Grayson County TXGenWeb

The Denison Daily News
April 16, 1873

Texas is the only State in all the South which is receiving a steady and reliable class of immigrants. It has been estimated that the average weekly immigration to Texas is between 1,500 and 8,000.

First there is the Southern planter of former prosperity, who wants to put his family again in easy circumstances. Next is the business drover of the North West, who sees that Texas is the cattle and horse land. Then there is the poor white class of the South, the bone-weary and trouble-tried who say, "It is as good to die and go as die and stay."

To these classes may be added a restless movement of boys, refugees, and people worn out at the edges of character who go to swell the white population of the state.