Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-07-28
RAMBLEs In THE WEST.
Notes Picked Up by a Gazette Corre'
spondcnt In the New Counties.

correspondence OF the Gazette.
WrATuERroRp, Ten, July 10
Your correspondent has just returned
from quite an extended fortnightstrip
through the counties of Jack, Young,
stevens, Palo Pinto and Parker l
find small grain crops good, In fact is'
above the average, everywhere. Corn
il greatly damaged by the drouth'
The hot winds of the last two weeks
have literally cooked IT, and in many
places il would burn If fire were APP
Piled. However, the crop was 30 iar
matured that quite a large amount Oh
corn will be gathered, which, with that
already on hand, will make nanu-
some surplus. Cotton Is damaged, as
vet. very little, and IA good ram
any time soon will Insure good crop
of The fieecy staple. Grass IL line ana
cattle look sleek and fat. / also saw
some very fat hogs, which the owners
informed me had never had bite TO
ent except what they had got on the
range. The mast being very fine last
wear carried them through the winter
until the mesquite grass sprang up IN
the sprlng, which they gay IL nearly
equal to corn for fattening hogs.
4 find the free-grass sentiment al.
most universal wherever went, ana
the lease law and Its advocates are IN
bad odor. 1t Is hard to make men
who have witnessed and experienced,
many of them, the beueiits of Tree
grass believe that 1t Is bad thing for
the development of the country.
"Why, look" say they, mt Parker,
Jack, Palo Pinto, Young and many
other counties over whose hills few
short, very short, years ago, roamed
the savage red man while the wild
fox dug his hole unscared,' but which
now, with giant strides, are assuming
their positions of Importance and
mower In the state, while the star OF
empire westward takes Its way. "
What, they ask, had anti-free grass TO
do with all this progress? IL seems 70
be "A question which the solons OF the
opposition have not been able TO an
swer.
In my rambes, I came to the sheep
ranch of Mr.. San II. How.
ard of this city, who had
Just finished dipping his sheep for
scnb which had most undcsired
and fatal effect. Up to that time, the,
I'D inst, he had lost about 200 head
from the effects of the dip, n Mr.
Howard thinks. He supposes some
package of the article he used was
wrongly mixed by the manufacturers
and that fatal amount of the poison
Qua ingredient was used.
Weatherford Is struck all I'm heap
by the artesiau-well boom and efforts
ARE already consummated to bore n
well on the school lot on Palo Pinto
street, Just west of the Baptist church.
IL IL the hands of men who
know no such word as fail,
and il artesian water is obtainable
in Weatherford 1t will certainly be
reached. Parties with well-borisg ap'
paratus would do well TO make note
of this, M the committee with the
matter in charge will be ready In
very short time to enter into con
tract. The city council has so much
faith in the project that they have al
ready contract ed for fire engine to cos
Si,S00.
/ forgot to say in the right place
that fine rains had prevailed within
the last two weeks In the country lyinl
northwest and southwest of Graham
The BRACES has been on big red ris'
and had to be ferried at every poin
below the mouth of Clear Fork.