Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-09-16
LErrER FROM FIsnER.
Compiaiut of an Action OF the Land Board
aud OF the Han Survey In the County
Correapondence OF the Gazette.

Cotnplniut OF an lotion OF the Land Board
aud OF tho Han Survey In the County
Correspondence OF the Gazette.
FISHER, TEX, Sept. s.-More rain,
Good fall crops are assured.
Our Sundy. school is iiourlshing.
Fall round.ups began last week, The
stockmen report light calf crop,
School begins next Monday, Septem-
Der g., e. ID. Strong In charge.
DIR, Davidson, who, by the way, Is the
only physician in the county, thinks this
is distressingly healthy location. For
months at a time there Is not case Oh
sickness to be heard Of in all this section
OF country.
That this place is the key to the trade
OF Fisher county Is q fact which forces
itself upon the minds Of even the most
unwilling believers.
Our wagon shop has all the work 1t can
possibly attend to, and has orders ahead
to run IL till late In the winter. Please
observe that this IS a hard-tlmes pointer
for a drought-stricken section OF the
country.
When Mr.. Hulse, who sold his mer-
camille business here to Messrs. Young
blood & Thomas, decided that he must go
back East to attend to his last years
business, he had about 5000 Of store ac-
counts scattered hereabout in small
sums. When he left q few weeks later
| he had 1t all In cash in hand excepting
about $50, and OF this sum 1t WAS all
secured less about 81, and this is poV-
erty stricken, drouth-accused Fisher
county.
The Weekly GAZETTE list is swelling
rapidly at this office. Old settlers from
the eastern part OF the state familiar
with the G. News since the days Of
"the Conqueror,n and who came
here with the idea there is no other paper
worth reading, soon gave up that notion
and form dollar and half attachment
for the wide-awake GAZETTE.
| II our county commissioners had spent
la few hundred or a thousand dollars
opening up roads and building bridges
in the county, when in all the county
there is not one bridge or worked road,
1t would have given work to different
parts Of the county and enabled all the
settlers to obtain employment near home.
AS 1t is the few are benefited and the
many burdened, while the majority who
need help most are unable to secure It,.
But then the settlers and farmers do not
need roads or bridges while the county
did need $1,000 worth of frame court
house. 1t remains TO be seen what the
voters Of the county think of such efforts
to help (2) them.
One of our settlers, Mr.. G. j. Philips,
was four or five days late in getting his
interest on his school section to Austin,
and of course II was declared forfeited {.
He is an actual settler, and has q good
house and other Improvements on the
land Within fhran U1ilnC nf his rpQi6anRQ
are no less than four choice sections of
land filed on about year ago by persons
In the employ of prominent sheep man,
not one OF which have ever been settled
upon and no attempt ever
made looking to that end.
1t is not denied that two small shanties
have been placed on two Of them, with
the evident intent of further eyading the
law, but no effort has ever been made by
the purchaser to become an actual settler
and resident npon the land, nor Is it the
opinion of any man in the county that the
land was ever taken for any other purpose
than as sheep range for their employer
OF these facts and the failure to settle the
land the state land board has often beer
notified and statements from the most re
sponsible men in that part Of the COUNTY
have been sent to that detestable creatur,
OF perhdous legislation bys men wht
wanted the land as home for their de
pendent ones, but all to no purpose. Tn,
{ man of means, through the perjury
] of his Mexican herders, holds
! the land for his sheep, in violation
| ofthe one object the state claims to have
: in selling her lands, which, as the land
: board gives 1t, ''is for the purpose o.
q securing q bona-ade settler on the land -
: while his neighbor, who is the real set
, tier, because he is a few days late witt
S his interest money has his land declared
Q forfeited without Judicial proceedings
!, his house and mprovements-his HON,
/, and his all-costing him hundreds o
Q dollars and much hard labor-absorbet
!, by the state, and himself made respon
i sible agent of the state, charged wit
s custody of state property without com
r pensation, and without his previou
!, knowledge or consent. He, at once lose
b all interest in his Investment and his la
:, bors, however much it may have cost him
u and he becomes responible tenant per
: force and without consideration. Herei
Q Is the difference between tweedle de an
Q tweedle dun, between Dives and Lazarus
b In the eyes OF the state land board. Th
IS one Is dealt with according to the laws c
d the Modes and Persans, which changet
lie not. The other enjoys immunity OF sue
lie laws as are to him hardship, and wit
of the full knowledge and consent of tn
20 land board. The actual settlers who al
ID anxious TO have the country settled S
h. that schools and society can be built vi
l. are loud in their complaints ana man
n letters have been sent to Austin regardin
ly the matter, but so far no attention ha
ID been given the matter by that BODY
1t From fifty to 100 sections
Is choice land have In this wa
e. been tied up from actual settlement an
he all efforts to secure their settlement hay
I, proven futile, And we are sorry to So
/? that the course Of the land board has bee
rs to encourage this kind of work.
W Referring to Mr., Halls letter regardin
Id his survey IN Fisher county, we acknow
e. edge his correctness in the main, an
40 about that part of which, there has neve
been any complaint, But while he is e,
Il. planning so clearly regarding old corner
~ fixed by FIRST surveys aud their effect 0
Of the intermediate sections, will he pleas
explain what old corner It was that il
duced him TO order his chain-carrlers /