Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1910-08-04
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Editor News:
While we are spending a few day
rambling over Texas. may be some o
our friends would like to know some
thing of the country.
We find crops good in the farmin,
country. Corn is fine and is ready {,
gather. Some have already gathered
Cotton is fine. You can see cotton ov
er horses back high in some places
This part Of Texas is piney and
there are lots of large saw mills here
About every ten miles you can find a
large mill You can see pines rs tC
100 feet high and so feet to the first
limb, and three and four feet through.
Some mills have IS years work in one
place. They have their own roads and
haul their logs for miles. They have
tracks through the pines to haul their
logs on. They cut thousands of feet
daily and the lumber is all handled by
machinery. Tennessee has no mills
that will compare with Texas.
will have to tell you of our fishing
trip. There we're fifteen of us left here
Friday and it was late when we got
started and had dinner in less than
one hour after we arrived after four
mile ride, and we had plenty of fish
for dinner The girls fried the fish
and we all ate all we wanted. After
dinner we started to catch enough for
supper. We fished about an hour and
had fine string to bring home. No
trouble to catch fish here. There are
plenty of trout and perch of all kinds.
If you see any one that likes to fish
send him out here. The people here
don't care anything about fishing 1
will have to go again one day before
return. to Tennessee for / may never
have the chance again. You can take
almost any kind of bait and just throw
your hook in and sometimes it will
not stop for trout will have it.
There is any size you want, but any
thing like four or five inches they
throw back. So come on, fishermen,
for this is the place to fish.
Railroading is altogether different
here We find all of these roads to
have small engines. The connections
of them are oil burners and equipped
with electric lights, freight as we'll.
They have no oil lights The passen-
ger trains are all lit up by electric
lights. They have some steel coaches.
They have two or three coaches on one
train and mail car, and most of the
roads just have four trains daily, two
each way, and have six or eight
freight trains and some of them use
negroes all together to break and ne
gro section foremen and mail clerks
| don't like that part. You don't see
any fremen but white there. There
are lots of colored people in Texas.
l would like to have job of firing
IN Texas. The firemen don't have an
ything to do but turn the oil on and
,ff. If was young this is the place
would railroad in. You don't have
% fire always, about two or three
Years and you can have an engine. No
grades to pull over, the roads are lev
d. l wish / had my family out here
ind was located. I would never re-
urn to Tennessee. for l sure like this
county and maybe some day will To-
,ate in Texas
From daylight until o'clock it is
very hot and after that the wind is
tirring and at night fine breeze.
You can sleep good and l would like
o spend all the summer here if had
ny family with me, but my time is
tort to stay. have been over great
zeal of Texas and in several cities. /
lave not been in Galveston yet, but
will go there next week. | am now 81
niles west of Houston and ITO miles
rom Dallas | will go 112 miles Mon
ay to where my brother has a large
ontract in dry kiln.
There is large oil well near this
ldCO WHICH VI
arrels daily. They have pipe line
[ouston and several other cities and
hen pump the oil to these cities. If
hey want coal oil they charge pipes
nth that kind and if they want a run
black ell they charge the pipes next
nth water and then with blackoil
nd so on. A pipe line runs through
MS place that is $40 miles long, SO I
ave been told. This oil well is
reat thing to see. They have tank
hat will hold thousands of barrels of
H.
There is lot to see in Texas. will
Jay my limit of time and wish Ihad a
lonth | could see more in one week
ut here than l could see in Tennessee
/ two months. G. ID. HILL.