Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-17
THE WEEKLY TEXAS FRIDAY FEBRUARY IL

the matter should be left in the ihsnds oil
thirty-one delegates, representing the
] thirty-one senatorial districts Of the
stkte.
"The convention then adjourned end
these thirty-one delegates called another
meeting for the mex. week, in the mean
time Inviting all railroad oficials Of the
state to Cooperate At thus second meet
| ing the railroad interest wSs largely rep
resented, and the offi;ers of the Texas
emigration bureau were elected from
among the number Of thirty-one citizens,
and their headquarters has been estab-
lished a. Austin. The railroads agreed to
grant one-fsre tickets from all terminsl
points leading into Texas about three
times q month, ard the delegates re-
turned to their respective districts and
Immediately the counties sndstowns CT
ganized themselves to contribute money
TO b. applied to the general fund for ad-
vertising the state in general and their
respective localities in particular. Thus
the movement has become general, and
the inducements offered by the railroads
are bringing hundreds of people to the
state, who come to see whether the facts
exist as represented by the advertising
snd emigration bureau.
1--WE are Of Texas and from Texas and
are endeavoring to present these facts on
an independent basis to those who msy
desire to make future homes in the Lone
Star state. We are not acting in the in
terests of any newspaper, corporation or
combination Of any kind, and have no
land for sale and no exc 10 grind, but rs
patriotic and good citizsns come here to
induce others to emigrate to the country
where we believe exist more advantages
and opportunities tor the honest, indus
trious men, than anywhere else in this
country. The movement! Is indorsed all
along the line, by the people, by the rail-
ROAD ffl;ials from S. e. II. Clarke down,
by the stale officers and by the Gov
ernor."
DARK BACK GROUND TO A PRETTY PIC
TURF.
T. D. Greed, an old st. LouisaD, has re-
turned sitter three months solourn in
Kansas and California. He WAS seen at
the Leclede and said: "CAlifornia is the
greatest fraud in the United States to-
DAY, and the advertising schemes and
false inducements held out TO induce i'm
| migration sre getting more poor people
In trouble and making more tramps than
any two states in the west. Los Angeles
and San Diego, the two Edens which
have been represented in such glowing
colors, are not Edens to the tramps who
abound there. l remember on several
occasions being met by from two to six
OF these unhappy citizens and they have
stated to me that they had not 3
cent and that they had come there through
false representations of the c9untrFaEa
had failed to secure work and sH6d been
compelled to go on the streets at from
Sl.25 to 81 80 per day, aad finally that
WAS denied them, and so nothing remain
irg, they are now begging for their daily
bread and watching chance to go back
to their old homes. 1t was the same at
San Diego and also in other parts of the
state. These booms have played out and
many men Of wealth who have been in
euced to place their capital there are now
Withdrawing with heavy losses and re-
firing from the scene Of speculation. The
climate is not what 1t is cracked up to be,
or st least did not find it SO, for was
there two months and it rained every day,
and felt most miserable"