The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-12-02
TEXAS CoLoNIsTs.

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Philadelphia Times Bishop Garrett
OF the northern Texas protestant Eps,
Copal diocese gave n lecture upon TrXa,
colonization Ia the church of st. John
the evangelist Third aud Reed streets
last evening The assembly room cons
miucd q tall gathering Of the working,
men and women G Southwark, genteel
IN manner and dress, and apparently Of
the very class which eastern commun.
tiles can least afford to lose The bishop
adopted q plain conversational speech
End made himself ever clearly under
stood, using now and then map of the
United States and another of the Texas
a Pacific railroad, lie spoke chiefly OF
northern Texas, because, in his opinion,
it was the best part of the Lone Star
state for emigrants, and because he was
more intimately acquainted with that
region, Between the TraussC Continental
and the Texas a Pacific railroads in a
paralle'ogram Of rich land suitable for
pioneer farmers, A belt of timber land
runs south from reXarkana, the entire
pot of the two roads west Of il is the
agricultural belt and still further west
is the grazing land, The agricultural
belt, two hundred miles wide and run.
ing the length of the state from north
,tosC"lH appeared to him the finest
and in the world. 1t has black,
waXy soil, impregnated with lime, free
from sand, fifteen feet deep and pro.
ductive the staples of both north and
south. But it is hard to cultivate and,
therefore, some emigrants despair
Thirty-Hve miles or so away from the
railroad land is cheap and if an emf
grant has money enough to buy piece,
station himself upon it and work hard
he will soon come out master But the
man who goes thither should have his
one thousand dollars when his foot is
finally planted upon the suitable spot
If he has the one thousand dollars, is
industrious and sober, he will be indie.
pendent in five years But there are
too many poor peoplet there now. Texas
does not want absolutely poor people.
81 would not advise poor people, who
have only money enough for transpor-
tation, said he, ITO 90 to no,thern Texas,
fertile and promising as the country is.
There are no charitable abodes for the
sick and unfortunate; the emigrant
should not 60 to that state unless he
can MAINTAIN himself until foothold
is established, Nor should any man
who drinks so to Texas. Whisky will
not do there, Bullets are plentiful for
all but the sober and if man keeps
sober, Texas is as safe a place as Phila.
delphia "If you cannot live without
whisky you had better not set your foot
on Texas soil" said the Bishop. The
kind of men to 60 to Texas are the sober
horny-handed ones, with little cap. |
ital Tradesman with u thousand dolN
lars can locate at Sherman. Fort Worth |
and especially Weathertord, further
west, and start up successfully but no
shop clerks, with fine apparel and i'm
macuiate choker, are needed. 1t is
amazing with what interest the people
now there takein religion They are keen
acute and remarkably good judges of a
sermon, so that clergymcn with empty
heads and cold hearts will soon find
that they are in the wrong place The
bishop concluded by advising all who
desire to emiglate to see TO it that they
yet trustworthy information Of land and
of land titles. No man should 20 to
Texas until he has counted the cost.