Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-18


SELTsER WELLS, TARRANT COUNTY.
Ten, May 10, 1891.
To the Gazette.
Arrangements are being made in Wichita.
Wilbarger. and perhaps Greer counties, for
settlers to locate preparatory to the move
ON Fort Sill. As most of them will pass
through the big pastures north OF Fort
Worth, the land owners there will have a
chance to induce them to stop in
Tarrant county if they will. We
were offered location for 4 town
siteon the borders of the Indian Territory,
where every member of our union should
have town lot free, with the further as
surance that our people can rent land in
the vicinity to raise a crop. The location Is
nine miles from the Denver railroad on
Red river. Propositions are offered at
railroad towns that (they say will beat the
inland town site. Our work is confined to Sc
curing contracts for our crowd on the Texas
side, homes in town as cheap as they can
in the Fort Sill country. then to get them
land to rent. That leaves no room for hard
ships or enforced idleness, and q guarantee
of one years supplies to support them the
first year on their Fort Sill homesteads,
that with cheap railroad rates is our work
for each member,
In answer to all offers to sell land to our
crowd We have answered: Cheap homes
in town with land to rent is our limit. Each
man can buy to suit himself.
While no contracts are closed yet, it is
safe 10 say now that every member can feel
sure the above arrangements will be made.
Comparing them with your present situa-
ton will settle the question. VIII it pay to
90 this fall2 What can you raisea From
twenty to thirty bushels of wheat to the
acre. This Office received a paper from
Greer county this week stating it is esti-
mated there will be near 100000 bushels
of wheat raised in Greer county
this year, that there are thirty-four school
houses and fourteen postoffices in Greer,
and yet in 1887 the land sharks and cattle
men Swore the man ought to be hung that
got up such boom, misleading poor far
mers. 1t is true we lived poor and the little
dugout was our mansion; it is true that the
cowrlen done their best to aggravate the
situation; but the settler is like Johnson
grass, he will flourish under difficulties If
planted on good soil.
What attracted him TO Greerl Free
homes.
Did it hurt Texas towns Look at Yer
non and Quanah.
Did it hurt the price or Improvement of
their town lots!
Did it hurt Fort Worth2
Are not the prosperous settlers the foun-
datiOns of prosperous tOwHs
Why do we note thisa To lay aside pref
udice and bring TO our support now, the
the farmer that will prosper most by set
Ting 10000 families nearer to Fort Worth
than the nearest point of Greer county.
VIII we have oppositionl
Don't doubt It for minute, and to warn
our members of that opposition and render
it powerless is our object in this note.
We Will answer their statements in ad-
vance, judging the future by the past. No
member is responsible for anyone's acts
but his own. He cannot, therefore, get into
trouble except by his own actions. Your
manager is not, nor never was, under con-
troll of railroads; neither did he ever get
l cent in money from the Denver railroad,
or ever expects to. However, that is the
only lie told on US that we regretted was
not true. Yet the Denver has treated US
nobly in cheap rates and accommodations,
without which we would have failed in
places where we did not. We like the
Denver, but don't get pay from the road
This note is addressed to the new mem
bers. who want homes with US. Our next
will be directed to the Fort Sill move. Both
should be kept and read together.
j. S. WORKS, General Manager.