Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-06
WICHITA FALLS.
THE PRIDE OF TEXAN PRAIRIEs.
Located in the Banner Wheat County Of
the Big State,
In the Heart of the Famous and Fertile Red
River Country.

No section of country in any portion OF
the Union is to-day attracting more gen.
eral attention from the public at large
than the famous Red river valley country
in Northwestern Texas.
This fertile region, unsurpassed in any
portion of the globe for agricultural pur-
poses, has been only recently opened up
for practical cultivation, and its great
resources rendered available to the tiller
of the soil. For many years the cattle
barons of the Southwest held their sway
IN the Wichita country, to the exclusion
of grain-growers, although the wondrous
fertility of the soil has been conceded
from the beginning.
Two years ago the great Denver and
Fort Worth railway came to the relief of
the Red River valley, giving that region
direct railway connection with the grain
markets of the world, and the result has
been magical. Farms have taken the
place OF ranches, and towns have been
substituted for the cattle corrals of the
retiring barons. A beautiful city has
sprung into existence as the metropolis
of the Wichita country, and powerful
financial organizations have been formed
to aid in the region 8 developments
Wichita Falls is one of the. most at
tractive of Sthe many bright new cities of
Texas. 1t has grown in tw9Nyears to
population o 5000, with ST the modern
conveniences hid appliances which enable
live new towuSsfp vie yin those of metro
politan proportAas. dds future rail-
way center. LosatS the line of the
Fort Worth and4enver railroad, the
great trunk Hness rom the mountains to
the sea" it VII bis season have the
Wichita and Esnfga railroad, connect
ing Wichita AaiIs With the great Rock
Island systelA and tt in time to move
the crops ofSf890.
AS wheae country tbs region has no
equal in thseSouth or S9athwest. As
stock coun*Ey it is UNSURPASSED, and the
better gradps are being fapidIy intro
duced. TiRber aboundsE along the
streams, and fuel Is cheap and plentiful.
Superb land in Wichita county, conve-
nient to town and railroad, can be had at
from SIS to IS per acre-in Archer and
Baylor counties at from So to So per acre,
on easy terms. and at low rates of inter-
est. The wheat crop here ranges at from
twenty-five to thirty bushels per acre
and from thirty-tive to sixty bushels OF
corn can De raised here on well worked
ground. This is great fruit and melon
country, and all cereals and vegetables
common to the agricultural regions of
the United States do well here, yet
wheat is the staple crop of the Wichita
country.
Wichita Falls is the central point and
market place for this section, and it is
model, thriving business place. It is
located 1000 feet above the level of the
sea, which insures pure mir and health
full climate, entirely free from malaria.
The city and the surrounding country is
exceedingly well watered, aud good well
water is obtained at depth of from if
teen to thirty feet. The climate is de-
lightful, With cool pleasant nights
the summer season. The
school and church privileges of the city
and county are excellent, it being we'll
known that no state in the Union is bet
ter prepared to support the free school
system at its best Colorado Exchange
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