Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-25
IMMIGRATION.
The Good Work Underway by the
Mitchell County SocietJ-Busaels
OF Literature Prepared,
Thousands of ores of Good School Lands
to be Had Cheap on Easy TerHss.
Work in Nolan County.
In Mitchell County.
To the E sitor of the Gazette.

To the E iitor of the Gazette.
Inotice your editorial in the issue OIL
the Fort Worth GAZETTE 18th inst.
headed 1.-THE immigration Movement" il
which you mention number Of counties
SIS taking sn active part in this GRAND
work, out fail to ssy anything about
Mitchell county, the banner stock,
farming, wool and salt shipping county
in Northwest Texas. The Mitchell
County immigration Society has now
been organized about six weeks.
Colorado City being the trade center and
shipping depot for Tom Green, Mitchell,
Scurry, Borden, DAWSON, Terry, CARA,
Kent, Dickens, Crosby, Lubbock, Lynn,
Hale and Floyd counties, and Rl being
contiguous to Colorado City, our society
have written up the statistics, resources
and advantages Of all these counties
and will publish the same In
our handbook, 10000 copies CT which
will be out this week and ready for dis
tribution. We have raised sufficient
fund among our home folks AID owners
of LANDS In the ccuntieementioned to con-
duct our work vigorously and satisfsc-
torilY. We are advertising 10 some ten
largely circulated papers in the large city
trade centers, such as st. Louis, Louis
vile, Caicsgo, Pittsburg, Cincinnati,
New York, Boston, and elsewhere, to the
effect that our hand book can be had on
app icatiop, aud that cur secretary is
ready at ali times TO answers questions
and correspondence. Colorado City hay
been DESIGNATED as one of the distribut-
ing depots for excursionists and land
seekers, our society have fitted them up
conmodious headquarters en- Front
street, opposite the railroad, where we
have displayed maps, reading mat
ter and the products OF
our northwestern Texas country.
Our city is well supplied with hotels,
boarding-houses, livery stables and ell
else that will conduce to the couf)rt,
accommodation, etc, Of our excur-
sIonist visitors, and to facilitate their
exploration of couugies adjacent to US.
We have two good stage roads leading
out from Colorado City, northwest and
north, and soon hope to haVe TIL
weekly stage line established on each.
Thus far we have some 500 direct ia
quifies from citIz EMS Of almost every state
in the Union about northwest Texas,
who desire our hand book sent them,
summer for the purpose Of buying lands
and settling on same. During the past
thirty days or more several we'll
TODD immigrants have come among US,
bought lands, settled and are now hard
st work establishing themselves. Much
interest is now being taken in
our coal and salt. beds in the
vicinity of our city, several sYn-
dictates CT capitalists being engaged
now In negotiating for the purchase of
plnnts, on which 10 erect works to take
cut coal and manufacture salt. Ere long
our Colorado jCity will be one OF the
largest salr-manufscturirg centers in the
United S.ates. The stock farmers already
located IN Mitchell and the other eleven
counties ne REPRESENT are hard at work
blowing up and planting many thousand
acres Of oats, corn, sorghum, millet,
johnson grass, and many other products,
al of which will yield this season album
dainty, as we have had frequent raius st.
intervals Stree August, and the soil Is In
better condition for cultivation than 1t
mas been for years Many -oiooded
stations, bulls ard itcks are daily being
introduced into our Northwest Texas
country, and our people are gong to
make a specially of raising better
grade of horsee, mules and
Cattle in connection with farming.
Here in Mitchell county we
have It's sections state school land for
saIe-75, 900 acres OF which is classified
as agricultural lsnd-at 81 per acre, on
forty years. time, at per cent. interest.
Oar neighboring county Of Scurry has
l75, 600 ceres CT state school land which
has been classified as agricultural land at
same price and on same terms as ours.
The business Of cur city is steaoily i'm
proving; properties and lscds are firm in
price, with slight tendency to advance
in price. We realize the fact that con-
servative, LASTING boom is now beipg in
auguIated in our Northwestern T>xas
country, and that during this spii lg and
summer we will have many thousand Wis
itors from the older stntes, and that many
will Duy properties sld lands and settle
among US. I. ID. CoRDELI,
Secretary.