Year: 1875

lNoiih"i lIONlH'l


We have Just returned from tn


Texas state fair, and have now only


time to make very brief note il


regard to it. The fair was held a


Houston, n thriving city about fifty


miles north Of Galveston. The fail


grounds are among the finest in the


United States, containing tho neccs,


sary buildings for the exhibit of all


articles usually shown at u fair


There is q splendid mile track on


the grounds. We judge there are


eighty or one hundred acres in the


fair grounds, and they are situated


less than mile from the heart OF


the city.


OF course, our Texas friends have


not had the experience in holding
fairs that we have had in st. Louis,
and the exhibition did not como up
to our own st. Louis exhibitions
neither do any other fairs in tho
whole world equal tho st. Louis.
The Texas state fair, however was
very creditablo. 1t was conducted
in the most honorable manner. The
directors were the most respectable
men in Houston, and they did all
in their power to make successful
exhibition, and to make every Wis
itor feel at home. The attendance
was quite large, and the fair II pecu-
MARY success. Another year, we
understand, it is the intention of the
directory to offer a larger and more
varied premium list, and we believe
their efforts in that direction will
be sustained. Texas is u great and
growing state; emigrants are flow
ing into it by the ten thousand
yearly, hundreds of thousands of
acres of her rich prairie soil is being
turned overcvery year for the first
time, and rich crops reward the
farmer. These men will sustain
great fair in that state. They
want to go to inspect for themselves
the improved implements and tools
that are annually exhibited, that
they may tighten the burdens of
farming. They want to see the
best breeds of horses, cattle, sheep
and swine, with a view to improv-
ing their own Stockton Texas is
to become the great stock growing
state of the union. Tens of thou.
sands of cattle, horses and sheep we
saw, as we Travelled through the
state, sleek and fat, that had not re-
ceived a mouthful of food during
the past winter, but such as they
plucked from the prairies. - -


This stock, however, ought to be
improved by the addition of better
blood; liberal premiums offered by
state fairs for the best stock will in
1uce the breeders of other states to
take their stock to Texas to vie with
one another for the patronage of the
farmers OF Texas. We have never
met or mingled with n kinder, truer,
Or more hospitable people. The
light hand of fellowship is extended
to every worthy person, however
humble his means, who wishes to
east his fortunes with her people
During our stay in Houston Of
nearly u week we did not see or
hear of a quarrel. We did not see
4 drunk man, or man under the


influence of liquor, while in Texas.
There is no state in the union, in
our judgment, where life and pro-
perty are safer. We say this in
Justice to the people of Texas, who,
we believe, are not properly under
stood. We admit that we have a
higher appreciation of the intelli-
yence of her people; of their en-
.erprise and public spirit; of their
moral character, and of the re-
sources of that great state, which
must, from her vast extent of terri
5ory, her genial cline, her product


we soil, her great mineral wealth,
ner vest fields of lumber, her man
resources, her commercial
advantages--yet become the great
empire state of the nation.