Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-07

| <AiOuhu heIhrys oTdyeDu county, the
fine rains last week made corn aud cot
ton look 80 per cent. better. Corn will
| mike from thirty-five TO forty bushels
per acre, while the prospects for cotton
were never more fiattering at this season
of the year,
Kaufman correspondent says: We
are needing rain badly. Our farmers
are about up with their work. Crops of
all kinds are fine, though little late.
We have good prospects for a large cot
| ton crop.
The crops of Gonzales county are In
fine condition, and with another early
rain, larger crop OF corn and cotton
will be gathered than has been for
! years.
Fannin county corn Is cut short by the
drouth, but the general prospect is fair
Cotton crops i'll Red River county are
the finest known i'll that neck of timber
for years.
Rain is needed for the fall gardens
around Denison, a great many of which
have been planted.
The failure OF the fruit crop this year
has caused heavy loss to Hill county.
Corn in Wise county will not make
the acre. Cotton will be good.
Splendid rains have fallen in Carson
county and the Panhandle country. The
corn and sorghum crops are assured, and
cotton planted III June Is in bloom.
Crops in Nacogdoches county are bet
ter than they have been for years past.
Cotton is the finest ever raised there.
Crops raised on sod lands in Hall
county prove that the soil and climate
there will make It one of the best agri-
cultural regions in the state. The wheat
was fully up 10 expectation and the corn
ia good.
kossE, TEX. July 30.-Every body is
happy. a fine rain fell this afternoon,
which made the merchant smile AMI the
farmer rejoice.
BRYAN, TEX July 30.-The first bale
of this year, cotton was received to-day
by Messrs. Saunders & johnson, raised
in the BrRaos bottom by an enterprising
freedman by the name of Billie Macy.
Sold for twelve and one-half cents.
TYLER, TEX, July 3O.-J. d. Ray,
living FIVE miles from the city, has sold
off OF three acres OF ground 1885 melons
for S2Sl. so. The crop in this section is a
verv large one, and car after car is being
shipped north and west.
SALADo, TEX, July 3l--No rain yet
but il Is badly needed. Cotton has COM
menced 10 open fast III places. Picking
will soon commence. Our town is i'm
proving nicely and business seems to he
good.
MONTAGUE, Ten, July 30.-Our crops
are beginning TO suffer for want of ram,
and unless it comes in a few days the
cotton will be considerably damaged.
ALvoRD, TEX. July 3l.-Sam Silber-
man has shipped fifteen cara of melons
from this place this season. Two ether
cars have been shipped by merchants.
The melon and produce trade has been
far beyond the expectation of any of our
formers and business men this year, us
they have already realized about $4,000
from the melon crop alone, and they are
still shipping every day.
CoTToNwooD, TEX, Aug. This
portion of Callahan county will yield
good average crops.
HICo, Tex. Aug. There has been
no general rain in this section for about
six weeks. Good showers have fallen in
some places and there the cotton is ex-
cellent. On the black lands where there
has been no rain cotton is still holding
up, but the sandy land cotton is failing
rapidly. fRir corn crop is made,
though not as good as last year.
CoMANCHE, TEX, July 30.-Cotton |
Is beginning to suffer in some sections on |
account of the dry weather though it is |
thought if we get rain i'll the next two |
weeks there will be q heavy crop made. |
GRANBURY, TEX Aug. 1.-The corn |
crop of Hood and Erath is fair and the |
cotton was never finer for the season. |
1t will be seriously damaged, however, !
without rain soon.
FoRNEY, TEX, Aug. IA refreshing |
rain fell Wednesday afternoon here.
Crop prospects are very bright ut pres
sent. FOrney hay men have stored and |
are storing thousands of tons of the pref
test hay that has been stored for years.
SAN ANTONIO, TEX, Aug. 2.-The
San Antonio aud Arausas Pass railroad
has received full returns of estimates of
this year g cotton yield IN their original
territories, embracing n tier of counties
south and southeast of this city. The
estimates show a yield of 256, $50 bales of
this years crop against 10Y, 800 last
year. In 1888 the total yield of the same
territory was only u little over 20 200
bales.
HENDERSON,, TEX, Aug. "a light
general rain has fallen throughout the
county to-day.
WICHITA FALLS, TEX. Aug. 2.-There
is big demand for Wichita county wheat
from the old counties in the state for
seed, and prices are looking up a little.
cents is being offered for
choice wheat, but most of our farmers
are no ding for 81 and feel sure of get
ting It. From two to five cars of wheat are
shipped from here daily and n l00-ba
capacity flour mill is kept busy grinding
and turning out flour that can
not be excelled in any ate. Wheat
IS turning out from ten to twenty bushels
per acre aud those who are posted think
that the county will average fifteen
bushels per acre. This for an "off''
Tear ia not a bad showing. In fact, it is
much better than the state of Illinois,
" here land is worth from $50 to SIO0 per
acre. This county averaged over twenty
four bushels of wheat per acre in the
years of 1888 and 1889, who is as good
or better than was ever done i'll any
county or state in the Union, outside of
,rops raised by irrigation.
TEXAS SCHOOLS AND CHURC'IES