Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-28
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Texas from Fort worth-we Need More
Wholesale Houses
WICHITA FAILS. Tx. June 2s. lse

WICHITA FALLS, TEX. June &c, 1890.
Editor Gazette.
As have been prospecting through
this part OF the country from here up to
Claude, and being Fort Worth man /,
dyed in the wool, but a pretty close OBJ
server wherever go. l concluded that
had picked up few stems that would
possibly interest some Fort Worth folks
who want to see "our' town prosper
have spent ten days along the Denver
and must say l am surprised at the de-
velopment of this country. have rode
horseback across here before there was
anything but "chuck wagons, - cattle,
horses, cowboys and coyotes, but day
find thousands of acres or wheat, corn
oats, millet, sorghum, and almost every
product of the state, growing over what
we once called the plains. / see farm
houses (and some very pretentious ones)
showing that this is country inhabited
not by Comanohe Indians and coyotes,
but by thrifty, energetic class of farm
ers who are willing to work and reap the
results of their labor. AS we came down
from Childress this morning noticed in
one field a gang pillow running with four
yoke of steers attached to 1t, and
the pillow seemed to be running at least
ten inches deep, in stubble land. That
looked like farming. A few years ago
our typical West Texas farmer
plowed with one pony and O six
inch pillow, and - well, you
could see the ground looked a little
darker after he had gone round his land
o dozen or more times, but it wasn't
farming, it was what the Northern
farmer calls Scratching. The people
are coming here now by hundreds. am
locating lands to place some 1000 families
from the Northern states and Sweden,
working in conjunction with A. P. Orns-
dorff. the Swedish immigration agent
sent here by his people for that purpose.
Now, while am out here blistering the
beasom end of my nose, going hungry
and keeping company with rattlesnakes
and prairie dogs, trying to settle our
country with people to draw on Fort
Worth for what they need to farm with,
what they must have to wear and what
groceries they will use, want you peo-
pie at that end of the string to jerk every
time you get nlbble from man
or firm to establish a wholesale house of
any kind in Fort Worth, for can tell
you wholesale houses 9 what we want.
Imagine my surprise to find out that
Kansas City is supplying the bulk of this
trade. You can meet Kansas City drum
mers in almost every town. Now, MIR.
Editor, what do you think of that? Fort
Worth, pridng herself on her enterprise,
and allow Kansas City to come down here
and monopoliZe the trade of the richest
belt of country we have? You could
hardly conceive an idea of the goods that
are sold along this line of road until you
would st p over day at each town. At
this writing the streets of this place are
literally packed with wagons and horses,
and just so at all the other towns here.
Crops of all kinds look well except oats.
Have seen few good crops of oats.
Well, l leave here in the morning, going
south through Archer, Jack, Young
and Baylor counties. and Will reach Fort
Worth in about ten days when we will
begin to make arrangements to get our
first people into the Panhandle and will
then tell THE GAZETTE anything which 1
may learn from now until my arrival at
home. w. c. ROGERS.