Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-31
The P. P. c. Country.

To-day is p. C. c. day at the Dallas
| fair, and several Thousand of her honored
citizens hail from this grand section Of
Texas, all alive 10 the interests OF the
! P. c. c. country and busy showing the
many good specimens of the great variety
of products and giving glowing descrip-
tioue OF the country to the visitors, who
listen with profound interest.
The P. c. C. exhibit compares most
| favorably with any other exhibit on the
! grounds. There Is found an attractive
| array OF tempting fruits, berries and
! grnpes-"the finest l ever saw. so say
many visitors-every known variety of
| vegetables, several varieties of each kind
! of grain, corn, wheat, oats, rye, barley;
| also the grasses, milie., alfalfa and
| Colorado grass, melons mammoth IN
size, onions aud potatoes SO large they
| look vulgar. Every visitor goes sway
with bag of those large Decaus, that
attract so many of the passers by. BIZ
| luminous coal of excellent quality
and wool of fine grades. Space has
forced US TO omit many other interesting
| specimens that one can see by visiting
this exhibit. In charge of W. I. Melton
! OF CouchO county.
All these fine specimens. which one
may SEQ by visiting the z. c. C exhibit
| in the northwest corner on the ground
| floor of the main building, grew IN what
is known IA the Pecan Colorado Conrho
country, which, as you remember, COM
| prises the counties of Brown, Coke,
! Coleman. Concho, Msnard Mccullough,
Iriau, Ruunels aud Tom Green. This
section is the happy medium between the
malarial regions and arid portions OF the
| state, about $50 miles from east to west
and seventy-fiYe miles from north TO
| south. This section is from 1900 to 1000
feet above the level of ths sea perfectly
| free from all malaria, there being no
local cause for sickness, such as swaDps,
lrgoons, etc, In the district. The
| hesIthfulness OF this section is n great
advantage over many other portions of
the state, ana there are many other adj
vantages 20 be considered-ths soil, cli-
mute, wood and water. Tue coll is of
several varieties, running from light
sandy to something sirFilar to the
familiar black waxy lnnds of Central
Texas. No lands in the fstate surpass
these in quantity and qua ty OF it. pro-
| duets. Anything. fruit$aud vegetables
| OF every known variety Krown In either
| North or South, all tlE berries grapes,
cotton, corn and the 8 fall gra.as can lie
grown most successfully il snis P. Z. e.
country. #k.IsFT
bale; coru, .tssss to sixty bushels;
wheat. tyetssy osforty bushels; oats,
siAtxsssfg0 bushs&. and other cereals in
preparation per Ere.
| AS for all gar ZEN vegetables. pump
kins, melons az the like, 1t Is believed
| to be equal to fir not superior to any
other country on earth in quality AMI
| quantity of - yield per acre.
The climal is simply grand, the VIM
| tiers here nIf very mill and the summers
most pleAssnt. Those disagreeube
billiards II the Northwes. are tempered
before reaching this section, and the in
resaut breezes of summer prevent the
heat from becoming oppressive. Such Il
thing rs u sunstroke Is unknown in the
| great z. G. C. country, there being only
| few nights in the summer tnat cover is
| not necessary for comfortable nights
| rest.
This country il we'll supplied with good
| pure freestore water at depth of
twenty to eighty feet. The country is
unduiatiug enough TO provide good
| drainage, and has many nice running
streams that furnish an abundance OF
| good fresh water for stock the year
| around, a great advantage over many
! parts of the state. The p. G. T.. couu-
| try Is called by many the great stock
| country, and so IL 10 In one sense of the
| term, as the fine blooded stock has taken
| the place o! the regular Texas long
| horu.' There are many extensive
ranches, we'll supplied with the best i'm