Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-19
TEXAS KNOWN ABROAD.
What a Drummer sHys-EyeIycne Crazy
About the Lone Star state.


About the Lone Star state.
sPRINaPIELD, Mo-, March 9, 1885,
John Howard, Esq, of and for Texas, St
| Louis, Mo.
My DEAR SIR-Since left you at the
Texas headquarters, in St. Louis, my
business as travelling salesman has taken
me through half Of the northern states,
and in every one of them Texas is a COM
mon subject of conversation.
One old merchant of Southern Illinois
said to me, one day last week, as 1 was
trying to sell broken lot Of straw hats,
at very low figure, "Our folks Gb out
here are plumb crazy about Texas, and
they are never tired with talking about
her size, her people, crops, climate and
the like. Somebody in St. Louis is send
ing me and some of my friends a news
paper with funny name, Texas Boiled
Down, and it's that paper that's done tie
business for all Of US. wonder if all
the newspapers in that country have
funny nsmes7 My boy bought a funny
paper in the city, last week, called Texas
Siftings, but Texas Boiled Down gives us
lots OF news about Texas, and that's jast
what we want, right here"
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sections back from the coast, while mer-
chants and dealers of al kinds seem to
think that the finest chances for business
are already open and waiting to be filed
wherever there is q harbor or q direct
railroad center.
The fact is that "TexAs Boiled Down.
has made many uneasy people all over
| the north and west; people who want to
better their condition; who want to
follow Horace Greeley's advice, and to
fad some country TO grow up with.
Ii they can't find it in your big state
there is not much use looking for it any,
where else.
A state that will make one apiece of
New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware,
Maryland, New Jersey, Rhode Island,
Connecticut, Massachusetts, Indiana, Hi
nois, and Oaio, and have more than
enough left over to make another Mary-
land and Rhode Island, has some right to
be called great.
Again, many are tired Of the northern
cold and the Billiards that sweep the far
western states. The fact is, l, like them,
am stuck on Texas myself. 1 always did
like her, for several reasons. One is,
that never knew nor SAW citizen of the
always ready to talk or work for her,
"treat, trade and travel" for her, and in
the old days before the Lone Star OF the
republic of Texas took its place among
the American galaxy there were thou
sands Of her best citizens who were lust
as ready to "die" for her. The record CT
American heroes shows more Texan
names than from any other state. Anotf-
7 hay al 81
Texas, Is that she is not fall Of dead and
buried "booms."
She is too big for sny ordinary boom,
as 1t is understood in modern parIauce.
Her soil is virgin, and millions OF her
acres are YET unpoIluled by ths specula
tor; her Town lots have not been subject.
ed to the alternate boom and panic prices
Of the past thirty years. Compared with
other states with half her advantages
Texas city lots are absolutely untouched
by the Spectator.
AS trans continental route she is lust
coming into notice, and people are dis
covering that they can cross the CONT. |
nent through Texas on Texas railroads, |
and their connections for several months |
in the year, while the northern routes are
fast bound in snow and ice. 1t cannot |
world, eastern and ives :ern bound, passes |
through Texas.
The last issue Of Texas BoiledEDown, |
that have seen, contains brief excerpt |
from well-timed editorial in the Fort |
Worth GAZETTE OF February 90, 1855,
stating, among other fiattering express |
sions Of commendation for "John How |
ard, Of and for Texas" as follows, viz: |
Gle is doing more to attract public at
tention to Texas than all the other sgen- |
cies combined. He has aroused q WIDE |
spread desire to know something of Tex
as, and those cities and counties, etc.,
which have facts and figures embodying |
such information should send them to |
John Howard for distribution. His ad- |
dress is Southern Hotel, st. Louis. Mo,
or simply 'St. Louis, M2.,' as he is |
known IL every man, Wom4n and child In |
the CITY,"
This advice from the Fort Worth GA
zETTE is well worth the consideration Of |
every town In Texas, aud especially such |
prominent cities as Galveston and Dallas. |
To my certain knowledge. you are |
sending out from 1000 to 5000 packages |
of printed matter daily, and you are call
ing public attention to Texas in 9 manner
st once unique, iorcible and efficient
THESE two cities can Ill afford to re-
main quiet and idle when the balance Of |
the state is aiding you and the Texas
Boiled Down in your stalwart efforts to
do them good.
lam glad to see that the railroads that
converge towards the great southwest are
with you heart and soul.
In all parts Of the country that visit,
every baggage car has its quota of adver-
tisements, and the officials and employees
take pains to distribute the matter Judi
ciously.
You may congra tulate yourself upon
having aroused all the sections tributary
TO st. Louis, and directed thei- attention
10 the Lone Star state. It goes without
saying that the business men OF ST. Louis
are with you. They regard Texas as their
particular field, and you have secured
their fullest confidence. In word, l wish
to iDdorse every word that the Fort Worth
GAZETTE has published, and to wish you
every success that your most ssnguine
have looked forward to.
You deserve 1t because you are working
Tor the good Of Texas, and she deserves
I because she is worthy of the best eff
iorts of any man.
Make any use Of this letter as you may
see fit. l am one OF the many thousands
you have converted into friends Of Texas