Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-26
ARCHER CITY.
To Get the H., K. 6 T.-How Farming Pays in
Archer countY-Rapid DeEel-
opment.

ARCHER CRY, Tex, May Give wish TIE
GAZETTE to say out loud that Archer City ex-
poets to have a railroad this summer. Seymou
might have got the Missouri. Kansas and Texas
but ''some one had blundered." As it is, we
get It. The bonus and right-of-way are settled
satisfactorily, both to the railroad people and to
Archer City. Although no fuss has been made,
yet the route has been thoroughly examined by
railroad men and every part OF it settled upon.
The extension of the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas from Henrietta to Abilene, by way of
Archer City, will open up one OF the finest agri-
cultural and stock raising sections in North
Texas II win run thFS %c;t the . heart Of me
center of which is Archer City. This section is
exceedingly fertile, and wheat grows to perfec-
ton, yielding from twenty to forty bushels per
acre; corn will bring seven y-hve bushels, barley
thirty to forty and oats forty; cotton from three
fourths to one bale per acre on good sod land.
With such yields these 1t IS very plain that in
Archer county
FARMING PAYS.
man with good team can pay for his guar
ter section with his first years. crop of whest be-
sides feneing it. This has been done time and
again hereszA
This is a1sooa magnificent couuafg for fine
stock of all naas-horses, cattle ana sheep. It
the m no4sS With t te1 the ens
and its ten brancEdSsnd on thS Southeast by thS
Of these water couisss makes this the fine3f
pasture land in the Pa1hAsIdfe. AS proof OF this
statement nearly the Whole county has been
fenced by several cattle GINS who have always
shipped superior best Us ranges are being
graded up with maR15bceHt Herefords, E. H.
East Co., having sSsentiNeglded 800 fine, large
sheep now jAexcellsAgk condition, and
sheepmen have slSSfed gene4AAy about s1.25
worth Of wool peg AAssp this ysEA This class Of
s.esEEeher county Fertile lands 80 eminsntly
sdzpted to frui growing. Plums s4.A blackber-
ries grow lux1&itptly in wild stayek Peaches
ripen the astptyMay. Pecans grotSep nearly.
every stream 4nd yield an excellenSanslity
nuts. PerssAmons abound. Thsses natural
growths spef& volumes for the soil Fsf5 ell
mate and fSheral conditions favorabTsStp the
development79tan extensive and profitable fruit
industry heres al that is necessary is intelli-
gent labor TO bfffg forth ample returns.
We would like to say to those looking for ]
homes that Archer county now has an immense /
number of
CHEAP ACRES
Of the finest farming land. These lands can be
bought on easy terms. 1t is the policy OF land
men here to encourage settlers to buy by offer
ing their lands at reasonable prices. Within
three or four miles OF Archer City one may get
any number OF acres at 81. 1t is doubtful, how
ever. If this price will hold good many days as
the building of the railroad will cause an i'm
mediate rise.
Our beautiful little city is looking brighter
and buster every day. The commissioners of
Archer county are now receiving plans for new
courthouse, and we understand it will be fine
one. The Star hotel, Mr.. F. p. Hildreth pro-
prietor, is now open, and it is a treat to look
Mr.. Hildreth is a hotel man of long experience
having kept the Commercial hotel in Michigan
for many years, and knows how to care for the
weary traveller, B.