Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-05-29
MARIENFELD.
A View Of the Young Three Year
Old Of Martin County-The Beat Of
Learning Of the Plains
Cheap Homes Promised to the Newcomer
"A Railroad Without Rails-Fine
Crop Prospects.

MARrENFELD, Tex May 90
Marlenfeld is the county seat Of Mar
tin county. 1t Is situated on the east
ern border Of the steked plalnp, twenty
miles west OF Big Spring on the Texas
81 Pacific. The town was settled by a
colony Of German Catholics In 1882,
and the entire colony now embraces
about six hundred souls. They are an
industrious and frugal people, as Is
abundantly proven by what they have
accomplished in 80 short q space OF
time.
The town consists OF about twenty
very good frame buildings, including a
large two.story hotel kept in excel
lent style by Henry Shuer, a large
church and convent, and the contract
is let for very nice courthouse.
brewery IL in running order but has
not commenced operations yet. My
landlady informs me there are ten
priests engaged In teaching In the
convent all tho time.
Thus the reader will perceive
that they are moral and religious
people, as we'll rs industrious and fru-
gal. 1t il chiefly "a farming COM
munity, although each one of the col
ouiBts owns more or less stock of some
kind.
The county clerk informs me that the
colony has about eight thousand acres
OF this rich prairie now under cultiva-
ton and their crop prospects for this
year are very encouraging. They
have not had such vast amount of
rain this spring "a they have had east
OF the Colorado river, still they have
had frequent showers, which will ma
ture the crop aud insure an abundant
harvest If they will continue that
long. They get an abundance of ex-
cellent water by digging or boring
from fifty TO sixty feet.
A person riding along in the cars
will get very fair view Of the town,
but he will see very little of the fine
crops which surround the town.
From the readiness with which
they subscribe for THE GAZETTE
conclude that they either
are now, or very soon will be, very
intelligent people.
j have seen something here that
llNNVA hthN hdibANt Nhh iAtftl NAlfNNNNh
| to see, and that Ia "A railroad without
rails. 1t il simply large steam
wagon, weighing about fifteen thou
sand pounds, and Is intended to trans
port freight TO points north or south OF
the railroad. Estucado-be known
rs the Quaker settlements
Crosby county. / am told 1t
| Ia Al onttfat,NaKNt anH
this being Its nearest shipping point,
this steam wagon Is intended to trans
port freight between these two points
lbs miles apart, for the present. II
can haul one carload OF water and fue
and three carloads OF freight Of from
fifteen to twenty tons each. They go
up steam yesterday and went out into
the country twenty miles and hauled
In two carloads OF wool On ordinary
groundit Will travel from eight to tel
miles an hour.
After tea this evening, Col. j. M
/ Warren called ut the hotel and invited
, me out 20 take walk to view some o
the farms and gardens adjacent to tn
l town. The sight 70 far exceeded m.
fondest expectation that was trul.
y astonished. / saw wheat fields tina
Will average their twenty bushels t
the acre at the least calculation, | say
corn as high as mans head, provides
the man IL not too tall. | saw gal
dens with every variety of vegetabl
!. and fruit common to Texas, looking d
|, thrifty as any have seen this year 1
any part OF the state. have rea
similar reports of these settles of tn
= plainan Ia other papers, but decide
that the reporter was merely ticklin
the ear OF these people, With the vie
a to induce them TO patronise his pape
but can assure my gentle reader
that | am telling the truth, an
the facts are here to SUI
l. stantiRte every word | have sal,
4. Little did / think, when crossir
10 these plains In '67 behind herd
10 cattle, that | would live 10 cross the,
., in Pullman sleeping car, and TO 8
a, what was then considered steri
Y, waste converted into such farms ~
n- gardens M / have seen to-day, and Y
OF the work of improvement has but in
80 commenced. This is the third crop (
D. the oldest farm or garden l have Sc,
m to-day. What can be the future (
~ right here on these plains Is the pla
a. for the young men OF Texas to stri
~ for cheap homes and good homes.
d, that | were boy again!
X T. s., 8 o'clock y, m,--The crops q
Is, secured. It is now pouring down {
or heaviest rain of the season. wi
n some hail. This will insure 90
Iol corn crop.
RI There have been over one thousa
~ bags OF wool shipped from this poi
ca already this season. RAMRLnI,
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us An End 20 Bone Seraping.