Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-05
TEXAS WHEAT LANDS.
Thirty to Thirty-six Bushels Per Acre on
Land that Cost So Per Acre.
The Cost of Land and Crop for the First Year
S13 Per Acre-Results of First Year 800
Fer Acre--Profit 81 Fer Acre.

And now comes John Frieburg, who lives
across the river within short distance of town,
and reports the largest average Sield OF wheat OF
which we have heard this seasen. Mr.. Frieburg
heads the list with an average Of thirty-six and
one-quarter bushels to the acre. This is no
bogus report. The land was measured by Mr..
Freburg, aud so was the wheat, Mr.. Friebnrg's
land is no better, perhaps, than many others,
but is always ploughed deep and put in fine con-
dillon before it is seeded. Mr. Frieburg is, one
of Wichita coUnty's best farmers.-L Herald
Light, Wichita Fails, August 81.
WICHITA FALLS, TEX, Sept. 2, 1883.
To the Gazette.
I clip the above from the Herald
Light and respectfully request space for
it in THE GAZETTE, thinking perhaps If
might catch the eye of some of your
readers in the old states who are looking
for homes ina new country. l have
known Mr. Frfeburg for the past five
years. He moye6sto this county from
Illinois about Sve years ago.
He is one of our best farmers, and
thoroughly reliable gentleman. I can
vouch for the yield of wheat as given
by the Herald-Llght. qhere are many
farmers of this sections Who have har-
vested from thirty to thirty-six bushels
of wheat per acre this year, and this,
too, on land that did not cost over an
average of six dollars per acre. That
this (Wichita) county has made IN aver
age of twenty-five bushels to the acre
this and last year there is not the
slightest doubt.
Those in search of homes would do
well to investigate the following facts,
which are vouched for by the county
officials of this county, also by
the CITY officials of Wichita Falls.
whose names and address are hereto
attached:
COUNTY OFFICIALS.
E. w. Foster, county Judge.
J. A, Kemp, county treasurer.
G. z. Reid, county clerk.
W. H. Burgess, county assessor.
n. Henderson, surveyor.
T. N. Davis, sheriff.
CITY OFFICIALS.
Mayor-O. EsBacon.
AIdermenEJ. c. Zeigler, @. W. Ward, G. U.
HUMPHREYS, W. E. Brothers, R. E. HUH.
County cOmmi ssioners-A. G. Kean, j. d.
Harden, F. D. Kildow, G. P. Coble.
The expense and profit of opening up $50 acres
of land in the center Of this wheat belt has been
figured out as follows: Good average land, con-
venient to market and railroad, costs per acre,
So; breaking same, 81; seed wheat, 81; putting
in 81; cutting and threshing, 81; marketing. 81.
Total cost of land and crop for first year, SIS per
acre. Average wheat crop, twenty-five bushels;
| average price received this year and last, 80
cents. Results OF urst year, so per acre, leay-
ing net earnings, covering the cost OF the land,
| 81 per acre. All things considered no state in
the Union can compare with Texas for the man
of small means.
When we take into consideration the
| price of land in the old states, also the
price paid for wheat, and compare them
with the price of land and wheat in this
section, it is safe to predict that this
| country has a bright future before it.
The late reduction in freight yates on
wheat from Kansas to Texas may reduce
the price paid for wheat here some
little, but at present and for some weeks
past Kansas farmers have been getting
from fifty to fifty-eight cents for wheat,
while the price paid here has been from
seventy three to eighty cents, and last
year g large per cent. of the wheat sold
here for 81 per bushel. IF they can af-
ford to raise wheat in Kansas for so cents
on land worth from fifteen to fifty dollars
an acre, Texas farmers ought to hold
their own on S6land 20 cents per bushel,
which is tffe:lo#est price that has ever
| been paid here, and especially so when
an average o8'twenty-five bushels to the
acre can be made. JOHN HOWARD.