do withou. h."hy
actual necessities, and they had peeh
forced lo live upon very little. indoaG.
Now they are buying new clothes, new
household goods and new farming utensils
This naturally makes better business IN an
lines and every one is feeling jubliant'
"Ail this talk about cotton being held
back IL the veriest nonsense. What does
a farmer want 10 hold cotton for when ne
was expecting cents and is onered a.
I am satisfied that the crop has been mar
keted with unusual rapidty, and that the
movement after the first of December VIII
he surprisingly light. This opinion have
reached after travelling over large Fart
of the State and talking with hundreos
/ of farmers and business men. Everything
/ has favored rapid marketing OF the crop
: The drouth forced early maturing, and the
clear dry weather throughout me season
has allowed the farmers to pick 1t and TO
send 1t to market. Nothing has ntcrfered
/ with the movement in Texas or any other
State, and the world will soon be con-
WINGED of this. OF course. some ooJon Is
held for only a little more than CO0,e0O
bales will be In sight by the end CT this
week but to say that more than the av-
erage percentage of the crop remains I'M
/ sold is a claim not warranted by the
facts"
Mr. w o. peery. we'll known ncws-
paper man OF Mexia, spent yesterday in
the city on his return home from bust
ness trip to Galveston and Huntsville.
w ME AT Ine ldlltl NAlN w. iSS'' We"
guest of Colonel w. NJ. c. Hill, financial
agent OF the Texas penitentiaries, and,
speaking of his trip there and ne condi-
lions of this State institution. he said:
ut is certainly a treat and revelation
to he permitted to visit the pen Visitors
are not generally admitted at this time
on account of the repairing being done,
fr,x vhich dr. ;tr1Vp1
the cell rooms and adjacent buildings last
February. The new buildings ara I'M
provements made necessary by this hre
are about completed, and already the cell
rooms are occupied found the conditions
there much different from what | expect
ed The convicts all have neat, clean
rooms, are we'll fed-much better, in fact,
than large portion of the people of Texas
on the outside. They are treated kindly,
and not one word of complaint did | hear
Both the wagon and furniture factories
are going full blast, and l was informed
that the convicts could not turn out
enough of these articles TO supply the de-
mand.
Colonel Hill, as financial agent. will
make a remarkable record this year" con-
tinued Mr. Peery while the legislature
usually approprlates about $4,000 for the
maintenance of the penitentiaries, 1T has
not been necessary for financial agent to
use any of the appropriation for several
years. This year unusual calamities have
happened which would make the average
man suppose Colonel Hill would lie re-
quired to spend all this amount and still 4
have a deficit. He has had to spend $50
600 rebuilding the burned portion o! the
buildings about $4,000 in repairing ma
chinery of the shops and extra guards dur
ing the six months the buildings were
UNIT for occupancy and We're irsecure.
ha no q M aIsO suffered " tha
big floods in the summer, and a conss-va-
tive estimate of the losses would piece IL .
at least $l25,000, making Colonel Hill. as
financial agent, have to expend and lose
from the usual pententiary revenue about
5000, 600. Colonel Hill has, by his econom
ical methods and shrewd finan cering,
been able to meet all these losses without
having to draw on the State appropriation.
1t is, indeed, a most credltable showing.
and the people of Texas will remember
Colonel Hill for his economical policies.
which will save the taxpayers thousands of
dollars
"Mexia is all right" said MIR Petry
"our cotton crop marketed at M2xia will
be about 21000 bales. and the advanced
price has made business excellent. We
have Just completed one of the largest
and most complete oil mills II the State;
also a steam corn shelter, which has given
cash market to our farmers fer their
corn crop. In tacf, MeXla mas made nu- /,
merous and substantial Improvements this
year"
Mr.. Peery has been frequently AID IA
vorably mentioned as candidate for rail-
road commissioner next year, but vixen
asked about politics he shook his head ,
and claimed to know nothing about any
thing pertaining to the political world.
The members of the Concatenated Or
der OF Hoo Hoo are always at the head OF
the procession" said Vice Gerent Shark
w. + Mcclure to a representative of The
Post yesterday, land II they ever get left
you may rest assured that the Temporal
ture is extremely low in the summer time.
So much has been said about the other
features OF Houston's big festival next
month as TO make IL appear that the fol-
lowers OF the great black cat who dwells
in the sky have become lost In the shuttle, !.
but such is not the case by long shot.
We're going TO have confederation aa Is !
n confederation on the night of Saturday, !.
the last dly OF the festival. There ARE !
many purblind kittens TO be conducted :
across the onion bed and over the back
ward fpuee 10 Tho nIaca Xhsra sbtnas he