Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-15
HOW 1T PAYS.
AN EXPERT TELLS ABOUT THE
VALUE OF PRINTERS INK.
How the Gazette sold the Famous Ma
honey Pasture in Coleman County
Howard and the Brentwood country.

Howard and the brownWoou country.
1t has been only three months ago that
John Howard sounded the keynote of prog
ress IN Texas, when ne said 1.-The bic
pastures in Texas must go to make room
for the man with the hoe The
first big pasture is gone, the ice
is broken and many other pastures
will now be cut up and will be settled by
farmers who want from 100 to 800 acres or
less.
John Howard came in from the Brown
wood country on Saturday, and was asked
about the big sale of the Mahoney Il 600
acre pasture, near Santa Anna, in Coleman
county.
1T was indeed big success said Mr..
Howard, land DO you know that printer s
ink did it! About ninety days ago 1 be-
gan to talk about the BrowIwood
1t up until the sale took
place. want to say that [
never used any newspaper but The GA
zETTE in telling about the Brentwood
country, and the results show for them
selves. Some of my friends thought l was
making mistake, but when they saw
inquiries coming in from all over Texas,
other states they We're convinced. We
know THE GAZETTE did it, for we
have hundreds of letters which con-
tanned the printed blanks published
in The GAZETTE, inclosing the
clippings. Then quite number of people
visited the country in person, and many.of
them said they had seen the ads in The
GAZETTE
Your first sale was entirely satisfactory
them"
Eyes, in every respect: 1t was
a complete success. Just think
of it, right in what they call dull
times, with financial strngency on us, 1
sale of 1900 acres of land is made in two
days and one-third the money paid down. :"
What did the land bring!''
''The highest price paid for farm land
was $13 per acre, the lowest was was 81. 40
per acre. Quite good deal went at $500
per acre, some at IS and 50, making an
average of 81 per acre all round. There
were some one-acre tracts adjoining the
town of Santa Anna that brought more of
course than the farm lands.
Tell me about the SALE
at was j grand affair. The people began
to arrive day or two before the sale and
went all over the pasture. Capt.
Mahoney had made all preparations to care
for 800 people, and there were that many
there. Cots were placed in the open air,
but you know that is no objection in our
fine climate There was barbecue every
day, and all thoroughly appreciated Capt.
Mahoneys efforts to take care of
them. 1t was 4 public sale begin
ming on the morning of June 2
and continuing through the third The
first days sales amounted to $4,000, aud
the sales on June amounted to SO, 500. n
total of $4,000. There were nearly
two hundred buyers who came from
Lamar county on Red river to counties on
the gulf; with quite a number from the old
states, and as l said before The GAZETTE
brought them. Just think of the benefit
Santa Anna and to Brentwood
county. A few months hence and
what was big pasture will be 200 farms.
Say family averages four, that adds 500
people to the county as the result of a few
months work
1.-THE Browrwocd country seems to be
coming TO the front"
1t certainly -. can say conscientiouSly
that there is no better country in Texas, or
Fort Worth people should cultivate
the Brownwood country. 1t is as natur-
ally tributary to you as any other
section of the state and is richer than the
Panhandle for the reason that it has greater
diversity of crops. ] never saw finer wheat
and oats than grow near Brown
wood. 1t is a great cotton country,
WOOL country anu uIiS uUtSe
and cattle country. In addition TO all these
the fruit and pecan crops bring in great
sums of money, and at Brentwood we have
struck oil. The Brownwood country is in
deed a land of many crops. As
soon rs the Fort Worth and
Rio Grande is completed to
Brentwood, | hope trainload of Fort
Worth people will take a trip to the Brown
wood country. The citizens there are ali
very friendly to Fort Worth and will GER
tainly make you feel at home. but / want
the excursion for your SalleS, not theirs.
want Fort Worth TO be convinced that
there is no better land on earth than in
this section, and that you have right at
your doors trade that ] will
amount to millions annually if you
will reach out for it,
You think the pastures will go now?"
''They will. One big pasture has gone
and will soon tell the people
through the columns Of The GAZETTE
how another big pasture will go.
The people in the Brownwood country. cat
tlemen and all, want more people to come in
and they are taking the proper steps to get
them. | want to say in conclusion that
the work done by The GA
ZETTE and Capt. Mahoney, Mr.. Brooke
Smith, and those generally who are inter-
ested appreciate the good work it is doing
If The GAZETTE will only edu-
cate the people Of Fort Worth
up to the fact that the Brown
wood country is as rich, if not richer than
any country tributary to it, it Will be doing
a great service TO the people here