Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-01
WILBARGER COUNTY.
Tbs Ru;nre Great Wheat Producing
Country Of tie Verdi Wal be
NerthWsst texas,
immigrants Peu'irg Into wubarxer
Oannty-rhe Growth CT He Enter.
pr!slng Capital Oily.

Special Correspondence of the Gazette.
VERNON, TEX, Nay. 90 Thinking q
few lines from the "Pfairle Q ueen" city
Of the great Panhandle" will be Of in
terest to your many readers, tn writer
gives short condensed account Of what
is sesn every day here in this oustling,
busy little city and the surrounding
county. 90
wILBARGSR COUNTY.
This great wheat growing county Is 8
choice county for the settler. Each
day can be seen the emigrant wagons
coming 10 from Kansas and other
portions Of Texas, with their white. COW
cred wagons, inevitable "split bottom
chair" behind, hled with tow headed
children, all seeking homes in this sec
ton where they are easily accommodate
ed; for owing to the special efforts of the
"Grekt Panhandle Route" and she favor
able conditions for the proper cultivation
Of the sol, which are now existing, COM
bined with the special efforts OF the i'm.
migration bureSu, the county OF Wilbar-
ger is fast settling up, and few years
will witness this broad expsnse Of prairie
blossom into rich and productive farms
teeming with the fruit and immense cere-
ais Of the earth.
Go with me, reader, In and around
Vernon, and will show you field after
field sowed in wheat and osss, az this Is
predesiined to be the great wheat pro-
duclng country CT the world. And its
ike in the next lew yesrs, II 1t continues
TO Increase in acreage in the
future as it hiss in the past,
can only be equsled BY Dakota and other
great wheat-producing states.
These are "solid, rock bottom truths. I"
and for one to take trip into the country
will truly substantiete them.
The writer had the pleasure of meeting
6 representative Of one Of the largest i'm
pleuent houses in Americs here the other
day. He had just taken trip over the
country 70 satisfy himself and he give me
glowing account of what Q grand future
was In store for this county and country
surrounding it. He claims Qt is correct,
too that the receipts In and AROUND
Vernon will be over 1,000,e 600 bushels of
wheat the coming season. Says the out
look for good crop was never better
and wheat was looking fine.
Fully three. fourths OF the county is
agricultural land.
The soil varies in color and condition
from red sandy loan in the river bot
toms to chocolate and black soil on the
prairie and creek valleys. This diverity
OF soil adapts the country to the produc-
ton of wheat and oats specially, with
favorable results.
Below find how wheat yielded last ses-
son: To one party, 100 acres yielded
near this place 2l00 bushels; another re-
ports threshed from forty-six acres Of
wheat, 96G bushels; 1874 acres Of oats, 1904
bushels.
L.Sd can be always bought on reason
able terms and price,, rot at "ooom" or
speculative figures, but at & price within
reach Il the poorest. Old Wilbsrger
to>dsy stands with her doors
open wide, ever ready and
willing to bid the humblest
settler welcome. TOT ali in need Of homes
where you can live comfortably, till the
rich soil and resp the rich harvest in re-
ward for your l6bors. l would say to
the poor and rich: Come to Wil6orger
End you can be accommodate 1.
VERNON,
the "PraiTie Queen" city of the great
northwest is situated on the Fort Worth
and Denver, IG3 miles from Fort Worth,
near the banks of the Pesse river and
close to the crossing OF the railroad with
the great Texas cattle trsil leading to the
northwest, has population Of 1000, Is G
distributing poiut TO the adj Aceut portion
Of Texas and the Indian Territory.
It has good banking facilities as you
will fad in the northwest.
Comfortable hotel Recommendations sid
daily can be heard the busy sound Of saw
Snd hammer en- new residences, churches,
and stores which sfe being erected to
accommodate the growing demand Of
trade and increase In population.
Wocd & Co ,our largest merchants here,
do an immense business In the dry goods
and grocery line, both wholesale and re-
tail. Here daily can be seen traders from
& country within radius OF 100 miles,
who come to Vernon to dispose of tAeiI
fktm products and exchange them f..
merchandise snd all go away pleased with
their purchases. This house Is enc OF the
Oldest II Norlh Texss.
They are among the pioneers CT the Pa1-
hsndlt-ilwSys ready. Willing to at
tend 10 every want CT new settlers and
keeping line OF goods specially adapted
10 the wants of this section.
They have bought at tie highes. msr-
kes pTice the bulk C; gTSin from this sec
t!cn.
They will be resdy the coming season
&c handle the crop with enlarged facill
ties.
Scurloch RlIston are the sold reli
able" dealers in hardware, tg icultuTsl,
wagon and farming implements, and do
sd Immense trade in this limo.
Carload after carload have they re-
ceived this season and sold, and the CRY
seems 10 be more, more.
D. M. O.borne & Co. contemplate the
erection Of o large warehouse st this
point to accommodate the increasing de-
msnds Of the trade In thsir line.
Implement house drummers come here
daily and go home iuoilsnt over their
large orders.
The great roller Touring mills erected
by c. N. Bevins & Co. CT Terrell, Tex d
ut q cost OF $50. 600 with capacity Of
$50 barrels csily, is rapidly nearing COM
pIetion, and will be ready to handle the
coming crops. This alone Is smother
great advantage to the surrounding coun-
TRY. This large mill Is fitted with the
lstes. improvements, and 1t took fifteen
70 a.