Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-13
AN OPEN LETTER
To John Howard, in Which the Writer Asks
Him to Advertise and Work
in a New Field.
Fort WORTH. TEX, April 8, 1850.

FORT WORTH, TEX, April 8, 1850.
Dear Howard of "the Banner Wheat County Of
Texas"
read with great interest your letter
in Sundays GAZETTE, headed "Help
the Roads, - and IN which you pledged
your association to put up 500 towards
advertising in the North and East!
You are right, my dear fellow, both in
your premises and in your conclusion.
We need people from the outside, and
while the half rate is on it is the time to
get them.
"Hesr mel'' The Panhandle country
has worked Fort Worth for the last six
months, until every man inclined to take
up LAND and go to raising wheat, that
was here, has gone. hat COW is about
MIXED dry. Suppose, my dear fellow,
we go into some new fields, while we can
use the great lever, f'half rate, to
loosen them up with. If you will start
out with your 500 in Kentucky, you can
reach people on a limestone soil, liz
your own Panhandle country. Rsmem-
Der, 1t was Kentucky which
furnished Lincoln and Clay, two
of the nations best and greatest
men; which furnished Tom
Marshal, the greatest American orator;
which furnished Prentis the brilliant,
AND Prentis the greatest wit that ever
lived; and Breakinridgs, who the
English people pronounced the greatest
preacher who ever visited Europe from
America. And my dear John, We hall
need some good blood in the Panhandle
some day, not far of, when we are
asked to furnish q candidate for pr 81
dent.
If you viii start all the rest will fol-
low. Byrne would go to North Georgia
and get some more farmers like Boyer
who with q boy raised 9945 bushels OF
grain n potatoes IN one season.
Peterson will start out from Cloud and
in Minnesota gather up some of the de-
sceudsnts of Charles and Adolphus Of
Sweden. We need those sturdy farm
ers. Decker wou4G go into Missouri in
the region of Sedalis. Kalp would start
for Iowa and bring more of his ''ideal
people, It is ali right, Kalp, II you
will only keep away from the legislature.
We ave all the anti-railroad men We
want now. We want railroads, fac
tories, money.
Graves of Henrietta will move on
Southern Illinois, and if every organized
town in the Panhandle will move, what a
big stream the many little rivulets viii
make?
But please John, do not wait for CO.
operation. San Antonio Galveston, and
the rest are taking care Of themselves.
If each Panhandle town viii move for
themselves, we viii get there, and get
back with game.
But in twenty-one years. experience [
have never seen a humble OF cities, or q
number OF counties hold together long
enough to do much practical immiRrs-
ton work. The effeotive immigration
work which has been done in the United
States has been done by great OTpora~
tons like the Union Pacific for Oregon,
Washington and California, and the
Panhandle railroad for Northwest Texas,
or by cities and counties acting for them
selves as in the case Of Portland, Seattle
Tacoma and Denver.
Now, john, you know I am right.
Then won t you go. The field is white
for the harvest; the day has now come
when it is easy to get people to come to
Texas. The rate is cut and open. The
Spring Palace offers an additional in
ducement. What do you say? win you
go? Yours, Z. A. CAMERON.