Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-09-08

on" nave aifehuy oeen purcnased. On6
near Rosenberg, Fort Bend County, one
at Brookshire, Waller County, and one
at Thomson, Harris, County. Rosen.
berg is thirty six miles west Of Hous.
ton on the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe
and Southern Pacific Railroad. Brook.
shire is about thirty Eve miles west Of
Houston on the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas and only nine miles west of
Sealy, on the Gulf, Colorado and Santa
Fe, and Thomson is eighteen miles
northwest of Houston on the Houston
and Texas Central Railway.
Near Rosenberg they have secured a
large tract Of fine black hog wallow
land, very rich, with timber and water
on each 100 acres. This was bought for
$40 an acre. At Brookshire the soil is
a dark, candy loan and raises all the
fruits and vegetables as well as corn,
cotton, etc.; and is near the Brazos
River. Here they have secured $500
acres of good land, ranging in price
from "a 80 to SO an acre, on favorable
terms, and a small colony Of their peo-
pie are at Katy, five miles east of
Brookshire.
At Thomson, eighteen miles east of
Houston, on the Houston and Texas
Central, they have secured II, $50 acres
Of dark, sandy loan land. where fine
crops are now growing, at from "a so
to IS so per acre. Thomson is a new
station, with a good railroad and
county graded road direct from Hous.
ton, which is expected to be macadam-
lied this year, 80 that fruit growers
and gardeners can drive to Houston, a
city Of 68. 900 inhabitants, and back in
half a day.
At all these places good water is OBJ.
tanned at from sixteen to thirty five
feet on most Of the lands and near suf.
fcient timber for wood and posts.
Ten miles from Rosenberg they get
the best cedar posts THAT last fifty
years. by paying one cent a post for
the timber and cutting them them
selves.
AT all these places they can raise a
crop on the sod in many cases that
Will pay for the land the first year. The
agent who is getting up this movement
says: This movement means much
for Texas, for no people on earth have
a better record as thrifty, honest, hard
working men and women. They have
in the last twenty five years made a
garden spot out of a desert in Central
Kansas and other parts of the West.
The address of their committee to their
brethren of the North Is q clear, con.
else, clean cut statement of some of
the advantages of this country and is
not at all o%verdrawn, showing that
they are conservative, The agent
says. have learned to re.
spect and honor this people for what /
have seen and heard in their midst du.
ing the last six months. If consistency
is a jewel, they certainly exemplify it
in their daily life. Religion and the
church are first in every thought and
action. The meeting at Lehigh, Kan,
they met to discuss this removal
to Texas, was opened by singing and
prayer, and during the last ten days
while we have been together looking
over the lands selected, no meal at no.
tel, restaurant or lunch counter was
commenced until all were present, all
had arisen and with folded hands and
bowed heads said and listened to a
grateful prayer by a preacher or lay.
This people never contract a
debt they can not pay, never 20 to law,
DO not hold office, seldom vote at cleo.
tons nor serve in the army or militia
the State. They have no paupers
among them, and when once their
is given no further contract is re.
CURED. When they meet each other
they salute the men with a kiss and the
women with a shake of the hand. Their
religion is Protestant, and we had in
our delegation four preachers OF as
many different denominations divided
as are our churches by different forms
Oh baptism and church ordinances.n.
IL is said by those who think they
that there will be a heavy tide Of
emigration to the coas country of
Texas this coming fall and winter.
them come. There is millions of
acres only waiting to be brought under
by "the hand that holds
the plow." Let those who anticipate
locating in the coast country like the
make up a colony and
prepare to buy at least a section OF
land, thereby getting it cheaper, be.
sides you will not be cast wholly among
strangers, having a few families of
,our old acquaintance for associates.
Houston is getting rid of some of it's
dogs by asphyxiation. They have a
lot in which every dog captured is put.
IL no owner calls for him 10 so many
days he lie put in a tight room and
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killed by charcoal and birthstone in
the room. 1t is said 10 be a painless
death. Two weeks ago they had killed
over three hundred. If the owner calls
for his dog, he gets him for 81, or any
one a buy one for the same price. 1t
is a good place for Mexicans to 70 to