Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-01
NOBLE CROPS.
The Territory About Terrell is Boundless
Grain Field and Such Prospects were
Never Heard of in the History
of Texas.

TERRELL. TEX. May 3O.-We are asked
what Is II this community needs most. We
say emphatically, farmers; those who will
work small farms and work them well. IN
fact that is the need OF all other things.
Small farmers can get land from $40 to $50
per acre. owing TO quality and location, raw
or IN cultivation, sandy, raw hide, buck
| shot, black sandy or black waXy. with or
without wood, with or without water, but
| everywhere good school for several
months during the year free of charge.
/ Splendid society can be secured.
| We have good schools. good churches,
| good preachers, good physicians, good cat
| tie and horses and can raise a diversified
| crop Cotton Is the principal product, but
| a farmer can raise what he wants, and the
l. ost successful farmers here are those who
| attend strictly TO business, cultivate well
| and raise variety crops, SO as not to be
| dependent on any one production.
| Arrangements will be made 10 settle a
| good size settlement close together if nee
| essary. For instance, if twenty or thirty
young men with families can be secured
| from the same section who would like to be
| close nelghborS. we would endeaVCr to Sc
| cure them small farms i'll size from tweHtg
TO one hundred acres on terms that.ssedld
| enable them to pay for thei4s1Nsffes with
the produce of their fayss and especially
| so when there iS>ehe advance payment
HoweveI.jsSee better all around when the
laNfseah be paid for In cash. This, how
| ever, cannot always be done.
Do you ask why we devote so much space
inviting the small farmer TO this county,
We answer that is u matter of our own.
We want that class and are going to get
them. If other sections want dudes, growl-
erS, professional do-nOthings, pensioners
upon honest toilers and snipe-legged scape-
graces, just send in your requisition and
this community will endeavor to ship you
an invoice of all we have on hand.
We are trying to build up our community,
the section surrounding Terrell, knowing
| that when this is done, the city will grow
and prosper involuntarily. We know this
cannot be done by importing the scrapings
from elsewhere, for they do not even make
good scavengerS, but stick like testers and
hyblOwS 10 any good community.
Yes. we want manufactures, we want
them bad enough. too, but want only tacto-
ries and enterprises as will be profita bic
and produce employment and wealth. aid in
development of city and county in a healthy,
permanent way. We may be selfish along
this line. but our selfshness is for the good
of Terrell and those who live here or even
visit our people.
As crops will soon be gathered we are be-
ginning to look for a good invoice of the
10000 small farmers from the Southern and
Western states. We are not afraid of in
spend enough time to see the country as it
is and rely upon common sense Judgment
They VIII see i'll our midst as they do
everywhere now and then, a worthless, ill
dOlent farmer. whose ambition has been
covered up out of sight by laziness and
thrift!essnesS, and occasionally stumble
over the agtag and bob-tail growler. whose
aim in life is unknown even 10 himself or
anybody else, if he has any. But there are
lots of good people here, larger per cent to
the population than you will ind in most
commun ties. This assertion is made with
the knowledge that expectation that people
viii investigate. That is what we want,
and We are prepared TO show our assertions
will pan out all right.
The health OF this section is splendid,
|s3ssBaeSbeing no large streams of water,
owing to the high altitude. The main water
supply for stock is secured by tanks, or
ponds during the winter. The county is
rolling sufficiently for excellent drainage
Water for drinking purposes is secured by
wells or cistelns i'll good quality and guam
tity. There are portions where the water
is bad, and those who want Dad water can
be supplied. The same can be said in re-
gard 10 soil. All kinds of soil except that
there are o. rocks, This immediate section
is almost entirely destitute of rocks, at
least any way near the surface.
We need the best element of farmers.
We have room for them, we propose to
secure them and that in an honorable way.