Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-07
CONCHU VALLEY FAIR.
The Second Annual Meeting is Suita-
bic Index to a Favored Land
Field and Garden, Mercantile and Domestic
Displays - livestock Unsurpassed.
Great ouni-y.
Special to the Gazette.

! Special to the Gazette.
SAN ANGELO, TEX, Nov. 6.-The
beautiful city of San Angelo Is
situated on the banks of the North
Concho river, near its confluence with
the main stream, and at this point are
| concentrated the limpid waters OF the
hundreds of mountain springs that burst
from the earth IN eXhaustless fountains
over 10 200 square miles of fertile valley
lands above. These concentrated waters
come leaping over countless falls and
rocky shoals, and here unite to furnish
invi,Ing seats for mills and factories that
will at minimum cost supply the null
titudes yet to come with all the manu-
featured articles necessary to the COM
fort of populous state.
From this point east forty miles the
river runs through a fertile plain, about
fifteen miles in width, until 1t enptIes
into the Colorado, and at least so per
cent of the above described country is
susceptible OF irrigation, with abundant
water at hand for the purpose.
The few irrigated farms already i'm
proved have produced most profitable
results, while the surrounding farms,
both upland and valley, have for the
past few years yielded returns entirely
satisfactory to the husbandman.
These successes have encouraged i'm
migration, and settlements now dot the
landscape IN every direction where five
years ago the antelope grazed unmolested
except by the cowboy and the shepherd
while tending their rowing herds and
focks. 1t Is q safe estimate to put the
increase of farm houses for the past year
at over 100 per cent. aud the products
of the farms ut four times that ratio.
Three years ago no cotton had heen
produced in the Concho valley. In 1889
24l bales were marketed at San Angelo,
and this season will bring from 1900 10
1900 bales Of q fair grace of middling
staple There is no limit 10 be put upon
the future production, If the past two
seasons are reliable cri,-rions.
The city is the home and headquarters
for many cairlemen whose multiplying
herds grow fat on the generous pastures
for hundred miles around. aud the
owners Of countless flocks of sheep not
only dwell here, but market their wool
twice q year with San Angelo merchants.
As a wool market this point last year
exceeded all others in purchases from
first hands, aud the great wagon trains
unloading now daily al the warehouses
jnstities the assertion that this pre-
eminence will be maintained.
Experiments already made demon
strate tnat both the grass and water of
this favored region are all that could be
desired for the growth Of iue and usefui
horses, and many experienced breeders
believe that it Is not second to the
famous Blue Grass region OF Kentucky
In this respect-with confidence In the
future, numerous men OF wealth have
rec utly brought out the choicest of both
standard trotrers and thoroughbred
horses, and If past experiments are not
drlusive, the day Is not remote when the
Concho country will be famous for fur
nishing winners in many of the great
turf events of the country. With
equally as nutritious grasses to nurture
\ splendid Development Of muscle, and
running springs aud streams of pure
limestone water to produce the finest
bone structure-with an atmosphere pc
culiarly adapted to lung development,
the Concho country must become the
nursery Of race OF equine beauties as
famed a. those that traversed the plains
Of Arabia or Andalusia or captured the
admiration of multitudes on the Ken
lucky turf.
In fact, every domestic animal and