The Glenwood post., 1906-03-03

the sights which a stranger appre-
ciates is the OK teams, sometimes four
yoke, on the streets of the towns, and
they are used very generally for haul
ing timber in the pine woods farther
south and also on the farms.
Nearly all the manual labor here is
done by the negroes and is necessarily
of low grade, as the wages are
small and they are as a race constitu
tionally shiftless. The typical south
erner is almost helpless without ser
want or two to wait on him and the
blacks would be about as helpless
without boss. So the races have a
community of interests which would
not be easily disturbed were it no: for
outside agitators. 1t is for the south
to handle the race question and other
sections ought strictly to keep "hands
off, and let matters, which they can
not understand, adjust themselves
without suggestions. 1t is evident
that the "long distance interference
does more harm than good.
The whole surrounding country is
underlaid with iron and investments
have been made near Rusk which
may some day yet bring in good re-
turns About mile from here is a
dead town, New Birmingham, which
IN 1892 was town of 5000 or 5000 in
habitants. 1t sprang up in night
almost and expired as suddenly.
Splendid brick and frame business
houses and fine residences were desert
ed and are now falling down or being
torn up for fuel. Lots sold for 5000
and in few months were perfectly
worthless. Fortunes were made and
lost and men were wild with excite
ment but today New Birmingham is a
deserted village The great iron
furnaces were closed down. and most
of the investors departed sadder but
wiser men. But deep in the heart of
every old timer is the hope that the
wheels will again go round in the iron
works and more lasting boom will
enable him to retrieve his lost dollars.
On the northeast of town is half
mile of coke ovens, built at an i'm
mense cost and on which the builders
never realized one cent on the dollar.
The product could not be made as
cheap AS competition demanded and
another avenue of prosperity was de-
MED the town of Rusk.
Texas has no large cities. Dallas
and Houston. being probably the larg-
est with population of not more than
80, 900. Galveston is said to have
more millionaires to the square inch
than any other town in the United
States. 1t is the cotton market for
all of the middle south and for every
bale that goes through Galveston
harbor the greedy commission man
pockets dollar and thereby grows
opulent
San Antonio is the most pictu-
rescue spo: in the state. The
mixture of the Mexican and American
customs has made it the quaintest old
city in the south. The state uni
versity and capitol at Austin make
that city what it is.
Houston is splendid business
center and affords two rather good
newspapers, the Chronicle and Post.
The Dallas News. an Independent
paper, seems to be the business man s
favorite. But confidentially speak
ing, they are all rather dry after
reading the Denver dailies and the
sight of red ink and some startling
headlines would surely be an oasis in
a desert for sensationally inclined
reader from the Centennial state. the
greatest in the united 46-in spite
of the thrusts that it wouldn't t make a
snug fit in the congressional distric ct
of which Rusk is the center. And as
for Glenwood Springs, the writer has
yet to see anything that even gets in
sight Of it.