Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-24
WHAT TEXAS GROWS,
LONE STAR STATE EXiiBiT NON
IN CHICAGO
In Three Bright Eed Cars-Grains, Fruits
Woods stones, Minerals and
Manufactures shown

| Texas rolled into Chicago Sunday night
! on wheels. It came in three large red
| railroad coaches, which We're hauled along
| the Atchison, Topeka and Santa te tracks
| to Sixteenth streeth. There the three ears
| stood all day yesterday, binding the
| vision OF startled people who flashed by in
I passenger trains. Some time to-day the
( cars viii be dragged further into the city
/ and by tonight may be resting on the
| lake front, If StuyveSaut Fish makes no
! objection. Yesterday old Capt ". j.
! Malthy, who went into the Rio Grande
country in 1870, and for a long while com
manded troop OF the state rangers along
that ragged and reckless frontier wrapped
his arm around an ear Of corn in one of the
ears. and said: YES, sub, we raise some
/ thing in Texas now besides HI" Capt
AIaltby, after tumhling about with six
shooters on his hips for Il quarter of
century, has now settled down on one OF
the farms he owns III the Abilene country.
and IS one Of the famous and successful
agriculturistS and hOrticUlturiStS OF the
big, sprawlin@ state, The cap'n has charge
If the coaches Of the Texas car exhibit
The display is made by the Texas real
estate association, and viii be rolled around
the country Tor 4 whole YEAR
Col. W B. SIosson. director
and manager of the association. is
IN charge, and there are living with him on
the coaches: Emigration Agent r. y. Vii
kinson of the Rio Grande railway, eX-Gov-
ernOr +. B. Hubbard, who lectures on the
exhibit; w NJ Eagle, the press agent, and
w. K. Roberts, nephew and private Secva-
tary Of the governor and advertising dis
tributor. Capt. Maltbv Is likewise on the
red train, and also al! over Ii.
SOMETHING OF EVERYTHING.
There IS everything in those cars. There
are products from the Texas plains and the
Texas penitcntiarics from the Texas fields
md f,,arF ba
GuctS are of this years growth, and Contairr-
specimens OF corn, cotton, wheat, oats, rye.
barley, walnut white and red oak,
bois arc, whatever that IS; cedar. gum.
dogwood, ash, holly, persimmon, plum.
pine, maple, Water-live-Oa6, white hickory
and slippery elm wood. Then there
are gray granite, sandstone and lime
stone. hydraulic limestone, fire clay.
Ignite, vegetable mari, red and yellow
OChre, brown laminatc, brown hematite,
coal brick and vitrifed or paving brick;
iron ore, from 40 to 81 per cent: mill iron
silver gray. notified and car wheels. There
are also articles representing the manu-
facture Of leather and blankets, all the
grades of cotton goods, flour, packing and
canning house products. And right
beside these ranged along through the cars,
are apples. peaches, pears, plums, grapes.
ounces, beans, tomatoes, Okra, onions.
peppers, bananas. oranges, lemons, Gu
by has 4 muSkmelOn, raised on his
his farm, which is three feet long, and he
doesn't brag over il either He has il
sealed in jar now. 1t was growing when
he started, but it grew so fast and fur-
Ously that the people On the car couldn't
breathe. The cap'n also had some growing
grapes when the train left Galveston three
weeks ago, but in coming out of Lincoln,
IL, the other day the colonel left the door
open. the vines ran out wrapped them
selves about the telegraph wires. and dur
ing the electric shock which the inhabitants
of the car received, the vines grew soI
swiftly that they dragged the train back
into Springfield.
These hyah yeahs of GAVIN said Capt
Maltby yesterday, slapping 4 big fat jar in
one of the cars, were raised by me, sub
down on my fahm in the Abilene country
this spring. The first plat of SIX acres was
planted March -, the second plat of six
acres was planted April l; the third of SIX
acres. April Is: the fourth of six acres Nav
/; and the fifth OF. four acres, May d. !
Theah's nine varieties OF large field
cawn in that jan, sub, and l consider
It the finest exhibit of carn
evan made. / didn't raise it for an exhibit,
but JUS to keep up succession of roastin'
yeahs.. The groynA was sod land, and
wasn't croSs-broke neithah, sur. 1t never
was plowed but twice, and then with an
of Gavin, suh,' continued the captain, tax
ing down jar with roasting-ear in 1t that
looked like a squash, lis the largest yeah
OF Gavin in the world. I raised tha5I
myself, sub, and originated it. That
sort of Gavin in Texas is known as the
Maltby Gavin. or the Abilene country
nubbin. This yeah has thirty perfect rows
on it, and the grains are more than three
quarters of an inch long. That's only sec
ond year Gavin, sub, and ordinary Gavin
only has about eighteen rows 10 the yeah.
Then these are only nubbins." The cap
tain plays with kernels of corn that might
make a set of false teeth for a horse.
These are just few features of the ex-
hibit with which these men are inviting
the people from the Northwest TO Texas.
NEW IDEAS OF TEXAS
\ stuffed tarpon, the largest game fish in
the world, stares 1T the visitors from the
door, This one is five feet eight inches
long and weighs 10 pounds. This. too. is
the largest tarpon ever caught that any
body knows OF. 1t was hooked at Arkansas
Pass, near ROckport. Then there is a
pretty table Of inlaid woods, exquisite in
its workmanship, and containing twenty
nine native Texas woods. Ii was made ov
a convict in the penitentiary, and contains
lis. $50 pieces of wood.
The wildly painted cars are strung with |
notices. Some of them say: 1
Fifty dollars fine and Imprisonment for
carrying concealed weapons in Texas
One sheep ranch in Texas larger than tho |
state of Rhode Island
No card playing in Texas.
Taxes in Texas 20 cents on the 500
If reciprocity has thousands fnl. NaSSa-