Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-26


Page has number, several thousand it
is saial- Mrs. H. B. Collins has planted
500 EeConte's; Mr.. Stokes, $50; DR..
Lipseomb has added largely to his orchard
this season; besides other parties who
have planted small numbers. ;,
The sandy pfhe hills of eastern Texas
used to be held I'm about thS same
'disrepute as the clay hills of Gforgia,
but the discovery. thats the hills,
sterile on the surfaee, are 1fah beneath,
will change contempt for the respect.
In the womBs of eastern Texas moun--
tains are the embryos of great cities and
and mighty wealth.
w. S. Fly, the young Gonzales lawyer
who has been elected grand master of
Masons in Texas, is native. of Missis-
sippi, and is thirty-seven years old. He
was made master Mason in 1874, served
four years as master of his lodge, and
was four years district deputy. He was
elected grand junior warden in 1885,
grand senior warden in 1886 and deputy
grand master in 1887. He is onerof the
youngest men ever elected grand master.
The most distinguished men I'M Texas
consider it high honor to preside over
the p, 600 Masons under the authority of
the grand lodge 90
Carson county is 9ncaSfSd IL. tie geo
graphical Center of4thG Panhandle .of
Texas. In area it is1hifE miles square
and contafis $40 900 acresof the vef;X
best hand n!'TeNas. 1t is nearf5s.aM4 al II higk
prairie land known as the Llano Estacad&
or Staked plains. The average altitude
is 5000 feet above the level of the sea.
The southern half of the county is classed
exclusively as agricultural land. The
surface is dotted over with hundreds of
grass lakes from which !the very best
quality of exceedingly nutritious hay is
made, making in SOME instances as
much as two tons to the acre.
The Atlanta Journal is, urging the es-
adjustment of cannin9t factory on its
people. OF Cass county the Journal says:
The fruit crop of the county is already
considers We and increases every year.
There ca not be a market for it unless it
is preserved by canning. An acre of
five-year- peach trees will mailss500
bushels of fruit. AT % cents a bGshel
this fruit would be worth SIPS. This is
more than three balef6f cotton would
bring, and it takes Hore work to make
the cotton than to :gfow.and gather the
fruit. Where notwithstanding facto-
RES lTulb geueTdlly DTmsS OV ceIllS IL
bushel. Then would it not pay our fruit
growers to cooperate in establishing
canning factory?
SOME POTATOES.
Nine hundred and forty bushels of
sweet potatoes per acre dsfhe way things
grow in the Abilene country i Abilene
Reporter. 1t
a bunch of sweet" potatoes weighing
twenly-one pounds, taken from one hill,
is on exhibition at Wasson& Miller s.
neutrality-suspicious..
We are under lasting obligations to
friend William Griffay' for a potato
weighing seven and one1half pounds. No
need of starving where it grew Llano
Advocate. -.
Mr.. H. F. Wall presented the Banner
on yesterday sweet potato weighing fif-
teen pounds. Il was raised on his farm
four miles southeast of town = Green
vile Banner. v
Parker and Palo Pinto counties are
quarreliing over which can raise the
largest potatoes. We don I know what
either of those counties can do, but up
here in Fanuin there are some awful
''small potatoes, - weighing from 80 to,
250 pounds - Honey Grove Citizen. -!