Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-04
MINNEAPOLIS, TEXAS.
What Made the City OF the Northwest
What will Make the City.ef the
Southwest.
Statistics all the Eastern Farmers Need Il
Bring Them to Northwest Texas-Or- !
ganization Necessary.

Minneapolis IS said to have a population of
go, 600. wonderful growth for 80 young a city.
It's taxable value is SIP, 900. 000.-L GAZETTE,
July 81.
WICHITA FALLS. Tex, Aug. l, 1889.
To the Gazette.
Referring to the above from yester-
days GAZETTE, if the merchants and
business men of Fort Worth and the peo-
pie of Northwest Texas join hands ana
pull together and work for this territory
as the people of Minneapolis and that
section of country have, Fort Worth has
it in her power to repeat what has been
done at Minneapolis Wheat is what
made Minneapolis what it is to-day.
Fort Worth should be the Minneapolis -
of the Southwest. If the wheat crop
that this section of country has made
this and last year were made known
as it should be it would place us in the
front rank of wheat-producng counties
both in quality and quantity.
All that is necessary to turn the atten-
ton of the people of the United States to
this section of country would be to pub
lIsh in full the yield of wheat, the grade
the crops of 1888 and 1899, and give the
price and terms at which land can yet be
had in Clay, Wichita, Archer, BAYLOR,
Wnbarger, Hardeman, Hall and other
counties in the ''wheat belt of Texas. -
The cold, indisputable facts would
not only surprise the people of the
old states but would open the eyes Of
many people who live in Fort Worth.
The fact is, the people of Texas don t
know or appreciate this country and
what it is capable of. There are bust
ness men in Fort Worth to-day that don t
know the value of the country tributary
to that city Did they know and appre-
. cIate it fully. they would not rest until
its advantages and resources were adver-
tised to the world. Let a committee of
your public spirited citizens visit this
county land whatfI say of this county
will apply to the adjoining eounties) and
see for themselves the threshers ut work.
There are five steam threshers and as
many horse power at work in this vicin-
ity every day Measure the ground and
see the wheat measured or weighed on a
dozen or more farms, making an average
Of the yield, and place the same in print
and wire it with the signatures to the
leading papers of the country, end follow
it up with similar evidence from time to
time, Then we would sOOp see this fine
valley and prairie land taken up and irn4t
proved, and Fort Worth would not have |
to offer and pay a bonus for rail-
roads, factories or anything
else she wanted. The capitalist
would come with the farmer and both to-
gether would build a Minneapolis
where Fort Worth stands Yesterday l |
visited the farm worked by L r. Evans,
adjoining this place The steam thresher |
of J. A. McAlIaster was at work. l |
waited until the thTeshing was finished in |
order to get the figures and facts. Mr.. |
Evans had in wheat twenty-s seven and a !
half acres The ground was measured |
last fall, as Mr.. Evans employed a neigh |
Dor, a MIR. d. J. Colkins, to drill in his |
wheat and paid him for the above !
number of acres. The number !
of bushels threshed from the TWEEN
tv-seven aud one-haIf acres was
7g7, making twenty mine bushels to the
acre. This is the number of bushels Ev-
ans pays McAIlaster for threshing. l |
give the details in this case as there are so
many general statements made that are !
not satisfactory, and being on the ground |
and seeing the work done and the result !
take the liberty of asking for space to
give details While twenty-nine bushels
is a very fair crop, Mr.. McAllaster, the
thresher, has given me the names of
many farmers that he has threshed for
this season and last, whose wheat crop
has made from thirty TO thirty three
bushels TO the acre. McAllaster is able
TO make an intelligent estimate of this
and last years crops and he
Informs me that twenty bushels to
the acre is a low estimate for an average
of this, wichita, county, wheat.
trip of a week with a steam thresher
in this or adjoining counties, and n re-
port of the yield of crops would make
good immigration ammunition. The
land cultivated by Mr.. Evans cost in
1884 81 20 an acre. AS good land as it
Is eau yet be had in this and Archer
counties for from IS to Sc per acre There
is just as good land in Archer as there is
in Wichita, and that is saying a good
deal. Any of your readers who
NAV have the least doubt
of the statements herein made
are respectfully invited to come and see
for themselves and at cur EXPENSE, pro-
vidiHg. We have misrepresented.
As this country develops Fort Worth
grows therefrom. The business men of
Fort Worth are directly interested in
having the facts of this section of coun-
try made known, and it is consistent for
the. people OF this section and Fort Worth
to organize and work together. AT least
this is the opinion of a large majority of
our citizens.
Money talks, - and knowing this the
citizens of this place have organized their
association, and $1,000 has
been raised ; for emigration work.
this money will be expended
directly for the benefit of tins countypr
contributed to the Northwest. Texas Effli.
grafton association Of such an 'organiz#E{
ion is formed depends on circHm-
stances. One thing certain, the people
lere are in earnest and are going TO work
regardless ofIwhat others do. Xxx.