Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-05-04
THE PANHANDLE.
The Panhandle Country Blossemine
Like the Rose-Its Resources Have
Mover Been Surpassed.
Every Settler Who Comes with q Little En-
teTpriss Flourishss-Mo sy Nos
SecEsEary TO SUCCESS

CLAREN0ON, TEX, May !, 1885,
To the Editor OF the Gazette.
rbe big rain did lot slight the Psnhan-
die, but fell ia such abundance as was
never before known. Dry weather will
be q thing Of the past forever in Texas Il
the promise of seed time and harvest is
to be fulfilled, for sill the wsy out IS fsr
as Canadian river farmers sre blowing
and crops are growing in laxurlant
beauty.
A gentleman who has rambled pretty
much over Texas watching the growth Of
the country for the last fifteen years, says
there will not be foot of uncultivated
land within twenty miles Of either side of
the Fort Worth and Denver City Rail-
way within ten years. He says: IL beve
seen too mIny places grow up to
have even q doubt upon the subjecs.
As far out as Folsom, in New Mexico,
they still get supplies from Fort Worth,
while THE GAZETTE is eagerly sought
after evea still farther out. The news
from Texas is the cry all through the
line. Denver coming this way receives
some trade as fEr in as Clarendon, but
she has to rustic for it, yet there seems q
happy rivalry between Denver and his
bride "
"Guliver," in the Greenville Banner,
who says "the country west Of A Jilene Is
a. only for prairie dogs ana their
boon companions, the snakes and OWLS"
may be very typical honest county man,
but his ideas are too narrow to go trav-
cling in big state like Texas. He has
evidently never been in our beautiful
Panhandle country. There are no prairie
dogs here. and if there were they are
very useful little animals, and often
serve the scientists to locate valuable
minerals, or tell the egriculturist
where to fad the oes! land, and how deep
he will have to 60 for water. God has
msde nothing in vain.
The western counties will 60 on thriv-
ing and building up with just the same
sure success and progressive spiri that
has always been manifested. Eleven
Years ago the writer WAS in Greenville,
the capital of Hunt county, and saw no
evidence there then Of the great boom she
has etioyed since. Her besi business
lots might have been had for $500. There
are hundreds of towns ia t e Panhandle
to day which offer the same inducements
to buyers of real estate with far greater
prospect of future reward. Those who
nave failed to profit by one opportunity
h.ve another knocking at their doors If
they are not too short sighted to pull the
latch and let her come in.
Experience and observation have shown
the writer that Investments in Texas real
estate are in every Instance successful,
and that the Panhandle has future of
vast proportions. There is not q doubt
- ha sr,t bn nd NJ
people who cannot wait day for any
thing. The lands are both mineral and
agricultural, and failure to raise good
yield Of shy thing planted has never been
known here. Dakota has no better wheat
lands than the Panhandle, while potatoes,
melons, vegetables and grapes grow with
the greatest luxariance. To traveller
passing through the plains 1t might appear
sandy waste, but investigation has
proved the soil is all that could be de-
sired.
&Mrs. Pilips, who has section of land
near Clarendon, has her front yard set
with shade trees which are growing nice
ly. Sac says she raised larger melons,
cucumbers, berries and vegetables OF all
kinds here last year than she ever saw
grow anywhere. She has lived in Ken
lucky, the Indian Territory, and in sew.
ersl Of the Texas counties adj Dining the
Territory.
Mr.. E. Blbbie Of Ohio has bought three
sections Of railrosd land ia Armstrong
county, and expects to plant largely Of
wheat and Irish potatoes.
Mr.. 3 ley, brother-in- law to Mr.. Bibbie,
will put IN $4,000 acres In Swischer
county soon.
Miss Charlotte Bibbie, who has specu.
lated in real estate sill her life, and ought
to know good property when she sees it,
has bought q section Of land In Arm
strong county.
Snodgrass of Kansas, and railway con-
ductor, whose name have not learned,
have also taken sections there.
Every county in the Panhandle is
capable OF sustaining 10, eco people in the
liberal Texas style. The soil is Just IS
good as the world contains and the eli
mste delightful. They invite energetic
/ men, Of moderate means, and insure him
il he is industrious and persevering, that
his reward will surely come. A man
who is not plucky can not live here long,
but he Is not compelled to have money If
he has grit.
A train load of pig iron passed through
here from Birmingham, Ais, for Denver,
Col. In the future, sometime, Texas will
furnish Colorado iron In exchange for
cheap coal.
Clayton In New Mexico Is now the end
Of the railway division out from Claren-
don, but efforts are being made to have
the division removed to Texline on the
state line. There Is considerable oppo-
sition to this, however, and il all efforts
Of interested parties can keep the divls-
ion at Clayton it will remain there.
The Fort Worth and Denver City Rail-
way is said to have the finest roadbed for
so new q road of any in the state, while
the management Of the road gives entire
satisfaction to all of its employees, with
the exception of the Clayton hotel. The
boys say that the New Mexican hotel
hurts their Texas feelings, but one must
have something to reconcile them to
Texa-, and the company is endeavoring
to secure them better accommoda tions
there. With good hotel facilities Clayton
would be very desirable place. A more
picturesque and interesting country could
not be found. Taken altogether the new
road is laid through good country-one
that will and is developing fast, whose
resources are not even imagined
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