. Southern and western Texas guide for 1878 . its inhab-itants are industrious, intelligent and hospitable. The clerk of the County Courtis Mr. J. M. Finney, to whom we are under obligation for many of the foregoingfacts. BEXAR COUNTY. Originally Bexar county embraced an area larger than the State of New York,but from time to time this territory has been carved into a large number of othercounties, until the present area of the county has been reduced to 1,456 squaremiles. It is situated in Western Texas, between the 29th and 30th degrees oflatitude north, and between the 21st and 22d degrees
. Southern and western Texas guide for 1878 . its inhab-itants are industrious, intelligent and hospitable. The clerk of the County Courtis Mr. J. M. Finney, to whom we are under obligation for many of the foregoingfacts. BEXAR COUNTY. Originally Bexar county embraced an area larger than the State of New York,but from time to time this territory has been carved into a large number of othercounties, until the present area of the county has been reduced to 1,456 squaremiles. It is situated in Western Texas, between the 29th and 30th degrees oflatitude north, and between the 21st and 22d degrees of longitude west fromWashington. Its topography is a grand undulating prairie, a portion ofwhich is timbered with such varieties as are usual in that section of the soils are extremely rich and fertile, and range in depth from three to fifteenand twenty feet. Many sections have been under cultivation for a period of overhalf a century without being f rtilized, and with no perceptible diminution ofstrength or quantity of Mission op San Jose, San Antonio, 1720. The products are in great variety, consisting of cotton, sugar cane, sorghum,corn, and all of the smaller grains, tobacco, rice, millet, the castor bean, andevery variety of vegetables in abundance, all kinds of fruits, including figs and COUNTIES OF TEXAS. 51 grapes, and the finest grasses to be found in Texas. The Hungarian and clovergrasses are of luxuriant growth and very nutritious. This county is watered bythe Cibolo, San Pedro, San Antonio, and Medina rivers; the Leon, Medio, Cola-bras, Cottonwood, Balcones, Salado and Geronimo creeks, and a large number ofsprings which flow from the base of limestone and sandstone formations, includ-ing the famous San Pedro and San Antonio springs, a description of which maybe found in another chapter. The altitude of that county above the Gulf, itssupply of clear and running water, the cooling breezes from the south, the delight-ful and exhilarating climate,
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