The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-04-03
Over Ose Hundred Couatics Repre-
scented BY Commissioned Gibbs
EVERYTHING KNOWN CAN BE GROWN
The Great variety Of Soil offered
10 one who Purchases Texas
Railroad Lands.

ed Tor the cultivation OF rice than tue are
embraced by Jefferson and Chamber
countless 1hose two counties are In TIL
extreme southeastern portion OF the State
/ fronting on the Gulf of Mexico.
, The surface OF the country In the twt
}, counties named liz slightly undulating tabl!
prairie, quito rolling near tho streams The
bayous are skirtcd by growths OF pine.
} hickory, oak, cypress. and gum OF good
size. The soil is a deep. rich black sandy
loan. iindcrlaId with clay. Rice is the
great cereal OF the State OF Louisiana. II
can be cultivated and harvested In almost
the same manner as wheat. using Similar
machinery. The only difference In rice
and wheat culture is In flooding the fields
with water at the proper time for rice.
which can very easily be done in Jefferson
and Chambers counties.
Some OF the advantages OF rice culture
over wheat are: ~ The long period during
which the ground can DO prepared and the
| grain sowl. Preparations can DO carli d
| on from October until June, sowing from
| March until July. and harvesting extends
| over period OF nearly tour months, from
| August TO November, inclusive; W the
greater value OF the product: (3) the yield
per acre, which Is from eight to twenty
barrels of l52 pounds each.
Tho prices OF rice range from 50 to "a
per barrel. great deal Of money cum
De made IN few years In rice cultivation.
The lands OF Jefferson and Chambers
counties are not alone good for rice but
most farm crops thrive there--cottou,
corn, Irish potatoes, cabbage and onions
doing particularly we'll,
Liberty county, which is TO the north or
Chambers. and to the west of Jefferson. Ia
well watered. the Trinity river traversirg
the center OF the county IRON north 10
south. and being navlgable to Galveston
and Houston at all seasons of tho year,
Liberty has some of the lines. iarm.ng
lands OF the State. in addition to Gotten.
corn, rice and sugar cane all the fruits
and vegetables can be grown the u
The rice cultivation viii play prcinI-
nent part In Liberty county us vel, as In
Chambers and Jefferson, This industry
Is now In Its infancy In Texas. bu; the
farmers. realizing that some val iabe Gro,
must take, 10 some extent, the place of
cotton, which hitherto JAS been laised ia
100 great abundance, are turning their at
tention TO rice culture with mucn faeci
mere are so many crops To which the
coast country lands are adapted that a
Farmer has 10 stop and consider which ne
will select for his largest holding. la
Waller county. in Fort Bend county, III
Wharton county and in Harris Guuh,y, not
only cotton and corn thrive, hat wtter-
melons, pears, peaches. plums h;s. sl,sw-
berries, raspberries blackbe..iss ounces
grapes tomatoes, cabbagcs, turnips, heets,
onions, parsnips. lettuce radishes and al
most all tho other vegetables q ow In
abundance. These lands do nos relLne il
rigation, the average rainfall, forty 1--WE
Inches year being well distrls unl Err
tilizers are not necessary, the soil berg
rich and deep Some of the fruit lands
In tho coast country are paying 5000 to
NOO per aero net year. While the fruit
trees are growing. n farmer can put In
Strawberries in October or November. ana
sell HIS matured crop In the following Feb
ruary or March, and he can raise Age.
tables in the rows between The fruit ir@te.
Ono thing that should not be forgotten
by a homeseoksr IL that in the coast ctnn-
try you can plant vegetables VIII lin ninety
days from the day the prairie sol IS broken
and can raise two or three crops 4 yrar.
G. C. Gibbs, land commissioner OF the
lands originally granted to the Houston
and Texas Central, Galveston, Harrisburg
and San Antonio. Texas and New Orleans
and the Gulf, Western Texas and Pacific
Railway companies has lands in lga diff
ferent counties of Texas The homese eker
who can not find among the vast variety
OF soils and climates Mr., Gibbs has on his
bargain counter a place to suit him must
indeed be hard TO please. The lands
which MIR. Gibbs cowros are spread OUT
all over the state. He has some in what
Is called the wheat regou"-tha norton
OF Northern Texas lying north OF the
Texas and Pacific railroad and the Brazos
river and between the 9hM aud 100 degrees
OF longitude; he has some In Eastern
Texas that great timber belt that supplies
the saw mills of Beaumont and Orange
with countless millions OF feet Of yellow
n tnn and ~. ~ a
Texas-that region between the Trinity
and the Colorado AMI north of tho coast
lands. and In which the major portion of
the cotton crop OF tho State is raised III,
has some In Western Texas--that great
territory between the Colorado and the
Nueces, extending westward to the l'ecos.
whore wool growing and cattle grazing
rcign supreme; he has some in South.
western TcSas-that portion OF the state
lying between the Nuaces aud the Rio
Grande. one OF the principal stock raising
sections OF the Empire State, but one
which contains many fine strips of agrl-
cultural lands which win some day n,
brought Into cultivation. he has some in
the Pan Handler-.thv portion OF the STATE
north OF the 32d parallel OF latitude and
west OF tho Tooth meridian of longitude.
80 long great cattle range but now com |
ing under tho sway OF 'the man with the |
noe. ne mas some In this coast country
Gulf Of Mexico fifty TO eighty miles Inland
and containing some Of the most fertile
lands on the globe suitable for any cron |,
IRON sugar down or ny to garden truck,
he has some In the valley OF tho pecos |
where Irritation has wrought n marvellous |
change. transforming what was once 4 !
barren waste into ny fertile and rich q se,- |
tion as the most productive portion ~ CAL |
ifornia, md on whirh the Same class NJ
exceptional fruit crops can be grown. The /
soils Of thee lands run the gamut OF M. |
ritty and richness There arc all kinds
81 climates. From the prairles swept Nv !
the ocean brcescs through all the rhanpss
to the hills IN the Northwest. which tower /,
$500 feet above the sea level tho homo. !
seeker has hts choice, Hut it Is NOT only I
In agriculture and IN climate the Rams.
seeker has variety. Tho State IA rich an !
minerals, Vast veins d eoal unacslie the
ground In dozens OF counties, iron anounds I
w Eastern and Northwestern Texas, can.
per is plentiful in nearly dozen counties;
sivsr anu gold are found in the hills.
while salt aud many mineral deposits are
mined In various places. Mountains Of I
marble ana granite. inexhaustlblc IN az |
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