Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1907-08-21
Mr.. John c. Morgan Writes Inter.
esting Letter From Texas.

esting Letter From Texas.
Dear Advertiser I am at pres
snt with my nephew, Dru Nor
gan, who is thu third son of Mr..
E. G. Morgan, Sr., and has bee n
in Texas some years. He lives 8
miles southeast of the town of
Mexia on the 81. & 7. G. railroad.
Limestone county has quite a
variety of soil. The eastern por-
ton is tim bered, sandy land, with
q growth Of post and blackjack
oaks on it. Large nice grapes grow
;wildin these woods in considera-
BILE quantities. I went grape gather
ing one morning sand found a good
many, though It was foo late as
most of them had fallen off. Next
to this timber is a vast stretch of
prairie land. partly sand, and
looks very much like the Trenton
lands in Edgefeld county, only it
Is more level. Fruits. vegetables
and melons grow we'll here and
there is also plenty of good water
in wells. The stock are wetered
from pools that are made either
by damming across the dugouts,
which are some feet lower than
the surrounding lands, or by
blowing and scooping out the
earth. These pools hold water like
jug, and give plenty of water for
the stock.
The lands in this part of the
county sell from $25.00 an acre
up to $1,000 and more. This is
thickly settled section, can count
twenty-five houses from Dru's.
yard. Corn is nearly dry enough
10 gather, and will make from Is
to 83 bushels an acre. Cotton
suffering from an eight or ten
weeks drought, will make a bale
to three acres without fertilizer
this dry year, if it had rained
would have been much better.
On last Saturday Dru took me
in his buggy twenty-five miles
west of here into the famous black
lands in which Texas abounds
and on which grow much fine
crops of corn and cotton. On this
trip I passed many good farms,
some sandy and some black lands,
with good crops of cotton and
corn on them, also passed through
Groerbeck, the county. seat. 1t is
y pretty toWD of two or three thou
sand inhabitants, built on q beau
tiful stretch of prairie. It is we'll
laid out and has many fine build
ings, among them is the court
house and school building.
Fourteen miles west of here in;
the black lands lives my cousin
Rev. G. L. Jennings who has been
in Texas over 30 years. He lives
in mile of the little village of
Kirk which is surrounded by one
of the best farming sections Of
Texas. Nearly all these lands are.
the black lands. Water for stock
here is also in pools, but for other
purposes cistern water is used.
/ want to tell you of a grand
sight I saw. 1 went on an eleva-
tion in front Of my cousins house
and from there could see twenty
miles square, and at least seventy
FIVE per cent of this vast prairie
country is in cultivation, with
good crop of corn ready TO gather.
20 to 40 bushels an acre. and cot
ton a bale to D and 8 acres. With
no fertilizer and with no rain here
in Sto 10 weeks. This country.
that could see, an ordinary year
will make 80 to 40 thousand bales
of cotton. This is certainly
grand country. 1t is SO big you
cannot realize its size until you
See it. A few years ago this land
sold for S. 10 $40 per acre and now
sells for $50 to $100
There are great numbers of
stock raised here also, consisting
of horses, mules and cattle, many
Of which are well bred. We don't
see the Texas mule and pony here
am glad TO tell you. The usual
ofe acres cultivated to