Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-21


Many Eastern farmers are at Z loss to I'M
derstaud why farming is not so profitable 10
them is il was 10 their fathers. The reason
Is that in the present generation the euOr-
nous products of the fertile lands of the
West have established prices III every i'm
pori ant market of the world. The New
England aEriculturist cultIyates small
acreage, too often OF rocky and exhausted
soil His Western rival tills lands of mex
hauStible richness.
This years wheat crop Of Kansas alone
would ill $50, 900 cars containing 333 bush
els each. and these would make Il train 1900
RES long. What an instructive lesson
Rauuld that train of cars convey! Moving
u: the rate of Ordinary industrial process
slons Il would consume twenty five days of
twenty four hCurS each in passing Il given
point, 1T would reach live times from Bos-
ton 10 New York, and across the entire
length of Massachusetts would stand eight
rows deep
Blt me Eastern farmer should view for
himst 4 the shocks of wheat and the corn
and vegetables, aud fruits ripcning now in
VT quantities upon these wonderful prai-
lie and valley farms, and harvest eXcur-
sious were iuauguratcd TO enable him 10 do
- at 4 nominal cost This wear the dates
pr these excursions are August - and
September -. Greatly reduced rates may
be obtained Al Chicago and along the Atchi-
souri,. Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Indian
Territory and New MeXico-the garden
belt Of the West. For further information
apply to John J. Byrue, Cpl Rialro building.
Chicago, or George Z. Nicholson, general
passenger agent, Topeka. KAN Prairie
Farmer Of Chicago, August -, 1891.
FORT WORTH, TEX, Aug. 1e 1891
Railroad Editor Gazette.
Here is an ad ertisement of the Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe railway company
taken from the Prairie Farmer paper
that has i large circulation among farmersl.
a company that controls line from Chicago
10 Galveston.
If you can find the name of Texas" in
serted II the above I'D l will take back all l
have said and written about the Santa Fe
not working for Texas.
You will notice the company draws the
lIue on Texas Oklahoma and New Mex
ico are in it." but where is Texas2 In the
soup as usual, with this company. And
yet the officials of this line come to Texas
and give us tafy and promises without
limit and they fail to even insert the name
of the state in their advertisements, and
that, too, when Texas has been granted eX
cursion rates the same as other states
named in their advertisements.
Perhaps Mr.. J. W. Terry, the champion
and attorney for the company IN Texas,
could tell Us why this discrimination on the
part Of the company against Texas.
This Of itself. to say nothing of other
evidence of similar kind, is proof positive
that the Santa Fe is not working for
Texas. If this be true the people of Texas
should not favor this company with any
more business than they can avoid. If we
viii help those who help US, we Will soon
bring the Santa Fe and other lines like it
10 .their senses. Some weeks past l said
through the columns OF TIE GAZETTE that
the Santa Fe did not want harvest excur-
sion tickets sold TO Texas points. For this
! was charged with disappearing the
company. was correct in my statement At
tina, time and take the liberty of repeating
it a this time, and the above clipping from
the Prairie Farmer should convince
those Interested that the Santa Fe is no
friend Of Texas. Yours, etc,
JOHN HOWARD.