Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-29

should not be able to work the land within
itself, In case the head o; the family should
be taken away, the rental will keep the
family going. A house to rent in town may
be al .wel! enough in the way OF support,
provided somebody happens to want it, but
this cannot always be depended upon in
any place. Nothing is more pitiible than
family left dependent for income and bread
on rent Of houses that nobody wants. No
family can suffer if it has forty or even
twenty good acres of the solid earth. 1t
will always yield food and support life.
When a new town starts with boom, as
we say, the people of the country evince
disposition to rush to town. Finally the
town gets full; or in other words, has all
the population it is able to support within
itself, and then there comes 4 season Of in
activity. The tide has attained to high
water mark, but there can be no permanent
stand at this marx. There is lower level
somewhere destroying the equilibrium and
as result an ebb must follow. If that low
er level is in the country the town must
contribute towards filling it unless it can be
filed from some other region. If filed from
,.broad, then the town holds its own and
more, but if not, then the town must lose
portion of its population-no help for it
whatever.
Many of our towns now have that ebb
drawing upon them, and unless they hustle
to fill up the lower level from other regions,
il,,.i1, bn ir.1Tt
upon some of them will be quite heavy.
No state in the American Union could so
easily fill those lower levels as could Texas,
for she has everything good to offer the
ruralist. In the so-called wheat states the
maximum of wheat production has been
reached without much of profit to the
wheat growers, hence those wheat growers
are ready to change their location for one
promising something better. The corn
area, as heretofore mapped off, mas also
reached the ebbing point, with thousands
of badly paid farmers ready to go with the
tide setting towards better region. The
soils they are willing to leave have lost
their nitrate and potash to such an extent
that they will no longer grow grains profit
ably. Here in Texas our soils are still
virgin to a very large extent; and in ad
dition to this they are peculiar, being of a
character slow 10 wear out. Impress these
facts upon those dissatisfied people and we
shall get them so rapidly that there will be
I'D cob from our towns and cities that will
be filled, and more than filled, by an inflow
of town or city people who always follow
ali influx OF rural people from abroad. Let
it be shown beyond question that the very
best treasure a man could own is country
home in Texas and those homes will be
promptly looked after.
But how are we to make this showing so
rs to render it entirely convincing? This
is question of much moment at present.
Mere telling about it Will not prove worth
the wind or the printers ink expended i'll
the performance. Chin music and print
er's ink are too cheap for people to set
much store by them nowadays whey they
are put into the shape of advertisements
for immigration. We must be able to show
what the region we propose settling is cap
able of doing for the settler not merely by
products of the region fresh and fine, just
from the vine,'' but by products on the
vine and the roots IF the vine still in the
soil. In a word, there must be nucleus to
build upon, and, as in the case of many re-
gions in new countries where there is COM
paratively little settlement SO far, that nu-
cieqs will have to be largely the work of
the townspeople. They will have to start
the bail rolling by some means or. other,
but once fairly startled all subsequent set
Ting up will &c thing easy enough. The
l,n nm