Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-07-16

take possession of the goodly
land. Probably when the finances
of the country become a little more
settled there will be a move made in
that direction by some company. The
present necessities Of the country de-
mand It and these necessities will in
crease and multiply in geometrlcal
proportion after the road Is completed.
The attitude Of the several railroads
looking In that direction reminds one
of two chicken cocks, each waiting for
the other to make the first pass, Do
not be cowatdly, gentlemen, but pitch
in and civilization will back you there
the same as II has done in other por-
lions of the state. Northwest Texas Il
The best portion OF the state, and II
railroads will pay In Eastern, southern
and Southwest Texas they certainly
will there in time. You railroad
magnates essayed geveral years ago
to drag the ear Of civilization
after you and the public have cheerf Ill
ly awarded TO you the honor and have
handsomely compensated you for do
ing so, and now after you have got
one half OF our public domain 1t does
not look exactly fair to drop us be-
cause we have no more TO give. Go
ahead with those railroads. j may
want to make another trip up
into that country some day, and
God knows do not want 10
have 10 stage 1t for another
500 miles at this season Of the year.
But 1 perceive have got slightly oil
the track. set out to give the readers
of THE GAZETTE some faint idea Of "a
stage ride from Wichita Falls to Mo-
beetle, but my subject IL too awfully
awful to talk about. 1t IL one of those
little episodes in the rambier's life
that has TO be experienced in order
to be fully appreciated. If the reader
does not believe II let him ask Mr..
---, representing Joseph II. Brown,
whom I Glanced TO meet at the
Halfway house on his return trip, rs
] was going up, with his tongue hang
| ing down to his knees and swollen
past utterance and 30 hungry that lac
could not wait to open can of oysters
| before swallowing them. He has Jo-
seph II. Brown under obligations to
| him for the balance Of his days wheth-
er he sold dollars worth of goods or
not. If he Is yet alive and IL the Fort
Worth Publishing company has any
sense of gratitude / shall expect soon
| TO be placed on its retired list with an
annual pension equal TO that Of my
highly esteemed but badly busted I'M
Gle Ulysses.
The stage line from Wichita Falls
| to Mobeetie is owned by the Fort
Worth IL Denver City Stage company,
and Is under the management of Mr..
j. w. Orr, who has his headquarters
at Wichita Falls. To lay all joking
aside, this stage route could not pos
sibly have fallen into better hands.
The distance between the terminal
points is something over 200 miles,
though the trip can he made by pri-
vate conveyance about sixty miles
less, but the stage company has the
contract for carrying the mails and is
compelled to go about sixty miles out
Of its way to accommodate the settle
ments scattered along the line. The
stage company runs tOur-hOrse
coaches all the way, and does all In its
power for the comfort and convenience
of the travelling public, and If the
coach does not chance to be crowded
(which, 10y the way, is usually the
case the traveller gets along very
comfortably, and II he has
never been that way before
and has the least curiosity to see the
fairest portion of the best country in
the world, the trip will pay him we'll.
IL is a bleak, desolate looking country
now, but not Il whit more so than the
central portion of Texas was when the
writer first saw 1t, Well-directed la
Dor has converted these grassy plains
and bald hills into fruitful fields of
cotton, corn, wheat, oats and every
thing else needful for the comfort and
convenience of man, and II will bring
, about the same happy results up in
that country If you will tear down the
wire fences and give the hardy sons OF
honest toll u chance to select home
for Betty and the baby.
For 100 miles you travel through
pastures and pass through but five
gates, which gives the average across
pastures of thirty miles, and one pas
ture Is forty-seven miles across with
, out single settlement the entire dis
I lance except the ranch quarters,
Wnat Durlesque on the wis.
dom of our legislators. What an
inviting prospect for the actual settler,
Voters. think Of this when you come to
the polls next November. There are
|, twenty-eight counties in what is called
the Panhandle district, and there are
not that many stockmen in it, and yet
the country is nearly all inclosed with
barbed wire, or soon will be if this
lease system is allowed to run on, and
, then where will the actual settler drive
down his peg? In scme cattle kings
pasture? fine does, will guarantee
IL will be pulled up again hear
quicker than II was driven down
Your son may want n home out Their.
some day and how shall he yet II, and
of whom shall he get it? | admit |
. have got the free grass bad, and If you
could see the Northwest as have seer
1t you would have ii too. RAMBLER.