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TRIP THRO’ GRAYSON CO., TEXAS.
Grayson County, the gem of the Lone Star State,
is located on Red River, in Central North Texas,
and is traversed by the Texas & Pacific, the Mis
souri Pacific, the Houston & Texas Central and the
St. Louis, Arkansas & Texas railroads, four of the
great trunk lines, and is already working for connec
tion with the St. Louis & San Francisco R.R., and
Southern Kansas, and has in operation in her bor
ders about 325 miles of railroad, and other mileage
under contract. The area of the county, 608.173
acres, is two-thirds prairie and one-third timber,
well diversified.
The richness of the soil has never called for or
known a fertilizer, and its varied characters, from
the alluvial Red River Valley to the gray and black
sandy, black loam, and black waxy, are each super
ior to the other, as it pleases the fancy of the culti
vator.
While cropping is a matter of selection as between
small grain, corn, cotton, vegetables, fruits and
grasses, this particular section, favored by a tempe
rate and mellow climate, with an altitude of about
900 feet, 33 J degrees north latitude, rich and varied
soils, can well challenge the world for variety and
quality of products, and return thanks for health to
produce and enjoy.
The timber consists of oak, pecan, elm, bois
d’arc, ash, etc , located in a strip two to four miles
wide on Red River in the northern part of the
county, with the cross timbers in a belt eight to fif
teen miles wide, skirting the western border, and in
narrow strips on the numerous streams that traverse
the county in every part. The timbered lands of
larger bodies generally being of sandy character,
are the Eden of the fruit and vegetable grower.
Water facilities are furnished by numerous small
streams, tanks and wells, in abundant quantity and
of quality pure and good. Grayson’s advantages are
recognized by a citizenship of 65,000 industrious
people, who sustain her reputation as superb in cot
ton, first ingrain, and unsurpassed in hay, of which
she ships of native grasses 1,000 cars of baled hay
per year.
This season corn has averaged from thirty to six
ty bushels per acre, wheat eighteen to twenty-five
bushels per acre, oats thirty to sixty bushels per
acre ( not so good as usual), barley forty bush
els per acre, millet splendid, cotton about three
quarters of a bale per acre, native hay good, other
crops proportionate, yield varying principally from
cultivation, exportation of fruit large and increas
ing.
In addition to her agricultural interests, which ex
ceed all others, the tax rolls of 1887 show 43,969
head of cattle, 17,998 horses and mules, and other
livestock in proportion, which, it is well to bear in
mind, has in the past few years undergone a a mag
ical change in blood and quality, until no one needs
to pass the county to find pure records and fine herds
of cattle that do credit to the best of families.
The total assessment foots up $11,135,796, on a
valuation less than half of the real value, and total
State and county taxes for 1887 are 87| cents on
SIOO.
The school interests, both public and private, lead
the State, and are the special pride of her people,
with good buildings and many very fine ones, and a
well organized system of graded schools, and the
standard of proficiency high. The county has dur
ing the past scholastic year expended on public ed
ucation about $120,000, a good portion of this com
ing direct from State and county permanent school
fund. The public system is supplemented by a
goodly number of colleges in private hands, and
under the patronage of the different churches. The
city of Sherman enjoys the benefit of five of these
chartered institutions, four female and one male,
which by their merit attract four to six hundred pu
pils from abroad, and her business college, not in
cluded above, furnishes all the benefits to be secured
at such institutions. These speak for the intellec
tual and moral character of the citizenship.
The profit reaped from haying and graz ug native
grasses has kept thousands of acres of rich lands
off the market, while population has swept around
and passed them, but has served its purpose in pre
lands where cheap homes may yet be secured, sur
rounded by the advantages and luxuries of advanced
civilization, good government and fine society.
Close connection by rail with the immense pineries
of East and South-east Texas, give double advan
tages by supplying a fine quality of lumber cheap,
and furnishing a great market for flour, grain and hay
The temperate climate, rich soil and varied prod
ucts of grain and all the fruits and berries of the
temperate zone, with early maturity and long sea
sons, and railroad connections to every point, guar
antee profit and wealth to the producer and success
to all industrial enterprises that are fostered by a
prosperous people; while freedom from malaria and
a climate tempered in summer and winter by the
balmy breezes that ever blow from the Gulf, laden
with fragrance from rich fields and virgin prai
ries, combine comfort and health with the blessings
of abundance. It seems almost unnecessary to say
that this populous county is dotted over with flour
ishing towns, or to argue the prosperity of Sher
man, THE COUNTY-SEAT, RAILROAD AND COMMER
civI centre oe Grayson County, through
which the Houston & Texas Central and Texas &
Pacific railroads pass, and which is the present ter
minus of the St. Louis, Arkansas & Texas R. R.
(Cotton Belt Line), giving direct trunk lines in five
directions, and close connections with all lines that
traverse the State.
