Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-29
LONE OAK.
Hunt County Town that for business Enter
prise, Schools, Churches and High Glass
Of Citizens Can't be Surpassed.
LONE oAk, TEX. Sept. Is, 1890.

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| To the Gazette.
Having noticed nothing in your col.
umns from our section in quite awhile,
and having good town for business
| Texas has no better of its size fol
schools, churches and wealthy, honored
citizens, and feeling the public should al
least know something of our varied re-
| sources, we ask of you sufficient space
| for that purpose.
Lone Oak, pro sperous town of SOC
| citizens IN the southeast portion of Hunt
! county, is situated on the Mineola branch
| of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas rail-
road running from Mineola TO Denison
and being surrounded by rich, produce
| tive farming country, has more prosper
| GUS well-to-do merchants than any other
town in the county. Lone Oak is sur
rounded by three varieties of soil
black waxy, black sandy and sandy
loam-which is not surpassed in any part
of the state IN quantity and quality OF its
products. 1t yields in abundance cot
ton, corn, wheat, oats, barley, rye, po-
tatoes, fruits of all kinds, namely ap-
pies. peaches, pears. ounces, plums,
grapes, blackberrles, straw berries, rasp-
berries, etc.
Vegetables of all kinds grow we'll.
Ribbon cane is grown successfully in
this section. The farmer G an with much
less labor realize more money from an
acre of this product than from an acre
of the .'tieecy staple.' Great quanti-
ties of ribbon cane syrup are shipped from
this point every season.
Cotton is the principal farm product
m I'D hof
5000 bales are shipped from this point
each season, but there being an increase
in acreage, il is fairly claimed that thu
shipments of this season will be the max
imum from this point.
We have four steam gins that do an
extensive business every season.
We have three grist mills which enable
the farmer TO eat q part of what he has
made 'by the sweat of his brow
This section, very much unlike many
other portions of Texas, raises its own
pork and bacon and ships out a great
number of hogs every year.
Our section is considerably engaged in
improving horses and cattle. 1t is only
question of time--not in the far distant
future either-when every farmvard in
the entire surrounding country will con-
tam more or less improved horses and
cattle. We ship each season number
of carloads of cattle.
The surrounding forests of various
kinds of oaks, hickory and ash in an
abundance, furnish employment for our
industrious sons of toll during the other.
wise idle months, the fruits of their la
bors being shipped out to other points, to
some extent wards off those dull mouths
with our merchants. Lone Oak is al
ready good shipping point and she con-
fdently expects to be much improved
soon, as branch of the Central railroad
via Roberts from Terrell Is to be built,
also the "Air Line' from Galveston to
Paris by Lone Oak, which will give her
some prominence, both as "a shipping
shipping point and commercial center.
Then our balf-acre resident lots that
sell for Sl00, and our business lots that
sell from 500 to SIPS will as readily sell
for $4,000 to $4,000.
Our farm lands can't be surpassed in
the state in fertility, yet they sell for
Sl2. so to $50 per acre, all or nearly all
undsr fence.
We have as fine freestone water as |
there is in the state.
We have two handsome church build |
ings that cost $500 each, in which all |
the principal denominations are repre- |
We have frame school building ,4Ox7O |
feet, that cost $500, and u good school
ten months in the year.
We are u quiet, civil, law-abiding
people here, and have as good society as
Tou will find anywhere.
We want TO double our population with
just such citizens as We have IN the next
.welve mouths, and with our
country. which is
unsurpassed for farming, es-
oecially for quantity and quality of
'ibbon cane and richly favored fruits of
lii varieties, except the tropical fruits,
,ur cheap, rich farming lands snd our
lalf acre town lots for 500. we feel con-
ident of growth equal to, if not much
.reater than any other town in Hunt
county.
We invite all home-seekers to visit our
own and surrounding country to see for
themselves that all we claim for Lone
oak and her beautiful rich farming
ountry around is in no wise misrepre-
ented.
Come to Lone Oak, il is as healthful,
IS prosperous, as susceptible to rapid i'm
movement, as enterprising, as moral
nd religious, aud as wide-awake to the
interests of education as any town you
an find. 'ZEN."