Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-03
RAINS COUNTY.
A False Impression in Regard to
the County Corrected.
An Area OF PAP Square Miles Covered OF
as Rich. Tenable Acres as any
County in the State.
An Everlasting Supply Of Pure, Running
Spring Water and an IneIhaustible
Variety Of Resources.
EMORY, TEX, Oct, l, 1880.

| IL you Will grant US column IN YOU
most estimsble paper, we wish to correct
the false impression that the people have
of our county. In many parts of Texa!
| our county has the reputation-a gros!
| injustice too-of being a section OF
rugged, sandy hills, streaked with red
guHies, with clusters of briars and
sSfubby postoak bushes on the ravines.
~ This delusion under which the people
have labored so long will be difficult to
wholly eradicate, yet it can be done, and
that is the ultimate end of this article.
1t is quite true that Rams county Is not
so large, does rot extend over SO much
territory as some other counties in the
state, but she has as great a proportion
of rich. tenable acres as any other
| county III Texas. Rains county covers
an area of 242 square miles, and while
she seems SO small and Insignificant she
has fewer square yards to the square
mile of untena bic, worthless lands, she
has more everlasting, pure, running
spring water, she has q greater variety
of inexhaustible resources than any
other section of the state. Raines county +,
with Emory as her county site, her COM
mercial and educational center and her
metropolis, offers more and greater
natural inducements to farmers, fruit
growers, stockmen-in fact all manner
of industrial pursuits-than any other
county, however large it may be, in
Texas. Rains county has splendid forests
of the most useful and valuable timbers,
such as the various kinds of oak =,
hickory, the very finest black walnut,
mulberry, bois d 'aro, sweetgum, elm
and cottonwood in quantities sufficient
for all time to come. These forests can
not be surpassed in the "Lone Star
state. -
Railroads alone pay to contractors in
the county, for ties only. from $4,000 to
Sl3, ZOO each month, which is Of itself
quite an industry.
The general surface is level, but suffi-
GENTLY undulating to provide thor
ough drainage. Three varieties of
soil makes this section the more desirable
for farming purposes. The timbered
lands are sandy loan, except the creek
bottom, which is black sandy soil, and
no land III the country is more productive
than this when the timber is cleared from
it. 1t produces abundantly of corn,
cotton, wheat, oats, ribbon cane and
cannot be surpassed in the South.
Potatoes, both sweet and Irish, grow
better nowhere; fruits of every known
variety, except the tropical fruits. grow
to perfection, the principal fruits grown
are apples, peaches, pears, plums,
ounces, japanese persimons, black
berries, strawb berries, raspberries and
ever-bearing mulberries. Apples, as
well as many other fruits grown in this
section, are claimed by the buyer HIM
self to be the most richly favored fruits
put on the market.
Vegetables of all known kinds grow as
well as one could wish. This is without
q question of doubt the finest and most
productive section for everything the
farmer wishes TO raise i'll the world. We
can assert this fact, with not even the
slightest fears of snccessful contradict
ton, that potatoes, beets, tomatoes and
melons grow SO large they look vulgar,
vet they have q rich, sweet flavor.
This county is not by no means all tim
bersd lands. We have about as much
that is rich, rolling prairies, much of
which is divided into fertile farms. The
prairies have both black waxy and black
sandy soil; the same can be said of the
black sandy prairie as has been said of
the timbered lands. The black waxy
lands grow successfully corn, wheat,
oats and cotton. These prairies are the
riches and most productive in the state.
We have the only section of country that
might be appropriately called the
Egypt of the "Lone Star state.
This section produces from 800 to 500
gallons of the best ribbon cane syrup,
and ships out many hundred barrels of
it; also ships great number of barrels
of apples, several thousand bales of cot
ton, great quantities of oats, hay, all
kinds of fruits, vegetables and many
carloads of cattle.
This section has a number of creeks
running streams the year around-how-
ing into the Sabine river, with many
thousand acres of the richest and most
productive bottom lands in the world-it
yields the best corn and cotton, the
longest fiber, IN Texas. Good crops over
the county this season, more than can be
gathered unless hands are more plenti-
full, there being great demand for cot
ton pickers. Our prairies grow the best
prairie grass In the state; besides, we
have many of the very finest meadows of
Bermuda, johnson grass, millet and
alfalfa, all of luxurlant growth. In
these meadows we have a great number
of improved horses and cattle. The I'M
port trade in horses and cattle is increas-
ing every year. Rams county has con-
siderable mining interests, there being
inexhaustible quantities of the best
quality of soft coal, several shafts sunk
and mines ready to begin operating.
These mines are in the possession of
companies of experience and financial
ability to make this industry a grand
success. 1t is expected that by January
/, 1891, these mines Will be in successful
operation.
Brick manufacturing is q growing in.
dustry in Rains county. She has in
great quantities the finest brick clay,
and more everlasting spring water than
any other county in the state. The
springs are so numerous that almost any
location one might select for a brick
yard would be near some running spring.
Emory, the commercial center and
county site of Rains county, situated on
Mineola branch Missouri, Kansas and
Texas railroad, is the most important
town in the county and is in most
healthful locality Her imposing court
house, her handsome church buildings,
her elegant homes and many other things
too numerous to mention, impress one
with the idea of wealthy, progressive
people.
The merchants of Emory, some of
whom have been in business here for the
last fifteen or twenty years, have been
very successful, indeed, as business men,
there having never been q single bust
ness failure in the beautiful and pros