Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-03
TIE PANHANDLE OF TEXAS.

what General Camsron Has TO Say Of Ita
Possibilities Doings of tins FaI m ore Who
are Now Therr.
Denver Republican.
Gsneral Cameron, commissioner Of
emigration for the Panhandle Railroad,
came In LAST night from Texas and WAS
interviewed by Republican reporter.
"Well, General, what is your opinion OF
the Panhandle country"
"Why, IL Is q good country, 8 great
country"
"Do you think 1t is to fill up rspidly7"
"Why not2 1t Is the last good country
in the United .ates. E;w land can be
purchased cheapIy and in proximity to s
good market"
"Wlll wheat grow in the Panhsndlef"
AGRAND WHEAT COUNTRY.
ayes. Ii anything, 1t is wheat coun-
try. Wilbarger county, centrally located
between Fort Worth snd the New Mt xl-
can line, took the premium last year at
the Texas State Fair for the largest crop
per scre and the best wheat"
"Csn anything else be raised with
prof ?"
ayes. Let me give you living exam
pie OF what has been done ana can be
done again. Mr.. A. T. Bogue went to
WilbsIger county, within < miles Of
where Vernon now stands, In 1882 with
span Of mules, 3 wagon, 8 wife, two
baoi, and $3.50 In money and commenced
life In dugout.
ONE YEARS CROPS.
"Last year with his own labor, except
extra Eelp in harvest and threshir g. time,
ne raised 500 bushels OF wheat, averaging
80 bushels per acre; $500 bushels OF osts,
averaging 60 bushels t. the acre; 100
bushels OF corr from IS acres; 20 tons of
mIllet from IL acres, ana liz bushels Of
sweet potatoes. Besides this he had
hogs, chickens, butter and vegetables to
use aud sell. Ia the year 1886, which
was very fruitful year, he had better
crop still. He has now good house of
i've rooms, barn, out-bulldings, 8 well,
500 acres under fence, good young or
cnard srd owes no man anything.
"Tne County Judge In his county gave
nae the pames Of Eve Of Bogues' neigh
oe 8, who have, the Judge says, done
equally well, but I have not had time to
see them yet."
81 suppose there is some difference in
the country"
TOPOGRAPHY OF TER REGION.
"Certalnly this side Of the Ratoon
range and beyond Trinidad the country
looks like Western Kansas and is being
settled up by the Kansas 'ov rfow'
Bey ord the Ratoon rsuge the copn ~,
peing nearer the Gulf, has 6 much
greater rainfall. Duriug the last
eight years observations have
b en- kept at Fors Ellio t
which shows an average Of ever twenty.
i've inches of rainfall am ual y. As TWEEN
ty four is estimated Sufficient this may be
considered enough. Ii this region, tx
tending from the Cimaron 10 New Mexico
to point about CT rendon, below the
Canadian river. wheat has never been
test, d, but oats made last year q good
crop, ss high as sixty bushels per acre,
sorghum as high as six tons per acre,
militt sod alfalfa making q fair cror,
sweet potatoes good crop, vegetables b
good crop, and cxbosges weighing So high
as twenty four pounds. You understand
me, Issy that this WAS done without irri-
gaiioA. We have no doubt about this
country being promising wheat country
and IL will be ties ed tails year.
"Balow Clarendon the country charges,
but Just here, the fruit belt commences.
Cannot tell until tests are made, bui if
we can jadge from the wild plum and
grapes aoounding in this region the fruit
belt commences here. A. Wichita county
last year pesch vas grown measuring
eleven inches 10 circu mfe -epce.
"DroppiDg down Nearer Fort Worth,
ord in Cisy county psrty who has raised
500 bushels Of sweet potatoes; one who
hiss raised 800 bushels Of potatoes, and
another $40 bushels of peanuts per acre
From here down fruit raising is no longer
al experiment. 1t Is the land of peaches
and grapes, aud from this region in no
dIs ant dsy Denver will draw her largest
supply. From ClaY county down the
cotton and the corn comes IN.
HIS PREDICTIONS.
III think the lower Panhandle country
will be the fruit and early vegetable rails
ing ground for Denver and the mountain
arket and the upper part devoted TO
VIII a. gro wing and 8 mixed husoandry,
81 b as the raising Of fodder, horses,
mules and fist cattle.
81 had q conference with Col. ". W.
r So, q veteran fruitmsn OF thirty years
In Texas, now residing in Pilot Point, and |
Mr.. T. V. Manson Of Denison, for twelve |
years In the fruit bu siness and now vice. |
president Of the American Horticultural |
Society. left them with the decided i'm. |
preston thst for peaches, plums, grapes !
and perhaps bIackberties, this region of |
the Panhandle country cannot be sur
passed in the Cnited St tes."
lyon have NOT told ma ahout the soilS'B