Forney, J: What I Saw in Texas (Classic Reprint)

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Forney, J: What I Saw in Texas (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from What I Saw in Texas

Wellad now accomplished some eighty miles, and next morning at daybreak started for Kaufman, one of the most fertile counties in Texas, called after David S. Kaufman, of Cumberland county, Pennsylvania. The soil was a black sandy loam, immensely productive. It averages from twelve to fifteen hundred pounds of seed cotton, from twenty-five to forty bushels of corn, fifteen bushels of wheat, twenty to twenty-five bushels of rye, and from forty to sixty bushels of oats to the acre. The best of these lands could be bought at from fifty cents to one dollar and a half an acre before the war now they average from three to twelve dollars. Corn sells at $1 per bushel, wheat oats 75 cents, rye 75 cents. The average price of labor here, as in all the counties along the line of our road, is twenty dollars per month in specie and found. Here let me remark upon the damaging effects of hard money currency in Texas. After leaving Shreveport the first question put to me was.

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