Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-22
A SPRING PALACE.
1t is in Miniature, But it is a Fine
Exhibit.
The Pecan Colorado Concho Country. and the
Products Of Its soil-An Attractive
Display Visited.

stantly crowd the platform of the Union
depot of Fort Worth. And to the tour
st, homeseeker, immigrant and BUSH
ness man the Pecan, Colorado, Concho
country free exhibit looms up there much
as an oasis transplanted from some des-
ert land.
| One can scarcely realize that country
which but recently furnished a favorite
home for the Indian, buffalo, deer and
other wild game, has undergone SO WON
derful transformation. 1t was in this
section the Indians ideal home was
| made; the great men held their councils
and the young warrior wooed his dusky
mate by moonlight-or Pickering camp
fire, under spreading branches of
liveoak and pecan groves. Nature had
so boun tifully blessed their section that
the Indians found no trouble in keeping
their larder well supplied with choice
/ hump from the buffalo fish from the clear,
pure waters of running streams, veni-
son, turkey and many other varieties of
game abounded on every hand, and with
the Indians adaptability for hunting
| such a thing as hunger was unknown;
here they lived in peace, joy and con-
tentment.
Within the last ten years all has
| changed. 1t is true that the same soil
remains, and many groves improved by
age spread their bows above fairer race.
| The game is gone and in its stead fine
herds of cattle, horses, sheep, etc., find
ample grazing upon the luxuriant mes
| quite grass that covers the ground with
close thick sod that deties the severest
! drouth.
The man with the hoe is working won
ders as the 2. C. c. exhibit now in Fort
| Worth will convince the most skeptical
mind regarding Texas progress, and es-
| pecially this section.
The Pecan, Colorado, Concho country
embraces the counties of Brown, San
| Saba, McCulloch, Coleman, Runnels,
Tom Green (and its subdivisions) Irion,
| Coke and Glasscock. This district en-
braces about Is, 900 square miles of agri-
cultural, mineral and grazing lands, and
| enough timber lands for all purposes ex-
cept the manufacture of lumber. 1t is
transversed from west to east by the fol-
lowing fresh water, never failing
streams: Pecan bayou, Colorado river,
Concho river and the San Saba, best les
the many tributaries that spread their
branches in every direction, affording
perfect drainage and providing abun-
dance of fresh water in every
section for man and beast. In
this respect it differs from
sections of the Northwest, where the
streams are gypsum, salt and other min
eral substances that render them unfit
for use, very unhealthy and unpleasant
for domestic purposs. Water can be OBJ
tanned in wells at depth of twenty to
eighty feet of pure, pleasant taste.
This section is III direct railroad con-
nection with Fort Worth and its many
trunk lines via the Lampasas branch of
the Gulf Colorado ana Santa Fe aud with
the early completion of the Fort Worth
and Rio Grande, now being pushed for
ward to Brownwood, much better rail-
road facilities will be afforded the people
settling in the great P. c. C. country,
and give them direct transportation of all
their products to the markets and manu-
featuring centers.
Who can foretell the marvellous devel-
opment this section ls destined to IN
dergo within the next ten years?
San Saba with marble, granite and
iron; Coleman with coal and an abun-
dance of limestone and other building
stone of excellent quality and unlimited
quantities throughout the entire district,
all must tend to insure great prosperity.
Greatest of oil is the agricultural pros
pect to be developed by intelligent,
steady, industrious farmers.
Products at the exhibit show specimens
from only four counties-others have
kept back their exhibits on account of
local county fairs. Fine specimens of
wheat, oats, corn, rye, barley, sorghum
cane, millet, milo maize, caffa corn,
native grasses.
Fruits are well represented and attract
much admiration from visitors from all
sections of the country. Beautiful spec
linens of peaches, pears, grapes, plums,
apples, craoapples and figs adorn the
shelves. Many of these specimens are of
unusual size, perfect in shape and color,
luscious and empting to ones appetite
for good things.
Vegetables grow abundantly and the
exhibit can only be appreciated when
seen. Watermelons (of unusual size and
quality, beans, potatoes, pumpkins,
squashes, oucumbers, beets, onions and
other things too numerous to mention.
The variety of timber includes oak,
liveoak, walnut, cedar, mesquite, elm,
hack berry and the pecan tree which only
grows along the river and its tributaries,
produces most every year in abundance q
large, thin-shelled and very delicious
nut, which has become quite an article
of commerce.
The soil of the country varies, but |
throughout this district most anyone can
find just the soil "that suits them.'' IL |
varies from black sandy loan TO almost |
the black waxy; red loan and sandy land |
are of great depth and very productive. |
The following tabulated statement of |
the average yield per acre, of some of |
the products of the country, was pre-
pared by gentleman who is thoroughly |
familiar with the countrY's agricultural |
resources aud may be considered in every |
way authentic:
Wheat-F.fteen to forty bushels; |
twenty an average.
Corn-Thirty to sixty bushels; forty |
FIVE bushels an average.
Oats-Fifty to 100 bushels; seventy
FIVE bushels an average.
Cotton-One-half to one bale per acre.
Potatoes-2o0 to 800 bushels per acre.
Rye-Averages twenty to thirty bushels
per acre.
Barley-About forty bushels per acre.
Sorghum-Elght to eighteen tons per