The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-01-03

ARLINGTON, Tarrant Co.,
Texas, Deer. %, 1877. =

Texas, Deer. %, 1917.
Editor Milan Erchange-T Thinking
that some of your numerous readers
would like to hear from this parts of
"The Lone Star State" | take this
opportunity of writing few lines for
your valuable paper. | left Trenton
on the Goth of November with train
of about fifty or sixty emigrants for
Dallas, Texas. We chartered stock
ear for our stock, wagons and house
hold goods. We came through to
Arlington without change of cars.
We also chartered p passenger coach
for our accommodation. We came
through to Texarkana without chang
of cars, and from there to Arlington
without change. We came through
in three days with. as many accom-.
modations as emigrants could expect.
All the parties that came with us are
well pleased, and most of them have
bought land. Good land is worth
$500 per acre unimproved, and i'm
proved land is worth from $500 to
$1,000 pei acre. The emigration to
this portion of Texas is immense, and
it Is mostly from Tennessee. Capt.
,Jno. F. Doan, formerly of Milan, is
now a citizen of Fort Worth. DR..
and Esq. Boyt and Capt. Roberts, of
Rutherford Station, and many other
good citizens of Gibson are here.
l understand tkat Capt. Thomas
Gay, of Gibson, has just arrived with
about one hundred emigrants; they
have located about twelve miles from
here. People are coming in daily to
this part Of Texas, and houses are in
great demand. Farmers of this county
have made more this year than they
can gather; there are thousands of
bales of cotton in the patch yet. The
wheat crop looks remarkably well, and
there is plenty OF wheat that will hide
rabit now. Provisions are very
plentiful; corn is worth 45 cts. per
bushel, and wheat S1.20; pork is
worth from 5! to 6 cts. per h., and
very plentiful at that, and as fine as
ever was fat,eaed in Tennessee or
Kentucky leef is cheap and in
abundance. In regard to Arlington,
1t Is new town on the Texas Pacific
railroad, thirteen miles from Fort
Worth. Its not quite two years old
yet and there are twelve business,
four hotels, two livery stables, two
lumber yards, two churches, and
school house in it. Fort Worth is
one Of the livpst towns in America.
They claim ten or twelve thousand in
habitants. There is about five thous-
and bales of cotton sold there every
week. | was there one day last week,
and there were fourteen hundred and
siXty>eight bales sold that day, and
the grain and lumber business will
equal that of the cotton. There are
from three to five hundred wagons
there daily, There are not business
houses enough TO accommodate the
trade. Fort Worth is bound to be
the metropolis of the west, and at the
present rates of emigration in two
years Texas will cast larger elector-
al vote thau New York, and there is
plenty room for all that will come.
Those who want cheaper lands can get
them by going further west. The
land in Denton, Jack Clay and Tar
rant counies are as fine as there
is in the world, and it is worth in
some of them froms1.50 TO So 00I
per acre. The range here is perfect
ly splendid.
Well, as time will not admit of nv
writing any more at present, | will
close by asking YOU to change my
paper from Fort Worth to Arlington,
as there is another j. B. Moore at
Fort Worth. Yours most truly,
,ISO II MOOpE