Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-07-16
FISHER COUNTY.
Water and Grass Gone Stock Interests
GLOOMY Lega Light 10
Represent the County.
Tactics OF tho Surveyors sent Out BY the
Houston a Texas Central Railway Com.
pany ana the state Land Board.

FISHER, Tx, July l0.--Editor Ga.
zErTE; This country is TO dry for any
thing but nagazine for the storage Of
powder. Water on the range is entirely
gone and the pools Of Cottonwood and
Clear Fork furnish oil the water TO be
had by the stock, many Of whom will
soon perish unless we get some good
rain Grass Is very short and the
outlook for the 81 5ck Interests Is gloomy
indeed. Last year this county gave q
yield Of forty TO sixty bushels OF corn,
eighty to 100 OF oats, twenty 10 thirty Of
wheat, twO-thirds 70 one bale OF cotton
per acre and other crops ia proportion.
This year--5nt then we wont say anything
about IL yet.
Mr.. Sam Poole, an Englishman con
nected with the III II FL ranch near thi
place, while on roundup in King
county some days ago, was thrown from
his horse with such force that his skull
was fractured aud several bones broken.
He died from his injuries 4 few days
later and was buried con the lone
prairie"
Mr.. II. II. Logan, formerly Of McKn-
ney, Collin county, has been
obliged TO 20 back 10 see about
his cattle, which he had left behind TIL he
could prepare for them here. A letter
from his brot1er-ln-llw, Ed. Foot,
warned him Of the fact that the water Ia
his pasture had given out Il seems that
we are not the only ones suffeIisg for
want Of rain.
The board Of equaiiz alton met few
days since aud elevated the price OF real
estate In Fisher county.
Our county ATTIC rney having resigned,
we are left without legal representa-
tive qualified % speak in behalf Of the
county
A very successful term Of school was
closed last week.
Politics Is lightly considered here, the
railroad survey and the drought being
much more wclghty subjects. A cOnyen-
ton is being talked Of, however, and
Fisher county's delegates Will be any
thing but Ross.
The surveyors snt in here Big the
Houston & Texas Central Railway com |
pany aud the land board, nave, by ways |
peculiar, caused much unrest and created |
a large amount Of dissatisfaction. They |
hrst changed the old lines from one to |
one hundred or more yaras, an alter
wards changed tnelr own lines around |
three 20 four corners within space
OF 8 few hundred yards. The representa-.
i've OF the state, Mr. Hall, has been rs
surfing all the settlers that "the corners
now established would hold fOrall time. -
ana thIs caused much expensive delay for
many who were anxious 80 build, fence
and improve generally. And now that
the work OF changing and "fxmgu is
over, aud two 10 i've "mOnuments" set
up az nearly every corner OF their actions,
the settlers are In q qaundary as to what
corners "wii hold" And az soon MS Mr..
Hall can DO spared from his work, the
settlers are anxious 10 engage his seTv-
ices (from the state land-bOard), that
he may go round with the settlers and
show them what four OF the many corners
get up twill hodn their fences. The |
subject Is serious one TO many Of our
settlers, whose work has been delayed for |
months waiting for the survey to end, /
while Others have stood by aud seen their
entire improvements, costing hundreds
Of dollars and many months of hard labor, |
surveyed OFF on railroad land. II IL
were buildings only, they might be
moved, sc some expense, but
not so with clsterns, wells aud cultivated
llelds The greatly accursed land board.
which II would seem had already enough
Sins 10 answer for, must, however,
shoulder somewhat Of this responsibility,
for they were notified weeks age OF the
character OF work beng done here, over
the signature of many OF our best and
most reliable settlers. These are the
men that the aforesaid Mr.. Hall has
been pleased 10 refer TO as "thieyes, bank
rupts and foolsh And they are exercised
over the supposed loss OF valuable i'm.
proYements which have been surveyed of
on railroad sections, or over the expensive
delays to the work OF improving caused b
the many changes In lines and corners,
and not over matters OF conflict between
the railroad survey, on the one hand, aud
old leagues or vacant land, ON tho other
as Mr.. Halls letter published Ia the Gal
weston News Of recent date would lead
the public aud the land board 10 believe
Matters OF conflict between the rnllroad
work and other surveys have caused no
and led TO no protest, for the
parties most Interested were such tfSolap
AS % believe that MIR HANS work would
"holdh nothin but 1t was the Injury be.
lieyed to be done provided the words OF
the representative OF the state land board
were true) TO scores OF worthy, hard.
working settlers on the state school
lands, through the uncertainty, DELAYS
and "much talkn OF the state agent VINO
claims TO speak by the rule, and which
may lead TO serious unpleasaniness, I'M
less the state authorizes, whl were iioti.
he'd of the condition OF affairs here weeks |,
ago, take some steps 10 set at rest this
matter, for however peaceable commu.
nifty may be, not every man VIII quietly
rest under the published charge that he is
a "thief," fool" "knaye,n or even
"a bankrupt And tho state land board
appraised OF the trouble here cannot escape
responsibility. Patience Is not always
enduring. Need more be saidy
CHILLING.