The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-06-27
TIE KARPoRAmA.

An EmPeFia Gentleznan Visits the
Wonderful Spring Palace aS Fort
Worth Texas and Tells what he Saw.
A Magnificent Structure GOrgeOusly
VeAeered with Native Products.
EDITOR News thought 1 would
drop you line and tell you about a
few of the things have seen on my
trip south.
We-my better half and L en-
barked on the only and great NJ. &. &
7. on the afternoon of the 10Th and
with the exception of short delay at |
safely in the beautiful city OF Fort
Worth on the evening of the 18th on
time 1.-THE ''Kady" always gets there on
time.)
1 amunable to tell anything ABOUT
the country between Parsons and Eu-
fala as we passed over 1t during
the night but from Eufala to Fort
Worth, l can truly say Is as pretty
country as one would care to look at.
1t is gently rolling prairie as far as
the eye can reach and covered with
wheat, corn, rye oats and cotton fields.
The wheat is all harvested and in
shock and they are now cutting oats.
the corn is as high as ones head
and in many fields it has already
tasSled out. The cotton is about
twelve or fourteen inches high and the
people along the line of the road tell
US it is looking unusually tine. AT
nearly every station we stopped there
were small boys peddling peaches and
apples at the small price of five cents
per dozen, and they were peaches, none
of your small, shriVled up fruit; but
nice, large and juicy fruit. One
gentleman informed me that there was
at least one hundred and fifty bushels
lying on the ground in his orchard
rotting for want of some one to gather
them. Had the state good railroad
vegetables, believe they could supply
the entire north and west. Fort
Worth is a beautiful city of about
SO, COO people with eleven railroads,
! twenty miles of street railway, forty
| three graded streets, fourteen miles
of sewer mains, thirty miles OF water
mains 141 artesian wells, fifteen
churches, eleven free school build
ings, seven national banks and
called hotels, the only thing
being first class about them is
| the price; what an opening for a good
first class hotel. They also have here
the ''Karporama of Texas" And 1
tell you, Texas has done herself proud.
| You have seen a picture of the struc-
ture so will not describe it any more
than to say that one gets very poor
| idea of its magnificence by looking at
| the picture. It is entirely covered on
the outside with the products of the
| state, such as wheat, corn, rye, oats,
/ cotton, grasses, Texas cattle, horns
and hides put on in very artistic de-
signs representing the differents com
mercial interests of the state. And
the inside is probably as grand pan
| Drama of artistic scenery as has ever
images, birds. landscapes, furniture
buildings, carpets, cars, engines and in
fact everything that one could imagine
all made out of the productions of the
state. When l say out of the produc
tions, / mean corn, wheat, rye, oats
horns and such like productions
There is also on exhibition a very
fine specimen of potters' clay, from
which is made some very fine pieces Of
pottery, consisting of jugs, crooks, etc.
which is found in Henderson county
county specimens of karolin, from
which is manufactured tableware re-
sembiing in looks and color our China
ware, pronounced by many to be equa
to the Haviland goods. They have pc
troleum in it's crude state from neal
San Antonio, also lubricating oil from
Bexar county; mineral waters from
nearly every county in the state; flint
coal from Webb, Calaghan and EratI
counties; iron ore from Cass, Mason
Gillespie, Cherokee, Llano, Marion
and San Saba counties; salt from
Mitchell county; ''ramie," weed re-
sembling in looks our hemp, which il
extensively cultivated in the Trinity
valley, and from which very fine arti
Giles of wearing apparel are manufac,
tured. Fire clay, mineral, and in fac
nearly if not quite everything that il
or can be produced by any stat
|, in this union of ours is found on exhi
bition in this great TeXarama now Civ
ing daily exhibitions at FIT. Worth. L
is well worth trip down here to SCI
it.
Knowing the prejudice that exists il
the minds of the people of the north
know it will be hard to make them be
lieve there can be anything raised il
Texas but ''long horns" and ''cow
boys" but they are pretty nearly
thing past. The people have discov
cred that Texas is a grain and fTui
growing state as well as cattle, and
will not be many years until she no
only produces the most cattle but ais
the most fruit and grain.
| think l will have to cut this off O
you Bill begin to think l am trying t.
do you up with fish story, but hav
; not pictured it one-half as good as it is
l lack the ability. l go from here t.
Galveston. jim.