Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-18

per acre, or $3.50. John Grounds, living
two miles north of Wichita Falls, made
an average of twentv-siX bushels on
thirty acres of land.
THE CLIMATE.
The climate of this section is an agree
able surprise to me. 1t is seldom excess
lively warm and one can sleep comfortably
under q blanket the entire summer.
but few years ago, L am informed,
Wichita county was cut up into large
pastures for cattle, and principally
owned or leased by cattlemen, but to-
day there is hardly large pasture left,
they have to make way for the progress
sive farmer, and now all these lands are
on the market - Lands can
be bought at from 81 to SIS
per acre, according to location,
and i'll tracts Of from 100 to $40 acres on
very reasonable terms. ''After looking
the county over, seeing the number of
acres in cultivation, improvements, ETC.,
l believe Wichita Falls to be one of the
best business locations on the line of this
railroad (the Fort Worth and Denver)
The country Is now, in the way of pOpu-
lation and improvements.
AHEAD OF THE TOWN,
which is not generally the case in
new countries. 1 may be mistaken, but
/ believe that the town would stand
1900 more people and not be cover
done.'' This is the county site. as you
know, and again, it is the end of the
first division of the railroad, and 1 am
told the railroad company pays out sew
eral thousand dollars each month here
and as this is the distributing point and
market for several counties. among which
are Archer, Baylor, Knot, part of
Young, also a good portion of Clay and
all of Wichita, you will see the town is
well located. (Note county map in
closed, which shows the location of this
and counties named.
Our mutual friend, W. j. Hill of In
diana, would do well to visit this place
when he comes to Texas, as he talks of
doing.
AS to the people here, I
find them about the same as
they are with US at home.
l have been as well treated as ever was
in Ohio or Indiana (my home), and why
not? The majority of the people living
in this section of Texas were formerly
from the old states. 1 have n4sde the
acquaintance of several native born Tex
ans here and elsewhere i'll the state.
L
never was treated better at
home than I have been in Texas.
''By the way, De Armand,
speaking of politics, ''You know the i'm
preston people have in our state of
'TeXas politics. Well, you can imagine
my surprise when, at an election held
here for city officers the other day, they
elected straight out and out republican
for mayor. This took me clean off my
feet, for as you know, we are told in
Indiana and OHIO that it would
not be safe for a man
to let it he known that he ever voted the
Republican ticket in Texas, much less
RUN FOR OFFICE
on that ticket I assure you it was a sur
prise to me, and if l had not been on the
ground and seen it with my own eyes I
couldn't have believed it. The people
in this section appear to be here for bust
ness, and politics is not considered when
it comes to selecting good men
for office. If a man is all right it
matters not where he comes from or
what party he belongs to.
The prospects are excellent for Texas
to have a good harboF with plenty
OF water at the mouth of
the Brazos in the near future.
That done. this state viii have good