Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-21
SHE STANDS ALONE.
Farmers About Terrell can Raise Their
Own Pork, Gravy, Molasses, Corn Cot
ton, Sweet and Irish Potatoes and
no End to the Vegetables.

| TERRELL, TEX, July 20.-TerreQ is in
| Kaufman county, siXty-four miles east of
| Fort Worth on the Texas and Pacific rail
way running east and west, and the Texas
| Contra railway running north and south.
| We nave a splendid location for manufac-
turing purposes, or investments in any en-
terprise that can stand alone of its
strength. A better general variety of soil
can hardly be found even in our great
Texas. The population is mainly white,
but several hundred negro votes are cast
| every election. Both races get along to-
| gether without serious Schfsm. They under
| stand each other and find it always conven-
| lent and practicable to attend to ones own
| business and let the opposing
color ditto. The county is large
ly Democratic, citizens mainly
| Southern born and have Southern ideas of
| citizenship. education, refinement and
economy: though there is a good sprinkling
of Northern and foreign people having diff
| ferent political views. But it would be a
| strange thing if enc could discern another's
| politics by his daily walk and conversation.
The fact is, politics is a side show in these
| parts. In this county a man may raise
his own gravy and molasses without much
sweet potatoes (big ones in the sandy land
hay, fruit, vegetables and almost anything
| that grows elsewhere. Even cocklasAaHssA
and sunflowers thrive when ali4Ysae@:
Terrell is a kind of Observation-Disclosures,
a place where tlsaA1fgest premiums are
taken at theASi1e fair on hogs, cattle,
horses, h111osf and general produce. Ter
rslka1e6 to have a hankering to be the chief
commercial center of the continent, but
there is SO much competition that our
people lave concluded to let that little
thing alone and get to work making lots of
good things to eat for man and beast, and
thus lead as an agricultural and fine stock
center, with the finest schools, the best
churches, happieSt men, best and sweetest
women and children to be fOund anywhere.
1t is really a strange thing hat excursions
do not come to'Terrell %oftener, unless it is
that these excursions are made III of men
who wish easy living. If a man has plenty
of money he can live easy in Terrell. IL
not, he must perSplre somewhat IN warm
weather and endure the chill of winter.
There is no livelihood here just by s'toss
there is soil here on easy terms to good
farmers, that will yield readily to the touch
of the toiler and in good time bring endur-
ing wealth. Then the country is healthy,
being a high elevation above the sea level,
and free from the miasmatic influences of
big streams and wide bottoms. People
generally live well, and there is not a case
on record, that we know of now, where a
farmer worked himself to death
or died of starvation or sun grins. We do
not have all one kind of soil. We lave all
sorts, nearly. Poor enough for the
poorest and rich enough for the richest. No
rocks or bottom lands of consequence, but
the best of uplands. What we want you all
to do is to come and see for yourself. Take
nobody's word. Don't look for three for
tunes stuck on a pole for every farmer, but
look at the country like you would into a
double barrel shotgun. in a business and
practical way, with creeping OF Judging in
the game. Take all the ''roundance'' you
can get, but take a fair shoot and knock the
middle man. We want men of horse sense,
one that knows how to not eat corn or fod-
der until he can get it. We don't a
home-seekers to look for too good a thing.
We don't them to champ their bits and
~evaporate all the sap in their mouths before
they get to the eating Station, but go at
things in 4 business way, believe a state
ment to be the truth when you prove it.
When You cha the bag you can tell
whether it is pudding. There are enough
clerks, dudes and soft-place seekers here
already to supply every position in the gulf
of Mexico, and we haven't many either.
We want farmers. men of capital, men of
backbone, to benefit and not cripple the coun-
try. So, if you nave an idea of anything in
Terrell, just write the city secretary, Ter
rell, Tex, and he will try and answer your
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