The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1905-07-13

! industries. There are about
10000 acres under irrigation IN
this county and they not only
produce ten times as much of a
better quality of all kinds of veg
etables and staples than can be
raised on the same soil without
irrigation, but the crop IS always
sure. For example, n bale and q
! half of cotton can be raised on
irrigated land, while the ordin-
airy "dry farming" requires from
two to four acres to raise n bale.
San Angelo is the largest and
the richest town in West Texas.
1t has all the modern improve
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., electric
lights, telephone service, an ice
factory, n fine hotel, u $4,000
courthouse, one daily and two
weekly newspapers, three national
banks with 81 ,O25, 33l on deposit,
eleven churches and four school
houses, the latter with twenty
teachers and an average attend
ance of loss pupils last year.
The school children are all right.
Nobody complains of their num-
Der; the more the merrier. But
1T would be difficult for the most
eloquent boomer in Tom Green
county to demonstrate the need
of eleven churches for commun-
ity of less than $500 people.
There are more churches than
lawyers or real estate firms, and
that, you must admit, 10 prepos-
ferrous.
Texas seems to have overdone
the church business. In every
town | have visited there is u
church for every 600 or 700 in
habltants, men, women and
children included. Each denom-
nation insists upon having its
own minister and house of wor-
ship, and you often find II Pres
byterian church "North" and Il
Methodist church South" in the
same village; all of which would
convince disinterested visitor
that churches are sometimes
founded not to worship God, but
to propagate theological contro-
versles.
On the outskirts of San Angelo
is Camp Concho, an outdoor san.
itarium for tuberculosis patients,
which has been conducted for two
and half years by DR.. James l..
Watt, himself n "lunger" from
New York City. DR.. Watt came
out here n little more than three
years ago, hoping to find relief
from tuberculosis in this pure air.
lie cruised around the western
part of Texas for awhile and fin
ally pitched his tent on the banks
of the Concho river, about two
miles from this city. He fshed
and hunted, rode horseback,
played golf and tennis aud amused
himself by helping the farmers rs
his strength returned and he felt
rs well as he had ever done. One
day he related his experience to II
newspaper reporter, who publish
ed it. The article, being reprint
ed in the East, attracted the at
tention Of lady who was afflicted
in the same manner. She wrote
to DR.. Watt and he advised her
TO come to San Angelo. The
same article was seen by Il poor
consumptive in Mississippi and
he came also, and they have been
followed by forty-eight other con-
sumptives, eighteen of whom have
died because they came too late.
DR.. Watt says that when the dis
ease is far advanced the patient
might as well stay at home; that
it is only n waste of strength and
money to seek relief in new cli-
mate. But he declares that the
air Of Texas will cure any case of
tuberculosis in its incipient stages
and, taking everything into con-
sideration, this is the best place
he knows of,
He has Il camp Of twenty tents
in a delightful location on the
Concho river and central build