Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-10
TEXAS ABROAD.
The Rio Grande Railway Exhibit on
Wheels in Massachusetts.
One Way for Texas Railroads to Help Texas.
The Good Work OF hr.
Wilkinson.
TEXAS ON WHEELS.

Worcester Mass. Gazette
The readers of the Daily Gazette, who are
lovers of that which Is instructive, beau
tiful and convincing, will be pleased and
delighted 10 visit the Western Texas ex-
hibit car at the Grafton street crossing,
near the union depot. Poetry, painting,
statistical tablets, artistic designs,
and a grand collection of fruit, grains,
grasses, mineral, building rock, photo
graphic views and illustrated papers, all
are combined to tell the glad story of the
wonderful progress and development that
is being made by the great state of Texas.
Mr.. 7. a. wilkinson, immigration COM
missioner of the Fort Worth and Rio
Grande railway company, is in charge of
this car. If the people of New England
could know of Western Texas as he
knows it, within six months from now it
would have half million more people
who would find good, cheap and prosper
Gus homes there. Some of his remarks
are well worth remembering. Calling
the attention of the Gazette reporter to
the mammoth map OF his state which
adorns his car on both sides, he showed
that all of the streams OF the state flow
in Southeastern direction. The alti-
tude of the state near the western line in
several places reaches 5000 feet above sea
level. From this elevation this great
state slopes Southeast with the courses of
the streams to the gulf. This altitude is
reached, not by hills and mountains, but
by succession of terraced grassy prairie
slopes meadowlike in their nature, fed by
numerous springs and streams and in
the Southwestern part tributary to the
Fort Worth and Rio Grande railway fine
forests of pecan, live oak. post oak and
mesquite timber abound-not in solid,
impsnetrable bodies. but in groves mean
dering the beautiful graEelly bedded
streams. and decking the higher prairies
here and there into scenes of picturesque
beauty. These upper prairie terraces,
when at an altitude of 1000 feet above
the sea, afford the farmer a climate in
comparatively smooth country, by rea-
son of altitude cool in summer, ana be-
cause of a Southern latitude very mild in
winter, condition OF climate enjoyed
by no other Southern state except when
found by the tourist on the top of the
most rugged mountains. Hence Western
Texas is the best Southern state for
Northern people to come to. Here the
state government has 20, 900, 900 acres of
school land tor the actual settler at 81
per acre on forty years time and per
cent. interest. Here is raised all that
can be raised in New England, as we'll
as many things that cannot be raised.
1t is no unusual sight to see wheat, corn,
oats, rye, millet, barley, cotton and
sugar cane, as well as various kinds OF
fruit, cattle, sheep and horses, on the
one farm. Fortunes are being made by
the rapid advance made in land. Four
years ago land that was bought at 81 per
acre is now selling at $40 per acre, and
land that can now be had at 50 per acre
will soon bring $40. Mr.. Wilkinson is
more than willing to impart all the in
formation he can. All will be welcome
to see his car.