The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1877-12-08
TEXAS COLoNIsTs.
Bishsp Garrett Tells who ssouId snsi
Who shsuisi Nos GO 90 the lone STAR

Phiiadelphia Times: Bishop Garrett,
OF the northern Texas protestant Epis,
copsi diocese, gave a lecture upon Texas
colonization IN the church Of st. John
the evangelist, fhifd aud Reed streets,
last evening. The assembly room con-
tanned a iuii gathering oil the working
men and women of Southwark, sentael.
IN manner and dress and apparently Of
the very class which eastern eommun-
tiles can least afford TO lose The bishop
adopted plain, conversational speech,
and made himself ever clearly under
stood, using now and then map of the
United States and another of the Texas
a Pacific railroad. He spoke chiefly of
northern Texas, because, in his opinion,
Il was the best part of the Lone Star
State for eInigrants, and because he WAS
more intimately acquainted with that
regien. Between the Trans~Continental
and the Texas Il Pacific railroads in
psraiiesogran of rich land. suitable for
pioneer farmers. A belt of timber land
| runs south from Texarkana 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
| as VIC AShE hi vi tAf stalc from HOEtH
to south, appeared to him the finest
land in the world 1t has black,
wsxy soil, impregnated with lime. FREE.
fren sand, fifteen feet deep and pro-
ductive OF the staples Of both north and
south. But it Is hard To cultivate. aud
| therefore, some emigrants despair
ihirty-fve miles or so away from the
railroad land is cheap, and if an emf
grant has money enough to buy "a piece,
station himself upon it and work hard
he viii 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.
II he has the one thousand dollars, is
industrious and sober, he will be indes
pendent in five years But there are
too many poor people there now Texas
does not want absolutely poor people
Il would not advise poor people, who
have only money enough for transpor.
tstion, said he ito go to northern Texas,
fertile and promising as the country is -
There are no charitable abodes for the
sick and unfortunate, the emigrant
should not go to that state unless be
can maintain himself until foothold
, is established. Nor should any man
, who drinks go to Texas. Whisky viii
not do there. Bullets are plentiful tor
f all but the sober and if man keep.
I, sober, Texas is as safe a place as Phiia
: deiphis. IF You cannot live without
whisky, you had better not So. your foot
!, on Texas soil, said the Bishop Th.
kind OF men TO go to Texas are the sober
!, horny-handed ones, with little cap
ital. Tradesman with thousand dol
, lars can locate at Sherman. Fort Wortl
and especially Weatherford, turtle
west, and start up successfully, but n
shop clerks, with fine apparel and i'm
! maculate choker, are needed. Ii
l amazing with what interest the peopl
!, now there take in religion. They are keel
. acute and remarkably good judges of
Il sermon, so that clergymen with empt
: heads and cold hearts will soon fin
Il that they are in the wrong place. Til
: bishop concluded by advising all VIII
? desire 10 emIgrate to see to it that the
o get trustworthy information of land an
OF land titles, No man should 20 {
: Texas until he has counted she cost.