Arizona weekly citizen., 1896-10-31
ARANSAS PASS.
A Force of Men to be Set to Work
 This Month.
A Letter From Col. Goodyear-Colo rado Tarpon Catchers.-Truck Farms Looking WslI.-A
 Promising Orchard
 Of Waluuts.

hihS Ol suc Afhnsds ass companies re- ceived letter from Col. Goody ear, who has undertaken to procure and maintain deep water at Aransas Pass at bis own risk. Ool. Goodyear IS just finishing up 8 government contract at the Br1ns- l wick, Ga, hsrbor, and writing from that place says in part:
 "l shall send force of men to initi- ate the work at the pass the latter part of this month or the first of next. will not be able to reach there myself until a later date, owing to the necessity for @ government survey of my work here, and getting certificate from the gov ernment."
 MT. William c. Harris, editor of the New York American Angler, is still at Tarpon, where be and his artist, Mir. Petrie, have been securing portraits of fishes for MT. Harris great work, "The Game Fishes of North America" The Express correspondent has just received letter from Mir. Harris, ln which he saye.
 My visit here has been a delightful one in angling experience and in health getting, so much so that intend to stay two or three weeks longer, sending MT. Petrle, the artist, home via Rockport to- morrow. My health was somewhat shaken when returned from the Cata- lima waters. but the ozonic southeast trade breeze of this spot has toned me up wonderfully. l sm getting fat, not withstsnding the hard work of bressting the breakers, which 1 do almost daily, when surf fishing for channel bass or redfish, as they are called here.
 lx2~ young jewish (blsck groupers,) the tar pon. the oroaker and the reddish. I wanted the kingtish, but unfortunately they are not running, only one having been caught, and that by Mir. Sea.
 "There IS party of six gentlemen here from Denver, Col, and Chicago who have caught tsrpon galore aversg- ing about eight day for a week. I will enclose their names and score in this.
 "J. c. Sanders, Denver, Col, Il; John G. Morgan, Col, 8; s. NJ. Sutherland, Chicago, II; E. l.. Hogenb back, Chicago, 5; w. G. Sedan, Rockport, Tex, g."
 Mr. Robert Hopkins picked a second crop of figs last week. He expects to have few each week up to Christmas
 The trees are young and this is their first bearing season, next year Mr. Hon. kins expects an abundant crop. His figs are the white Adriatic, which, when dried, are the finest Smyrna figs of commerce.
 Capt. O. l.. Wilson IS highly pleased with his new sloop, the Nimrod, built at Aransas Pass. It skins over the water like bird, and answers the rudder as DO other boat he has sailed has done. It has remarkably sailing qualities. He recently sailed sailed froEI Rockport to Corpus in five hours. The boat was much admired by the Corpus people.
 The truck farms in the Portland neigh borhood are in excellent condition. Mir. Willacy made his first picking of fall cu- cum bers for market last Tuesday. He has forty acres of fall beans almost ready for market.
 Julius Hoffman of this place is pick ing fall crop of watermelons. He is 8 pretty active man considering that a little over a week ago, while on top of bis windmill tower, thirty five feet high. the tower fell, throwing MT. Hoffman against bis truck farm with thud that jarred the whole neighborhood.
 A. Hay, of this place has as mall grove of the Welton wslnuts in a very four ishing condition. He applied to MT. Welton of San Antonio for some of these valuable trees in the spring of 1895. Of those he received but one died, the rest of them making a growth beyond ex- pectations.
 Large numbers of ducks, geese, and brapt are now hocking in from the North, and soon they may be counted by the square miles on the Aransas Pass waters.
 This morning wound up rain that lasted almost two days and two nights. It was one of the steady, root-soaking variety. There was high wind yester- day afternoon and evening, and the noise of the surf on the ocean beach, six miles distant, was like thunder all night. At o'clock this evening another rain set in, and it is now pouring with every prospect..of keeping it up day or two loncer.-Sau Antonio Express,