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DESCRIPTION OF COUNTIES. 85
for the labor of 1867. Wages, $8 to $12 per month, or one third of crop.
Lands range from $5 to $50, according to locality, improvements, etc. Cot-
ton, corn, and wheat are the most profitable products. Stock of all kinds
grow and flourish upon the exuberant pasturage. Post-oak, cedar, ash, and
hickory are used for fuel and fencing. The best building material is cedar.
Living is cheap, and, with attention and management, butter, cheese, eggs,
poultry, and garden vegetables, peaches and plums, are easily had. Hogs
raise themselves, and bacon is easily saved. 'Houston and Galveston are our
commercial cities for the sale of produce, and, after wagoning forty miles, it
is conveyed by rail. Grapes, of the Mustang and post-oak varieties, grow
wild, and much wine is produced from them. No white laborers for hire.
BURET CoUr.--(By .Dr. Moore.)
CoUsrY-SEAT, BRNET--where there are two flourishing primary schools
in full operation, and several others in the different neighborhoods in the
county. The different religious denominations are pretty well represented in
the county. Numerically they are as follows, namely: 1st, Christians; 2d,
Methodists; 3d, Presbyterians; 4th, Baptists. The principal crops- raised
here are wheat, corn, oats, rye, barley, sorgho, vegetables, melons, fruit, such
as apples, peaches, grapes, etc.; sweet potatoes also do well here. Near the towi
of Burnet, there are several places where petroleum exudes from the surface
of the earth spontaneously. There is also the greatest abundance of a superior
quality of iron ore in this county, and in the sanie vicinity are found vast
quantities of the mountain cedar, which makes the very best charcoal; and
also plenty of limestone rock, which is easily converted into a superior article
of pure white lime; plenty of water also in the immediate vicinity; so that
the facilities here for making iron are not surpassed, perhaps, in the State.
The population of the town is only about 300. Climate delightful, being in
the mountain region, in latitude 31, well watered and remarkably healthy.
The soil presents almost every variety. The black loam is found most abun-
dant on the different tributaries of the San Gabriel, in the northern and east-
ern portions of the county. The sandy and chocolate loams are found princi-
pally on the Colorado river and its tributaries which pass through the southern
side of the county. There is also a large portion of the county which is
covered with dense cedar brakes, and it is generally rocky, with a dry rich
loam, well adapted to the culture of the grape. There is plenty of post oak
live oak, mesquite, elm, hackberry, pecan, cedar, and other timber in the
county for all necessary purposes. The Colorado river has a fall of nearly
fifty-two feet in one mile in this county; this is known as the Marble falls,
affording one of the best sites for manufacturing by water-power, in the South.
Marble, in very great abundance, from parian white to jet black,wis found in
this county; and here too, is found the greatest abundance of the white
limestone rock for building and fencing purposes. There are two steam
and three water mills in the county. The Mormon Mills, situated at the
great falls on Hamilton creek, driven by an overshot wheel of 30 feet, is manu-
facturing the first quality of flours There are a great many excellent springs
of pure cold water to be found in different portions of the county. The dif-
ferent grasses grow luxuriantly in the county, and stock water is abundant,
while it is admirably adapted to the raising of sheep, goats, horses, cows,
and hogs. Society is generally good; life and property are respected and
protected. Lands are cheap. The inducements are certainly great for immi-
grants to this region of country,
BAYLOR CouT--(UTnorganized)
is watered by the Brazos river, which runs immediately through it, and upon
which the land appears to be rich, and would no doubt, if cultivated, produce
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The Glaveston News. The Texas Almanac for 1867 with Statistics, Descriptive and Biographical Sketches, etc., Relating to Texas., book, December 1866; Galveston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth123772/m1/87/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.