NP, NOTP 4/5A/1861

From the New Orleans Times Picayune
 
April 5, 1861
 
Texas Wheat Crop
   The Shreveport Gazette, of the 30th ult., says:
   We learn from persons directly fro the prairies of Texas that the wheat crop was never better. A large crop was sown, and the wheat is now almost matured. As soon as our railroad {Vicksburg, Shreveport & Texas RR} is completed, large flour mils will be erected in Shreveport, and a market created for all the grain of that magnificent country.
   It is most fortunate that the planters in Northern Texas will make large grain crops this year. The scarcity of provisions in the cotton region will open a fine market for flour. The current of trade will be changed, and Texas flour will be sold this summer to the citizens of Shreveport.

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