The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-06-16
COAST COUNTRY OF TEXAS.
Some Very Interesting Facts Given
nv w. ID. SlosAOn.


Learn Of the genial climate. Vegetables
every mouth In the year ana strawberries
in February A health resort. death rate lOlh
10 the thousand only Pure artesian water.
Rainfall A. TO go Inches a year. well dstrlb-
uted No drouths or billiards..
The cheapest freight rates. and In couse-
Quence tine largest profits to farmers and
fruit covers known on the continent. Deep
water at Houston and Galveston now OBJ
tanned hy the government The whole North
west now shipping this way. All the tfults
and vegetables raised here. TheY reach me
markets two days earlier and at one-thrd the
ltight than from California, The stock busl-
ness pays Cattle live hero all the year Wiz
out being fed. Free range. We are closest
to the cuban aud South American markets.
The Nicaragua canal now TO be built will as
srredly increase our markets, advance our
lFuds and build M our cities Gnd ports. We
have now here the only cheap. good lands In
America "Out West" Is Como. Come 10 the
coast country and raise corn. cotton, oats,
barley rye, tobacco, sugar ane, hay and all
the cereals. also pears figs peaches pluns'
straw berries. apples grapes, aprlcots. pecans
and an the small fruits. Raise two crops n
wear Where fresh fish and oysters are pleh-
ufui. lumber one-halt and taxes one-hfth you
new payt where FREQ schools are supporter
by the prncely state school fund Chean
land for your home on best OF terms Is no"
offered YOU
The above are some OF the terse truths
one OF our live real estate men, W. b.
slosson. sends out to his numerous GUS
toners. He sends to The Post some veria-
cations Of his statements made to a Post
reporter less than a month ago by cab
met officer. Hon. James Wilson, secretary
OF agriculture, who visited the coast coun-
try from Washington, d. c. Says this
eminent government officer
The coast country is immense Mr..
Wilson replied. THAT expresses it in a
word 1t Is simply immense But most
singular development appears here You
are preparing to handle the products OF
several States back of YOU and yet, with
in an hours ride YOU have thousands Of
acres of the finest land in the world-land
that will raise anything-un un-
used for sale at $l5 per acre. l have never
encountered such a condition anywhere
else, for. as rule lands in the suburbs
of the great cities are worth $3.50 to $500
an acre. Why It is so | do not know but
it is so Within the past few years few
people have taken advantage of this op-
portunity. They have bought lands In this
coast country, and they are making money,
lots of It,"
He says further regarding Northern
money and people coming here: The
States back OF Texas have been developed
The people have made money. and there
are millions OF dollars LAYING idle in the
banks. This money Will seek investment.
opportunity to buy your splendid lands
cheap and they will develop them Texas
is a splendid State--a great empire II has
started upon an era OF development and
progress You know 1t has been said that
during the late war the people Of the
United States have discovered themselves;
they begin to appreciate what they have
THE FINEST IN THE WORLD.
81 think that 1t IS one of the finest
countries in the world, and the more see
OF it, the more think So talked to the
people awhile at Alvin. saw some Iowa
friends there. can't understand how It
is that such growing cities as Houston and
Galveston can have such fine prairie be-
tween them. and so much OF It untitled We
want the people to get in on that and
bring It into cultivation
My friends. this is wonderful coun-
try said he 1T seems TO me YOU can
raise anything here Your soil is as good
as our soil in Iowa. II was a Young
man ia pack my grip and come to Texas.
The conditions, and the prospects for de-
velopment are such that | could not af-
ford TO remain away.
"Yes. the trip has been wonderfully
beneficial to me. know more about Texas