Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-11-24
TEXAS LETTER.


End, and patches OF Jack Frost was
seen by few of US but the tenderest
vegetation is not bit or injured; gar.
den truck is growing nicely and some
hay still to make. l visited Houston
last week and was astonished TO see
the vast amount of pears at the fruit
stands for sale, plenty of them from
twelve to fifteen inches in circumler
ence, and looked like young squash
they were so large, Those pears grew
i'll this coast country at Alvin, Hitch.
cock, Pearland aud numerous other
places where orchards have been start
ed in the last ten or twelve years; they
are large, smooth, nice and delicious to
the taste.
Since the yellow fever scare has
blown over parties hre coming here
from the northern States to buy homes;
two families have sold out here and
left, one to his old home in Missouri
the other one sold his forty acre farm
here and $50 acres in Dallas County
and bought 1000 acres in Liberty
County some forty or fifty miles east
of here. | send clipping from Angle
ton Times, which shows what the
Grand Army is doing in the wav of
getting homes for the old soldiers.
have never visited Matsgorda County
but often heard it spoken of as the
finest and most productive County in
the State.
Bay City, Tex, Oct 27.-The most
important real estate deal that has
perhaps ever been made in the coast
country has recently been closed by
Col. A. H. Pierce, when he sold one of
his pastures of 1900 acres 10 the south
western portion of Matagorda County
and fronting on Trespalocious Bay. to
Grani Army OF the Republic syndi
cate, composed of the most prominent
Grand Army of the Republic leaders of
the nation, for colonization purposes.
The fact of these Grand Army of the
Republic leaders selecting this tract of
land proves that the northern people
are still coming coastward and that
they have not been frightened away
by the yellow fever" scare. The tide
of immigration is turned this way.
The following extract from an article
in the Cedar Rapids Iowa Gazette, of
October 8, 1897, explains everything
fully:
August 81, 1897, i, destined to be
come historic doy. On that date
there .,,2t in Milwaukee representa-
I ne sugar cane. a,,a;eIo no came together
,recV a large dlsp'ors-9n'a n an asso-
ARE alcohol fro or its object the pro.
m6.iu1-o sne welfare of the old SOL
diers and their friends. To secure this
it was decided to seek home in a eli
mate of less rigor than that of the
northern States. Matagorda County,
Texas, was chosen as the site. By
unanimous opinion of the best judges
Matagorda is considered to be one Of
the very best ties in the State.
And one of the best portions OF that
excellent county, consisting Of $4,000
acres, with about seven miles of water
front on beautiful Trespalacios Bay,
an arm of Matagorda Bay, has been
secured. and with it options on sur
rounding tracts should thev, as many
believe they will. be required. On that
tract, from November will be located
city and provisions made for thou
sands of fine suburban homes on tracts
ranging from one to forty acres. The
site for the city is one of great natural
beauty, with good water transporta
tion and as fine harbor as can be
found on the coast. 1t is the sweetest
climate within our national limits. The
soil is exuberantly productive. Fish,
oysters and game abound. Fruits,
vegetables and flowers are at their best
during the winter months. Sixty to
eighty bushels of corn, the same of
oats. one to one ard half bales of
cotton and twenty Eve to thirty five
tons sugar cane per acre are ordinary
averages, and this past season man
cleared 5000 from single acre of Ha.
vana leaf Tobacco, which Cuban refu
gees have shown grows in same perfec
ton there as upon the war distracted
island. And we have 1000 acres that
have been examined by experts. who
say it is identical with the best Cuban
plantations. The health IL the very
best from natural causes. The atmos
ohere is thoroughly sterilizsd by a
thousand miles passage over the salt
water of the gulf. Malaria can not de
velop In such an atmosphere. DR..
Cline of the United States board OF
health finds the mortality from pulmo-
nary affections less than one half the
worlds average. Diseases of the nerv'
Gus and digestive sys tems, cardiac and
rheumatic troubles, all diseases dimin'
ish in number and severity with an
approach to this portion of the gulf.
Among the men at the head of this
enterprise may be mentioned Gen A,
G.. Weissert, Milwaukee, past com
msnder in chief OF the Grand Army oi
the Pepublic, president; General R. N
Adams, Minneapolis, vice president
General Paul Vandervoort, Omaha
general manager; Rev. ]. s. Sheriff.
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