The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-06-13
GRAHAM.

GRAHAM, June neutrality-suspicious.. J.
noticed in your Austin Especial" OF the
3lst that numerous complaints are being
made against stock-men fencing up the
country to the detriment OF actual settlers;
had occasion to 60 over few counties a
short time ago, and had good opportunity
TO inquire into this fence nuisance, and
really believe it will set back this portion OF
Texas twenty years, if some means are MOI
employed to stop it. | left Henrietta one
evening and mile or so out opened a
gate, we travelled on for some time and
camped in company with an English farmer,
and will give you his account of the fence
nuisance. al located little home of l6t
acres but have Just been fenced in on a.
sides 80 that can do nothing. had a few
stock, but they have to go seven miles ioi
water The party who fenced me in does
not own many stock, but seems to be a
speculator; he owns the land upon which
his fence is located, but does not own much
Of the land on the inside but is buying il
up fast for mere song. | am going tC
sell my homo to this shylock
The pasture we camped in consisted oil
about forty thousand acres, it was nearly
all the county between Henrietta and WITCH
ita Falls, and we never saw sign OF a COW.
Is not this bordering on to the landed au-
tOcracy I England2 No wonder that these
fences are cut by the exasperated settlers
This felce nuisance may be law, but ii
certainly is not founded upon common
| sense.
Graham is on big boom now, and is
ripe for q railroad. A few wears ago this
pretty little site was the home Of the wild
savage.
Many people and especially citizens Of
Dallas, wonder why Judge McCormack
moved to Graham. The great wonder to
us is why he did not move several years
ago. Graham is bound to be the distfibnt-
ng point for the panhandle country and
all the country adjacent to her. OF course
q railroad will be necessary, but her coal
fields alone will insure that. Mr.. II. j.
Swancoat, the energetic manager of the
Rockdale coal mines has pronounced the
coal here of u very good quality, and he
has only seen small surface sample.
Graham has also the finest
mineral wells in the state,
the purest air, finest mountain
scenery, and best society, for Its size in the
land. We expect Mr.. Lanham to have us
Federal court building in course of cree
| ton after the meeting ofCongress, a splen-
uiu Sibut Chu Dc ODlbiutu iTce vi CnhTRe W
the government, this court has the largest
territory Of any court in the United States,
and will soon have the most business, as
portion OF the Indian territory was annexed
! 10 1t at the last term Of congress. Many
| fortunes have been made here in the
stock business, men here, live in modest
little houses who own from thirty to two
hundred thousand dollars in stock and
lands. Colonel II. s. Graham is the origi-
nator OF the scheme, to settle Graham,
some eight or ten years ago he left his
beautiful home In Louisville Kentucky and
came out to this, then, desolate country.
Many narrow escapes could he relate from
been richly rewarded and is the largest
land owner in north west Texas, he has
spent many thousand dollars both in this
country, and Europe, in inviting imigra
ton to this fertile country. Mr.. Jeffrey came
out here about the same time, as a laborer
for Mr.. Graham; to-day ne has u splendid
sheep ranch, and as fine a saloon as you
will see west of Dallas, and much of the fill
thy lucre. Mr.. j. has in his possession a
silver medel picked up near here with this
inscription. "Frsm James X Polk,n this
is supposed to have been lost by the In
dams who made the attack upon the WACO.
ners some years ago, thinking they were
General Shermans party for which Satanic
and Big Tree were sent to the Texas peni
Tertiary.
We are just commencing one of the most
beautiful harvests that was ever known in
this country, and the people of drDuthy
southern Texas will have to move here i
they want good crops.