Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-14

giving new life, but not second growth
With good cotton crops, such as are
, promised in that section, Henderson,
Rusk county, will probably ship 10 900
bnles this season.
Crops of all kinds in Kaufman county
are tine and cotton is especially heavy.
An abundance of hay is being put up
throughout Rockwell county for ship
ment and home consumption. One steam
press alone is turning out 500 bales per
| day.
The Weatherford Constitution says:
Good rains have fallen on Springtown on
| the north. oircling around west, south
west, south and southeast. All around
| copious, glorious showers, doing vast
amount of good TO crops aud cattle. On
this immediate vicinity light refresh
ing showers.
MANGUM, Aug. 5.-A nice rain fell at
Mangum last night. II begun raining
just at dark and rained slowly aud
steadily all night and Is of great benefit
to farmers. While it is too late for corn
| it will make sorghum and mlllet grow
nicely, Our corn crops are very short,
only the early fields are making corn
| and few neighborhoods in the county,
| where showers of rain came earlier.
! Wheat is about all threshed aud good
| crop was made.
CHICO, Aug. fittings are very dry
through this section, it not having rained
| TO amount to anything since the 5th day
| of June. The corn crop will not average
| more than from ten to twelve bushels per
| acre. Cotton Is also seriously damaged
| Rui will he almost au entire failure If no
! rain comes soon.
SAN AUGUSTINE, Aug. 6.-SplendId
| rains have fallen over all our county,
and the crop prospect is simply splendid.
TYLER, Aug. IA good rain fell here
this afternoon.
CoMANCHE, Aug. 1.-THE drouth Is
| broken. fine ram fell here this even
ing, which is worth to Comanche county,
| if general, half q million dollars. The
cotton crop is assured.
RICHARDSON, Aug. GA good rain
fell here this evening. 1t came too late
10 do the corn crop any good, but will
| benefit the cotton very much.
HOLLAND, Aug. IA good rain fell
| here yesterday evening, which VIII do
| late cotton great deal of good. :. b.
| Fulton brought in the first bale of cotton
this season and sold it for eleven and Il
|
of SAT was given him.
Bolton, Aug. Good rains have
fallen in nearly all parts OF the county
| within the last few days and the crop
prospects are better than they have been
for several years.
FLOYD, Aug. THE weather still re-
mains dry. The cotton crop is doing
sDIendidlv Lots of it is falling down with
| bOlls. There are no worms. The gen.
| erRl talk now with the farmers IS where
will we get people enough TO pick 1t out.
They will have TO come from some
where, hs there is not enough people
here to pick it in twelve months if it
makes as it looks now. Corn is about an
average crop in this immediate neigh
borhoo , but short in the county.
BARTLETT, Aug. 7.-Bartlett received
her first bale yesterday. 1t sold for III
cents per pound, which together with
the premium netted Mr.. Chick, the pro-
Queer, SlO8.
fine rain fell here yesterday and
farmers are happy.
| EDDY, Aug. Tt has been two
| mouths to-day since we had rain 20 do
any good, and cotton is suffe ing. The
Weld is estimated all the way from one
fifth to one-half bale per acre.
PECos, Aug. THE farmers OF Reeves
county think they have much to
be thankful for as they read of the
disastrous drouth in Kansas and some
portions OF Eastern Texas. Crops on the
| irrigatiug canals are looking well and IL
bountiful yield is assured
The Pecos river is lower than 1t has
been for years, but still runs more water
than can 6s utilized by the irriGating
| bitches for several years to come.
More rain than usual has fallen In the
| valley this spring and summer and us a
! consequence the stock interests are in
better shape than for the past two or
three years.
BAGwELL, Aug. s.-Discouraging re-
ports are being received here from lnte-
| rior sections of this Red River county on
account OF the long continued drouth.
| Late corn is 4 total loss, aud in some
sections the hot sun is causing the young
hollis to fall from cotton stalks. There
| has been no rain here for four weeks,
| and farmers to save their stock are COM
! DelIed to haul water from three 10 i've
miles distance.
MCKINNEY, Aug. Slight showers
Tell to-day. Cotton will yield this fall
the biggest crop ever grown in the
county.
FORT DAVIS, Aug. Heavy rains
have fallen within the past two weeks,
and the grass is fine and stock of all
kinds doing unusually we'll.
JULIA, Aug. I've have had fine
| rains all over SwIsher county this
week and our people feel hopeful that
the Staked Plains Will prove fine small
grain country.
WACO, Aug. 4.-The cloudy weather
we are now having is making
cotton grow splendidly. The crop here
will exceed last years crop.
PLANO, Aug. S.-The drouth continues
unbroken, aud the corn Drop passes be-
you'd redemption. The cotton promises
n far yield, and no doubt with an early
rain would make an average crop. On
account of the early failure of the wheat
crop the acreage in cotton is unusually
large, as a large portion of the wheat
land was put in cotton.
TAYLOR, Aug. 4.-Last Saturday Tay-
Tor received her first bale of cotton. The
bale was raised in the eastern part of the