Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-18
CONCHO COUNTRY.
Settlers More Than Pleased With Their
First Years Work-Peof1e Coming.
San Angelo Fsir Association Preparing Its
First Annual exhibition = Scenery
that Cannot be Surpassed.
SAN ANGELO; TEX, Sept. 1s. 1889.

10 the Gazette.
Those who have never visited Tom
Green county and refnbled over the
broad valleys of the Concho rivers have
but meager idea of the magnitude and
beauty of the country or the fertility of
the varied soils.
The enterprising settler here and there
who has taken up the plow and the hoe
to test the value of his possessions for
agricultural purposes has been more than
pleased with the results and the fruits Of
his industry, that have been exhibited
at the great Dallas fairs for three years
past, have been the wonder of thousands
of spectators, and the inducement 70
many to come and secure homes in this
favored land. The valleys are being
rapidly settled by active and industrious
citizens from all the other counties of
Texas and from all parts Of the United
States. These people believe in the
COncho country and want the world to
know it.
In pursuance to this last desire the
leading men of San Angelo and all the
country around it, embracing several
adjoining counties, organized
completing their improvements for the
first annual exhibition to be held October
30 to November l inclusive. The selec-
ton of a site was most happy. From the
commanding eminence on which the
beautiful mile track, grand stand
and exposition halls are located IS q GEN.
trail spot IN one of the grandest amphi-
theaters ever constructed by the great
Architect and is of itself poem written
by the hand of nature and set to music
by the ripping waters as they Rush over
shoal and cascade to the sea. To the
east OF the fair grounds, looking
across one of the grandest prairies in all
Texas, stands the Lipan mountains, from
which the PLAIN takes its name. To the
north the range of vision is limited by
another, known in local pariance as the
North mountain TO the south we see
the long ard even stretch of the Lone
Wolf range, and in the west the circle is
completed by another chain that is re-
lieved at intervals by bold and graceful
formations that look across the distance
like mighty fortresses, while standing
between these are several symmetrical
peaks that remind one OF turrets on
the castle of some ancient warrior.
At the extreme south end of this range
so well known to early explorers as
''Twin Mountains, whose graceful
heads have so often corrected the erring
steps Of confused travellers, and in the
march of settlement have given bearings
for ten thousand surveys.
Within this irregular circle lies one of
the most beautiful valleys, from thirty
to forty miles across, that ever gladdened
the eye Of home seeker since Jehovah
led Adam into the Garden of Eden and
gave it him as a home, and an
inheritance for his seed. In fact, an ad-
miring visitor was lately heard to say
that it required no stretch of fancy to be-
heve that mistake had been made in
ancient history; ''that this was the true
Eden, and that the Creator had stood
upon the Twin Mountains looking down
the Concho valley when He finished the
world and pronounced 1t good. -
With this panorama laid out around the
Concho valley fair grounds, with q gen.
erous list of purses for racing over
one of the best built and
fastest new tracks in America,
with liberal prizes offered TO exhibitors
of all kinds of products of the soil, and
labor of the hands, with g generous and
hospitable people to entertain and an
obliging management to direct, it is
foregone conclusion that this fair will be
a success and will soon be known to the
world as taking the same rank for West
Texas that the fair at Dallas and the
Fort Worth Spring Palace take
in North Texas, and the San
Antonio fair assumes in the southern
portion of the state. With excursion
rates on all the railroads at a price so
low that any one can afford to come the
man who fails to visit San Angelo and
take a look at the couHtryand its products
viii. miss the goldeRs opportunity Of his
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