Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-09
ROBERTS COUNTY,
Actual Settlers in the County Loud III
Their Complaints Against Mr.. Hail
Farmers Forced to Pay Lease Privileges or
Lose Their improvements Lahu
Held as Watered Land.
MIAMI, TEX, Sept. 6, 1888.
To the Gazette.

To the Gazette.
The actual settlers in Roberts county
are considerably worked up over the ae-
.+ion Of land Commissioner Hall and Mr..
sJames Mckenzie, general manager Oh
the Creswell ranch and cattle company
an institution incorporated under the
laws of Scotland and Ireland, with It's
head office at Edinburg, Scotland. Mr..
Mckenzie has leased some two hundred
sections of the best school lands IN the
county. On many OF these sections there
are narties settled with view OF InahIhS
i +bair Dermanent home. All Of them
hove little farms and growing crops Oh
these lands. and intend buying the same
| inst as soon as they can dispose OF enough
! of their little earnings farm produce) 70
make the first payment. some u
| +bor, bovvever. are ready now to BUY.
| Others viii be ready IN the COURSE VI q
! few weeks. short time since repre-
| -o,+o+ira 7 suDDose, of this Scotch-lrIsh
oo,,norafion went to Mr.. b. f. DUO 7y
Mr. @ NJ. Gardner, Mr.. r. w. Coles ano
Mr. Wortney Young, who are among the
| host citizens of the Panhandle, ana Ioiu
! them that they must either pay Mr. NC
| Venzia eIOO for his lease or take the
wire from around their little tarIns' TON
if I'D and get off. They not being aole nor
T-ilIing TO nav him this bonus are making
nreDaratiOns to leave the state. III IacC'
Mr. Cole and Mr.. Young who hau d Ie"
| head of cattle, have already lett anu
have nitched their tents in Oklahoma .
| Mir. Dudney and Mr.. Gardner Will leave
| soon if they don t get relleI.
Another instance of TINS tyranny 10 ~
| Of
whore Mr.. Frank Sawyer, good cltl-
ION settled on q section of school land
durinu the reign Of the land board and
made his application under the rules OF
that notable body, and sent It with MS
first Davment to Austin, describing II as
dry land which in fact it is. This same
scotch outfit protested against II BENG
awarded to Mr.. Sawyer, claiming II VC
he watered land, which the laEd Do"ru
in IFS wisdom had decided not to sell
The land hoard disregaTding the solemn
oath of Mr.. Sawyer, ana placing con
fdence in the Scotch irish corporation ~
IFS representatives rejected MT. Sawyer
oDDIication. Mr.. Sawyer, however
still lived on the land and improved
until last spring, when MI. Il Ne" ", y
moved IN from Young county VI III
s+a+e and bought Mr.. sawyer 5 improve
,r,on+s having him $500 for them. IN
land had never been classified until som
two months ago, when State AgeI
Hotter came through this county an
classified it. He first classified tins sec
tfon as watered land, and MIR. NeWol
knowing it to be an erroneous classinet
tion. got the county surveyor to suFVt
if ont which he did, ana found II 10
drv land. Then Mr.. Hotfer corfecIe
g, his classification and sent It to the lal
e. Office, and the classification '" y,
IS, there approved and copy sent To- 10 u
$, ~ clerk of this county anu iSCOi w
ok =, his of,fce Meanwhile our county SUI
7, yaTor was corresponding with sta
ASent Hotter to get this land classltie
81 Here He I inclose you a letter, under date
,ly August %, 1889, in regard to this san
a. section: