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and wool-manufacture great service, by the utterance of such senti- 

 ments as are contained in the paper referred to ; and, while thus em- 

 ployed, I firmly believe you are engaged in an educational effort 

 second to none in importance in our country. 



I have entered upon the business of sheep husbandry in this section, 

 not alone for the purpose of money-making, but also in the faith that I 

 can, in this avocation, render good service to my country in many ways. 

 The field here is a wide and important one. I believe it is destined to 

 be the theatre of most important developments in sheep husbandry. 

 The facilities, in many directions, for the successful solution of hitherto 

 unsolved problems in this industry, are unsurpassed anywhere ; and 

 I think, ten years from now Texas wool will rank in all respects with 

 the best of the world. 



To accomplish this will require effort. I do not hesitate to say to 

 our wool-growers here, that the intelligent wool-manufacturers of New 

 England will watch with much interest the future of this great terri- 

 tory ; and that the knowledge of that fact, and the sympathy and co- 

 operation it insures, should nerve them not only to grow the most in 

 bulk, but the best in quality, of any wools on the continent. 



I have recently brought out here one hundred head of merino bucks, 

 from the celebrated flock of George Campbell, Esq., of West West- 

 minster, Vermont, and intend them as but the forerunners of a system 

 of sheep husbandry unexcelled anywhere. If I can be successful, I 

 think I may be useful, in no small degree, in more firmly cementing the 

 bonds of our common country. For, while it may seem a strange 

 thought to many, I have the impression, that no one influence in the 

 industries of the Union can be made more mighty for good in a moral, 

 industrial, and political sense, than an intelligent, harmonious co-oper- 

 ation of the interests represented by the wool-growers and wool-manu- 

 facturers of these United States. 



Very respectfully yours, 



CHARLES N. JENKS. 



