Clarksville evening chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn) 1886-1890, 1888-12-27

How familiar the name and how
many are the pleasant associations
that come rushing upon me as ! re-
call the name Of your valuable paper.
The locality, the people of GAINESVILLE
and country around, the navigable
Cumberland, your railroad facilities,
your tobacco market, your schools,
your doctors, lawyers and business
men of the first order; with such
brain and muscle they draw you as
by some magic force, and the first
thing you know you are in love with
the whole place and people.
Now for few facts about Texas.
She is wide and long, rich in minerals
productive inanything you want to
grow, you can find the locality for
anything that grows out ofthe ground
to reward the husbandman for his
tolls. am now ON my way to the
Pan Handle to see that beautiful
country, having a few days to rest
before entering on my round OF
quarterly meetings for the Weather
ford District, | concluded to run out
and take look at it.
James II. Roberts has just moved
to Clarendon, located for himself GAO
acres of land, carried with him eight
or ten mares, fine jack, and all his
farming implements, so he has gone
to stay.
If you don't get wearied at this,
will tell you more about the country
when come back.
l dropped down from Midlothian,
twenty-eight miles from Fort Worth
to take the Fort Worth IL Denver
railroad, but did not make connection,
so had to wait until next morning.
| am now on the cars, steam up,
now starting, now under full head
way, bound for Clarendon 375 miles
from Fort Worth.
We touched the following points
on the road to wit: Rhome, Her
mon, Decatur, Sunset, Bellview,
Henrietta, Wichita Falls, Iowa
Park, Vernon, etc,
k. These are all new towns or the
most of them have built up since the
railroad has been established.
/ expected to see large stream
when | reached Red river which
runs through the Panhandle, but
when reaching it, | found it about
one half mile wide and not one drop
Of water in it. This season of the
year there is no water in it but later
there is plenty of water flowing in
its channel. The water in the Peas
river lows all the year with other
streams atfording water facilities for
stock of all kind.
The rainbelt has been moving
westward at regular step for num-
Der of years, and finally reached the
extreme west. Thirty years ago
Dallas was on the frontier, beyond
which "the man with his pillow and
hoe" never thought of venturing
with any hope of reward from the
soil. Now he goes to the extreme
Out-posts of the west, and he finds
ready response from the soil to the
touch of the agricultural implements,
leWarding muscle and brain of the
industrious. The peopling of the
Panhandle will so develop the wheat
interest (for this is the wheat country
of Texas and the beef is here too
that with her wheat and beef, she
will add fatty matter as well as
healthy blood to the whole organic
form of the empire State.
Tell DR.. Holmes / got his letter
and did appreciate it, and the read
ing of it awakened many pleasant
recollections, may he live hundred
years, and in the future as in the
past, bless humanity. DR.. when l |,
come to GAINESVILLE / will come
around to eat grapes, if you will let
me. God bless you.
b. NJ. STEpHANs.
Fort Worth, Dec. /, 1883.