Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-29
AN IOWA IN THE SOUTH,
Whist g Davenport Paper Says Il The
Texas Immigration Movement
Cheap Homes In the Pan
handle.
,,,,srs Norihsrners Can Find welcome and
the UndissuEbsd EDjoym srt OF All
Their Political Rights.

From the davenport OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Gu 4E'
Hinder the above heading appears in the
editorial columns of the Iowa State Reg
ister of the 8th inst. the following
,-ticle. The Panhandle of Texas is
nearly the ouIY section east Of the Rocky
Mountains which offers home to first
settlers. The railroads now pushing for
that region will develop its growth and
hiring into prominence vast area of ag-
r,cultural land hitherto neglected. The
statements contained in the following
editorial are verified py citizens of
davenport who travelled through the Pan
handle:
nsople have left Iowa to gain new homes
elsewhere. Some go to find cheaper
land. Some Of the new generation Of
ToEsns coming to adult age wish to go
IN new country where they can find
cheaper lands and grow up with the state
a. their fathers did in Iowa. Others, the
most Of them Older people, who by reason
Of falling health or advanced age, con-
sider this climate too rigorous for them
in winter, want to go to warmer coun-
trv and q milder climate. Many Of the
latter are going to Lower California,
Inred by the soft weather and a summer
all the wear round. So many have gone
10 that latitude from the higher countries
th.t spectators have taken the lands
beyond advantage of it, and are
booming them beyond the reach Of
neople of little or moderate
means. Besides the Industries of
inst region are not similar to the in
dustries of Iowa, and ere confined largely
10 fruit growing. What this class OF
lows people have been seeking is warm
country Of rich and cheap lands, with an
agriculture not essentially different from
mat of Iowa. The building of the great
line of railroad from Denver to the gulf
TO open up s new outlet and inlet to
Europe, has brought within the reach of
the home hunting settler the great body
of prairie land known as the Panhandle
Of Texas. This region is a great ex-
psnse Of prairie nearly IS large as
Iowa and looking, il is said, almost
exactly like the early Iowa, and Of SIM
liar rich soil, lying in the northwest cor
ner Of Texas. The soil is deep black
loan, capable Of wheat growing, and also
capable OF producing ell the southern
products except sugar. An Iowa GENTLE
who has spent several months looking
over the country, says he saw wheat
raised which averaged seventy-fve BUSH
els to the acre, and Of the best quality.
On the same farm several hundred bush
els Of peanuts were raised TO the acre.
Cotton is also raised in the lower part
Of the Panhandle, and tobacco is q great
crop. The climate is exceedingly
hn inf "a ini
for large crops, It is cOun-
Try for natural grass, and is now rated IS
the fneAa cattle growing region in the
country. The new road from Denver to
the Gulf will traverse the whole length Of
It, and other lines!sre being protected to
thread Snd gridiron 1t in every direction.
The country is well supplied with water
and is very healthy.
We do not believe that anybody who
has health and industry can do better in
any plsCe than in Iowa, nor as well. To
our minds it is the best part OF the esrth.
But everybody does not thin SO, and
many lows people aHd Dakota and Ne
brsska people who have been thinking of
warmer country for some time, and
who are freshly discouraged
Dy the present cold winter, are
sure to go to some place of lower
latitude. To all such we would direct at
tention to this Panhandle region-this
lows in the south, the new Iowa with an
equally rich soil and warmer climate.
L these northwestern people are going,
let them go to such place as this, where
lands are cheap and where they can pur-
sue similar industries, which is near oy
aud more cheaply reached, instead Of 60
ing to fsr-awsy California, where every
thing is in great degree uncertain.
The building Of the new line of road,
putting this country very near the ses,
will increase the price Of its products by
lessening the cost of the haul to the sea.
The new road will put the Panhandle
region as near tide water as she most of
New York is now. This is great con-
sheraton.
The trouble of northerners going south
heretofore, and the fact which has con-
Iibuted largely. to CslifcrniS's access
sion Of northern people, has been the i'm
possibility Of finding southern comhun-
ity into which portherners could go and
Ind welcome and the updisturbed enjoy
ment of ell their political rights. All
this can be otViated in Northern TIE as,
where there is intense anxiety to have
northern immigrants and where they will
be accorded full rights in every respect.
Whole counties are as yet unsettled in
his new region. Iowa or northern colon
les could form snd largely settle county
Tor themselves ond so remain in control
Of its sfsirs. In many respects this new
country is very enticing one and tie
Register feels that 1t is doing good part
all around in calling the attention of all
Its readers in lows, Nebraska, Dakota
and Minnesota to the fine opening it
gives to al northern people who are 60
ing to move to warmer country. Let
them investigate this nearer land instead
Cfgoing TO California. We believe IL to be
better land for them In every respect. 1t
is also so compsrstivelynea by that the
people can 60 and sessft for themselves
without the great ex1ehse necessary for
visit Of exsminaticH 10 Calf ornia.
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