Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-18

the policy he intends to pursue that an
actual settler, taking up and occupying
any of the unoccupied state lands, can be
certain Of having the first right to pur-
chase. Mr. Halls entire policy is shaped
with view to inducing settlement in the
Panhandle.
The difference in the land laws OF
Texas from those OF the United Stntes Is
that when the stste entered the Union she
preserved her autonomy, and all of the
lands within her boundaries were re-
served to the sole use and benefit Of the
inhsbitants. Many OF the laws were
shaped after the manner Of the old Span
ish or Roman code. Successive legisla-
ton in the matter has, however, nearly
'Hsslmilsted the method OF acquiring theEi
(these lands) to United States laws, and
l think the foregoing explanation Will be
readily understood by our readers.
There is q general disposition or the
part OF large cattle owners in the Psn-
handle TO dispose OF their stock On easy
terms to actual settlers, enabling the set
tier to open up his farm with 5 handsome
promise of profit, and the same time
giving the original h-lder of the stock Gu
opportunity to dispose of his cattle. This,
with the fact OF the county being fitted
TO produce hogs in gress abundance, vii!
make its trade well worth locking after,
and investments hare ere absolutely safe
and paying.
immigrants coming into the country
will need supplies of all kinds. Sugars
and syrups will undoubtedly come from
New Orleans and meats from Kansas City,
All other supplies will DOUBTLESS come
from New York to New Orleans, or some
Texas port; thence they will be distri5u-
ted throughout the country which is now
being developed.
For some three or four years to come
there will not be enough lOod prOduc;
raised in Texas to supply the immigra-
ton coming into this country, as conse-
OQeuce Of which farmers settling in the
country will receive the highest price for
I'll they produce, and the scenes that we're
witnessed and fortunes th1t were made
in Illinois in 1864 and in Kansas in
1873 and 1874 will be repeated 10
Texas. The best criterion by which
our prosperity Can be judged
IS the interest manifested In investments
in this country by eastern capitalists, es-
pecisliy parties living in Vermont, Con
Gecticut and Rhode Island. They seem
to take much interest in this country sud
put out money more freely than any
other class of people. Many of them are
offering money at low rates of interest,
which Eheir knowledge Of the Panhandle
and the certainty of good crops have
made them feel safe in doing.
There are two falls CT snow IN ths
Panhandle, each of which is from Two
and half to four inches, end they lie on
the ground from three to five days. The
frst occurs shout the middle CT Decem-
Der and the second between the 15.h of
January and the l0:n Of February. These
SuowfsIls are great personalities of
moisture and do much towards making
: he raising Of small grain success.
Raiuf Il IN Texas, as given for the past
eight years ...... ...-.............-..-...42 1884
Mean daily temperature ..-...............63
Mea DAILY relative humidity. ..............5T
Mean daily dew pOint..-..... ...-........... 49,
Prevailing direction of winds. Sc
Highest velocity, thirty-eight miles per ho-r.
JOHN ADAMSON.