Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-02-11
SAN ANGELO.
A Town Where the Goose Always
Hangs Hight Church Building.
A Prospective Railroad-A Good Wheat
Growing Country.

DAN ANNLllot 4 h-As IT Nhs g. 4 us
town for more than year has b en-
afflicted with chronic case of boom"
with no immediate prospect Of recov-
cry, as building improvements are in
progress in almost every direction.
Work is progressing on the water
works, and there is well-founded
hope that by May. day the town will
have q better insurance status, attend
ed by material reduction OF rates.
The present mania of the settled
portion of our population Is for church
building and church organization.
The Presbyterians have under con-
struction a stone, the Baptists brick,
aud the Christians frame church ed
ifice, while the Methodists have but
recently completed theirs. The Epis-
crpalians are rapidly accommodating a
building fund, while another branch
of the Presbytelians have eff
feCted an organization, employed
an able minister and will doubt
less coon assume promi-
nent position in the religious circles of
| the town. From present indications
! the churches will soon exceed the sa-
| looms, in number and influence, ~ the
| people, irrespective Of creed contribute
literally TO the support OF every de
nomination that presents its claims
| There appears TO to be well-defined
anxiety upon the part Of the oldest and
most substantial citizens that the
| serene repose Of San Angelo will be
disturbed 10y the neigh OF the fire.
| horse cOursing over the track of the
! Gulf, Colorado & Santa Re railroad,
which is being pushed in this
/ direction, or that the people Of
| Sautone, elsted at the pros
Vect Of securing the Arkansas Pass
road, will invade the valleys of the
/ Conchos with a northern extension to
| San Angelo, to meet the threatened
Colorado San Antonio d Sabine and
thus form d junction With the Texas
d Pacific. or course this would throw
trade from the well-worn grooves, and
introduce into San Angelo all the tur.
moil, hustle and complications Incl
dent to trade center
i is distressing to observe the gloom
that has settled like a damp nOrther
upon the countensnces OF Las San
Angeles, on account of the reported
failure OF the Midlandites TO establish
home rule; and they are grieved that
your Midland correspondent, i'm the
anguish OF defeat, should ruthlessly
accuse them Of striking vii.
liam Patterson, and crushing
the fond hopes and dispelling
the bright dreams of power and
shekels entertained by the prospective
Midland 'fftcehOlders. In truth be il
said the people OF San Angelo received
the commissioners from the Midland
ties Hospitality and asseuted to all
their arguments in favor OF home rule.
they led them to the shrine of Bsc.
chus that they might quench their
thirst, and clothed them with the IN
cense OF tobacco and sent them on
their return, rejoicing that all was
well, and when failure fell upon their
efforts they smole sympathetic smile
and let them fail.
But the strife for ofice, once begun.
Though baiiied oft, is sometimes won.
And the unRnimity of sentiment
eYinctd by the Midlandites in holding
public meeting to call the "dyspep.
; tic" traducer of their Eden "a liar -
. gives assurance that II their efforts are
constantly directed towards the at
talnment ofindependent government.
they will at length have officers of
their own to rule over them.
I Many successful experiments in
q FARMING have convinced the people
that Tom Green county is not less ia.
vored as an agricultural country than
: counties further east, which were
g once part OF the Great American
4 Desert, as we were all taught a few
a years since, and that cry of ''destruct-
= I've drouth" is the same cry OF wolf
4 wolf, That has echoed from the Sabine
to the Rio Grande, over the prairies that
: have been converted into fields of Way.
/ ing grain IL Is not now an unusual
slght TO see the dissatisfied renter OF
. Eastern Texas, with his wife and chill.
dren, and the eve faithful yellow dog
with all their household Treasures
vending his way 10 the rich valleys al
= the ConchOs to establish home. The
, objection to farmers once entertained
by the cattle and sheepmen has meas.
ufaoly disappeared, and having Sc.
/, cured their pastures, they begin "a
q look upon the farmer as q valued adj.
4 luhoi To TO their enterprise by supply.
ing them with cheaper food an forsgs
storms.
The acreage of wheat soWn this win.
Ter hSs induced that enterprisinp citi.
4 zen, j. l., Millspaugh, To contemplats
/ Inc erection OF Touring mill I'm con,
4 neclion with his ice factory. and n "a
not improbable that -four sacks In San
/, Angelo marked MINNEAPOLIS, MINI Il
VIII soon be one OF the "use-to-wazzes' u
When people In other sections come n
know the adaptabilIty OF the prairies
/ OF Western Texas for the growth OF ce.
reals and the great advantage of the
climate OF We4tern Texas, we will sur.
| pass Minnesota rs grain-growing re.
gion, and Tom Green county will pro.
; duce more wheat than some of the
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