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From: angel gebhart <>
Subject: Letter received from Jesse Raper, former Monroe County, Indiana resident
Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2006 16:37:07 -0800 (PST)


Bloomington (Monroe County, Indiana) Republican Progress, February 11, 1885, p. 2

Letter from Texas

Jacksboro, Jack Co., Texas

January 24, 1885

Ed. Progress: We are all well and well satisfied with this county. We have a welcome weekly visitor in the Republican Progress, and I would like its visits to continued, although I am not prepared to pay for the same now, but will be some time in the summer. I have been beaten out of part of my cotton but will keep my eyes a little open next time. These southern people will skin a Yankee every time they can.

We have as fine and as productive soil as there is on the globe. It is divided, with prairie and timber. Our principal products are, wheat, corn, cotton, oats, millet, sorghum, sweet potatoes, and Irish potatoes. The beauty of farming in our county is that we can sow our wheat when we want to, any time between the 15th of October and the 10th of January. Our corn planting comes in February, cotton in the last of March or first of May, gardening in February. We never fail in some of the above crops, if properly handled.

Our climate is very salubrious - very pleasant and healthful. We can produce a good crop of everything but genuine Republicans, yet we are inviting our Republican friends to come over and help us. I feel sometimes that I am almost lost, Nationally, for I have not seen our colors since I left Hoosierdom, yet I am like the old hunter, I will pick my flint and try it another year. I feel like I have no protection, yet I voted all I could for it.

Yours truly,
Jesse Raper

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