Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-03-01

for the purpose OF letting such contract.
The court reserves the right to reject any
and all bids. ]. N.JACksoN.
Clerk County Court, Callahan County, Texas.
under discussion in the house, and see
if opponents, protesting common
purpose, cannot find "the happy
mean" We regret, however, that the
Chronicle seems now to indorse views
OF the agricultural capacity of the
West which, If we are not mistaken,
the Chronicle took occasion some years
ago to controvert when expressed by
others. But that aside; time will
show the Cleburne paper the vast agri-
cultural capacity of even "the Staked
Plains"
The house bill provides for the leas-
ing of ffiy sections in unorganized
and ten sections in organized counties
to one person.
These quantities Of land are not "big
pastures" ss our millionaire friends
use the term but even the Chronicle,
which does not advocate "big pas
lures" must see that, with the alter
mates, fifty sections would give one
person a pasture of 100 sections ga 600
acres) in unorganized, or N pasture OF
twenty sections az 500 acres) in organ
lied counties, and when the Chronicle
considers that there is nothing In this
bill to prohibit the tranfer of leases, it
must admit that the opportunity az
forded "syndicates and corporations
outside of Texas" by this "happy
means" to secure "big pasturesn il
simply unlimited by aught save the
needs and ducats of the pasture
princes. 1t Is a contemplation suffi.
GENTLY disagreeable to think of solid
cattle pasture Of Il, 500 acres in an or
ganized county, without dwelling on
such an obstruction doubled, trebled
or quadrupled by the license permitted
in the matter of transferring leasee
The exaggeration Of this license might
result in putting every acre of land IL
an unorganized inside the wire fence
Of n cattle syndicate.
The bill provides for the rental price
of 8 cents an acre. THE GAZETTE, ai
the alleged organ OF the millionaire, is
supposed, no doubt, to be satisfied with
the price fixed; but surely the Chron
icle, which last year thought eight
cents not too much for the syndicates
to pay for the school children's grass
ought to enter q protest; especially a,
Gov. Ireland stated that the Increase
In lease price was made by the LAND
board in order to prevent all the lane
worth having from being gobbled up
The bill provides that all lands
leased under 1t shall be subject to sale
This would have been legislative iron,
but that the much-derided Gree
grass" men insisted upon that othe
provision, viz that the actual settle
who had the temerity to buy a HON,
of one section within the inclosure o
the lease lord should have the right [,
lease not more than four adjacent sec
tions to his purchase. People VIII,
kaoW anything Of the progress of agri
cultural development Of this part o
Texas are aware that the farmer mus
have grazing ground for his small
herd, being compelled to depend TO
two or three years on the product o
that little bunch Of cattle. But we ar
now told that the lease.aw mel
are seeking to eliminate thi
inducementlfor entering the big pas
lures from the bill, as If the poor act
ual settlers money was not as good O.,
the pasture princes, and as II four sec
tions leased to such actual settlers wa,
not as much OF lease as though hello
under the original lessee. Will moi
the Chronicle prove its faith by It's
works and denounce the effort to elm
mate this wise provision as in the in.
terest of the "big pasture" men at the
expense Of the actual settler? There h
no free grass" in 1.-THE farmer will
be compelled to pay the same lease
price for his additional four sections az
the nasture nrinoa uvonld ba,,s -,