San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-12-29

man-Fulton pasture company. These
lands are very fertile. The quality of
the soil "a nges from sandy loan to rich
black waxy. These lands were loc ated
fifty years ago by Mr.. G.. W. Fulton
who was intimately acquainted with
their quality, and they were all choice
lands. Anything i'll the way of grain,
fruit, sugar cane, sorghum, vegetables,
vines can be grown to pefection upon
them; and they also produce colt on
equal to the finest sea island varieties.
Some sections of these lands are quite
heavily timbered, and some beautiful
live oak groves are found upon the shores
of the bays. Mesquite timber abounds
in the region around the Nueces bay
Within the past year the Cole uian-Ful-
ton cattle COMPANY have been cutting up
large tracts of their pasture land and
offering it to farmers, vine-gro wers, mar
ket gardeners and fruit growers of every
class. The farming lands have been laid
off in one hundred acre tracts, princi-
pally along the lines of the San Antonio
and Arkansas Pass railway and i'll the
vicinity of Gregory station OH that road.
About 10, 600 acres have been staked off
here and a considerable part of it sold.
Contract is now being made with Ger
man colony Of farmers to settle several
thousand acres and enter actively into
the cultivation of grain, fruit and veg
-etables.
Lying directly back from Arkansas bay
is level tract of land between Arkansas
and Copano bays, i'll a region seldom
visited by frosts aud where preparations
are being made on an extensive scale for
vine growing, vegetable raising and
small fruit culture of all descriptions.
Here thousands of acres have been laid off
in ten acre lots. More than ten miles of
good highway have been constructed,
we'll thrown up in the center, the ditch
es on either side affording ample drain
age An immense dyke has been thrown
up to prevent any overflow of the low
lands by the bay tides, and in another
year all these low lands and lakes will
be filled with an abundant supply of
fresh water. Each ten acre tract fronts a
broad, we'll constructed and thoroughly
drained highway, and these will be the
roads of the horticulturists and garden
ers that i'll the near future will occupy
these tracts. Some of them are already
sold and under cultivation. On one lot
is California vine grower named Kal-
tenback who refused i'll October S45 per
acre for the land which cost him $40 per
acre the previous May. Others WHO
paid $40 in the spring sold for $40 this
fall. Kaltenback pronounccs the loCa-
ton and the soil superior to his Califor-
MIA vineyard, which with the vines upon
it was rated at $1,000 per acre.
None of these lots are four miles from
the railway, and most of them are within
half that distance and less. To the south
of this tract, what is known in this re-
gion as the Italian Colony" is at work
putting i'll vines, small fruits aud veget-
ables. This colony was planted one
year ago and their work gives promise
of splendid results. Not less than three
hundred carload lots will be taken out
of that colony this coming season.
Ice does not form i'll this region ottcner
than once in five or six years. There
has been but one snowfall i'll twenty
three years and then the SHOW entirely
disappeared in a few hours. The air is
dry and the climate superb. Fall rains
are abundant. Two crops are grown in
a year and sometimes three. Lands are
reasonable and terms favorable for
farming aud gardening lands. Some
choice building tracts sell much higher,
| however. One sale Of six hundred and
forty acres at what is known as Indian
Point was made at 500 per acre. Sales
this season have aggregated ), 200 acres,
and the average price realized has been
500 p T acre. At Ingleside, point sur
rounded by the lands Of this company, a
thriving vineyard has been growing for
twenty years and its yield and the~quali-
ty of its fruit challenges comparison
with any vineyard IN America.
To those who desire to engage i'll the
culture of corn, cotton, oats, cereals OF
all kinds, or to combine these with the
fattening of stock for market these hun