Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-19

weighs IFS pounds. He has two Others
that will weigh 200 pounds each when
seven months old.
The cotton crop of Jack county, which
is the largest ever known in the county ,
is about all gathered. Other crops in
the county are good and the county is in
tiourishing condition.
A very painful accident occurred re-
Gently to the twelve-year-old son of Mr.
McDOnner, near Thrifty, Brown county
The lad fell from pecan tree and tract
ured leg and dislocated both shoulders i.
DR.. G. W. Allen was called in and the
little sufferer is resting easier.
Coleman county has 1876 ,045 acres of
land; 500 ZOO superior farming lands, ana
the remainder excellent for grazing pur-
poses. She has about 700 farmers, who
cultivate an average of forty acres each &,
making a total of IS 600 acres of land
now i'll cultivation in the county.
Individual lands can be bought in
Floyd county at from 81 to So per acre;
state school land at s. on forty years
time, and vacant or unapprOpriated pub
lie domain may be taken up as Il home
stead, or pre-empted at 81 per acre. The
individual lands can be, had on five to seven
years time.
Lead ore of the best quality has been
found in Titus county. That county also
has iron ore, says the Bonham News,
and if proper search was made plenty of
coal would likely be found, as the sur
face indications are most excellent for
the existence of extensive coal beds i'll
that section of the state.
The Alliance mill at Weatherford will
be ready to sound the whistle by the LIST
of next month. 1t will be one of the most
complete little mills to be found in the
country. The engine is forty horse pow
or, and the grinding apparatus consists
Of ten sets of rollers, properly graded to
make the best quality of flour.
The lands in jefferson county, particu-
larly at Sabine Pass, defy the world for
raising sea island cotton, which is being
raised there i'll quantities every year
Sugar cane OF the best kind and quality
from nine to sixteen feet is constantly
raised in the county, and in very few
places can its equal be produced.
Within the last two weeks, says the
Vernon Guard, Mr.. r. W. Linkhart has
sold for spot cash over $4,000 worth
of Vernon town property and Wilbarger
county IdTIhLlS ldltS. MI. l4llkn3ft
came to Vernon from Ohio about six
years ago with only $500 to start on. He
is now out of debt, has thous ands of dol
lars in bank and owns lots of valuable real
estate.
Graham is on a decided boom, says the
Leader. Its merchants are busy, its
dwellings are all inhabited, not by bats
and owls, as many of them were year
ago, but by good, healthy, energetic peo-
pie who have come here to stay and as
sist in making this the best town III North
west Texas. The lumber men are doing
rushing business, and the sound of the
hammer and saw is again heard in the
land.
Beaumont wants furniture, barrel,
box and wagon factories, because, says
the Enterprise, the woods around our
town are full of all kinds of timber, to be
purchased at a nominal price, and the
fuel costs nothing. With fuel free and
an abundance of water from the Neches
river, which flows past our very door,
what better inducement could given us a
surety of success to any mandatory in
our midst.