The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1878-01-12
i LAND ar PReMIsE.
A Mine Of Agricultural Richness Which
viii Pour It's Wealth into the Lap Of
Dallas When the iroa Horse Goes
Saorting Over lis Prairies.

Dallas When the iroa Horse Goes
Ssortins Over lis PrairIes.
DENTON, Jsn1ary 6, 1879.
he Editor OF The Herald:
DEAR SIR-Some days since. your cor
res pondent left your city for the pur-
pose of taking u country airing and /
loo king over the much talked of route
II the Dallas and Wichita railroad /
Leaving Dallas. passed through almost |
lanes, and across the riehs !,
esi upland district that il has ever been
my good fortune 10 behold. For TWEEN
~ miles along the line of that road is !
the same, bettcmIese, black prairie |
lands that are in the immediate vicinity !
OF Dallas. then struck into the bot.
tom of the Elm fork of the Trinity,
densely timhered district. reaching to
the neat little village OF Lewisviile. to
which point | understand the railroad
is to De finished Immediately, distance
tg enty,five miles from Dallas
LEwIsFJEi.R
Il nicely situated on the rolling prai
res thai skirt the western border OF the
L u bottoms and the eastern line of
the crossStimbers, aud as one looks
back to the east over the depression
that forms this timbered bottom, away
oil at the distance OF ten 10 twelve miles,
may be seen the neat farm houses
and barns that bespeak the
thrifty farmer of Dallas and Collin
counties.
TIE railroad once at Lewisvilie, the
trade from Denton and Wise counties
viii begin to pour its wealth into the
lap of Dallas. Tor the country west of
/ ere for great distance is sandy soil,
aud the roads are of a firm gravel that
makes teaming far more agreeable in
wet weather than it is in the black
lands.
From Louisville ! passed through
"a fair upland timbered district. TOUR
/ teen miles, to the town oil Denton, sit
uated en- the western border of the
CROSS rISBRRs.
| Il is lovely site, and is web laid
/ out, with neat new courthouse
crownipg the the hilieek that forms
he ceHter OF the public square
| predict for the town Of Denton a
| bright future, unless .fogyisn should
prove too hide bound for the presen,
progressiseness of the age West and
north OF Denton is as lovely country
! as the eyes OF man ever baheid. A. ia,
| away as vision can reach, stretch the
bald pralries. with here and there wiad
! ing like a thread across their surface
are the linipid waters of clear Hiekor,
and Denton creeks These are skiried
with timber ample for fire purposes
The lands are ,.rstseiass Seing less WAX,
than the Dallas soil, and having JUS
enough of saad in them to make /
pillow clear ITSELF nicely They are said q
be the finest wheat lands nf the state
Along these small water courses III,
farmer Of limited means has pitched
his hab;tation, where he can cuitiya,.
the richest of soil. have plenty of Woo
and water close st hand and wstcl
sita swelling pride. his little herd tina
graaes ali dag in sight Of his doniisile
As 1t requires more capital 10 hrinj
into cultivation the large tracts, fa
, removed from timber, but few so IA
, have ventpred out on the broad praifies
one party, though a citizen of YOU
town, seems to have grappied with al.s
triumphed over all opposition | refe
; to "Abney's farm. a tract of Ian,
: laying "a handsomely as h aart couis
wish, rich, black sandy soil, with sew
, ersi hundred acres in cultivation, an,
its neat row Of white painted tenan
houses. stretching for two W three nile
across this expanse Of prairie, is relic
7 10 the eye, and cheers one like q foun
! tain in desert. This farm is immedi
, ateiy on the located line of the railroat
from Denton to Decatur; postoffice i
established theFe aud doubtless " hel
the iron horse goes snortinR over tn
; prairies depot win be erected.
: WISE COUNTY.
. is not rs rich as Dentor
though great deal OF yer
/, fine lands are to /. be found /
Wise. The rich little prairies and cree
bottoms are being rapidly filed up wit
, thrifty farmers, VINO gov small crops
and have plenty of boz aud hominy
This is timber county.
CLAY COUNTY
B Is a high rolling, sandy prairie, rich an
0 productive the northwestern PARTON G
D which is trarersed by the two Wichital
{ and Is one OF the finest grazing an
2 farming districts in any country. A
: yet, it Is but little Developed; but whe
The iron arm of enterprise shall hay
f reached cut a hundred miles in that d
! rcc.ion, untold wealth will TEEN fro,
j it's valleys; and other cities will striy
Q to get and hold the trade that yon ma
Z at once obtain and keep forit is nc
: easy to turn trade into new channel
3 when once established.
Z MONTAGUE COUNTY
: Is good deal like Wise, though not $
$ much rich land; it is also mostly tim
e bered, at least those portions that
/, have seen.
!. Is good county. aud the western an
Z southern portions will send their quot
4 70 Dallas through the Dallas an
/ Wichita.
4 Passing down through the south {
Z Cook back into Denton, ! came to Pile
4 Point, aourishing town of about tw
e THOUSAND inhabitants, situated sixtee
. ladies' northeast of Denton. Abou
:, Pilot Point are many large aud exien
(. siye farms. and there are great man
tesislsnees of thrift. The compilation q
= the Dallas and Wichita TO Deiiton s,
a cures TO yon this trade.
FL To one familiar with the eountr
northwest of Dallas. it lie not at al
: predetermined whether the Dallas an
5 Wichita railroad will prove payin
) investment
81 All that country laying west of Elr
| fork and east of Vest fork up TO tn
Wichita, viii be opened up to Dallas
: The Wichita country will fill "
2 rapidly causing demand for lumbe
/, and supplies that will be simply aston
= isbins. Let the railroad 60 70 Decatur
4 and you secure the trade oil Denton
> Wise. Jack, Clay. Archer, Wichits
/. Montague. and part OF Cook counties
> together with gaodiy part of the soutl
portion of the Indian territory Ii III r
! is any one thing that should stimuiai
! the energies OF your citizens, it is th
: prospect that is opened By th;s inyitin
: field. A part from the richness of tn
tsoil, there are many Indications q
= mineral wealth. At one point ! sa,
| coal cropping out upon the bank Of