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218 TEXAS ALMANAC.
hr'e reached near 200,000 bales, it may perhaps be reasonable to estimate the
entire crop at somewhere between four and five hundred thousand bales.
Though there has certainly been a large increase this year in the lands culti-
vated in cotton, yet nobody now expects anything like a corresponding in-
crease in the crop, which it is generally believed will be a short one.
TEXAs COTTON BY WAY OF RED RrvEa.-The Jefferson Herald says the cotton
crop of that section will be more than an average one this year, and that the
receipts at that port exceed those of last year by 15,000 bales. The Gazette
puts the receipts of the year just ended, at 87,873 bales, and it will therefore
follow that the receipts this year will exceed 100,000 bales. If we assume
that there will be a corresponding increase in the receipts at other ports, or
landings, (taking the pr, portion of Texas cotton to be the same as given in
our Almanac for 1859,) the amount of Texas cotton sent by way of Red River
to New Orleans, must considerably exceed 200,000 bales.
According to the foregoing data, the whole Corn crop of Texas, this year,
has been 25,000,000 bushrcl; Wheat crop, 3,750,000 ; Cotton crop, for the
yei ending August 31st, over 40,.000 bales ; Sugar crop, uncertain.
The mos' discouraging circus t.nce to oun Wheat growers, is the want of
a market. We learn that the price of Wheat, in the wheat counties, is now
from 40 to 50 cents a bushel, and that even at this low price, but a small por-
tion of the surplus crop can be sold. Many of the farmers are feeding it to
their horses and stock. Flour is said to be from $2 50 to $3 50 per one hun-
dred lbs., and neither wheat nor flour pay the present cost of wagon transpor-
tation to our sea-board counties. The great dependence, therefore, of our
wheat-growers is upon railroads, for the extension of which within their reach
they are looking with intense anxiety. But what will be the cost per bushel
or per barrel, of railroad transportation, remains yet to be seen. We trust it
will be reduced sufficiently low to afford adequate encouragement to our
wheat-gro-,ers The cost of a bushel of wheat, the distance of 362 miles, on
the New York Central Railroad, is stated to be twenty-eight cents.
The first attempt to ship wheat from Texas, was made by Messrs. R. R.
Fletcher & Co., of Dallas, who, a few months since, sent some by way of the
Central Railroad to Houston, which was then shipped from this port to New
York. This experiment was doubtless made to establish some facts of im-
portance to be known in this new blanch of trade,
Houston Tap and Brazoria Railroad.
ENGINEER's OFFICE H. T. & B. Railway,
(Columbia and Wharton Division,)
Columbia, August 26th, 1859.
Messrs. RicnanDsox & Co.-
Gents: Your favor of 19th inst., addressed to John Adriance, is at hand and
contents duly noted. Enclosed I hand you a copy of the last Annual Report
of the President and Directors of this Company-also your map with the line
of he E . a . ii. aiway laid down upon it,-from Houston to Columbia,
completed; and thence to Wharton in progress. I have also laid down upon
the map a dotted line representing the proposed extension of the road to the
Rio Grande, and ultimately to Mazatlan-vide DeBow's Review for August,
1859, Art. IX.
The H. T. & B. Railway will be, when finished, about 100 miles long-say:
In Harris county thirteen miles; in Fort Bend county 8 miles; in Brazoria
county 42 miles; in Matagorda county 10) miles; in Wharton county about
*26 miles; total 100 miles. The final survey and permanent location of the
road has been made as far as the town of Wharton on the Colorado, a dis-
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