Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-30
COME DOWN NEXT WINTER.

Texas is just entering upon regular ag-
ricultural boom--no doubt of it. Her peo-
pie have been feeling that way through
several years past, and with each succeed
ing wear the feeling has been more pro-
nounced. And now have come the excellent
crops of the present season 10 set it off
with q rush; SO stand from under, ye old
fogies, who say farming cannot be made to
pay. The progressive people Of Texas are
going 10 show up your mistake Tor what
ever else one might see fit TO call it, by
practical demonstration. More land will be
made ready for the plow in the course OF
the next winter than ever before charac-
telized the same length Of time in the his
tory Of any state of the Union. Every indi-
cation seems to be plainly pointing in that
direction.
Our greatest trouble for the coming win
ter will be found in deficiency Of good and
and reliable farm labor. How are we to Sc
cure that necessary adjunct TO our proposed
progress3 We have just thought up plan
for relief which, in our opinion, would work
10 the decided advantage of all concerned if
properly looked after. Here in Texas our
winter months are extremely mild. At the
North they would be regarded as a season
of delightful springtime. They are our
hest working months of the year, while the
same months in the upper states are months
of comparative idleness-nothing in partic-
ular to 90 for the reason that the weather IS
TOO cold to admit of doing much Of anything.
Upon these well-known facts we have
based our plan, which is 10 invite our
Northern friends, especially the young
men, to come down and spend their winters
vacation" working on our farms during
the time when their own farms are locked
MP in ice and snow. With the first wild
geese of spring they could return to their
Northern homes. and their farms would
really not know that they had been absent.
The arrangement would be 4 pleasant
change from the monotony of 4 Northern
winter-a kind of recreation-to say nothing
of its profftablcness in dollars and cent 10
the change.
We could not hesitate to believe that
thousands would thus spend the winter in
Texas if the matter was properly laid be-
fore them ana few favorable arrangements
Iuade for their transportation The thing
should be agitated, for there are the best of
reasons for believing that it would pro
well worth the trouble.
For our own part we can see nothing that
could be urged against it in either section.
What if it did render the young men of the
North 4 little migratory in their habitsa
II would not hurt any Of them to see more
OF the world than is visible from the tops of
their barns: and so far AS our side of the
question is concerned, we have no fears
that their coming could in any way be any
Thing whatever against Texas. We want
among US. as long as they will stay, thous
auds of such Young men as would have en-
ergy enough about them TO prompt the car
rying out Of such / suggC lion as we are
making Let us invite them down for the
winter 10 .,ecomc acquainted with us and
make some money for themselves. The ac-
quaintance would do us all good. If such
an arrangement had been working over the
South generally in the times preceding
thirty years ago, american history would
today exhibit Il broad blank where some of
It's most closely written pages are-the
lnore,we know Of each other the better il
is for all parties.