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84 TEXAS ALMANAC.
and remain until spring. They then return again to the uplands, having
fared well during the winter, the wild rye, which is abundant in the bottoms,
having kept them from declining much. Rye, oats, and barley grow very
fine. Wood is abundant for fencing and for fuel. Hogs are raised at a very
small cost, the hills and the bottoms affording fine range of sweet and bitter
mast, and any quantity of pecans. We find no difficulty in saving bacon.
Our population is increasing very rapidly. Our chief markets are Houston and
Galveston, the first of which is only 85 miles, the second 135 miles distant, to
which places the Houston and Texas Central Railroad affords us facilities for
transportation, which road now terminates at Millican, in our county,.16
miles from Boonville. We have not undertaken as yet to cultivate the vine,
though we make considerable quantities of wine from the Mustang grape,
which grows on the hills and in the bottoms in the greatest profusion. First-
class bottom-lands, improved, sold at from $20 to $25 per acre before the late
war; unimproved, from $15 to $20 per acre; uplands, improved, from $8 to
$12 per acre; unimproved, from $3 to $5 per acre; though since that time
lands have declined very materially in price, owing to the emancipation of
the slaves. The freedmen do about half work generally, but behave very
well. Their number is decreasing rapidly. Our farmers will, as a general
thing, contract with the freedmen for another year, though they wguld pre-
fer white labor if they could get it. We raise every variety o getables
that grow in a Southern climate. The peach-tree grows very wen, much bet-
ter than the apple-tree. Corn is usually worth from 50 to 75 cents per bushel ;
potatoes, 50 cents per bushel; beef, from 2- to 3 cents per pound; pork, from
4 to 6 cents per pound; butter, from 10 to 15 cents per pound; bacon, from
10 to 15 cents per pound; horses, from $75 to $150; oxen, $40 per yoke;
cows, from $8 to $12 per head; sheep, from $2.50 to $3 per head.
BRowN ComNTY.---(By Jesse Mercer.)
COUNTY-SEAT, BROwNWOOD.--This county is-of much the same character
as Comanche. Pecan and Jim Ned creeks run through the south-west part
of it. It is also bounded on the south-west by the Colorado river. Camp
Colorado is situated upon the banks of Jim Ned creek, near its junction with
Ford's creek. There are no post-offices in the county, and it is very sparsely
settled.
BumIso CouwIrY.---(By Wiiam H. Wheelock, Rep.)
Coner-SEAT, CALDWELL.-Burleson county is bounded on the east by
the Brazeos river, the old San Antonio road passing east and west nearly
through its centre, which forms the dividing line between the old colonies
of Austin and Robertson. It possesses some of the finest bottom-lands upon
the Brazos river, extending about thirty miles in length and five in width,
yielding, under good cultivation, 2500 pounds seed cotton per acre. The
San Antonio and String prairies, passing through this county, yield an
average per acre of 1200 pounds cotton, 25 bushels of corn, and 12 bushels of
wheat. The price of corn ranges from 50c. to $1 per bushel, and wheat $1
to $1.50. The balance of the county is principally post-oak land, interspersed
with small prairies and creek bottoms. Horses, cattle, hogs, and sheep all
do well here. Water for stock in some portions~ the county is scarce in the
dry season. The inhabitants are generally indtstriops aid moral. All the
denominations of Christians common in the State.hve cbprches organized
here. Baptists and Methodists prevail. Cald ll, the ~opnty-seat, is a
pleasant village, with a good male and female a em .- Sehools are situat-
ed in various parts of the county. Population between 6000 and 7000, and
increasing. State of society, good. Freedmen have performed remarkably
well, under the circumstances, and will, in all probability, be depended upon
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The Glaveston News. The Texas Almanac for 1867 with Statistics, Descriptive and Biographical Sketches, etc., Relating to Texas., book, December 1866; Galveston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth123772/m1/86/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.