Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-25
BR0WNWOOD COUNTRY.
WHAT A MINISTER WRITES ABOUT
THIS FAVORED SECTION.
Fertile Soil, Living Water, Timber, Coal,
OIL, Rich Native Grasses, Cotton, Wheat
Corn, Sheep and Cattle.
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If wanted to attact the sight seers and
| the seekers of health and pleasure, would
| have excellent opportunity, for no
country Is superior to ours in these re-
spects Poets and painters and people OF
elegant leisure, young or old, sick or well,
would be charmed, delighted. captiveted.
The lofty hills, the lovely valleys and fertile
plains, the bright rolling streams with their
beautifully wooded shores, the birds and
fishes, and wild flowers in endless variety.
The short mild winters that scarcely seem
like winter. as so much of the country IS
ornamented with the evergreen live oak.
But the attention of the business world is
invited TO this country, and propose to tell
business men what they will find here.
10 state the whole matter in nutshell
you will find about %, 600 people, occupying
country that could easily support 250 600
You will find fertile soil, the finest OF ma
tive grasses, plenty of good water. abun-
dance of wood and coal. oil and natural gas
IN paying quantities, and an unlimited sup
ply of hrst-class building stone.
You Will lind country where farming
pays, where it is profitable to grow cotton,
corn, wheat, oats, millet, alfalfa, melons,
potatoes and all kinds of vegetables.
You will find country where you can
raise peaches, apples, pears, plums, apricots,
almonds and grapes in abundant supply and
of the best quality.
You viii find country where the law
provides for school houses wherever and
whenever they are needed, and schools in
every neighboorhood four to ten months
III the year as the people desire.
You Will lind Daniel Baker college, the
state institution of the Presbyterian church
in Texas, controlled by board of trustees
composed OF gentlemen who would rank
hrSt-class IN any country, and, while this
is Southern institution, built by
Southern man with Southern money, they
went to New Jersey, Ohio and California
for faculty, showing by that one act,
more plainly than any amount of empty
talk could do, that the leaders in thought
and action in the Brownwood country APP
preciate people not because OF where they
were born or who they were kin TO, or
what they We're worth before the war but
because of their disposition and ability Of
mind and muscle to develop the wonder
full resources of this section. This is a
college, in fact, VIII faculty and curricu-
!um equal to any Hstitution OF like grade
in the United StatesNY.ou will find Howard
Payne college, a Baif6st institution, under
the presidency of DrsSE,maYson, Il man of
large experience as S9eesher in Missouri
and Kansas. assisted Fan able corps of
teachers. You will schools of high
SFnds find in h all ths yagss church xoP
f RnifGjnss' belong to thssfferent denOm-
fruit S and Te es and sn cG come ena TO
the Brownwo6d country. If Sou want to
sell goods, or 90 banking business come
to the Brownwood country. Ifeyou are a
mechanic, come to the BroHnwood country.
We are preaty well supplied with lawyers
and doctors and preachers and school teach
erS, but there is always room at the top''
If a doctor wants to depend upon his pro-
fession exclusively, he had best hunt an
other country than this.
There IS a fine living here if you are will
ing to work for it.
1t is not u good country for loafers or pau
pers, or for men who want to be appreciated
for what their fathers did. But for those
who want to attend to their own business,
enjoy their own opinions, politically and re-
igiously, where manhood and not money is
the test of responsibility, there is no better
place than the Brentwood country
John Howard proposes to refund car fare
ana hotel bills to anyone who visits the
Brentwood country and does not find
things here as he represents them. Mr.
Howard Is very safe in that proposition In
deed he might go further and propose to
pay man for his time if he would travel
over the country visiting farms and ranches
and talking with numbers of men who by
honest industry have risen from poverty to
and comfort, if he then
thought Howard had deceived him. My
knowledge of the Brownwood country is
the result of more than nine years associa- !
ton with its people as a Methodist preacher |
going from house to house, thereby |
learning more of the real condition of the |
country and its people than man in almost |
any other business.
/ have no land to sell nor am l anybody's |
agent for the sale of property There is |
not dollar to me directly in all this move |
ment. But 1 feel constrained to tell the !
public this much: The large pastures OF |
Brooke Smith and G. w. Mahoney are all |
they are represented to be, and not only so, |
but the Brentwood country is FIJI of lust |
as good land as theirs.
JNo. C. S. BAIRD,
Santa Anna Tex.