Continental Monthly - Volume 1 - Issue 3 by Various
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is principally a red argillaceous loam, similar to that in the Red
River bottoms, which is so highly productive. As this route is included within the thirty-second and thirty-fourth parallels of latitude, it would never be obstructed with snow. The whole surface of the country is covered with a dense coating of the most nutritious grass, which remains green for nine months in the year, and enables cattle to subsist the entire winter without any other forage. The line of this road east from Fort Smith would intersect the Mississippi in the vicinity of Memphis, Tenn., and would pass through the country bordering the Arkansas River, which can not be surpassed for fertility.--_Marcy's Red River Exploration_. The route thus described lies through the following counties, and attention is specially directed to their several products in 1858:-- Acres County White Slave Corn Wheat Cotton Sug. Misc'l Total. Bowie 2,077 2,321 10,392 1,421 8,240 23 3,232 23,308 Cass 6,112 4,816 28,474 5,552 20,168 36 4,368 58,508 Titus 6,025 1,891 18,987 2,272 9,872 92 6,227 36,450 Upshur 5,999 2,801 22,515 3,092 16,692 45 3,122 46,065 Wood 3,254 733 8,336 1,090 3,194 31 1,841 14,501 Van Zandt 2,548 242 6,504 837 1,213 8 596 8,160 Henderson 2,758 827 8,470 845 4,768 70 908 15,061 Navarro 2,885 1,579 10,531 2,785 4,678 127 2,609 20,730 Hill 1,858 508 5,161 3,189 181 201 761 9,493 |
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