The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-10-26
MIDLAND MATTERS.
ABATcH OF BADGER EMIeRANrs.
The Spirit of IsprsVemeHt Still Manifest
Historic HsView Brought Out by
CSrrespehdent's EssAy on
Give MOAtbs Lost"

Sunday last G. r.. ClLugh, ono orthe Mis-
souri, Pacific land agents, arrived with
twenty one men, women and children,
from Wrightstown, Wisconsin, all per-
manent citizens. One Of the party, j.
w. Lawrence, began to erect dwelling
tho next day, and the party will build
several other houses very soon. Others
VIII engage in farming and stock raising
IN small way near town, We welcome
these people most cordially. They are
just the kind OF migrants
most needed, intelligent oner-
Botlc men and women with
ample resources to carry out their plans
and Intentions. Col. j. @. Carr has pur-
chased another lot, and has commenced
dwelling thereon. Tho colonel is one
OF our most active citizens, has nm
bounded faith in Midland, and il doing
no little to induce immigration and to
encourage those who do come.
large force of hands have been nj
work on the side track around the depot
ana viii have il completed tonight, I'M
less the rain prevents.
A severe norther, for this time OF year.
began on the 2lst, and one-half inch OF
ram fell that day and night. More rain
loll yesterday and last night, and still
GonilSuos, with prospect of raining all
day.
f.. M. Wardlow's new dwelling is near
~ done and another will be built shortly.
one OF your contemporaries publishes
Midland letter, one of the head lines to
which Is give Months lost" Sensible
people take far different view OF it, and
briol synopsis of what has actually
been accomplished may he of interest To-
your readers.
The salo Of lots, ended MAY l4th last.
Ihlrty days was necessarily consumed
IN making settlements, writing and de-
liVsrlnB deeds, and some additional
tlmo was expended in completing tho
company's well, removing the Office To
mako room for tho hotel 10 DO erected ON
That site and in attending to some pri-
Vate business Of the company that could
not be postponed.
for reasons not necessary to enumer-
ate, the railroad company had determ-
lnod To remove the depot from tho site
where The Town company had promised
IL should be. A question had boon
raised by certain surveyor IA to the
accuracy of the town plat, we had no IN
cllities for the transaction Of business.
no population To speak OF in the sur
rounding country.
To-day, we have a handsome depot
with platform, the best on the line OF the
railroad between Fort Worth and M
Paso, except at eating stations, and IL il
precisely whore the company promised
IL should be; the accuracy of the sur
Ney has been iully demonstrated; we
hnFe stock-yards and stock-pens for the
loaulhB ana unloading OF
stock; we have p6stofrice.
elegraph Office, two express Offices. Wa
have large, beautiful and c0mmodious
Motel building, one that would not dis
credit a city of 1900 people. We have
smaller hotel, three boarding houses, a
llNerJ stable, "A school community,
granted with our pro-rsta of the public
money and school in operation in ons
OF the neAtest, pleasantest and most in
wiling frame school houses in Texas.
We have good lumber yard, a mll
stock or drugs in tho hands Of "A through
druggist, small stocks OF clothing. gro
cerigS and hardware, portion OF a
Wlhd-mill mAuufactOry aud repair shops
erected, to be cOmDeted and in full on.
Grafton soon. A we'll educated
physician, peace officers appointed,
anu row state rangers
stationed here, two saloons and % bill.
liard room, twenty buildings erected in
~ WV Wa N'NNiy HAlUltAlt i've or nix
IN the country near, with others con
tractod for, both in town and county,
humorous ranches established in evcry
direction, making Midland oirtradiug
poiat - soon ~ the promised stocks Of
goods arrive.
ono dairy has been established and
another. soon will bo, IA the proprietor
now resides here.
More ranchmen and more Rrnnyorg
are on the way.
The attention OF the people from tho
Atlantic tn the Pacific, and from Canada
10 the gulf has beHu attracted hy our
young town, aud its success and PROS
poritN has been assured boyaud 9uos.
tiou,pnd all this In "dyO months l0afiir
To impartial people 10 would appoar
that an Immense UnHguto ~ hard work
had been done hy somebody, AS without
The ndvuniiuOus aid Afforded by u town
hciar placed Eat the end ur the trark,N
for instance, Midland has boon placed
upon solid, substantial basis, and
much oi the adjacent country popu.
lated; Int thou soWo mon are born
'groWirr You know,