Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-22
WICHITA FALLS.
The Advantages of Wheat Over Cotton-The
City Ordinance in neutrality-suspicious.
the Order ofthe Day.
Correspondence of the Gazette.

Correspondence of the Gazette.
WICHITA FALLS, TEX Sept. 20.-VeTy
few ''long faces' are noticed among the
farmers of this section. They have no
cotton to worry over and their
children are gong to school
while their fathers and brothers are
plOwlng for and sowing wheat. The
crop of 1889 is harvested, hreshed and
portion of it marketed and al good prices
with a good supply Of seed and feed on
hand for the coming winter. The far
meTs in this section are out of debt, as a
rulO, much better off than their brothers
il the cotton districts. The cotton far
meT S work is never done. He and his
family are slaves to the crop and the mer-
chant. The children are kept from school
either to plant, 'chOp out or pick the
"stuff, - and the result is you viii find
more illiteTate children and grown peO-
pie in the cotton growing sections than
you VIII in the grain and stock country
Raising small grain and stock is a
pleasure and comfort compared to rails
ing cotton, ana much more profitable
Farming at best is hard and IabOrIOus
work, but the man that depends on rails
ing cotton for a living has hard time of
raising wheat the latest machinery is
used and the labor is light and pleasant,
while cotton has to be raised ''by hand -
so to speak. Wichita county wheat is in
demand for seed and large quantities of
it are being shipped north and south of
here for that purpose. This CWichita)
county took the premium last year at the
state fair on wheat with over fifty coun-
ties represented, and the citizens chaI-
lenge the state 10 equal the yield of this
county on wheat this year and last.
Over twenty-five bushels to the acre is
the average that will have to be made to
carry off the premium.
J. s. Mayfeld and family have re-
turned from the mountain resorts of
Colorado.
& Judge J. Fl Barmise and family have
just left on visit to their old home in
st. Charles county, Mo. They will visit
the St. Louis fair before returning The
lgage is one of the pioneer farmers of
ssslnis county and has been very successful.
He Is what may be called a well-to-do-
hog and hominy farmer.
Mayor o. 7. Bacon returned from a
trip TO his old home in Kentucky (Bour-
sDon county, yesterday and to-day
Ne is on the ''war path - He
was elected on the g clean up
gand Improvement ticket and means busi-
mess.
s &The city ordinance Is now in effect and
It Is safe to predict that our city officials
will see to it that the same is enforced
We have always had the best of law and
order here. Capt. F. NJ. Davis, our
reffcient sheriff, has been and is yet the
fright man IL the right place, but not be-
ing incorporated until recently there
weRe no funds provided for public i'm
tssssssements.
sssThe depot is full of household
goods owned by new settlers
who are moving into this and Archss
counties from the old states andthe
'black waxy belt of Texas
1.-The receipts of this stafioHeEiiI aseIes
sage over twenty eight thousand doliafSa
month, which makes this the5best station
in point of revenue of, tie line between
Fort Worth and Trinidad, remarkea.
Col. ] Q. Morrison, tie efficient and