Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-02-18
FROM TEXAS.
Some Good Advice to Those Who Have
Their Faces Turned that Way.
To the Standard.


To the Standard.
The STANDARD, replete with fresh
items of news from my old home, is
always a most welcome visitor to my
home in Texas, and its coming is
looked forward to with the same
eagerness which welcomes letter
from an old friend.
Allow me, through the columns of
the STANDARD, to answer some oft
repeated queries about Texas, which
come to me from friends in Warren
county. Q
Some ask If / would advise persons
in Warren county to come to Texas?
That will depend entirely upon what
your reasons are for wanting to
change your present home. If you
wish to come because you think that
you can make money without the
same industry and economy requisite
in Tennessee, do not come. If it be
because you think that competition
in business is less sharp here than
where you are, do not come. If you
are in search of "soft job," truth
constrains me to tell you that they
are all taken. We have here two
dudes for every clerkship, two doc
tors for every patient, two lawyers for
every client, and two teachers for
every school. And yet, there is a
pressing need of men in all of these
avocations but the room is Eat the
Top" Men who are prepared to take
the front rank in any of the learned
professions, may come here with the
certain prospect of success. For, be
it said to the honor of Texas, there is
no place where merit will be sooner
recognized and rewarded than here
There is an effort making to inaugu.
rate q "boom" for Texas during the
coming year and, although as yet in
its incipiency, the movement is q
gigantic one. The "boom" promises
to rival the California article. I'm
migration committees are being
formed in every county in the State
for the purpose of inducing immi
grants to settle in Texas. The boon
is being manipulated by real estate
agents, and by owners of real estat,
who wish to sell.
/ would advise all who expect t
come to Texas during this boom t,
come early, for a Western boom is /
game in which the 'longest poll
knocks the persimmons," and Their
is always money in them for some
body. The methods of the boomer
are about as follows: An association
Of individuals will purchase the Ian,
at point where they propose t
build town, lay off town lots, grad
the streets, and advertise the sale
then by means of free passes on tn
railroads and free dinners, they get
large number of prospectors there, AN
then by making few bogus sales 8
high prices, the work is done, the LOT
are all taken, and the boomers pas
on to seek fairer fields with brighte
skies.
Yes, Texas is a fairly good cour
try, and young men coming her
need have no fears of failure, if the
have ordinary good sense, and
reasonable supply of that indisper
sable quality called backbone"
Cleburne is beautiful town of fiy
thousand people, and Johnson count
is unsurpassed for the healthfulnes
Of its climate and fertility of its sol
and any of your people who decide
come to Texas can not do better tina
to come here.
The letters of E. B. E., to IL
STANDARD, are conspicuous for the
absence of late. Let us hear fro
you again, Mr.. E. Respectfully,
A. J. CLENDENEN.