Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-04
ESTACADO COUNTRY.
One of the Favored Spots of the Plains.
Where Poor Man Can Get a Home
and Acquire a Competency.
Correspondence OF the Gazstte.

travelling Correspondence OF the Gazette.
EsTACADo, Tex. MAY I've came
| across the country via the Clisbee Bros
| fast daily stage line from Amarillo TO this
central plains fruit country. Estacado IS
! the capital OF Crosby county. the Oldest set
tied county in the plains. the first settle
ment having been established here thirteen
years ago by Capt. Paris Cox. the Daniel
Boone of the plains. The captain. who is
now dead, and his courageous and excellent
wife, who still lives and Is now Mrs. Os-
burn. secured large section of this beautI-
full and immensely rich country for the pul'-
pose OF locating 4 colony and the large SET
tleInent OF cultured and u most excellent
class of people now occupying well i'm
proved farms tell how well the captain and
his good wife succeeded.
We have Travelled over the entire state,
and can truthtuIly say that no section can
excel this. This IS one of the favored
spots on the plains where 4 poor man can
get home and acquire acOmpetency. Water
can De secured here at depth ranging from
forty 10 sixty feet. This i a great item on
the plains Raising fruit, vegetables. Der
ries. small grain and forest trees is no
longer an experiment as more than q score
of large thrifty orchards and groves of
forest trees, in sight Of EStacddo, will
verify.
All this IS done too without irrigation
Mr.. Arson Cox. who owns I beautiful
farm adjoining town is experimenting with
RED clover and domestic grasses and Is quite
hopeful Of success. Capt. Lewis has farm
also adjoining town on which he has made
successful experiment with al kinds of
fruit trees. elm, cotton wood, mulberry,
maple and Usage orange
Capt. Homes. who is merchandising here,
mas It peach orchard of over 500 trees. tie
has AL kinds OF fruit and vegetables in
abundance
DR.. Marshbulm and a brother who live
three miles west of Estacadn. have two as
pretty farms as can be found in Texas. The
doctor brother has about fifteen acres in
orchard and forest trees and 4 lOveler sight
than such grove as THIS in this beautiful
plains country is hard to conceive
Designing parties have tried to bring this
section into disrepute by representing ii rs
strictly Quaker colony, and none others
welcome. While Il majority Of the settlers
are QuakerS a finer class of people TO live
among would be hard TO find Religion and
politics cut no figure here, good people IS
what they are inviting 10 this country, and
special and superior Inducements are Of
tered 10 the farmer. the business or profess
sional man. One of the most comneudable
features about these people is they take more
interest IN schools and churches than they
do IN cOurthOUSeS and iaiis. They have
more confidence in the education and moral
training of the child than they have in the
conversion of criminals. No whisky is
sold in this COUNTY Everybody wears
good clothes, have plenty to eat, nice COM
Portable houses 10 live in. schools well
patrOnized and the churches literally sup
ported. They have a Smday-school that
would do credit TO Fort Worth. 4 foreign
missionary society ana Christian endeavor
society in foWishing condition. They
want ". G. T. {. society. This is 4 rec
ord any community could be proud Of and
what more could the honest. industrious
home-Seeker desire. Fine climate, cheap
rich lands. on easy terms, and low taxes
makes this favored spot. There are thou
sands of acres of public state land. open for
settlement as hOmesteadS or presumption
ciams. and those who come first and early
viii fare best.
The Town Site company has this to say:
The proprietors OF Estacado town site are
wide-awake, and have studied the priuci-
pies of enterprise, and will gladly welcome
the euterprsiing business people who can
appreciate favOrs God loves the vide
awake, enterpriSing and charitable, who
can appreciate His love and kindness. In
union there is strength and power; in dis |
sentiOn and strife there is death, so let US
all put our shoulders TO the wheel and roll |
Estacado and Crosby county more promi- |
nently to the front"