The Republican journal., 1916-07-13
jected, poverty-stricken. They all had
tales of woe to tell US.
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jected, poverty stricken. They all had
tales of woe to tell US.
| had purchased horse in the city,
which was driven out to our place by a
nigger boy. From the steaming lather
on MIN thought he had been driven too
fast, and said so. The boy said he had
walked the horse most of the way as the
roads were deep mud and clay, but that
the horse was soft, having just arrived
in car from Missouri. This boy told
the truth, but he did not know that his
BOSS who sold me the horse told me that
he had been used here for two years and
was thoroughly acclimated.
The dilapidated teams and harnesses
seen in the country are surely dream.
You simply can't imagine it, one has to
see it, If Primrose and West or Billy
Van could bring one of these lop-sided.
wiredup, all-four- wheels-different, rigs
up north and ride down the street the
police would have to hold the crowd
back
There was not decent road in hat
country, and there never will be any
prosperity and growth until they get
them. l met the National Roads man,
walking from Ohio to New Orleans for
the Good Road Commission, and he told
me that he ever saw such miserable
roads in his life. No ne can ever find a
sign board where three or four roads
come together; besides that no one
seemed to know where the branch roads
went to. | asked a young farmer boy
of eighteen or twenty where this road In
front OF his home went to, and he said,
This road runs this way, and that road
runs that way, ovan yondah, but that s
all ah knows" If l had asked hog in
the field he Guild have shown that much
Intelligence.
Before we left for our return drive,
We observed that this town was nearly
deserted save for the nurserymen who
sold you Satsuma trees for fifty cents
that cost them five, and young pecan
trees for a dollar that cost them ten
cents The only men | saw that made
any money in that country were the
nurserymen and the land sharks.
Our horse went into mud to his knees
twice and laid down. So we put him in a
barn and decided to take a train home at
10 o. m. As we were away with a
strange horse for the first time and de-
layed several hours by the poor roads,
being due home at five O'Clock, l said |
would phone my wife. The phone wires
post office and grocery store they told
me that nobody ever had use for tele-
phone there, and the station agent said
that there was not single telephone in
town. So | said | would send wire,
but the agent at the station said, "This
is flag station; we have no wire"
Think of it-one thousand people here
and no telephone and no telegraph sta
ton. Nice place to come to and live.
AS there was no hotel in town, had to
ask man that lived near the depot if
we could get dinner at his place. leave
the horse, and come back after him the
next day.
While we were eating the wife told US
we were fools for planting Satsuma Or
anges. She said that there was no mar
ket for them, no one wanted them, after
you had waited eight or ten years for
them to grow. She informed us that
pecans only grow on low land near water.
or bayou. This is fact proven by the
Government and experimental farms.
Our land was two hundred feet above
sea level!