Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-11
THE MAN WITH THE HOE
WAS AT THE SANTA ANNA SALES
WITH HIS KNITTING.
The Sales Great Success, and Purchasers
We'll Pleased-Other Pastures
to Go to Farmers.
SANTA ANNA, TEX, June 4, 1891.

| SANTA ANNA, TEX, June g. 1891.
To the Gazette:
There is to-day one large pasture less in
| this Coleman county than there was yes
\ terday. The lice has been broken and to
| quote large land owner of this section,
! sit is but the beginning of the end of the
| large pastures in Texas There has been
| nothing happened in this section since the
| white man made his appearance here that
| has created the interest and talk that this
| public land sale has. In fact, the eyes of
| land owners, land agents and business men
| throughout Texas have been watching the
| result of this. the first sale OF the large
| pastures. A majority of people predicted a
| failure, and the result is that the sale has
been grand success, and now it is believed
that many will follow the example set by
Mr.. 6. W. Mahoney, and the chances
are good for the big pastures
to be all cut to pieces in tracts to suit farm
ers-the cry is Give US the man with the
hoe, and he can't come too soOn.n
Taking into consideration the tight money
| market, also that at this season of the year
the farmers are busy with the harvest, the
sale of the Mahoney pasture is remarkable
and speaks well for this section of Texas
On the first day of the sale Tuesday, there
was $50, 1923. 80 worth of property sold in
five and one-half hours: the second day of
the sale the remaining portion of the pasture
days sale, made total of over one hundred
and forty-eight thousand five hundred dol
lars.
Capt. ]. A. H. Hosack of San Antonio
made the sale, and this is the largest sale he
has ever made to date. it being his sixty
third land sale in the state.
Mr.. Mahoney is entitled to great credit
for the manner in which he cared for his
guests. He provided sleeping accommoda-
tons at his home place on the ranch for
400 people and food in abund ance for all
who attended, and there was not less than
six hundred people or the grounds the days
of sale. Everything in the shape of eatables
and wine and beer was free to all, and while
this Is true, there was not an angry word
spoken or an intoxicated person on the
premises or in this town.
For two weeks before the sale Mr. Ma
honey kept ''open house, to all land seek
ers. and furnished conveyances free =
drive over the pasture to inspect tn IA
All who came to attend the sale u ere car
ried in hacks free of charge to the
home place on the ranch, which is six miles
from the station.
mo such hospitality and enterprise has
ever been shown by any one man in or out
OF Texas" was the general remark made
by the visitors.
All who purchased homes are wen pleased
and many have returned for their families
oLa III ooon VIC 0IcCJiLS HOUSES
new homes in Coleman county.
Mr.. Mahoney has lived here for the past
ten years and has done a great deal for
Santa Anna and Coleman county. all of
which is highly appreciated by his
many friends in this section, and
he will carry with him the best
wishes of the good people here, go where
he may. Maheney is formerly from New
York state and is known throughout this
section as the man who is opposed to hav-
ing people pay over per cent per annum
for the use of money, and in this as all
other things, he practices what he
breaches as he has for years loaned
money at that rate of interest Would that
we had such men as Mahoney in all coun-
ties and cities in Texas
As write. / am informed that what is
known as the Vaughn pasture of 10000
acres, which is also located in this county,
has been placed on the market in tracts to
suit farmers. This tract like the Mahouer