Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-17
CUT THEM UP.
Immense Bodies of Land MIST h.,
yided Into Small Tracts
1t Is Easier to Get One Hundred Ae.n.l g..
Than One Buyer for Ten Tbop. ~
sand Acres.
WICHITA FALLs. Tx. An. 3. -

WICHITA Falls. Tex, Aug. rf 70.
To the Gazette ~
1t has been demonstrated v;..
doubt that it takes less time 70 so.
hundred actual settlers than if "a
find one man to purchase a large no. :
land For illustration of this ".
refer to the Cherokee county scbooI H.,
which are located in this county tbf,
was on the market for several wear.
be sold in a solid body, finally Mr.
Kemp of this place purchased the =.
and placed it on the market IN -
from one hundred and sixty = ~. y,
hundred and twenty acres each ss
the result is that in ~1l
than year over half of -
Is 900 acres have been dlsDnsal '-'
actual settlers and the balance 80 ". -, /"
tract is going like ''hot cakes - ana t '-'
fore three months passes bv the s,,..'
tract will have changed hands ana ~.
good class of people. Had the So
owner of this land done what Mr. ~
has dOne-cut up the tract TO suit ,-.5
farmers-the land would have baag ~
taken up and settled aU least three -
ago, and he (the owner at that -
would have received double The rnors-s
the land that he did in selling if e1,.
gether.
There seems to be no trouble Il, AZ.
section to secure actual settlers II 49,
land can be had in tracts TO suit Tbs-'
is yet in this county several large tr,g..
of land which contain from ten To trar,-
thousand acres. The owners are vai,ir.
for buyer to purchase all. Where :
they would cut the land up as the IN
rant and Cherokee county school land,
have been they would have no troubs :.
all in disposing of the land, and al mD%
better figures than they poF
ask. In riding over the stat.
one will see large tract,
of land which are bringing in no revsnrs
to the owners and you viii also see and
meet men OH every train and wagon road
that want that same land and are Willn,
and able to pay for it, providing thsT
can get what they want of it. The eit.
zeus of Fort Worth, Gainesville. Hen
rietta, this place and many other cite,
and towns 1 could name that desire mOrs
trade and prosperity, might DO well TO
interest themselves in this matter Whers
land owners won t cut the land up IN
small tracts lit would be an ea,7
matter for few of the citizens to CON.
bine together and buy the land and cutt
up and let the people have it. There i
little use to spend money in adyertisilg.
ETC., for actual settlers when YOU can
not furnish them with land in tracts %
suit. The people most desired By alol
us are those who want and can pay tof
from 100 to 500 acres One man Of tbs
kind is worth more to the community h
which he lives than those who own
thousands of acres. 1t Is suggested thai I
it would be TO the interest of the Ms
iority that nonresident land Owleu
be taxed the full value of their land, s
least have the land rendered at ths
price asked by the owner. This would
no doubt cause the large land owner %
rather improve or dispose of the land
Rather that or make him pay hberal7
for all Improvements made. As it i
now the nonresident land owner pays
nothing to speak of for general improve /
ments, but as the actual settler does tbs
work and pays the taxes on his Improve
ments the nonresident raises the prcs
of his land. This kind of policy will not
build up a country. IA