Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-30
HEALTH RESORT.
The Panhandle of Texas Not Surpassed by all
the Mineral Springs and Watering
Places in Christendom
CHrrIcorHE. TEX, Jan. 8, 1859.

CHIICOTHE, lex, an. =, ISoS.
To the Gazette
When the warm days of summer stretch
out in number, until the resident OF Cen
trail and Southern Texas begins to cast
about for some cooler and more bracing
climate to run to, let him remember the
Panhandle of his own state4 When he
feels that he has been long enough in the
Pan, let him crawl up the handle to
| higher and cooler spot. The great
masses Of the people have no conception
of the perfect climate, ricn land and
varied scenery of the stored Panhandle,
famous of old, from the tales of the cow
man or boy, but inaccessible until the
completion of the Fort Worth and Den
yer railroad
Talk of your health resorts, your min
eral springs, ETC., bunch up half a
dozen sOf the most celebrated
and weigh their combined virtues
against the healing power of an enormous
appetite, the ability too dispose of all the
food you can carry, and the rich blood
singing through ones veins, brought
about by the rare, clear and bracing air
of the Panhandle, and the decision will
always be in favor of the latter. When
a debilitated person can be transferred TO
a country where malaria is totally I'M
known, where the altitude is from 1900
to $500 feet with pure, clear air, the re-
suit is Invariably an improvement. If
the debility be caused from malarial
poisoning III its many different forms,
the return to complete health up here Is
rapid and certain, without medical aid.
The principle objection to this country is
the loss of time spent IN eating. The
writer has for the past two days consumed
an average OF sixty minutes to meal
or three hours day. 1t is serious mat
ter, and the hotels and boarding houses
would certainly lose money but for the
low price of beef and mutton. When a
man cats the original bill at each meal
and regularly orders and puts away
duplicate thereof from napkin to tooth
pick there is a screw loose somewhere,
but the look OF terror on the landlord 3
face don t stop the slaughter.
This little town is new with big n.
New storehOuses and residences are now
being built to accommodate the stocks of
goods and their owners families. a fine
new hotel Will start III few days. Chilli
Gothic is said to be located in the center
of the smoothest and finest body of land
along the road. The appearance of the
country and the showing made in
crops raised last season bespeak
prosperity in tones not to be misunder-
stood Farmers from the east and north
are here now looking for land. am
told that train seldom passes that does
not land from one to ten seekers for
home in the Panhandle. The lands now
are cheap, but at the rate they are being
taken will naturally advance in price
shortly Think of farm, smooth and
all ready for the pillow, at So to So per
acre, with the same number of acres of
climate, the finest on this continent,
thrown in without cost. Oh, my biz
zard-whipped, frost-bitten and chill
blamed friends and brothers of the old
north state, 1 weep for you. When the
south breeZes begin to blow warm enough
to thaw you and timber you up little,
peek out over the edge of your
rut and look at this land of low
price, big crops, grand climate
and convenience to Fort Worth; look
at it say and then get there with alac-
rity and the balance of your traps. This
country will bear the closest investiga-
ton, and the more intelligent and eXpe-
rienced the investigation, the more fav-
Orable the decision.
Merchants in this country look upon
Fort Worth as their source of supplies
and are keenly interested in her growth
and prosperity. C. w. Posi-.