The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-11-14
MARIENFELD.
The Ceming City of the Plains-Her
Teriit and Entsrprise-fhs Advan-
tages offered for Iuyestment.


the Coming City of the Plains-Her
Thrift and Entsrprise-rhs Advan-
tages offered for Investment.
We hereby particularly call the al
tentlon Of business men OF every elsss,
to tia announcement OF the town lot
sale al Maiienield, published In an
other part of this issue.
MaIienfeld is on the Texas & Pacific
raiiwsy, go miles west OF Dallas, and
IL the eoua'y seat OF Martin, ons of the
best agricultural counties of Western
Texas. Wa are personally We'll se-
quAnted with the place, its people,
and the surrounding country, and can
safely state that no better opportuni.
ties for safe investment, or for the es-
Enlistment OF a business OF sny kind
have osen presented to he public for
many months than are now presented
st the Marienield town lot sale, We
are al, hOrized to state that every dol
lar that may os realised in the sale of
lots will be eXpe dsd In Iha Improve
ment OF the Town by the Rev. Z. H..
Peters, whose entire interests are To-
lated tlSre permanently. TIE country
surrounding MaTieuicld Is far in ad-
vance of The town, some 600 people
soieiy engaged Ia farming hay.
ing been located there DUR
ing tbs past two years
within radius OF six miles Of Msrien-
field. Through the efforts OF the
MatienSeld settlers Gsrmania, Men
dota, Blookville, Malta and Spring
field colonies, all AGRICULTURAL, have
boon located within 30 Milss distances
withiu the past year, and sill of the col
onisis have bought tneir land and paid
Tor II, ands several hundred settlers
will surely come this coming winter
and spring. Beyond these tho trade
OF some 10 70 6Osheepand cattle ranches
in the Panhandle and central Tom
Green county can be secured by proper
effort, aud assisting in the construction
OF the Marienfe!d, Panhandle 4
Springfield railroad, part of which Is
TO be built very soon. A Touring MILL
cotton gin, newspaper, several general
stores with large stocks, hardware
store, dry goods stare, boat and shoe
store, and many others will do well
here.
M8rierteld at present has about 25(
Inhabitants, q fine brick cour. house, q
large brick church in course of con
struction, one Of the best schools In
charge OF tho Sisters of Divine Provi.
denee, q large convent. Within tht
next six months there is TO be erected
tirs,olass college for boys
capsule Of housing 800 pupils
The. faculty, able TO make il
the best educational institution OF its
kind west Of Now Orleans, will begin
operations az soon AZ the necessary
buildings are completed. The female
college, under the management of the
sisters Of Divine Providence 10 already
In operG zion, having some 90 pupils
AS soon IN the necessary buildingl
with dCrm stcries can DO completed the
Intermediates aud senior department.
will he opened. Tho course Of study
Is thorough aud ex ensive, 0otnprisinl
all the Eoglieh branches, German
French, vocal and instrumental mu
sic, drawing, painting, the genera
ptin ciples Of bookkeeping, plain sew
ing and every variety Of fancy work
The work slrssdy done by the iuhab
itants of Marienfeld,in bringing under
cultivation nearly 1000 acres on the
stakec plain, raising magnificent
crops the frat three yeas IN succession
whore such was claimed to DO ,impos
sibie, the opening of humorous roads
rsdIating in every direction, their un
tirinB work III securing the location o.
otLer colonies in their immediate
neighborhood,thei spirit of enterprise
shown In tho nttempt to build mar
row lgeuge railway TO Springfield Col
ony, IN Tom Green county, are safii-
cient guarantee that a business mar
will mako no mistake in casting hi,
lot 18th them.