Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-16
GODS COUNTRY.
Great is the Brentwood
Country.
Something About the Fertility of Southwest
Texas County.
IT IS A LAND OF STREAMS
And Beautiful, VTeIl-wooded Valleys-Of
Cotton, Wheat, Rye. Alfalfa, Bar
ley and other Grains and
GrasSes-The Yield.
TO the Dallas News.

BROwSwOOD. Tex, April 6.-During the
! last two years The tide of immigration has
been following toward Northwest Texas
and the Panhandle. for the simple reason
mat other sections of the state offering the
same Inducements have not advertised their
! marvellous resources. This country. known
IS the brentwood country, is the equal in
ali respects and superior in some 10 any
section OF the state. This country is not q
one crop farming country, and on account
of Us being diversified farming country i
offers peculiar attractions for the home
seeker. Here crop of wheat can be har-
vested in MAY, and then a crop of cotton
sorghum or something else may be planted.
The three things necessary to make 4
homeSeeker happy, namely: Wood. water
and good soil are here in abundance
Water can be secured by digging at almost
any point i'll the county at from twenty to
thirty feet and Of good quality. The
country IS watered BY the following
streams: Colorado river. Pecan bayou.
jim Ned Clear creek, Muka creek and
many others.
Wood : plentiful and is not found here
as III most Western sections, only along
the banks of the streams. II is scattered
a.! over tile country and consists OF post
OAK, i've OAK, elm, pecan, blackberry and
mesquite.
The soil of Brown county is black and
gray sandy loan, and about 10 per cent Of
The whole area is first-clasS agricultural
land. 4 half TO Il bale of cotton, from 20 to
~ bushels OF wheat, 50 to to bushels of corn.
~ TO l2O bushels of oats to the acre are PIC
daceG here. -Four tons of alfalfa is Il Sue,
crop. Rye, barley. millet avl sorghuHEo
well and castor beans and DN\mcorn
All kinds of fruits, includi Aaaois and
apples, do well. In fact, it is RaiTned that
fruit grown here is superior to hat Of Cali
fornia, both as To size ana tlavot
This section is differeN fromN Re greater
part of West Texas frOITNe III that it is
composed of wide valld&NSndis not stu
ated on high, level grounaslsssvalleys be-
ing from six TO eight miles wi Ne
Brownwood. II
It is said, ana. truthfully that God
made the coun4 and man Hsnakes the
towns One thiRg is certain, and that is,
wood country on the sixthy lay, when time
vas growing short, but Cd nenced some
time during the first part y the week
when he had plenty oNNe, And also that
citizens as Judge c. H. Je&6s, president
of the Board of Trade, RaHFord, Brooke
Smith. Hon. T. J. May W McCul-
ioch. B. Z. Hurlbut, JohfEyG Bernay DR..
A. +. Neal and Profess& Carl Vincent
working for her day and Wight, in season
mean lt PROMOTIONS especiaIiyff she has the
advantages and resourr-sahX Brownwood
has. There is an air of,sIhn and business
here that makes the ne* aomer think as
soon as he arrives Hare is steood town 7
will stop :, "
Handsome stone busihess blecl,s are he
ing erected on every sfarsssnd new resi-
dences are being built Nv actnal count
$50 new homes have baen finished here dur-
inc the past six months BrownWOOd claims
To he the Athens; II West Texas She
has S35 600 investedsrin ck,,rchns which
would he sx.edit 70 Stown Ewica her so
two colIeoss' Njs;ch Mhen &1nnIeted ,HIig
cost not ftnnr $50 OOGN and has 10
Graded mbliskaSHols erkioving ninN
teachers ~
m. trade of - r,oxo4 evtepds ip-oS