We have not space to review her interests, which
alone would require a lengthy article, but they are
commensurate with the wealth of the country from
which she draws support, and their magnitude is in
dicated by her two banks of $400,000 and $600,000
paid up capital, and authorized capital of $500,000
and $1,000,000. Her wholesale business, manufac
turing and milling interests are all unusually large
for a city of 12,500, and her schools, already spoken
of, are the special pride of all her citizens, and at
home and abroad Sherman is more noted for sol
idity, solvency and steady growth, than for the dash
which characterizes the'new towns of the West.
This is well advertised in the substantial character
of her improvements, private and public, which
embrace all usual to a modern city.
THE NEW WESTERN RAILWAY GUIDE.
Where Emigrants get their Through
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ARKANSAS AND TEXAS.
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T 1 II _ _ | We sell Tickets to all points in
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RATES, per day, $2.00.
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LODGINGS, 50 Cents each.
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Through Passenger Trains with Pullman
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Full information glren on application, in person or by
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J. A. WOODSON, Traffic Manager, “ “
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OR TO
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' Atlanta, Sa.
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Knoxville, Teun. Atlanta, Ga
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42 & 44 Peachtree St.,
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Profs. HOUGHTONItMeCANDLISS.
Colored Philosophy.
You may notch it on de palin’s,
You may mark it on de wall,
Dat de higher up a toad frog jump*
De hardes he will fall.
An’ de crow dat fly de swiftes’
Am de soones’ in de corn,
An’ de fly dat am de meanes’
Gits up earliest in de morn.
De brook dat am de shallo’es’
Chatters most upon de way,
An’ de folks dat am de sillies’
Are de ones hab mos’ ter say.
An’ de rooster dat am younges’
Am de one dat crow de mos’;
An’ de man who am de coward
Always makes de bigges’ boas’.
An’ he am not de greates’ man
Who totes de bigges* muscle;
Nor am she de fines’ gal
Who war de bigges’ bustle.
You kin not jedge t'e kin’ ob man
By de manner ob his walkin’;
An’ dey are not de smartes’ folks
Who do de loudes’ talkin’.
De thoughts dater pusson thinks fur no one but
hisse’f air his best an’ his wust. Dem whut come*
between he gins ter de public. -smwmm.
Sometimes er dozen wise men may git tergeder
an’ be foolish; but er dozen fools kain’t neber git
tergeder an’ be wise.
Why he was Slow.
“Hello, Uncle Boggy,” said a young negro, speak
ing to an old negro whom he overtook in the street.
“W’yn’t yer walk faster, an’ not let me pass yer
dis way?”
“Hole on er minit,” the old man requested.
“Yer’ve seed er man toting er sack o’ co’n, hain’t
yer?”
“Oh, yas, sab.”
‘An’yers seed er man toting er empty sack, I
s’pose?”
“I sho has.”
“Ah, hah! An’ didn’ yer alius notice dat de man
whut ain’ got nothin’ in his sack walks faster den
de one dat’s got a full sack?”
“Yes, sah.”
“Wall, yerse’fs one o’ dem men wider empty
sack. Run er long, son, fur yer ain’t got weight
ernuff on yer shoulders to hoi’yer on de groun*.”
[Arkansaw Traveler.
Uncle Dan’s Eulogy to Brudder Watson.
“I knowed Brudder Watson. In his death the
world has lost a purty fa’s sort o’ man. While he
paid his debts to de last cent, no white man could
keep chickens widin two miles of him. While you
could trust him wid a hoss, he never lost an oppor
tunity to pick up a pig. He was skeecely eber ab
sent from de Thursday ebenin’ prayer meetin’, but
you didn’t want to lebe a bone-handled umbrella
whar’ he could pick it up.
“Brudder Watson was powerful kind to his family,
but at de same time he didn’t lose sight ob de fackt
dat his three children were bow-legged an’ his wife
cross-eyed. He figuered it down dat some of ’em
would be sick about once a week, an’ dat deir shoes
w’ar out about so often.
“Brudder Watson didn’t expeck too much ob dis
cold world. If he traded mules unsight an’ unseen
he went out to his stables ir. de mawnin’ prepared’
to see a corpse. If he pnt up a dollar on de string
game he wisely figured dat de odder feller had
eighty-four chances to his sixteen. He realized dat
de winter brought chilblains an’ de summer mos
quitoes, an’ he sought to put up wid boas widout
complaint.
“I shall pronounce no eulogy ober his remains.
While he was anxious to lib in order to enjoy water
melyons, green co’n,’possums an’odder luxuries ob
life, he knowed dat de sooner he died de longer he
could rest Sunday mawnin’s, an’ de less wood he’d
hev to cut to keep de cabin fiah goin’. It are need
less to pass resolushions of sympathy for his wife.
She figures on our sympathy, while at the same
time she doan’ reckon on gettin’ a cent of our
money. It are needless to resolve dat our loss ar’
Brudder Watson’s gains. He took his chances.
We doan’ know which way he went, an’ we prob
ably never shall.”
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