The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-04-30
BROWNWOOD 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 attract the sight seers and
seekers of health and pleasure, l would
have excellent opportunity, for no country
is superior TO ours in these respects. Poets
and painters and people of elegant leisure,
young or old, sick or well, would be
charmed, delighted, captivated. The lofty
hills, the lovely valleys aud fertile plains,
the bright rolling streams with their beau
tifully 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 orna-
mented with the evergreen Ne oak.
But the attentiRns of thaabusness world
tell business men u hat sy will find here
TO state the WHOM N Eer in a nutshell
you will find about % people occupying
country that coul silly support $4,000.
You viii find fer soil, the fuest of
dance Of wood Al Goal, \ and natural gas
in paying quan3 es, and unlimited sup
ply of tirst-cla building 4 pne.
You will fin a country where farming
pays, where il profitable -, grow cotton,
corn, wheat oats, millet, alfalfa, melons,
potatoes and all kinds of vegetables.
You will ind country where you can
raise peaches, apples, pears, plums, april
cots, almonds and grapes in abundant sup
ply and of the best quality.
You will find a country where the law
provides for schoolhouses wherever and
whenever they are needed, and schools in
every neigh borhood four to ten months in
the year, rs the people desire.
You will find Daniel Baker college, the
state institution of the Presbyterian church
in Texas, controlled by 4 board of trustees
composed of gentlemen who would rank
frst-class in any country, and, while this is
a Southern institution, built by d Southern
man with Southern money, they went 10
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 BrownwCod county appreciate
people not because of where they were
born or who they were kin to, or what
they were worth before the war, but be-
cause Of their disposition and ability of
mind and muscle TO develop the wonderful
resources of this section. This is a college
in fact, with faculty and curriculum equal
to any institution of like grade in the
United States. You will find Howard
Payne college, Baptist institution, under
the presidency of DR.. Emerson, a man of
large experience as teacher in Missouri
and Kansas, assisted by an able corps of
teachers. You viii find schools OF high
grade in all the towns and villages. You
will find handsome and commodious church
buildings belonging TO the different denom
nations.
If you want TO raise grain and cotton and
fruit and vegetables and fine stock, come to
the Brownwood country. If you want TO
sell goods, or do banking business, come
TO the Browuwood country. If you are q
mechanic, come TO the Brentwood country.
We are pretty well supplied with lawyers
and doctors and preachers and school teach
erS, but there is always room at the top
If 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 1t.
1t is not a good country for loafers or
paupeIs, or for men who want to be ap-
preciated for what their fathers did. But
for those who want TO attend to their own
business, enjoy their own opinions, politi-
cally and religiously, where manhood and
not money is the test of responsibility,
there is no better place than the Brown
wood country.
John Howard proposes to refund car fare
and hotel bills 10 any one who visits the
Rrowuwood country and does not find