Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-25
KN INTERESTING LETTER.
Some of the Natural Opportunities offered
tho Industrious and EnterprIsing Citi-
zen Who May Decide to pitch
lis Tent" About Terrell, Tex.

| TERRELL, Tex. Nov 24-Terrell is getting
| to the front in many things. Quietly 2rd
| apparently unseen, new corners from other
| portions of Texas and from other states are
! settling in our midst. They come without
! demonstration no noisy trumpet to herald
| their arrival; but all the same they come
| and settle down to business. 1t is an actual
| fact that men with their families come in
| so quietly that only their near neighbors
| know they are here. This is really better
| than We had expected 1t to be, but 1t Is
right, exactly right.
There are other evidences of prosperity
| one of which is the substantial improve
| ments on the farms and elsewhere. There
| are fewer dug-outS and camps, but larger
| and better dwellings, barns and fences bet
| ter cattle, horses, hogs. chickens and every
| thing else. There is general improvement
| in all lines which savors of permanence. The
| sturdy old farmers who left uS-many of
| them-are coming back to Kaufman county,
| and when they come they generally bring
| somebody with them. Before they left their
| new homes they spread abroad the news Of
the good land to which they were return
| ing, and this good news Influenced others
| to join in the grand march. 1t is fact and
| they come i'll too quietly to create 4 stir in
the neighborhood. These facts are the
more astonishing when the fact is known
| that severe drouth is on and has been on
! for months. it is fact that the ground
| has not been thoroughly wet for several
| months. Besides this, the chinch bug
| raided the corn and the boil worm SSnul0s
| dated the cotton, in some instaEaaDSevefely.
| The water has become~6D4ee, grass has
dried up, and yet Cotton and corn are
pouring ipts1g4e market in a manner to
| keepleptie spirits of the farmer. Cotton
IsSeoNds the streets, farmers get money to
| pay their debts, merchants collect their ac-
| counts, and general air of prosperity per-
| ~. Ill,
! prosperous the best Of teachers, instruc-
| ton thorough and graduates worthy the
name here or elsewhere Churches are
| prosperous, good preachers, who have their
| salaries paid: excellent church buildings,
| and great many of them. People patri-
| otto. courteous, generous, but not fond OF
| bogus enterprises; love good neighbors, but
don't take fits over every Snigglefritz that
daShes into the community with three de-
grees of impudence and brazen all over.
We have enough of that sort at home to
keep everybody posted in that line.
Farmers, the very element neces-
sary to give honor and stability
toan agricultural community, are COM
ing along right in the face of all
these apparently discouragiug circum-
stances and gradually filling up the coun-
| try,sthough thousands Of acres of land re-
main unoccupied yet. These people are
needed to help in the grand march towards
success and prosperity. There are enough
places for 10000 farmers who have small
means and want homes. No trouble about
being suited. but what the people want are
men who know how to work and will work,
are economical and honest. Such people,
we think, help to stiffen the back and beau
tify the face Of any country. We want
such. must have such, and are getting such.
Let them come on their own accord, see
what is to be seen, and then get piece of
land to suit themselves and go to work in
genuine earnest. The people here believe
Ffhat from such men spring our statesmen,
patriots and leaders in the great measures
that tend to the betterment of the race.
We wait for such at morn, at noon and
night Such people are generally able to
take care of themselves in any civilized
country, and at the same time add to the
eountry's wealth, stability and good name.
That's the class any country needs, and the
kind we are getting. Let them come,
early, late and often