Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-05-07
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.
From the Fort Worth Gazette.1

If want to attsct the sight seers and the
seekers of health and pleasure, would have
excellent opportunity, for no country is sup
erior to ours in these respects. Poets and
painters and people of elegant leisure, young
or old, sick or well, would be charmed, de-
lighted, oaptivated. The lofty hills, the
lovely valleys and fertile plains, the bright
rolling streams with their beautifully 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 ornRmented with the ever
green live oak.
But the attention of the business world is
invited to this country, and propose to tell
business men what they will find here.
| To state the whole matter in a nutshell
you will find about q, 900 people, occupying
a country that could easily support 100000.
You will find fertile soil, the finest of na-
tive grasses, plenty of good water, album
dance of wood and coal, oil and natural gas,
in paying quantities, and an unlimited sup
ply of frst-class building stone
You will find a country where farming
pays, where it is profitable to grow cotton,
| corn, wheat, oats, millet, alfalfa, melons,
potatoes and all kinds of vegetables.
You will find country you can raise
peaches, apples, plums, spricots, almonds
and grapes in abundant supply and of the
best quality.
You will find country where the law pro-
vides for school houses wherever and when
ever they are needed, and schools in every
nelghboorhood four to ten months in the
year as the people desire.
You will find Daniel Baker college, the
state institution of the Presbyterian church
in Texas, controlled by a board of trustees
composed of gentlemen who would rank
hrSt-class in any country, and, while this is
Southern institution, built by a Southern
man with Southern money, they went to 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 Brown
wood country appreciate people not because
of where they were born of who they were
kin to, or what they were worth before the
war. but because of their disposition and
ability of mind and muscle to develop the
wonderful resources of this section. This is
q college, in fact, with faculty and cur
riculum equal to any Institution OF like grade
in the United States. You will find Howard
Payne college, a Baptist institution, under
the presidency of Or. Emerson, a man of
large experience as teacher in Missouri and
Manassas aSSlSlSO ny 1Dkc COIpo VI
ers. You will find schools of high grade in
all the towns and villages. You will find
handsome and commodious church build
ings, belonging to the different denomina-
tions.
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 a banking business, come
to the Brentwood country. If you are a
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 expects to depend upon his pro-
fession exclusively, he had best hunt another |
country than this.
There is fine living here if you are will
ing to work for it.
1t is not good country for loafers or pau
pers, or for men who want to be appreciated |
for what their fathers did. But for those |
who want to attend to their own business, |
enjoy their own opinions, politically and re-
where manhood and not money is
the test of responsibility, there is no better
place, than the Brentwood country.
John Howard proposes to refund car fare
and hotel bills to anyone who visits the
Brentwood country and does not find things
here as he represents them. Mr.. Howard is
very safe in that proposition. Indeed he
might go further and propose to pay man
for his time if he would travel over the coun-
Try visiting farms and ranches and talking
with numbers of men who by honest industry
have risen from poverty to independence
and comfort, if he then thought Howard had
deceived him. My knowledge of the Brown
wood country is the result of more than nine
lears ASSOCIATION with its people as Metho-
list preacher 'going from house to house,"