The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1904-08-16
DOWN ON THE BAY
IaaoCeRCe playiae Win the Waves ard
lafChiag fish.

SHdL ClAulabS u bucTo Wins ~ Is nuC
in summer months, yet 1t did not
relieve the effects of grip which
has annoyed me for two years and
this summer fipds me where / like
great deal OF hutting my head
against the sky. the tallest and all
mountains in Colorado and else
where are measured in their heights
from the sea level and the house
am boarding, DR.. Carruth's, is just
more than four feet above the waters
OF Corpus Christi bay and The white
crested waves roll and splash right
| up close to my door. There are
three or four mites of water front
| place to battle in on the whole Gulf
| of Mexico of which Corpus Christi
| bay is part. The sand is firm and
| hard and i only have to wade in
twenty or thirty yards TO get where
| the water is deep enough to swim in
and my doctor tells me to hit the
blue waves early and often and from
) O'Clock in the morning till 10 at
night | am plunging often. The
fact is now L am about the cleanest
white man in Texas and then | went
to church yesterday and / am en-
deavoring to keep the inside all
right too.
This is an old town and has pop
ulatiOn of six or seven thousand.
! Three railroads now run into this
| place. The Texas and Mexican
which runs from here to Laredo on
the Rio Grande and the San Antonio
and Arkansas Pass and the Browns
Vile road just completed from here
to that place This last named road
| opens up an immense territory not
heretofore Inhabited by any one
| save few cow boys and cattle and
| hundreds of prospectors from every
| section of Texas and many from
other states are passing through
| this place every week going to
Brownsville to look at this new
country. l have met few farmers
| here | knew up in Limestone and
other counties of Central Texas who
moved and settled here close to Cor
pus Christi several years ago and
they all seem well pleased. Three
or tour hundred car loads of cabbage
were shipped from here a winter or
two ago. This vegetable grows here
all winter and consequently is
ready for the market in January
and February when vegetables are
high. This land unimproved can be
bought from seven to ten dollars per
acre and il has been known to yield
in cabbage in one season from $500
to 81 900 dollars per acre. / have
been TO Galveston frequently, but i
think this place much nicer for a
| stay of several weeks. This bay is
full of trout and tarpon. The doctor
| has a boat and / am landing some
| Of the tinny tribe, Oysters are also
plentiful in this bay and while this
! is not the season TO gather them, in
season, however, great many are
/ gathered and shipped from here.
| Mustang Island is situated out in
the Gulf of Mexico ten or twelve
miles and Rockport is another sum
mer resort situated on the mainland
thirty or forty miles from here
Both of these places and Browns
Vile 1 want To see before / come
home, but for the present | am stay
ing with my doctor who is gouging
The catarrh was affecting my hear
ing till / was becoming almost deaf
and / see many persons here who
came here as bad off as | am and
they are all right and this encour-
ages me to stick to my post I'LL get
relief. There are great many
Mexicans here and / am picking up
their languag and am liable to be
speak ing In other tongues when |
get home. The breeze blows across
this bay fresh and strong making 1t
quite comfortable. The only hours
10 does not blow So strong il from
3 iu the morning till or q then
It rises and have 20 pull my hat
down ou my head Co keep it on,
Constantly bathing Ia this salt
water together with breezss heavily
adeu with salt am afraid will turn
me to pillar IF salt as was Lots
wife of old, but the doctor says take
all ~ 10 Boa you can aud this caper
am cutting Co the very best ~ my
ability t1 absorb b. I will be afraid
t0 hang tbv clothes / wear down
here uut ou the fence "a reach ~ the
COWS whom get home for they
wau.I eat taom 1p sure. have been
here only ONE week and already
fnsl tna beneficial effects 60 ali that
tHe ioetor aHd ma are doing A great
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