The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-01-02
WHAT /, AND G.N. Will DO
WILL TRY TO BREAK ITS RECORD OF
PAST YEAR
IN the Way OF Promoting Truck and Fruit
Growina--Fat Hogs Also
Desioeratum.

Palestine, Texas, December 31.--Mr d.
j. Price, the general passenger aud ticket
agent OF the International aud Great
Northern, and through whose department
50 nuch work has been done along tie
divcrsincaton line and Development OF the
International and Great Northern country,
said today in answer to request by
Inc lost representative 70 give BRIEF
resume Of the work done by the Interna.
tiOual ana Great Northern along these
lines during the year just past.
"Aloug diycrsiucation lines, the country
contiguous to tue International aud Great
Northern railroad Is doubtless more THOR
oughly ana EFFECTIVELY ofgan.zcd at pres.
cnt tnan upon any line, or IN any potion
OF Texas. The road Tor the last Tour years,
through its Industrial department., mas
mauc point in stimulating the people
TO organize Tor the planting aud shipping
OF new crops, especially OF truck aud
Fruit with the result that today therc is
hardly village IN sections adapted 10
the growth of truck and fruit wnlcn has
not an active, working ASSOCIATION, or
where the acreage IN such crops viii not
be greatly Increased this coming season
The enormous increase IN production along
the International and Great Nortnern. TO-
gether with the financial success which ii
has brought directly 10 the growers, and
incidentally to the towns. is proving tue
greatest advertisement OF the international
ana treat Northern country Wulcu could
be Imagined; lnueeQ, the impetus given TO
the new INDUSTRY Oh truck ana run grow
ing along the International ana GreHt
Northern, especially ia Eustetn Texas, mas
been SO great that the world Is nearing
cd. .rH.H Hh..
of the world, being Is own best aayer.
tlsement.
AND it is not only the truck aud fruit
industry which Is deyeopug but ,ne
STOCK tuimss idea IS fast lAKIug nOl1 of
tue people When Sir. ClH1use the intei-
nutOlai and Great NOrrngrn industrial
man, came into the work some four years
ago ana found Ru acre ol bermuda glass
freezing Jersey COW about eignt montus
I'm Tie year, 10 say nothing OF few pigs
ana chickens, il occurred 20 him that it
one acre would do that, more acres would
make beef aud pork, and therefore, iu the
Narrator, the international ana Great
Northern paper, ne has been taking red
cattle ana black pigs for Eastern anu
sorr OF talk everywhere From one little
neck % the woods in East Texas lrne
Grapcland section OF Houston county, they
have shipped this season twelve cars az
taJ hogs grown on Bermuda grass aud
fattencd on COW peas, one man tatteucd
bis pigs on the peupo0S, and bunch OF
htcNrS on tne. vines, Ana pens ana herr
muda grass are not an that E0st and
South Texas can grow To make cheap beef
aud pork and mutton. There are the oil
mills and SO the Leon county fair last
fail they had nine kinds OF hailed hay on
eNbib4duu. And the biz hacking plant
at Palestine rs taking cure OF the fat stun
as fast as 1t comes and CRYING for more
1T was by no mems a bad idea OF the
International and Great Northern while
advertising the advantages of their couu-
tlN 10 new people abroad. to STIR UP the
people already here to demonstrate 10 the
now people the matCbless possibilities of
tho International and Great Northern coun-
try, so that when they come We can show
en- Aud the new people, they are com
en- out of Texas With a. shotgun quaran-
tine
These conditions haze been brought
about by our persiStcin- and tireiess work
and we feel fully repaid, and -the report
next year will be far bettvr than this one.
for the International and Great Northern Is
determined 10 develop her territory and
we are making iue start towards IL.
Then the advertising that we do has
placed as before the eyes Of the whole
world, This morning I received q postal
card from u man named Nplhena, from Lis.
bon, Portugal, asking me to send him
some ~ our descriptive natter of East
| here and locating, This rs only one of
the thousands requests ! receive daily from
across the ocenn I'm South America, from
Alaska TO Cape Horn. ana from every
State iu the Union. all wanting printed
matter telling about Texas, aud in every
case VIC make II a point TO send them
something telling them about East Texas
mon is found in the land OF the l. and
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