Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-12
ABILENE COUNTRY.
A Plea for Action on the Part OF It's People.
Let the HOmeseekers Know of It's
Many Advantages.
ABILENE COUNTRY, April 10, 1890.


Editor Gazette.
Much has been said from time to time in your
columns of the famous Wichita country, and we
rejoice with them that heaven has so bounti-
fully blessed them, and more than all, that they
have the happy faculty of letting the world
know of it. And we often wonder why the peo-
pie OF the Abilene country do not work harder to
acquaint the homeseeker with facts regarding
our own country. The progressive committee of
Abilene have done much in this direction, but
have labored almost alone, while other sections
of our beautiful country have stood idly by, con-
tent to see the money and brains of the
older sections pass over and around them
while other parts of the state have sought to
make the most of their advantages and acquaint
the world with their soil, their climate and their
crops. We, who have better grain country, a
better fruit country, a better stock country, and
Withal a good cotton country, "a combination
known no where eise), have covered our lamp
with our hat as though afraid if the world should
learn of our advantages we might be ''elbowed
into the gulf with our honorable ex-governor.
Other sections boast OF thirty and thlrty-hve
bushel crops of wheat. and corn that made forty
and fifty bushels per acre. But have we not
grown from thirty-tive to forty-fve bushels Of
wheat, and corn that weighed out over siXty-one
bushels per acre over large areas? Has
the boldest of boomers dared to tell MS
sltf< section where fruits of all
94sfAds from the apple and cherry to the Mis-
,S&A grape and the strawberry grows as thrifty
2NEprolifc as in this, the Abilene country? Or
s9oes the most reckless ''boom pamphlet man
mention a section where livestock of all kinds
are as healthful, or take on as rapid growth
here? But this is not all, for we combine with
this the further advantage of fairly good cot
ton country, giving from one-half bale to a bale
per acre of exceedingly fine staple. Now
add TO all this a country beautiful in the
treme, and healthful beyond comparison,
and the wonder grows that more is not
written and spoken regarding it. Advantages
seldom make man, city or country; our
slest is developed through the force of difficult
f3eS. And perhaps that is why our people
peontent 70 sit quietly Gown and take what is
voluntarily offered, instead of rusIling early
and late, as other sections are doing, for share
OF the money and muscle that IS to be had for
the asking, and which Is so rapidly developing
other and less favored sections.
In less than thirty days time there viii be
opened at Fort Worth one of the grandest exhib-
its of the products of field, mine and shop ever
cussed by thousands of home seekers from the
Seld srates And it will be found fair display
Rom Taylor county, doubtless, but what is be-
{lgsipne by Jones, and Haskell, and Fisher,
5StoneEall and other counties heseabout? Can
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