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The Daily Dispatch: July 31, 1861., [Electronic resource], Letter from Texas. (search)
Letter from Texas. The following letter, addressed to the editors of the Dispatch, and dated Houston, Texas, July 9th, will be perused with interest: A kind Providence has smiled upon Texas this season, in common with all the Confederate States, and granted a bountiful and liberal yield of the products of the field. Our wheat and corn crops are unprecedentedly good. Texas will have an immense surplus of these necessaries of life this year. A series of unfavorable seasons has stinted her resources in this respect, and has hindered emigration from flowing in as largely or rapidly as the attractions she possesses in soil, climate, and health, justify. We have less land than usual planted in cotton, as it was considered prudent to cultivate a larger area in corn and wheat this season than usual; we may need them. The number of bales of cotton shipped last year from our ports exceeded 250,000 bales, and we estimate 200,000 more from the northeastern portion of the State