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1U0 TEXAS ALMANAC
finely here. Many farmers in Panola county ale now raising their own syrup
from the Ribon or Louisiana cane. Tobacco grows here as luxuriantly as in
any part of Kentucky or Virginia.
ANIMALS.
We easily raise horses, cattle, sheep, goats, hogs, turkeys, chickens, &c.
Most men raise their own beevss. Pork generally brings from 6 to 8 cents
per pound. Our best beef can be had at from 3 to 4 cents per pound. We
have but few citizens who have turned their attention to fine stock.
VALUE OF LAND, LABOR, ETC.
Our best wild lands, lying near the Texas Pacific railroad, bring from
$5 to 810. Ordinary improved farms, lying from 5 to 10 miles from the road,
can be bought at about the same. Good farming lands unimproved, in bodies
of 50 to 1000 acres, can be had at from '$1 to $5 per acre. Wild lands can be
had on one or two years credit; or can be leased for 4 years free of charge to
atenant. Good farms can be leased at $2to $3 per acre per annum with good
tenements for laborers.
Labor is in demand, and good farm hands get from $18 to $25 per month
in gold, with board, washing afid lodging free. Mechanics get from $1 to
$5 per day, owing to skill and character of labor. Teachers get from $40 to
$100 per month. Good salesmen get from $300 to $500 per annum, and
board-this is in our villages.
Board in our towns costs from $15 to $20 per month; in the country, from
$7 to $10 per month. Good Texas flour costs now 4 cts. per pound at our
mills, say from 75 to 100 miles N. W. of Harrison county. We use St. Louis
flour; good family brands range from $8 to $10 per barrel. Bacon, say about
12 per cent. above Cincinnati quotations. Corn generally brings $1, gold, per
bushel. We can buy salt, coffee, sugar, syrup and rice cheaper here than in
any of the inland towns East or North. There is a great demand for female
servants. Washing costs from $1 to $2, gold, per dozen pieces. Any ordinary
girl who can cook may get from $90 to $125, gold, per annum with board
and lodging, in good families. Freight hauled on wagons costs about $1
per 100 pounds, for each 75 miles. This rate applies also to moving our
cotton to railroad or to market. Fruits, apples, peaches, &c., are never sold
by owner to neighbors-always given away-unless when put on market in
our towns. Chickens 15 to 25 cts. each; butter 121 to 25 cts. per pound;
eggs, from 15 to 25 cts. per dozen. Milk cows, with calves, from $10 to $20;
goats from $1 to $2 per head; sheep the same; stock cattle from $5 to $8
per head ; work horses from $50 to $150 each.
SOCIETY.
There is no one thing in regard to which Eastern men are more deceived
by misrepresentation than the stateof society in Texas. We are not out-laws,
cut-throats nor thieves. We are social, clever and sober. All East Texas
and West Louisiana may be favorably compared with any Southern State
East of the Mississippi river. We have schools and churches all over the
land, and in every village. Our own village is a fair standard of East Texas
towns. We have three dry goods stores, one physician, and one school of from
50 to 80 pupils; a Masonic Lodge of about 50 members, a Chapter of 20 mem-
bers, a Lodge of Good Templars with over 30 members, two wood and two
smith shops, one shoe and boot maker,- and one boarding house. We have
no bar room, nor even a whiskey shop. No one has been murdered on our
streets for years. No one is seen with bowie-knife or pistol on our streets or
in our county, except travellers who sometimes bear such articles on the
highway. Our people are not addicted to political bickerings. We do riot
ask strangers of their politics or religion, but take them to our homes and
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