Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-03
FRENCH FARM Frs.
AN EFFORT BEING MADE TO GET
THEM TO TEXAS.
What Col. Morgan Jones is Attempting
to Do-An Excellent Opportunity
for Tarrant County.

Col. Morgan Jones, president of the
Wichita Valley road, deserves credit for
the decision he has reached TO settle the
country along the Wichita Valley road
, running from Wichita Falls to Sey-
mour He has appointed NJ. c. Machet
native of France and for years citizen of
that country as immigration agent OF the
company, and the plans to be pursued are
already well under way. Mr.. Alachet was
for some time director of French Catholic
immigration TO Texas and has had
great experience in the work.
Mr.. Machet has already received the in
dorsement of Leading priests and dignita-
before he begins his work, get
the commentator of other &C.
clesiastics. He thoroughly understands
tho work and is determined To make no rep
resentation that cannot be established by Il
visitation in person of those who may be in
duced to come to Texas. His plan is to
go among his people i'll Canada,
France and Belgium and with the
written Endorsements of those OF his church
whose names have weight he will lay the
attractions of Texas and the opportunities
offered here Ill an attractive way before
his people. The Frenchmen he will bring are
those WHO consider forty acres a good sized
farm and who will till evecy acre. Only
those who have some money, enough to
support them for some time, will be
asked to emigrate. He has inspected tract
of 10000 acres of land in Archer
county, near Dundee, aud finds the
land such that he can recommend it to his
coIntrymen. The land l. such as viii suit
the French admirably. They can grow all
as other profitable crops which
they will soon learn how to raise.
The sugar beet grows finely in the
section mentioned and the French thor
oaghly understand beet culture. Mr. Davis,
the ticket agent of the company. and Mr.
Machet have been busy for several days
preparing conservative circular on this
portion of the state, and thousands of copies
of this circular printed in French will
be distributed first among the French
Canadians and then in France and Belgium.
Mr.. Nlachet says there are thousands of his
countrymen who would be glad to come TO
Texas if they understood what they could
do here. The price of the land, the terms
on which it can be bought and
all the details will be thoroughly
understood and agreed upot before the emf
grants are sought. When the first colony
is located and the members of it find that
all is just as it was represented, there will
be no trouble whatever in bringing many
others over to Texas, for those already here
can bear evidence to, the productiveness
of the soil and the certainty of not only
making living, but earning sufficient to in
few years live without hard work. Mr..
Machet carries with him letters of the
highest Endorsement from many we'll
known and prominent citizens of the state.
The Wichita Valley road will if the
plans are carried out. add thousands of
people to Archer and Baylor counties, and
people too, who will make excellent citi-
Zens.
Here is an excellent opportunity TO settle
Tarrant county. All along the Fort Worth
and Denver TO the county line and south
of the road are thousands of
acres of rich land waiting to
be touched with the pillow and hoe to yield
abundantly. 1t would take but little effort
to add 10000 people to this county in two
years. The French are frugal and industri-
Gus, and if Tarrant county can locate
numbers of them within her confines she
will soon be the best cultivated county in
this part of the state. Cannot our French
and Catholic citizens and the Chamber of
Commerce move in the NATTER