. Southern and western Texas guide for 1878 . e country. Cash rents for lands,range from $4 to $8 per acre, while crop rents range from one-fourth to one-halfof the products, the latter rent being paid where the owner of the land furnishesseed, teams and farming implements. There is but little really good uncultivatedland for sale in Travis county, and what there is, is held at $4 to $10 per acre,while cultivated lands sell at $15 to $35 per acre, according to location andimprovements. The following are about the ruling prices for stock; horses, good American,$40 to $85; Mexican, $10 to $40; M
. Southern and western Texas guide for 1878 . e country. Cash rents for lands,range from $4 to $8 per acre, while crop rents range from one-fourth to one-halfof the products, the latter rent being paid where the owner of the land furnishesseed, teams and farming implements. There is but little really good uncultivatedland for sale in Travis county, and what there is, is held at $4 to $10 per acre,while cultivated lands sell at $15 to $35 per acre, according to location andimprovements. The following are about the ruling prices for stock; horses, good American,$40 to $85; Mexican, $10 to $40; Mexican mules, $20 to $50; American, $50 to$150; working oxen, $30 to $50 per yoke; milch cows, $10 to $25; two, three,and four year old stock, on the ranges sell at from $6 to $15 per head. The climate at, and in the vicinity of Austin is delightful, and the sanitarycharacter of the country is all that could be desired, chills, fevers, or epidemics,are not often encountered. Those visiting Texas, should not fail to take Austinin their EpiscorAL , Palestine. INTERNATIONAL & GREAT NORTHERN RAILBOAD. 223 PALESTINE. Palestine is the county seat of Anderson county, and is situated upon therange of hills which divide the waters of the Trinity river, about ten miles dis-tant from the Neches river, and equi-distant from each river. It is at this pointthat the two main branches of the International & Great Northern Road form ajunction, and, as before stated, the main offices, machine shops, etc., are alsolocated here. The town was organized in 1846, but reached no importance be-yond a small country village until 1872, when, through the completion of theInternational Line, it received an impetus that placed it on the road to its pres-ent prosperity. The completion of the Great Northern Road to the same pointin 1873, infused additional life into the town, and from a country hamlet it hasrapidly developed into a thriving, enterprising little city of 3,500 inhabitants,and is
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