Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-25
WISE COUNTY.
Some Of Her Many Advantages Made Known
No Better Country the World
Over.
Special to the Gazette

Special to the Gazette.
DECATUR, TEX, May %. Men Of
money from the older states are su.pl.
cious of the lands of this county when thsy
come here and price them, because thsy
are so cheap, and the county is never
heard from away from home. They
think there must be something wroly
with US and our; lands. The very sam.
class of black, deep-soiled prairie thsi
sells from S15. to S25 per AGRA
in Denton, Colha, Hill and Kaui.
man counties can be bought here
at from Sc to $40 per acre, and the psO-
pie realizing how other counties with far
less natural advantages are OutstripDing
US in the way of settling up their lands
and increasing the values of real eststs
by advertising their country to the word
a meeting was called some time ago
ct the courthouse and o board
of trade was organized consisting Of
every business man in Decatur, and The
board is determined to notify the Outslds
world that Wise is actually an OrganHsd
county of the great state of Texas, and
has 900 square miles of soil that produces
wheat, corn, millet, cotton, oats, etc.,
equal to any North Texas county, and
has strip of timbered land RUNNING
across the county twelve miles Wid'
known as the upper cross timbersr II
which the. soil is principally sandy and
produces apples, peaches, Strawberries,
blackbeffies and such other fruits eqla
to the fruit belts of Califor-
mia. There are now in Operation
lin the county two splendid canning fa''
tories, onelat Alvord and one at Dees-
tur, the former being put in last and ins
latter this vear:j The Alvord plant IVES
a magnificent success last year, beng
able TO declBEe ana paid out to its STOCK
holders a. dividend of seventeen PEI
cent, and their fruits all found a reaaI
market, there being none superior Cd "
market. The east half of the county
beautiful rolling: prairie, the soil bslA
deep black loan but not sticky, Dsll-
equal to the famous Wichita counpl
for wheat, and also produces forty
seventy-five bushels OF corn per aCrsi
and from a half to a Bale of cotton.
The Fort Worth and Denver rsuWsi
the best road in the state, enters u,
county at the southeast corner, By
crosses it in q northwest direction, %n
to put the entire county n. reasonsp'
distance of market. The county sesIrpr
catur is on that road and near the csnsa
of the county has 5000 people, has tWsl.
miles of graded streets, has the
system of waterworks of any town J.
the size in the state, has regularly ~.
gsnized and uniformed fire company,
a $40 1000 public school building IN WE.
500 children are taught eight months ss.1
year by faculty of well seis' M
has a sov,.
a $40, 900 jail, has ;'.s,
Ind cement sidewalk fronting on sA :.
business streets, has an electric ~
plant, roller mill, an ice factory I
and half ton capacity, canning y,
tory with 20, 600 can capacity per "a
has ,..Dine church houses, and ~
srhl Of itsSi wealthy cllEs
have BEAUTIFUL TONES, the w
one beingsbuilt at thseost of So, wy
two national banks, three #holsss
houses and forty stone and brick bn'lS,,
houses, has the best and most elesSS-
furnished three-story hotel on the -
yer road from Fort Worth TO Trinus
mas railroad company organized % ~
/ road TO Wise county's ine1hsu'H,,
,oal fields ten miles west that Will
Decatur cheap fuel for manufse1u
nd mas no doubt that she will be : b
jff0 900 Inhabitants in three Years
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