The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-04-30
BILL ARP in TEXAS.
a Great Country For Chickens and Preach.
- era.

That courthouse at Belton. thobqh,
they had very fne one at Lampasas
out mere is one that cost $50, ,000-iust {
county courthouse. It is large enouoi
ior city Of one hundred thousand in
h9oitants. and that is just what nearly
all these Texas County sites are hankins
on; They say that their Counties averags
q thousand square miles, and their land,
are 40 rich that every square mile viii
easily support one hundred people, and
make business for town of one hundred
thousand besides. Beltoni Well. It Il
curious With what assurance and conn MIA
cency these people talk about Texas in
general, and Bell County In particular
1t does not sound like brag, but ratbe,
like faith that has abundant proof tc
sustain it. "What makes your lands AZ
high 7" said /, and DR.. Ghent answered
why, my dear sir, Bell County has gci
everything that is good. 1t is the only
county In Texas that has got good land
good water, good climate, and plenty oi
TIMBER, plenty of grass, plenty of build.
ing stone and gravel, aud lime rock
plenty of clay that will make brick
plenty OF water.power3 aud beautiful
hills 20 build on, and cedar trees and
live oaks for shade, and evergreens, beau.
hiul glades and meadows for cattle.
plenty of fruit chat never fails; pecan
groves that cover tue ground with .uts,
lands that average twenty bush' oi
wheat and hundred bushels OF oats
and more cotton than can be picked out,
II you want black waxy, you can get il ;
II you prefer rich sandy loan, here it is ;
We can suit any man in anything, and
We have got population of fifty thou.
sand people, all happy and prosperous,
and We have got right here in Beltou,
the best women in the world, and no
gossip or slander or back-biting. We
have no very rich people and no poor
ones, no stuckups or shoddy aristocracy,
no foreigners to speak of, no niggera
worth mentioning and We give glad vel.
come to all sober industrious people who
come, and we help them and encourage
them and sympathize with them. / tell
yen, s:-, cs;T people would mot allow. q
stranger to be hooked in or swindled.
Our land agents are honorable men, tote
fair with all new comers, but as you cay,
our lands are high, compared with come
other places. Our best lands range from
twenty to thirty dollars On acre, but
you can buy on long time If you make
one payment. The land will pay for
itself in Eve years or less-very frequent.
ly it pays in two. One hundred bushels
of oats at thirty cents bushel will pay
out In one year and it does the. often.
Then look at our schools hundred
and fifty scholars here now and the best
OF teachers-m of them from your
good old State Of Georgia. Why about
one fourth of all our people are from
Georgia, South Carolina and Alabama" !"
Belton is Southern town of about
8, 900 inhabitants, and handles from thirty
to forty thousand bales of cotton annu.
ally; has compress, aud an oil mill,
aud an iron foundry, and extensive lime
works. Her suburban homes are beauti.
full, and her orchards of peaches and
pears and apples abound everywhere.
bring and take her traffic in
every direction. There are eighteen
depots in this. County. The trade of
Bsltoa is wonderful considering that the
County supports Temple and Salado and
other towns. When I was told by q
Georgia merchant in Waco, that he was
shipping 1000 dozen eggs in q week, I
was astonished, but here are two boys in
Belton, who have shipped in five weeks
thirteen thousand dozen eggs, l,500
chickens and seven hundred turkeys.
This is great country for chickens and
preachers. 1t is great country to build
mp new towns quick. Now here is Tenn
pie within eight miles of Bolton. Tenn
pie is only four years old and has $500
people. The surrounding country is
lovely. I have seen no better anywhere
than around Temple and Bolton. The
homes of the farmers are more inviting
than any section L have. visited. Old
friends of my youth met me at Temple
friends went to school with ia old
GRinnett, and somehow or other they all
know of my being here and they como
TO talk of their. old homes and people.
One man said: cob, yesI We used to
live right down by the graveyard, and
you had to pass it at night when you was
Q courtin' Miss Octavy, and I wanted TO-
hide in the graveyard ead skeer you
and I would have done it, bu.
] was afeerd myself" Il
/, Taylor is another young and lively
eences of wealthy cattle men. I saw
Iery fine jersey stock there, and have
found out that Jerseys do thrive in mid
die Texas. From Taylor I jnnrneyed to
Tyler and Pittsburg. Z Here / found tim.
Der and forest trees, and red land, and
sandy holloHs, and good freestone water,
and + could easily imagine that was
back ip old Georgia--yes, lin old awins
nett or Walton, for everything seemed
Just the same aB it was therc--only the
land is fresher anG better-no big gullfes
sweeping down the, hills, no abandoned
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