Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-21
HOPKINS COUNTY.
Sulphur Springs, the County Seat, the
Trading Center of Adjoining
Counties.
The Many Advantages of the County Enumer-
ated-A Few Pointers to Those
Seeking Homes.

It is the part Of wisdom if one is look
ing for a home to turn to those places,
not with the greatest booms, but to those
that are susceptible of the greatest de-
velopment, that have the most promising
outlook ana varied resources. Hopkins
county, with Sulphur Springs as its geo.
graphical center and county seat, is such
a locality. The city is not only the GEN.
ter of trade for Hopkins county, but for
many years has controlled the trade of
Wood, Franklin, Delta, Rains and even
of Hunt counties.
Hopkins county was organized in 1916,
and has had marvellous growth.
The general surface is level, but
it is sufficiently undulating TO
provide thorough drainage. The soil
varies from a light sandy to rich loan
and black waxy sod. The county is
traversed by numerous running streams
on either bank of which stand splendid
forests of the various kind of oak, elm,
ash hickory, " alnut and other useful
timbers in quantities sufficient for all
time to come. The higher ground divid-
ing these streams is covered with rich
rolling prairies, divided into thousands
of fertile farms, orchards and pastures.
The timbered lands are all very pro-
ductive when cleared, and produce the
best long staple cotton grown IN the
South, also good corn and grain; while
its fruits rival the products OF the Golden
state. The farms are especially adapted
to corn and grain, while the fenced
nastures and outlying lands are
of grass upon which are reared i'm
mense herds of cattle, horses and sheep.
This STOCK needs but little attention dur
ing the mild winters that prevail. Hogs
thrive in the timbered lands living on
acorus and nuts of various kinds and
| hundreds of carloads of these and other
| stock are annually shipped from Sulphur
| Springs.
| The Hopkins company wool growers
| association controls more wool perhaps
| than any other similar ASSOCIATION III the
| South and so superior Is the quallty OF
this product that it is eagerly bought up
| by manufacturers in the East in the Bos-
| ton wool exchange, and the fact is so
strongly recognized that many attempts
| have been made to sell wool from other
sections as sulphur Springs wool.
So great indeed is the variety Of farm
nroducts that should any one be cut short
| nv adverse season the abundant harvest
| of the Others together with the handsome
profits realized on the sale of various kinds
of stock and stock products make the
| thrifty husbandman independent. No
| section of the South or prosperous
agricultural region yields the farmer
a larger return for his labor end no
| country is susceptible TO higher devef-
opment. New educational facilities are
being introduced and soon HOPKINS
county will rank favorably in point q
culture and refinement. Property of al
kinds can still be had &C very low ana
reasonable rates, but it is constantly int
oreasing in value, having about doubl ed
since 1888.
The county seat, Sulphur Springs, ii
the commercial center and reflects the
prosperlty of the splendid county with
which it Is surrounded, and is the Chief
trading center not only of this country
but of surrounding ones. The cltp Is
more favorabIy situated than any Other
of its size in the state and a glance al
the map will clearly show that 1t il
destined TO be the leading commercial
and manufacturing center OF this Sec
ton of the state. 1t occupies the geo.
graphical center of a square OF lanl
bounded by the Transcontinental, tn
Texas aud Pacific and the eHa
Central railroad lines, and is conHecte'
BY direct lines with Texarkana, Sher
man and Denison. Dallas and Marshal