Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-06-01
A RICH TERRITORY.
AWAITING THE MIDAS TOUCH OF
CAPITAL TO BLOSSOM
And Bloom as Garden Of ROses-A Field
Tor Good Investment Rich Domain
Cut on From Progression.


NelascO, Tex. May ~ lN'b.
10 The Gaziiu.:
As tile Gazette has on several occn -ions
sent capital aud investors TO South Texas,
and as all Of the latter IN this section
seem Interested in lnrbor making city
building or fruit farm development, II
has been proposed. by some Of that pa
pcrs friends who have an abidiug faith
in its ability to interest investors who
have money. to petition its attention Ia u
project that WILL II carried 0ut, bring
vast relief to the agliculturists, siockmen
and timber owners who inhnhit over a
million acres Of very fertile and fur
from fully DEVELOPED country.
This is canal between the Brazos
and San bcrhu'd rivers. While the
readers Of the Gazette are pretty thor.
Oughly posted regarding the former and
tile history Of all the work done anu
proposed along its course, the San Der.
nard is little known 10 the outside world
though II Is one VI the most beautiful
nayigablr streams In the South that only
needs the canal To make IL an important
commercial tnoruphiurc upon winch
would bc handled thousands Of bales of
cotton and bushels Of seed nnh corn'
aud millions of feet Of finest cedar OAK,
holly walnut and ash now cut of from
any near market.
4 knowlclge Of the country on both
bnnks of,ihe San BERNARD and west of it
into .MntngOrdu county obiiges belief that
such a canal would pay big dividends
far larger than any ever made by the
canal between the Brnzos and Galveston
bay.
The length Of canal between the two
rivers would Ice less than eleven miles
or about one quarter that Of the Calves
ton canal. There would be less than two
miles of excavation through solid earih
10 Ice done. and this would be across u
Iduiu that is not more than three feet
above tide level The rest Of the route
has been carefully surveyed by conpe-
tent engineers engaged by Farmers ON lha
san Bernard who are anxious Tor ur
canal, but who have not the money nee
cs-ary to dig it, aud who hope TO inter
est northern or western capital through
The route. after leaving this two miles
of solid land runs straight through %
chniu Of tide water lakes ana unWh
West Union creek to the Brazos In the
lakcs and creek there
is ALWAYS OVER THREE AND \
HALE FEET OF WATER
which is six inches more than the aver
ugp depth OF the Galveston canal through
which steamboats, carrying 900 to SOu
bales of cotton pass easily.
II is estimated that with small dredgc
and eight men, the work OF Siralshtrll-
ne a few hpuds aud widening some mar
row places In the creek could be done
inside Oi four months. There are hu
trees nor RATS ulcug the entire route
For over i've miles through the laHe-
there Is u uniform depth ni over SIX lee'
az thc lowest stage of tide
The mouth Of the san Bernard Is
ohstructrd 10y a tough shifting ana very
dangerous bar. The scene of wrecks every
-tthttInHz ami sluulls
nttrmpt To cross ID. and as The river ms
hardly nty current and the height of it,
| waters tsuhicrt 10 tides are pretty mucl
! tho same uil year round as far up as u
| Is nayignhlr II has hccE decided by com
| petcut engineers that irltics would d'
| little II any good aud constant dr'dslhl
| would be loo expensive.
| Now nearly all the rich sugar aud cot
| ION country along the high land never
| uycrnwcd banks oi this stream ANA owe
| uyn thirds uf NlHtugOrdH county nave Il
| haul produce thirty, forty ana hity nillr
| In wagons, and IN rainy weather are a.
most cut on from the rest OF the Wnrlu
| for the few little boats yenluresom
| enough tn cross the San Bernard bar ar
nftrn DELAYED Inside or out Of II dnrin'
| siv weeks or two months TO the grru
injury of the cnrgocs
ONCE IN THE SAN BERNARD
thcre nre no bends except gradual one
around which steamboats, al 6un bal
r,pority could steam at full speed "
rnfts sunga, Swallows, bars nor rapid
lar aver forty miles, For That distanc
thp depth Is uniformly over zen Feet IN
strrmm almost culrentlcs~, beng tlun
banks high, but not cnying IN II slngl
spot,
The 6r-i forty miles Of the san Retnnr
,,birh IL fnuiols Tor It's extremely tcrtil