Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-20
AN INTERESTING LETTER..
Some of the Natural Opportunities offered
the Industrious and EnterprIsing Citi-
zen Who May Decide to pitch
His Tent" About Terrell, Tex.

TERRELL, TEX, Nov. 7.-Terrell is getting
to the front in many things. Quietly and
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 it to be, but it 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
new homes they spread abroad the nsW6uGij
the good land to which they.SaEn1ea( etdfn-
ing, and this good ~oN1 z(hnuenced others
to Join in. "a march. 1t is fact and
thsDn1ell N too quietly to create a stir in
the neighborhood. These facts are the
more astonishing when the fact is known
that a severe drouth is on and has been on
for months. 1t 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 depre-
dated the cotton, in some instances severely.
The water has become scarce, grass has
dried up, and yet the cotton and corn are
pouring into the market in a manner to
keep up the spirits of the farmer. Cotton
crowds the streets, farmers get money to
pay their debts, merchants collect their &C
counts, and a general air of prosperity per-
meates the land. Then the schools are
prosperous; the best of teachers, instruc-
tion 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 Snieglefritz 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 discouraging circum-'
stances and gradually filling up the coun-
try, Though thousands of acres of land re-
main unoccupied yet. These people are
neeueu W uelp III tue Srduu uldrCl tOWdruS
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 stiifen 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 a piece of
land to suit themselves and go to work in
genuine earnest The people here believe
that 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
J country'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.