The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-01-13
SETTLE ruE COUNTRY.
How to Build Up Towns and cities
In Texas.

IN ftAbss
To the Editor Of The Post.
Houston. Texas, January Ill want to
tin my hat and extend my hand TO yon
correspondent, NJ. s S. Linn IL Alta
Iona, Texas. The thanks Of the people
Of the coast country are due TO Mr.. Linn
for his recipe Cor building up Houston
and other towns in this part CT the state
as pub lshed in TAe Post Of this date,
We may talk about building towns and
cities. but when they are built Il will be
when the country is developed, as Mr..
Linn says, by the man with che noe"
We don't have to go very far 70 see the
effects OF having the man with the hoe"
in the country. Take. for illustration
the towns of Jennings and Crowley IN
Southwest louisiana: these towns are
prosperous and growing rapidly and will
continue to grow in the future as they
have in the past just as the coun .ry tri6-
utary to those towns is settled and de-
ve.Oped by The farmer. Tnere is not a
vacant house in either of the towns
named and new houses are being put ~
from day TO day. Not only residences,
prepare rice for the market
We have many llnges and towns scat
tered along the different railroad lines
between Houston and Vtctoria, also north
Of Houston. that are surrounded by va
cant and unoceupied la1ds lands That
are just as good as The lands in the Vi
entity of jennings and Crowley La, yet
these villages don't seem to grow; they
are al q stands.iil. many Of them ne
a oh bD1 o.
If vacant llnds and scrub cattle you'd
make towns and cities tOe towns referred
to would be "humme!s." But 1t is as
Mr.. Liam says as goes the country 50
90 the towns and cities, The city OF
Houston will have double its present pop
ulAtion and wealth when the country
lying between it and Galveston and tbs
vacant lands west, north and east o
Houston arc occupied by farmers,
You can 20 TO Crowley and jennings
La, in the fall OF the year, when TIT
rice is being marketed, and you VIII ST.
PROFESSIONS Of farmers wagons loaded
with rice going to town. You will the,
see the farmers who are hauling this
rice visit the different stores, buy thell
supplies and pay cash for them This
is business and when Houston ard o,hel
towns in the coast country Of Texas nav'
swings OF farmers wagons coming tt
town ana SellluS lNelF pTuuuctb anu Duy
ing their supplies. then we will have
business just as they have In Jenning
ana Crowley; ana as we have as goOi
soil, the same climate and water, Their;
is no reason why the people OF the Texa
coast country should not develop thei
country JUS as tie people Of Southwts
Il ouisiaua have their section.
We have a good Illustration of wat
means to hsve the country settled il
Nor.h and Central Texas. There ar
good thrifty towns from ten to iifJee
and twenty miles apart aud then ther
is the city OF Dallas. Sherman, Deuison
Mckinney, Piano. Terrell Corsiesna
Temple, Bolton and many other town
and cities We can name which have
population all the way from 1000 to no. 90
and $1,000, and these towns are all grow
ing. The towns named and many other
in Central and North Texas are sur
rounded, as we all know by farmers.
To undertake to build up the towns an
cities before the country is settled an
? developed is simply a waste of time an
Disappointment is sure TO follow. O
course city like Houston and othe
) towns whose conditions are favorable 10
manufacturing should make an effort
secure factories and mills to work up tn
! raw msterial The man with the "ti
bucket'--if well pad-makes a good Gus
toner for the man with the hoe"
/ our country was developed the wise me
of the East would soon put in the fac
tories. John Howard,
IMMIGRATION Agent