Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-10
ENOUGH2F CALIFORNIA.
People Leaving by Carloads Liks Rats
from a Sinking Ship.

FL Paso Herald.
Dr.. Harrison, the well known physician
and surgeon Of this city, has just return.
ed from a trip down the Texas and PAci.
fc Road. A Herald reporter corrsled
him at once to find out something. The
doctor said he had but little lime to
spare, but thought he could tell some
thing that would be OF interest to El
PAsoans
| He SAID: "The train went down on
three or four days ago carried two coaches
OF people from California, most of them
! from the country round about Los An
| geles and San Diego. OF all the talking
| against country ever heard, these peo-
| pie best the record, agaInst California. I
| just wished for On Ell Paso newspaper
man to hear them. It would have done
his heart good to hear, but ne would have
pitied some, at least, of the crowd. They
| had been lured there, like thousands Of
ot1ers, by misrepresentation false colors
| and lying pictures. The country had been
pictured to them as veritable Garden I
Eden, where the officers, it is said, hsy g
made ita misdemesnorfs fer person to sing
There's land that is fairer than this
They went there, and when the stern re-
ality land realty, also) stared them in the
face. with it's hard, cold and CLASSY gaze,
they saw then what dupes they had been
made and kicked themselves inWardlY,
fguratiyely speaking. They were soon
possessed OF sufflciency OF California,
and left. In regard to the boosted climate
Of Los Angeles, they said that mud and
water reigned (r-a-i-n-e-d) supreme there,
and people were dying almost like bogs
infected with the cholera; that the papers
there would never publish 8 deatS, Abut
kept 1t quiet. Carloads of coft9s arrive
every few days, and that is the nrinSlpal
article OF merchandise, Persons
contract coughs there Who = osf,ti
get any other kind of "a lSSns
tract, and were never known to nave 4
cough previous to going to California
There Is o deplorable state of affairs
existing. 1t is very common occurrence
to have fairly well dressed man step up
to you and ask for rs cents with which TO
buy q meal or a nights Logging"
The doctor said he saw on the train one
of the most pitiful objects he ever wit
messed in his life. A young man WAS on
the emigrant car, with o child eighteen
months old and 8 baby fourteen days old.
He had gone to Cslifornia-to Los
Angeles few months ago, and his wife
had died in childbirth. He was on his
way back to his old home in East Texas,
to put the children in the care OF
their grandparents, and said he
would then be ready to die. He had
been guaranteed By the Southern Pacific
Company that NO smoking would be
allowed on the car he was on, but the car
was full Of smoke all the time. Il was
enough to kill his little fourteen day old
baby. He had no one to attend to the
little one and had to see to It himself,
nursing 1t from bottle of condensed
milk. The poor young fellow had the
warmest sympathy Of everyone on the
train. He was consumptiye, and had
had SO much care on his mind and hands
for the last month that he had not slept
ten hours in the entire time, and wss
completely broken down.
There is no use In Cslifornia's trying to
disguise or hide the facts. They are
known. Their boom has played out
wilted-desd. Texas is coming to The |
front. The Rio Grande valley land is |
equal to the best Caliiornians can show. |
The climste here is better. Our water |
facilities sre good. What more can |
person want? People from played-out !
California will settle here in the richest |
valley in the United States. Others will |
come from the east es well. We will have |
the boom next, and 1t will differ from the |
one California had In that It will be real, |
live and substantial boom; one that will |
be heard and felt throughout the length !
and breadth Of this broad and glorious |
Union. Let her come. Texas will give |
s greeting, warm and cordial. Thousands |
and thousands OF acres Of fine, rich land |
are lying idle, cheap, and waiting to be
settled on. In ten years Texas will be |
the first state Of the Union; grander and |
more glorious in everything that goes to
make free people happy snd contented.