Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-04
AMARILLO.
Beautiful Country Surrounding It-Induce.
ments offered Hcmeseekers-PIsnt
ing Trees.

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AMARILLO, Tex, Feb. 2S.-A few
years hence Amarillo Will be decorated
on every side with beautiful shade trees
and her gardens and orchards will be the
wonder and pride of the Panhandle.
This prediction is based upon the fact
that about 5000 trees of every description
likely to grow in this climate have just
been set out in and around our town be-
sides many thousand grape vines, rasp-
berries, strawberries, etc. Our citizens
are determined to give the fruit industry
fair trial, and we confidently believe
that we can raise any kind OF fruit that
can be raised in this latitude.
1t IS rather by what we have to offer
bomeseekers than Boosting, that we are
settling up this section of the Panhandle.
A visitor has only to investigate facts
for himself and be convinced IF he
comes as farmer, seeking soil that will
yield him an honest return for his toll,
we show him the broad acres of undula-
ting prairie, rich, chocolate loan that
yields readily to the pillow and has no
waXy, sticky land TO make him swear
when his pillow strikes a clod and bounces
sandy bank of loose dirt where he must
use his utmost strength to keep his plow
from running to the beam and killing his
horses by the weight they have to draw,
but just happy mean between the two.
soil that cannot be surpassed for fer
tility anywhere in Texas, and all for 81
per acre on forty years time with
per cent. interest. The counties
south of here along the line of
the Fort Worth and Denver
railroad are settling up so rapidly that
there are not many school sections not
taken. The tide of immigration is rapidly
coming nOrthward, and the home-seeker
who wants cheap land must get ahead of
the min crowd. The present boom
started about Wichita Falls, and soon all
the school land was ftlzen. Then Will
barger county settled D rapidly and the
immigrant in search school land came
on to Hardeman, so That now there is not
a school section to be had in that county,
and so the tide is coming so rapidly that
it has struck Potter county with q sud-
denness that makes US glad, and we say
to the home-seeker: "Come to Potter
county and buy $40 acres of as fine land
as can be- found in Texas, before it is too
late! We warn you i'll time, for at the
rate actual settlers are arriving it will
only be year or two until every section of
school land in Potter county will have an
occupant, and you will have to pay from
IS to $40 per acre for the same land that
can now be had for 81. Come, and from
the THIRD story Of the finest hotel in
Texas west of Fort Worth, look out upon
such q view of beautiful prairie as you
have never seen before and never will see
again until you stand in the same place
I'M,
merOus wells which supply our system OF
waterworks and drink the purest of free
stone water, so cool that no ice is needed
in the month of August. Breathe the
rurest air that ever iuvigorated an in
valid, making this one of the favorite !
health resorts of the South. We have
only 10 refer to many who spent last |
summer here as living examples |
of how beneficial this climate |
is to all who are suffering
with pulmonary diseases. Many health
seekers have already engaged rooms 81
our hotels, and others will erect summer
residences. In fact, the building boom
is on now. C. W. Oates of Rockdale
has just finished a handsome residence. |
n. Q. Hardin of Denver, Col, and Mr.. |
Douglass of this place have let contracts
for handsome cottages. Five citizens of
ROckuhie VIII erect aS many residences
on T. B. Clisbee's section, one mile
south of town, to cost $1,000 each. Be- |
sides these, there are many others in
contemplation and the spring will open
lively for the carpenters. Yet we do not |
claim boom, nor 90 we want one. But |
enteTprising business men and substGn- |
stantial farmers will come. We can t |
keep them back-and the fact is, we |
don It want to. We are anxious to divide |
the blessings of this inviting country |
with all honest, wide-Gwake, liberal |
minded people, who will help us to de- |
velope our almost limitless resources.
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