Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-06-05

circumstances but their excess In ~ o.
duction under favorable SURROUNDINGS
does not reach any great amount u
favorable seasons. and il is conceded
by most people in Texas that Dnfa-
vorable seasons are more numerous
than favorable ones, the great advgn-
tages of hin county over most either
| counties In the state becomes yery
apparent TO even the dun OF cbserva-
ton.
The character OF crops and the nbil-
| ity of the farmer to raise anything he
chooses is one Of Hill cou l.y'a strong
holds on the people who make up the
! population. No county in Texas ca
surpass this county when 1t comes 10
diversity OF crops Farm lands com
mand good standing rect n. MI times
! aud there are not enough. Within the
last few years great deal. IN fhct,
most all of the prairie lands In this
| county have been soddcd ard ti,ls very
| spring are covered with fine crop OF
either corn, oats, wheat or cotton. Only
| a few years ago one in noinr 10
| Waco, Hubbard City, Whitney, Mil
/ ford or Itasca had to find their way
from the course on tho broad pranies
| without hardly trail to direct their
steps, but today there Is hardly an
! inch of the distance IN this county
| that is not closed in on botr sides
by fences, and 1t is one continuous
lane from the city limits to the very
towns named. The county at that time
| could boast OF some u the LARGEST
| pastures In Central Texas, but TO-DAY
| hardly pasture IL OF enough s,se in
/ the whole county to attract attention
| All of these large pastures have been
\ cut up into smaller )nes, and raanv
OF these smaller ones are low Won i'm
| proved small farms, with coed DWELL
| ings and much better barns ana out
houses than used to be known to ,rex-
ans at all. If rapidly i.n easing
population means anything hin county
| VIII soon be head and III lldcrs above
| all or her sister counties. Th,rc is an
other favorable feature about Hill
| county and that is the fact thas lean
| companies own about as small a pro-
portion Of 1t as any county in the STATE.
Notwithstanding the exec sdingly cicse
| condition Of money matters Cor tho
| past few years This financial depres-
sion has not hurt the people of this
| county anything like as much hs Some
other sections of the country, heCpuse
the farmers are producing at home
SO much greater per cent. Of al their
necessities than their nelyhbors. ard
than they used to do themselves
AS stock country. that Is fine stock.
Hin county can hardly be surpassed.
ana the interest among farmers and
| stock raisers is growing all the while.
The demand for good stations and
jacks for the past few years has been
fun Of them. and such class. too. as
county In any OF the older states
would not be ashamed OF them For
the last year the demand for fine and
good sized mares has grown to such an
extent that about five car loads of them
have been sold here since last fall, and
there are lot more here now to be
sold. Fine hogs are shipped to His
boro every week In the year. and tho
demand for them seems to have no end.
Fine cattle are always in good demand
here and are readily sold at good prices
for cash. At the race track, a kite
shaped track belonging to the HlU
County Fair association. there are nu-
merous Hin county horses and other
fine stock being put in condition for
the spring and fall contests. As for the
city Itself there Is not a town in Texas
today that can boast of the number
of new residents and finest business
buildings that Hillsboro can, and vet
the people cry, some OF them, hard
times" There are those In every COM
munlty who do great deal of unneces-
sary complaining about everything, one
day ut rains too much" and the very
next day "it Is too dry for anything"
But Hillsboro with It's magnificent new
business blocks and a world OF new
dwelling houses Is quietly going for
ward, and hardly a man or woman can
yet there is not boom on yet-noth-
ink like boom at all. Not even tho
people of Hlllsboro are aware of the
proportions reached by the city, and of
course the outside world does not know
1t. Property has advanced rapidly in
the last two years, and many say It is
too high now. but 1t is well known
fact that these same people did say
months ago the same thing, and some
OF them said the same thing ten years |
ago, when lots that sell readily now for |
$1,000 to $500 could be had for from
$40 TO $50, one man said the other day:
II know that that property can never |
go any higher, for II sold last week for |
5000 more than ii was worth" 1t will |
be interesting TO some to know that |
this same property was lot out Of a |
piece Of ground east OF the square that !
was offered to this man ten years ago |
at $40 per acre, when he said the same |
thing about It's being then entirely too
high. This growth has all come about
py natural demand for rooms for bust !
ness and dwellings for people to live
in, and they are. or about all OF them
occupied. A vacant house can be found
sometimes, but ON inquiry IL will be
learned that II has only been vacant
Gay or so, or week or So and II the
last named time is correct, YOU will
see by inspection that the accommodate
t'Nte Hhout VIC MUSE are very poor |
indeed, or that 1t Is rented, but the
parties not ready to move Just vet.
Now there is a good prospect of the
Missouri. Kansas and Texas railway
putting in at this place considerable
improvements in the way of yard ex-
tensions, round houses and division
shops, II not more extensive ones, and
when the work begins there will prob
ably be something of a boom for a
while. as the location of the proposed
railroad improvements here TO cost as
they are from $3.50 900 to $500. 900 will add
at least 1000 to the population within
month or two from the time the work
begins Then 1t is generally under
stood that either the Cotton Belt or
Missouri, Kansas and Texas railway
VIII build to the southwest in the near
future, and there is strong probability
OF road to the southeast In the near
future also The enterprise and back
bone of IIillsboro is standing In read
mess 10 pgsh to completion either or
both OF these projects Just as soon as
an opportunity offers by which Hills
boro will he benefited.