The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-06-27
What Fertile Soil Will
Produce.
Opportunities for In
vestors.
Land that Is Growing
i'm Value.

men: In reply to your inquiry in regard TO
my rice crop of last year, can sag lie
eighteen-acre piece made about eighteen
huahels per acre and sold for S425 Ny
share--three-f of the crop--from
this place sold for sl079. 4G; the entire crop
OF 2l6 acres. from this my share o. three
iourths sold for about 1880. This rice was
raised by rainfall. ] am yet on rented
iand, as Mr.. Green is the landlord, The
canal company has not built its canal TO
my land yet had my entire crop milled
at the Beaumont rice mill have 1863
acres of land as fine as there is IN The
country, and Will open 1t up next year, as
the canal can water IL then bought this
land in 1898 and paid $3.50, S375 and "a
for II, and since that offered Jos. Brous-
sara S1O per acre for one section joining
mine. but he said 1t would sell for S15 Ny
land is twelve miles from the bayou /
don't know as to what the parties knew a.
the canal, but knew of It when bought
that Is, ] knew the prospects we're good
Tor canal being built. Yours respectfully
George II Fist.
state Of Texas, County of Jefferson
Before me, notary public on this day
personally appeared George II. East.
known TO me to be the person whose name
Is subscribed to the foregoing letter e. d
acknowledged under oath, that the same is
H..
ness my hand and seal of office this 18th
day OF June, A. d. 1899.
VIM. G. Trealway.
Notary Public, Jefferson County. exas.
Under date of June 10, 1899, we are in
receipt of letter from Green & Stengle
of Beaumont. Texas, which says that they
rented go acres and which was cultivated
In rice, and that they received one fourth
Oh the crop from the 275 acres as land rent
ana that the same was sold for S2072 80
Whlch is over $1,000 an acre, and II fig
ured at 10 per cent interest upon the in
Vestment Will give a valuation to the land
OF $1Ob an acre. AT the present time, how
ever, lands can be purchased along the
lines OF the canals in Southeast Texas that
are being constructed and that are to be
constructed and improved and put in a
iirsl- class state OF cultivation for less than
40 an acre and with the same income as
inquired above will show % per cent on the
investment.
We would give other statements cor
roDoratlng those already given herein, but
| deem 1t unnecessary, as the parties here
referred to are responsible and can be COM
muncated with II any person so desires
some OF the canals are independent COM
panies and are operated exclusively for the
lolls received from the planter in furnish
ing water to flood the fields with and these
canals show earnings varying from 20 TO
10 per cent on the investment. | heard n
reliable party say that he knew of a rice
mill In Louisiana lasg year that paid for
itself In four months, and this statement
IS made TO show, as previously stated
herein, that this crop is profitable from
the tenant to the miller.
The methods of rice culture are Identical
| WIN that or wheat, except that rice must
be supplied with water during its growing
season and after ii is ripe the water is let
| On and is cut with self binders and
'hreshed the same as wheat or other small
| grain One hundred acres is considered n
crop for hand. therefore 1t will require
out little figuring to see that this is one
| az the most profitable crops grown in
| America, There will be about 20 900 acres
| planted in rice in Southeast Texas this
year, and there has been enough land sold
ana companies organized to increase the
| acreage next year to between sixty asd
seventy thousand acres, The greater part
| OF the investments that have so far been
made Is by Northern capital, as these neo-
pie will take the pains and trouble to
| investigate the matter whereas our own
| Texas people do not take hold as they
| should do and are luoslng chances that vii,
some day bring regret. What is true of
J The Texas people was also the case in the
earlier stages of the rice development in
| southwest Louisiana as the capital thai
gave to this crop the impetus that nlacad
it whore It Is today was principally North
ern men and money. led on and enoour-
| aged by the enterprising and wide-awake
hfm OF w. W. Duson & Bro, OF Crowley,
| La.
The putting In of this extensive rice
acreage In Southeast Texas is another i'm
portant step toward crop dIversifcation In
mis- state and offers to the cotton tenants
a good chance of getting into an Industry
mat VIII pay them well for their labor il
lhey VIII only take the trouble to give this
crop little consideration and learn that
mere is money In it, whereas In cotton
they have had barely living.
w. c. Moore.