Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-17
BAYLOR COUNTY,
hsEounty Seat of Which is Seymour,
ION the Salt Fork of the BrazoS.
'teresting Facts Concerning the County and
Town at Present and the Flu
ture Of the Two

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its way. - This saying by one of the
wisest of our land was never more forci-
| y verified than in the present history
! of this country. The tendency of civil
| ization is ever westward, and so it will
| continue to be until the vast area of in
viting fields from the Mississippi to the
| Rio Grande, and from the Rocky Noun
| tains to the gulf is made to "Dlossom like
the rose. -
From beyond the seas and from score
! of the older Eastern states of our own
country come the mingled voices of
| thousands, ave are seeking homes in
| the West, - where the lands are as yet
| new and undeYelOped, where the climate
| is healthy, where the avenues are open
for the reception of the best talent, and
| industry in every branch of trade is IN
ready and paying demand.
| Western Texas, with her millions of
acres of the richest land on the CONT
! nent, and Offering every inducement TO
| the home seeker, is now claiming the at
tention and challenging the admiration
of the world Information is wanted
seoncerning this country by those who de-
sire to immigrate, and this accounts for
Thousands of visitors who are daily pour
iAg into it, They come to see for them
selves. They want to know the truth.
i5erThe writer of these lines recently paid
IA visit to a county situated in the very
Mozart of the great grain growing section
tBf Northwestern Texas. What was
iearned on that visit is here given for the
benefit of the reader, and is not intended
/ Ill h NNTn
| inquiry it will be found that no part of it
is exaggerated or overdrawn. We refer
| to the county OF Baylor, the county site
of which is Seymour, rapidly rising,
| prosperous and picturesque town on the
| Salt fork of the BraZos river.
BAYLOR county is situated $50 miles
northwest of Fort Worth, corners on the
| northwest with Wichita COUNTY, and is
| fifty miles to the west of the Fort Worth
and Denver railroad, The county is
thirty miles square, contains 900 square
miles and $40 ZOO acres of land, very
large per cent. of which is capable of
cultivation. The soil of the county is
a rich sandy loan of chocolate color,
ranging from q light red to a stiff
| black, but the larger acreage is the
| chocolate sandy loan, conceded to Pel
| the finest wheat lands in the world.
Among the most important features
| and principal attractions of Baylor coun-
! ty is its bOuntiful water supply. 1t Is
| traversed by both the BraZos and Wich-
| ita rivers, and plenty of pure, cold well
| water is found all over the county by
| digging from ten 10 forty feet. 1t is also
| one of the fortunate counties that COM
pose the section recognized as the rain
| belt, and extending on a line south from
md frnT ri
| S. c.. to San Diego, CAL, and hence
the crops of the county rarely, if ever,
suffer for want of rain. The climate is
also mild and health-giving. The winds
| that blow steadily over the pTairies are
| not disagreeable but cool, eXhilerating
and invigorating. The county is filed
| BY as hardy and healthy looking people
as we have ever met in the West. They
all seem full of life, energy and spirit,
and pale faces are something rarely seen
| in this latitude.
The land of the county is of such
nature as TO render it exceedingly easy
TO cultivate. The climate being mild,
the farmer can work every day in the
wear, and instances are not uncommon
where one man and q horse have Guilt
waited successfully $50 acres Of land IN
one year. The ground Is level, and
weeds and grass do not grow
to an extent sufficient to actually
require more than one blowing a year.
A prominent farmer of the county in
formed the writer that last year he had
land to produce thirty-five bushels of
corn to the acre which was never worked
at all, and his statement is vouched for
by numbers of others who have had like
experience. All farm work is done by
ha loft INN 1QhOr a.
chinery.
Wheat, rye, oats, corn and grain of
every description are the principal pro-
ducts of Baylor county, and it can be
simply cultivated to perfection. Sor-
ghum Is the great forage crop, and mill
let, tame grasses, castor beans and field
peas do we'll.
Building stone is one of the chief pro-
ducts of the county. 1t is of fine, light
gray quality, and in inexhaustible qusst
titles. The streams are skirted with tim
Der for fuel. Unimproved lands may be
purchased in the county at prices rang Z
ing from 50 so to $40 per acre. TheSs
lands consist principally of alluviAS
open, gently rolling prairie, and fencing
is about all that is necessary before
they are ready for cultivation.
Strange though it may seem, they
are peculiarly adapted lot the prOuuc-
. ton of all kinds of crops. Not much
attention is paid to cotton growing in the
county, and yet the land, when planted
in this staple, will produce on an average
from one half TO one bale per acre.
APPLY has Seymour. the county site, !
been called the rising star, the gate
city, the Fort Worth of the new North
west empire. Seymour is destined to
be splendid town in every sense of the
term, and there is not the least doubt of
it. The reader may accurately judge of
what Seymour will do by reference to
facts and figures showing what she has
done and is d0jass and those vino have
capital 10 5Els,sss in most paying public
entelfsfishs can not dispute the fact that
ls6dr presents an opening unexcelled |
by any town in Western Texas for in
vestments, when they read the fol-
lowing:
Seymour will doubtless be the terminus |
of the Wichita Valley road for the next |
several years 10 come. This road is already |
almost entirely graded from Wichita Falls |
to Seymour, and trains are running from |
the former place to Dundee, twenty five |
miles from Seymour. This will render il |
the shipping, forwarding and supply |
point for a territory fifty miles wide and /