Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-19

as Fine a County as the Country Can Pm.
duee.
Cores pondence. of the Gazette.
AURORA, TEX. July To- When Won
go to Genoa, pray observe carefully al
the environs of it, So wrote Lord
Chesterfield; so we write you. We have
seen and walked, talked, written and
dreamed Spring Palace till, if never con.
WINGED before, we NOW know we live in
the greatest state in the Union. Do Won
wish black waxy land, black as tar. rich
in guano beds, and sixteen feet deem
Do you want rich alluvial bottom land
or sandy, either black, gray, white, red
or yellow; or timber hard as mahogany
soft as cypress, fat as pine, rich as gum?
Are you hunting granite, marble, lime
or sand stones; gold, silver. iron COP
per, coal, salt? Do you want to select
from grains-corn, wheat, rye, oats
millet, milo maize, kafir corn, Egyptian
corn, barley or rice corn? Is it forage or
hay you want? Then see sorghum, teo-
sinte, alfalfa, bokhara, Bermuda grass
and the varied mesquite and buffalo
grasses. Is it fruit you wishf Then LOOK
at all the varieties of peaches, many Of
the better apples, scores of the different
grapes, pears, plums, aprieots, nectar
ines, prunes and japanese persimmOns
Do you wish limestone, freestone, gyp-
sum, sulphur, chalybeate or water from
Croton creek, or is it room You want?
Then spread yourself from Dallam county
in the Panhandle to Brownsville on the
Rio Grande-S00 miles-Or across the
line from TeXarkana to El PasO, about
the same distance. Do you want churches,
schools and thrifty societies and land in
which the law is enforced as strictly as il
any state in the Union? Then come tC
Texas. Much of which l write can be
seen right here, and, additionally, will
show you hundreds of acres of cotton and
tell you where to see iute and other tex
tiles.
In view of our favored location near
the Fort Worth and Denver railway, and
immediate position on the Dallas Pacific
and Southeastern, we are now putting
on our best bib and tucker and showing
faith in the old land Just across the
West Fork Capt. s. BObo has about COM
pleted his new gin and mill, sixty by
twenty-five feet, with additional room
for engine, cotton seed, etc. He has
put in or will do so the latest improved
machinery, condenser, elevator. etc,
so as to increase facilities for handling
the fine cotton crop now promised. He +,
ginned over seven hundred bales last
season. Killough Bros. have q fine gin
in this place; formerly an investment Of
$500. They are now adding late i'm
provements. They had condenser. They
are now putting in an elevator that car
ries the cotton from 3 wagon bed
to the gin stalls and at the same tins
fans 1t and drives out sand and all trash.
Maj. Slimp' gin, also located here, gets
q good share of patronage. There are
other gins near US and over the county.
Mr.. s. T. Biting has just bought
corner lot On the square and will imme-
diately erect a store business house 25xI5
feet walls. Mrs. Killough has already
had a surveyor make a plot Of about
twenty-seven acres on the southwest OF
town. It is now divided into quarter,
half and acre blocks, with twenty and
forty feet streets and alleys running
north and south, east and west. So sOOa
as the crops are off the valuable lands
east of the square Mr.. g. W. Short
win have the lands plotted OF into sulta-
bic building llots, and put on the mar
ket
SO stands the "greatest state in the
Union, the best county i'm the state aud
the best portion of that county. Come
and see. At the Spring Palace you could
see many colored paints taken from our
Texas lands. We will deny you one
thing. No man can now paint things too
red in Texas Law and order prevail.
W9ean furnish shittim wood 4 YOU want