Year: 1870

terial at home, and saved oil the cost Of


transportation and the heavy per centage


Of profit that each man who hauled il


charged. The time is not far distant when


this will be done,


Texas opens up too fine a field for enter


prise and capital to be neglected Iofig


During the war they suffered greatly fol


the lack of manufacturing facilities and


knowledge. A wealthy lady who had suf-


fered herself, told US that ladies who had


never combed their own hair or hen1med a


handkerchief, had to take their cotton


cards and card, spin and weave, not only


for their own wear, but for sons, husbands


and brothers in the army, and that so eff


fectual was the blockade that a pair of


hand cards, such as would cost probably


fifty to seventy-fve cents, sold for forty
dollars In gold, and widow lady who
had four sons in the army, told US she
gave good mule-and they bring a high
price here-fOr pair Of hand cards and a
calico dress!


In the matter Of hides also, they lose a
great deal Of money by not having tam
neries, as they are almost all shipped to
some distant point to be tanned. The con-
sequence is, leather is a very high price
here, where hides are scarcely worth any
thing, and they have in the greatest abun-
dance one of the best tanning materials
known. The Mesquit-( Muskeet) Is to be
found here everywhere, and it is richer in
tannio acids than black oak or Chestnut
bark. Not only the bark but the wood is
equally rich in tsnnin, and it is the only
material known with which they can tan
during the hot summer months, as the
heavy hides rot in the centre before the
tannic acid strikes through, when the bark
Of the live oak and black Jack is used. It
is not so when the ooze Of the 1fesquit is
used in the tanning process, and it makes
more solid, durable leather, than that
tanned with oak bark. The discovery Of
its tanning properties was made during
the war, when the supply of leather was
cut off from the rebels, and they were conf
PEELED to make their own or do without,
and we believe the man who made the dis
covery and first used 1t, has now secured a
patent for It.


Another great waste these people are
guilty of is that of their cotton seed, which
is almost all thrown away as entirely
worthless. There is about twelve or
thirteen hundred pounds Of seed to bale
of cotton, which when hulled and pressed
makes an oil-oake that is fully equal to
that of flax seed for fattening stock, and
which would be worth thirty to forty dol
lars per ton at the gin, and mill that
will hull IS to Is bushels per hour can be
bought in Cincinnati for one hundred and
fifty dollars. The seed is rich in oil,
which for great many purposes is equal
to lard or olive oil. Texas last year pro-
duced 100000 bales Of cotton, the seed of
more than three-fourths Of which was
probably thrown away, as a nuisance.


Texas has but few rivers that are nav
igable for any distance, but those few
might be vastly improved with a compar-
atively small outlay of money.


There is constructed and in operation in |
this State, only about four hundred miles
of Railroad, which, considering its i'm
mense area, is but very little indeed. So
it will be seen they are not an agricultural |
people, a manufacturing, or a commercial
people, except in the single item of cattle, |
and they do not deserve any credit for
that, for they only live here and brand the /
stock, and will wait until some northern /
man comes with the gold in his pocket, to
buy and drive it away. But they are
"rushing"-or what they call rushing
making about two miles week-the Texas
Central r. r. from Galveston north to
meet the Missouri River, Ft. Scott and Gulf
R. R. from Kansas City. When that is
completed it will be one of the most prof
liable lines of Railroad on the continent,
as the single item of cattle alone would
yield large income to the road, and aside
from that it would stimulate agriculture
and manufactures and open the way for an
imtiehse immigration. This would then
become a great grain and cotton growing
State, as well as a stock growing region,
and it is Ouf opinion that as fine fruit, and
grapes, can be produced here as
in any State Of the Union.


To people North, and especially in Ohio,
who wish to emigrate to better their con-
iition, we would say, that for those with a
little capital and plenty of energy and in
lustry, we know of no place that offers so
many inducements as the State of Texas.
By far the pleasantest way to come here
would be in small neighborboods or colo
nies, as there appears to be a colony mania
abroad in the land now. BY this plan ali
nome ties and associations are not broken
off as they would be should a single family
move here, for, although the people are
iocial and hospitable, they lack the culture
md refinement, and that air of home COM
ort, that we see North, among people Of
Tot one nth Of their wealth.


In conclusion, allow me to say that I am
10 wise particularly interested in Texas,
lor am I in the employ of any of its In ;
migration Societies. but these letters are
he result Of observation and inquiry, and 7
hey may contain information that will be
Useful as we'll as interesting to your read
rs. We will probably be beyond the U. {
J. mail routes ere another week passes,
nd remain in the wild country about two I
months So, until we get "out Of the will
erness," adieu!


Yours respectfully,


o. S. GLENN.


"HOw many are there Ov yes down
here ?" shouted an Irish boss to some 1
nen in a cOal-pit. Give" was the
nswer. "Well, then, half of yes Z
ono IN horo soiI bo Z