Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-09

Many Inquiries About the Flourishing
County AnSwered-Cheap Lands.
Tie farmers End the county Ont Of RFbt-The
Farm, ar. Without Nor cages and the
County Has q Cash alance.

t-THRocKMoRToN, TEX, March 6, 1890,
To the Gazette.
/ have of late been receiving go many
inquiries concerning Throckmorton aud
Throrkmertou county land, etc., that
l deem the easiest aud quickest mode Of
answering these inquiries is through your
journal, which, while it is the most
widely read paper IN the state, is at the
same time the great daily of our state
which has always championed the cause
Of that rich aud fertile country known as
West Texas.
T~hrockmortOn county is bounded on
the north by Baylor, east by Young,
south by Shaekelford and west by Has
keil county. It is watered by the Brazos
and Clear Fork rivers, and Hog, Doggy,
Elm, South Elm, Miller, Four Mile
and TeCumseh creeks, making it the best
watered county in the state. Good
wells have been successfully sunk in diff
fereut parts OF the county. The land is
of three Classes-about one-fourth
grazing land not susceptible of cultiva-
ton, but having q heavy coal OF that
most excellent of grasses-the mesquite.
About One-third of the county consists
of the chocolate-colorsd sandy Ioam,
unsurpassed in any country on the globe
for corn, sorghum, ETC., and excellent
for wheat, pats and cotton. The re-
mainder of the county is a rich, heav-
Ter, dark loan, partHking more of the
nature of the black lands of East
Texas, yet with a fine mixture of the
sandy coil THE lotA - most oy.a1lapf
and is being, and has been for some
time past. successfully cultivated by
farmers on Clear Fork, Miller and
Elm, while the farmers on the Brazos
river, Hog n Spring creeks have
been exceptionally prosperous. Our
farmers II stockmen are out Of debt.
The lands are unencumbered, ana
while we nave had a representative of
a Ioauing institution in our city for five
years he has only found in that time
four applicants for money. The county
is out of debt, has $1,000 in cash on
hand; while the rate of taxation (inClud-
ing county and state) is only
about sixty-two cents on the 500,
about the lowest rate in Texas.
Our climate is genial, the winters mild,
the summer heat tempered 10y q delight
full and continuous breeze from the
south, no night in summer being so hot
that covering is not required before
morning. Our county is most fortunate
in the health of it's people, disease being
almost unknown.
Rich land, which viii produce cotton,
wheat, corn oats, millet, sorghum and
vegetables in profusion can be had at
81 so to So so, if taken at once. And 1t
seems to me a better investment to pur-
chase at that price now than to wait
twelve months for the railroad TO reach
US, when the sam annot be bought for
less than $40.
Ere closing l cannot refrain from men
tioning the excellent school facilities of
our county, not a settlement in our
county being without its schoolhouse and
p~edaGOgue. The school money divided
annually to the communities, together
with the interest from her school lands
Icing sufficient to support them without
cost to the future. As to our little city
l would say that we have a school free to
ten months in the year, two good
hotels, two livery stables, several stores,
courthouse, wagon shop, blacksmith
shop, bank, etc. Hoping that you will
publish this as q matter of interest to all
who have their eyes turned toward the
West, particularly toward that part of
the West through which the Albuquerque
is now being built, l remain
yours, etc. j. n. g.