The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-03-14

lands are advanced in price to a par witt
railroad lands, land buyers will do well Il
correspond with any agent of the Texas and
racine Railroad, but they are speciaIly re.
ferred 10 N. r. Warwick, CO West Marylsnd
street, indianapolis, who will freely furnish
maps, plsts. and answer all questions con.
corning lands in Arkansas and Texas.
There is this advantage in buying lands Of
the Iron Mountain and Southern and Texas
ana Pacific Railroad Companies: Their
Titles are absolutely perfect Then. their
prices are as low as any for same quality Of
land, and their terms are long aud essv.
The information furnished by their agents
Is strctIy reliable, and they furnish Won
laclilties OF transportation for yourselves
and household goods that others can not.
Place yourself under the direction Of n.
H. warwick, 90 West Maryland street.
Indianapolis, and you will save time aud
money-will see ten times as much country
anu Iano In a given time, and at half the
cost, as II you start out "oDyour own hook
10 aunt land. To hunt home in Texas or
Arkansas is like hunting one somewhere be-
tween Indianapolis and Portland, Me. You
meet one man on the train and he will adj
wise you in one direction, and the next man
In another With your general knowledge
OF climate and what you may have learned
from persons you know, fix on a locality
DISCQ
self in communication with the parties
named and you will be able to see what YOU
want In less time and at less expense than
you can in any other way.
ARKANSAS AND TExAs.
(Which shall go top asks an old friend
That depends on what you want to do and
your tastes. If you want timber lands,
suc5 as pine, oak, poplar, walnut, cypress
ETC., go TO Arkansas or Eastern Texas with
your saw-mill and wagon works, and farni
ture factory. Arkansas has this very un-
usual fault: With her timber she has grass
L mean that in her timber districts there is
grass In the woods, which is not the case in
Texas. You may ride miles in Texas and
not see tree big enough to make a switch;
you feel as though the sight of a rock or a
tree would be relief. Then you come to
hills, rocks and brushy, as well as lands COW
cred with small timber. They who want
rocks on their lands. know they must give
away so many square inches or
feet OF ground for the sake
OF the rock or the
well embedded in the soil, and hence the
grass grows close to the body OF the tree
Woocs pasture is a positive institution in
Arkansas. To-day you can see green grass
and budding blossoms and fst cattle in the
woods in Arkansas. When the weather is
cold and the wind severe, the timber cor
stitutes protection to the cattle and is a
shelter" when the sun is hot.
could not decide for any one as between
Arkansas and Texas. Both have their sd-
vantages. Both are inviting fields to those
contemplating new homes. There are men
farming to-day in Indiana and Ohio on COM
paratively poor land that they could sell az
SIS To $50 per acre, that could come TO
Arkansas or Texas and buy better lands for
y to 50 per acre, and invest part of their
money 10 stock and rapidly qnadruple their
wealth, be il large or small. Stock feeding
In the North is an established fact. 1t is q
work, hard, toilsome work, and the hus-
bandmaD feeds 10 bis stock in winter what
he has toiled to raise in summer and his
cattle come to the grass in the spring poor
and worth to 10 per cent more than they
were year previously. In Arkansas and
Texas during the winter the stock thrive on
grass green and dry, the latter furnishing
the ''roughness' that it is conceded that
stock need. SENEx.