The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-04-01
HFRALDING HAROLD.
THE NoRrHwEsrs NEW TOWN.
Not very Much Development at Present,
But ROseate Future Pictured
Tho Fort Worth 4 Denver
Extension Probabilities.

HARROLDi MaTcn Zi'-LSpeclal Corre- |
sncrdenoe Some business matters
having called me into the Panhandle,
concluded, on my way back, to switch
oTond lake look at this place and the
.urroundint country. Harold is in
Wilbargsr county, IS miles west, or a
little northwest, of Wichita Falls, and
a., he ths next terminus of the Fort
Worth l. Denver City railroad. / learn
mat the railroad company will here
srect A rDuud-hOuse and probably ma
chine shops. So the prospect is that
II viii remain the terminus Of
tbp road Tor an indefinite time and
become quite an important city.
There is 30 probability that the road
will go beyond it until the country to
tbs west is settled up so rs to make
nassed in this country when railroads
Are built for the mere love Of building,
ortogiyo property TO construction COM
nqnies and none TO stockholders and
boudhOlders. As TO when the country
ill be settled up sufficiently TO Justify
the passing on, is Il matter OF question,
INT certainly it is mighty thinly settled
beyond Harold just now. | therefore
take it that The road VIII stay here at
least as long as it has staid at
Wichita Falls, and Il has now been at
that place lust two years and Two
months. Then we should soon witness
here a city az least as big as Wichita
Falls now Is, and probably q good deal
more so, as il is not at all unlikely that
a large portion Of the business men OF
Wichita Fails will move here as soon as
the road touches the place. That will
be some time a 2t month, Tor the grad
inpi now finished within a few miles
of here aud the work is being pushed
RAPIDLY. Harold is now quite we'll
known name in Texas, but il
will be familiar name in
short time AT present there is but
one solitary house here and that is not
vet completed, But there are num-
Der of tents here and one can get COM
Portable lodgir5 and such creature COM
forts rs are necessary, The first house
is being built by an enterprising
preacher, and 10 is said that ii will he
sort Of hotel or eating and lodging
house. He may find after he has i'm
ished his hOHse, that he viii have to put
II on rollers and move IL a lite az be-
lieVe 10 Is not yet definitely known TO
outsiders exactly where the town site
is to be. That it will either be on this
spot or near il is, however, very certain.
They are now constructing here two
enormous tanks, or lakes, or ponds, one
of which will give over 200 acres OF
water and The other nearly as much.
They are procured by damming up q
drainage basin, which draws TO it the
rainfall of great scope of country.
There is also y creek running through
the BASIN, OF small size, but always iur-
nishing water in large and deep pools.
These tanks are situated three miles
apart, tho upper one intended tor water
ing cattle wrich may be brought
here for shipment south or east, and the
lower one for catl @ brought here on the
railroad for driving north The idea in
this is TO prevent all danger Of the cat
tie with the Two destinations coming in
contact and producing "Texas or sple-
netic fever" for it is said that the Pan
handle cattle will take this disease from
cattle from other portions of Texas just
as quick as the Kansas, Missouri or Ne
braska cattle. Between these two
tanks, at q convenient distance, the
new town will, no doubt, be
located. have asked nearly
everybody hore to show me the exact
spot, bu I haven't found the one yet
who can say that he positively knows.
However, am satisfied that | am now
within easy pistol range Of the spot
will be busy, busting city, where the
largest cattle business in all Texas will
be transacted. There will be cattle men
and COW boys here by the hundreds and
thOus auds, and this class Of people al
ways cOntrive TO make ihlngs lively
about them.
But has he new cl'y any Other basis
for prosperity and permauence beyond
the cattle trade? | have now looked
into the country AL around here, and
can state that IL is "a very superior cOun-
try as regards soil, a5 well as q very
beautiful one The country is all rich,
so much so that do not believe q single
section Of land CAR be found within 10
miles of Harold which is not excellent
agricultural land. Atleast, after careful
looking, ] have seen none which Is not
fine lauu for the pillow auu farm, IL is
as universally rich as the country
about Mckinney In Collin county
But the soil here is u9t tGs backwaXy
IS 81 is in lhe local y referred TO-. II is
for -r4 most par. chocolate c1lOr7d,
equa y as rich and far better 10 work
IN Than the black w3N'. IL is undouIi-
edly destined to oycume a grand agri.
cultural d,strgG. Req river ana Pease
river, with their gram valleys aIe0 on Y a
fey miles away, AMI Beaver creek is
only about three miles of. There IS al
ready quite farming population along
these streams, and they have been very
successful in their farming. They all tell
me that tor fruits, mel
ons and grapes esrecialiy,
the latter the country ls not to be sur
passed. | hope 10 be here gain in a
few months, and no doubt / shall then
see brisk town, with rows of mercan-
tile houses, and all The usual parapher-
MALTA of theaters, tipling shops, etc.
Such is life in the great aud rapidly
developing west. And, no doubt,
shall find the wide prairies, now open
and tenantless, showing on all hands
the prosperous home of the granger
The lands hereabouts belong almost en-
tirely, as yet, 10 the school fund and 10
the Houston IL Texas Central
railroad company. These school lands
can be bought for - per acre, with 30
years to make payment. The railroad
lands arc said to bo held al $3.50 per
acre. These prices are "dirt cheap" for
such lands. In five years or less from
to-day they will no worth $40 per acre or
more. SENIOR.
Dr. William NJ. Giles, Hartford, Conn,
March "a, 1879. Sir--I have procured one
large bottle of your Iodide Ammonia
Llniment of Messrs SissOn Butler *