. Where to emigrate and why : describe the climate--soil--productions--minerals and general resources--amount of public lands--the quality and price of farm lands in nearly all sections of the United States; and contains a description of the Pacific railroad--the homestead and other land laws--rates of wages throughout the country, etc., etc. . 5^ r^%^ TEXAS. 493 culture in many respects, it may be successfully and profitablyraised in nearly all the counties eastward of the San AntonioRiver, and east of a line drawn from the town of San Antonio,in Bexar County, north, to Red River. It is said
. Where to emigrate and why : describe the climate--soil--productions--minerals and general resources--amount of public lands--the quality and price of farm lands in nearly all sections of the United States; and contains a description of the Pacific railroad--the homestead and other land laws--rates of wages throughout the country, etc., etc. . 5^ r^%^ TEXAS. 493 culture in many respects, it may be successfully and profitablyraised in nearly all the counties eastward of the San AntonioRiver, and east of a line drawn from the town of San Antonio,in Bexar County, north, to Red River. It is said there is alarger area of rich virgin soil, adapted to the cultivation ofcotton, in the State of Texas alone, than in all the cottonStates east of the Mississippi River, and that in those countieslying npon the Guadalupe, Colorado, Brazos, Trinity, Sabine,and^Red rivers, the best, y^ro- excellence, of the Texas cottonregion, not one acre in a hundred has yet been cultivated. The wheat region of Texas is in the northern part of theState, and embraces some thirty counties, of which Dallas isthe center. The average yield in these counties is stated to beabout twenty-one bushels per acre. In 1866, the wheat pro-duct of this region alone was estimated at nearly two millionbushels, while in 1850 the total product of the State was lessthan fift
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