Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-01-23
VERNON.
A Town and County That Possess Rare
Inducements TO Those Seeking
Homes.
Old Fends Ended--A Good Glass OF Citizens
Pine Public buildings character
af the seal.


VERNON, Tx, Jan 20.--Vernon, not
her rival towns, Harold
and DUaas, Is steadily gaining and in
III her population and enterprise.
The old feuds that have heretofore exist
cd between the people of the town are
dying out and our people are now quiet,
orderly, sOciable and generous people.
Vernon, situated as she is, in tho center
VI the comfy, upon a high and rolling
prairie, and surrounded by the finest
farming country in the NORTHWEST, Is
destined at 20 great distant day 10 be one
OF the most fiOurlshiug and thriving
towns in thi$ part Of the state. We are
just ON hundred ana siEgy-nye miles
northwest OF Fort Worth, on the line OF
the Fort Worth & Denver City railroad,
which read is now extended into our
county and as far as Harold. Every
one IL looking forward to the extension
OF the railroad with sangulhe hopes ttsst
vernon from that erg may even grow TO
be city. Business in general Is good
The contractors have Just completed the
new county jail at this place; it
is fine strncture--brick, two
stories high, and replete
with all the modern improvements and
conyeniences, the most complete jail
west OF Fort Worth, an honor and monu-
ment to the pride and enterprise of the
citizens of Wil6araer county Messrs.
Strain, Risley and Swinburne and Dr. w
I. Dickey are az work on their new brick
store-house on the corner Of the public
square, aud will probably finish by the
lst Of March next. There are several
good dwelling-hOuses ander construction.
The young people have had several
grand balls here dpring and since the
holidays.
The county Is rapidly settling up,
There are very few sections of land now
left for settlement, Houses are spring.
Ing up all over the county and remarku-
bly, good class OF people are filling them
There are lots OF good private land still
on the market at reasonable prices. The
soil Is either dark or red sandy loan and
especially adapted to corn, oats and
wheat and large yields of these crops are
reported. The average yield of wheat
per acre Hast season for this county was
twenty-six bushels and of fine quality.
There is large acreage in wheat this sea
son, and the wheat looks very fine.
There are no large pastures in Wilbar-
ger county aud DO large landowners, con-
sequently almost every section does, or
soon VIII, represent farmer and family,
and the county will, by the next census,
show Il population much greater than that
of many other counties much older that
have within them large pastures and land
syndicutes, which are and always will be
the enemy Of the farmer.
Wilbarger county lies on the south bank
of Red river, and has many very fine
streams of water running through her
lands, the valloys OF which are consid-
cred TIE garden spots of Northwest
Texas. The streams are covered with
sparse timber, though timber on the
whole Is "A scarce commodity in this part
OF the state. We think we have the county
ui the state OF Texas for the farmer ana
the business nian, and we extend our
hands in hearty welcome to those who
desire homes end business among us.