Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-07
HALE COUNTY.
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Editor Gazette:
Farmers are well up with their work, and can
well afford to rest day.
The few short articles which have during the
past few months appeared in THE GAZETTE from
this place have turned quite tide of immigra-
ton this way. Some fifteen or twenty new set
tiers have located during the past few days, and
sl OF them are perfectly delighted with Hale
county. Over 300 such settlements, however,
can be made before the school lands will be ex-
haused. Steam plows are being talked Of by
many. ard in the near future, by the time the
For. Worth and Albuquerque railroad arrives
farming on the plans will eclipse anything
heretofore known to the American genius. This
is the grandest country in which to use farm
machinery a man ever saw. Smooth as a floor
JUST sand euOu. h to be pleasan [, aud not root,
rock, stump or ditch TO bother; and with an
abundance Of pure wat good health and
genial innate, where can the eneTgetic stock
10. sing farmer find & more perfect homer
Tie correspondence which appeared in your
columns on the 18th inst, f.Om "Patten' of
E.oyi county, denounclng the commissioners
court OF Crosby county rs abOlitionists, etc,
ana accusing them of having refused to organize
Foyd county as a matter OF cents and dol
gross misrepreseut alton OF the facts. The
gentlemen composing the commissioners court
6" crosby county sre well known and highly re-
speg'eG gentlemen Of honor, and conscientious
~ Tie discharge OF their duty, and in refusing
'he petition from Floyd county they did so hon
es'iy believing that there we're not $50 qualified
voters in said county; and 10 accuse these men
OF EaNIrg refused the petition because they
wanted TO Tetard the South or SoUthe n enter
Prise is too absurd TO be considered moment.
One member OF said commissioners court has
Cohe more TO develop the plains thin perhaps
INC emf population OF Floyd county. He came
70 LSiacadO nine wears ago, when farming on the
3 ans was considered far too hazardous to be
even thought OF BY Southern families. He went
% work, and to-day has one of the most beauti-
Iti and profitable farms in the state. thirty
acres OF which are planted in fruit and forest
Iees- and when the doubling ThomaSeI begin
70 cry down the country they with pride
toI TED 10 this farm as an example Of what can
ce done here We DO not refer 10 the above let
me people who read TIE GAZETTE, whose names
are legion, 10 know tina we are not q narrow
minced sectarian set. all Southern born. and vet
"a tae war. We have known for ''some months"
mat the war was over and to-day we extend
a ne .rty welcome TO all honest people OF both
tEorlh ard South to come to the great West and
nc y Us % mi, = its great resources and wealth
maj IS vet in store, and find that not the
.SSSsl among our worthy citizens are men from
voc 81 ode and Northern states. We care not
nGat mans politics are, so he is honest and
lhlg trious. sober and law abiding, and to all
tuch We repeat that our gates are open, and the
-eiC string on the outside. Come one, come