Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-05
THE GERMANS OF TEXAS.

Room for All Their Friends and Relatives.
Translated from the st. Louis "Amerika"
When compared with most of the other
states of the Union, Texas has the su
perlor advantage of possessing many NIL
lions of acres of fertile lands, which can
be purchased at cheap prices, ranging
from 81 to SIS an acre, and in those To-
calities most likely to attract German i'm
migrants, Intermittent fevers and malarial
diseases are but little known, If known
at all.
Immigrants, however, should use due
care, and should either possess them
selves the Bno Wledge requisite to make
6 proper investigation of the soil, climate
and local cor editions Of the section where
they intend to settle, or should consult
reliable and competent persons before
they decide upon g suitable location and
the purchase of q desirable tract Of land.
Otherwise they might be induced to buy
undesirable properly, either because the
locality is not healthy, or is dry and I'M
productive, or not convenient to markets,
on account OF its distance to railroads
and other means of communication.
But when the new settler is successful
in securing suitable tract of good land
N desirable locality, 8 thing which it Is
easy for him to do, the industrious and
hard working German farmer can easily,
on account of the CheapGess and fertility
of the soil and the mildneGs of the
climate, secure for himself and his
children an independent and comfortable
living in the great state of Texas
The German element is present in con-
sidersblesnumbers already in some parts
Of Texas, especially in the southwest,
where the first large settlements of Ger
mans were established in the year 1874.
A novel and rather peculiar colonization
scheme was attempted in that year By q
society composed Of German princes aud
noblemen, who called themselves the
"AdeIs- vereir," or NoblemGn's Associs
ton, and who after several IN ucessful
ventures located upon the present site OF
the city OF New Brsunfels. The head OF
the new settlement Was young prince
named Solms-Braunfels. His endeavors
did not prove very successful, Gnd
the NOBLE portion Of the settlers, finding
their surroundings unCOngeniai, soon dis
parsed. A large number of industrious
and intelligent German settlers remained
in the colony, however, and IL the course
OF time founded the extensive and hour
ishing German settlement, which now eX.
tends forIhundreds of miles around the
cities of S1n Antonio sud NsW Braunfels.
The descendants OF the original Ger
man colonists, many Of whom now belong
to the third generation, have greatly IN
creased, and enjoy the universal respect
of their fellow citizens Of native birth,
and they are as prosperous and contented
q class of citizens as can be found any
where in the United States among the
people of their nationality.
In g work published in the year 1884,
entitled Through Texas, from the Gulf
to the Rio Grande," the author. native
Texan, expresses himself in the following
hRttering words about his German fellow
citizens:
at is difficult to praise the Germans Of
Western Texas too much. They have
made the country what il is. They fur
nish very small contingent to the GRIM
insl classes, while they pay very heavs
percentage Of the taxes, altogether out Of
proportion to their numbers. They edu-I
cate their children at their own expense,
when the state refuses to 90 it. They
respect the rights of others, and rowdy-
ism is almost unknown among them"
The writer who penned the above lines
esteemed his German fellow countrymen
according to their true worth.