The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-08-28
RICE IN COLORADO COUNTY
ONE CROP WILL YIELD ONE Hun
DRIED BUSHELS PER ACRE.
More Than Five Thousand Acres
Planted and II Is Expected to
Bring Over S2oO,0O0.

Columbus, Texas. August 26.-Coiorado
county claims the largest yield per acre
recorded for rice. The Harbert field.
south of Columbus on the west side OF the
river, has stalks seven feet, two inches In
height, heavily headed and yielding 100
bushels per acre. An average yield IN
East Texas and Louisiana is forty bushels
per acre. Mr.. Love, an experienced rice
man from Crowley, Ia says 1t is Inc
finest field he has ever known. The grains
are so large the grade is worth cent
pound m re on the market than other
rice. There are 1925 acres in rice IN the
county this year. which will average from
hfty to sixty bushels per acre or total
sum of in the neighborhood of s275,OOO. A
second cutting and the hay will increase
this sum,
Some of the seed used this year was
raised in the county last year ON the 3Oo
acres pbinted by captain DunoYant orig
inally imported from Honduras. II Is is
ually the case that crops OF rice ae-
teriorate year after year until the mira
year. when the ground is lett out, lue
800 acres of land Captain Dunoyaat had u
last year is in better condition :nls year
and the yield on it will be as large 30
last year
TWO thousand and eight hundred
acres In cultivation by Vineyard, Walker
& CO. Is watered from Eagle lake bY q
centrifugal pump throwing 30,OOO,o0O gal
Ions of water day; 200 acres by Captsln
Dunovant is watered by two pumps throw
ing %, 000. 900 gallons day from tho same
source. Each of these farms has slu'Voo
pumping plant on the Colorado riFe' "
keep water in the lake, II necessary nut
on account of the rainy season TINS year
they have not had occasion TO use these
plants. Mr. Wick has field OF 100 acres
north Of the town of Eagle Lake. watered
by a hve-inch pump from well dug IN INC
prairie.
The well is thirty feet deep, twe'ye
| feet wide and the water In u IS elsh'
feet deep. His pump Is run by trac'oh
engine and throws 500 gallons Of water 4
/ minute. His we'll has never been pumped
dry. but for a very rainy season MS nVe.
inch pump might not have been sunlclen1
1 to water that number of acres II mas
been stated that we'll water contains ap
allp,li which has an unfavorable influence
on the plant, but Mr.. Vick's experience
| demonstrates that this is not the case
| The Harhert field OF 175 acres, south OF
Columbus, is watered by six-inch pump
| from the Colorado river The water sup
ply for Mr.. Bouldens crop in the same
/ iocalit-- is obtained from Skull creek
The foundation for Captain Duuovant''
rice mill which will be used Tor mex
years crop, Is laid and work ON y pro
crossing rapidly. Harvesting and thresh'
ing is going on rapidly. The most 0, M
years crop Is expected TO be sold for soet
to increase next years acreage here
1t might be remarked incidentally ma
Captain Dunovant has 259O acres OF suga
cane about as large rs mans Ni's
some of It ten feet high, whi;h VIII rtri'
thirty tons to the acre and which at IN
present priest so per TOMS worth IN
modest sum OF over a third OF miliioi
dollars.
Passenger Agents Parks Ct the southeri
Pacific and Boedeker OF the cane BE
railroads have arranTed to furnish q IRE
snecisl train for the members Of the Aran
sac pass Immigration association to vie'
the rice and cane Industries, The ssTo
lciatlon will convene in Columbus Tnesday
the 2sth The train viii leave coiumhu
wednesday morning at o'clock and WI
go rs far as wharton. returning the sam
lday