Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-17

profusion and cypre IS again, this time
trimmed in sphe' es, pyrsuids, cubes
ard pillars, with rows of green snd
s ately eucalyptus trees in front of It all,
our senses we're completely captured on
that winter day early in February. We
wanted to believe that It would pay and
tried hard to make ourselves believe it
could be made to, but cold isc;s snd
figures knock al that nonse Dse
out Of = careful mans heaa,
and leave him these boiled down fscts
about California. It is warm spot Cf
Mother Earth that never chills the roots
OF vegetation and SLOWS nature csrte
blanche 10 De most lavish and extr0va-
gsnt il her display. Gus ity is Ir. qleBtly
sacrificed for quantity. Climate il winter
is very deCeiving and irverisbly sffects
newcomers, until acclimated. Summers,
twenty miles or more inland, are bot, red
hot. Near the coast, fogs prevail until 10
O'Clock in the morning during sp-ing
snd fall, but summers s!e
cool aud generally delightful. The eli
mate is not so well adapted to the ms
| turing of strong, vigorous and pushjn g
manhood as It is g place to go to seed in.
Nature and millions upon millions OF
money are making the valleys Cf South
ern California very besutiful, buJ Il is
Mcst emphsticslly pace for the rich
and not for the middle or poorer
classes. II you have retired irgm
Duslness, have good steady income
sud want place for the winter where
you cen work outdoors and "putter
round" without any care or responsible
ty, buy an orange or ffui. grove IN Cali
toruis. Bat, 10y dear fellow don't make
6 mistake and coax yourself into the be-
lief thSt 1t will be T. "picf able invest
ment." Buy it fer d luxury end under
stand Ii that way On The start, for il is
strictly that and nothing more. Il IS
probably one # the most sensible luxu-
ries man on the shady side Of lie c;n
buY, all things considered. There ale
many now in California who cannot be
persuaded to buy land or lots at the ter
rife prices asked, and who Sre daily
going nome. Il seems to me hne field
for the distribution OF some facts
about Texas. II the eastern peo-
pie who are now in Ca!itornis
end are rot willing to invest or remain
there, could have some reliable informI-
| ton about the rich and cheap lands Of
! Texas, that state would receive as much
1lOAI LA4C WCSg % AAOLt L1N
east. a large farm Of rich land can be
bought IN Texas for the price OF ore
acre in CAlifoTnia and there is NO
argument as to which will make
me largest permanent increase.
If the secretary Of the Texss immigra-
ti0n committee could put two or three
good men in Southern California to pro-
peTlY represent the state and work in coz
| junction Win the Sout1 ern Pacific and
Texas and Pacific railroads, the result
would certainly be gall for the Lone
Star state. California is very fascinating
| to the newcomer who has travelled CvcE
many miles Of enow and frozen grOuDt,
| but money talks and good rich land al
| 50 to S. an acre ia suTer thing than
lhnd no richer a. fcon $1,000 to $1,000 az
acre. Texas has the Whlp-htnA AID !,
only remains to let the people knew IT,
When the breGZes blow little warmer
and the spring lambs aTe ripe we cXQGc,
| 10 1in the immigration to T,xAs sHl 10.
Gaze. Fer the next few weeks, however,
great good Can be done in showing the
smssgulded ones the error Of their Wsys.
r G. W. PosT.