The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1905-03-07
GREAT ONION COUNTY,
sstesss Aiizlast u lae ~ Il (nliiss-
tn 81 THIS veeeisblg.

letter describing Laredo and the
bull fight consumed so much space
| failed to give an account of the
| onion fields near that place. Mr.. T..
G.. Nye, an old Texan who has re-
sided in this coast country all his
| life, several years ago began expert
menting with onion growing and ir-
| rigating them. He then resided in
La Sale county where water was not
plentiful. In the mean time a COM
pany of Californians had put in a
| thirty thousand dollar irrigation
plant on the Rio Grande rive four
miles above Laredo, from which they
| expected to make fortune growing
| grapes, and in this attempt they fail
| ed. Mr.. Nye bought the whole out
| fit for $1,000. His experiments in
La Sale county convinced him that
growing onions by irrigation was
success II he only had the water. This
California company had a pump
station on the banks of the Rio
Grande and of course water in abund-
anee could be obtained. Year before
last Mr.. Nye succeeded in raising
thirty-seven thousand pounds of
onions to the acre on fifty acres.
He went to San Antonio and there
bought the manure from the cattle
feeding pens and put sixty thousand
pounds of that manure to the acre.
This application of fertilizer, Mr..
Nye says, lasted for three years.
Several acres, he says, yielded fifty
thousand pounds of onions TO the
, acre, but his Average was thirty-seyen
thousand pounds of pretty white ber-
mdu onions, and he sold them for
two cents per pound. Two years ago
when Mr. Nye, In a speech at the
farmers congress, told all this TO
the audience not half Of them bel!ey-
ed 1t. ! spent half q dag 81 his farm
and he and his neighbors and all
the business men there 10 whom
talked testified to the truth of Mr.
| Nye's success. AS a proof of Ii the
lands in the valley OF the Rio Grande
up and down the river, above and
below his place, is worth from SIS
to 500 per acre Something like
six or eight hundred acres of onions
| are now in cultivation in his neigh
borhood, Mr.. Nye's success has made
| him famous and he says 1t takes
| private secretary TO answer questions
coming 10 him through the mails.
/ Az ~ " li9 anu A4ftS III q NbstAIA4t
| brick house right on the banks OF
| the Rio Grande river, and one caa
| throw a rock from his back gallery
| across the river into Mexico He al
| so cultivates a vineyard grown by the
| company he bought from, and sells
| two or three hundred dollars worth
of grapes every year Mr. Nye il
developer and thousands aud millions
tfxs 4l7HE d -.
and her citizens as a result OF his
| Investigations. The country all
around his farm on both sides OF
the river is yet undeveloped. bat the
| possibilities of this water applied to
this soil in this splendid climate are
beyond comprehension.
Hebransylle in Duval county. one
| hundred miles this side of Laredo. is
| in the heart of the cattle and horse
range of this section. The train
stopped there nearly an hour and
gave me time TO walk out in the
town and meet the inhabitants. They
reminded me of West Texas or Ari-
iona when / first landed in those
diEEings twenty years ago indie
pendent looking, sunburnt old ranch
ers staggered around. clever II YOU
approach him in the right way. but
would not notice you unless you did
him. One man | met there. a Mr..
Jones, was taller than | am and
weighed 275 pounds, and owned one
hundred and eighty-five thousand
acres, beside having leases enough
TO make over two hundred thousand
acre ranch on which Craze more than
thirty thousand cattle. He is only
one of many like him in this section
of the state. Since the Brownsville
road was built last year from Cor
pus Christi 10 Brownsville and they
have dug and secured artesian water
and the land in all this coast country
has increased in value. and thous-
ands of prospectors have visited this
section OF the state in the past
twelve months. A great many OF
them have bought and will go to
digging wells and farming. Water
melons, English peas, Irish potatoes
and a great many other vegetables
are now up all through this section
and growing nicely. Alice is another
station ont on this Mexican road. and
II has the distinction OF being the
largest cattle shipping point in the
world MIR. j. :. Loe. who lives near
Ennis, bought land near here few
days ago and will move 20 il this
fall. The San Antonio and Aransas
Pass railroad runs all through South
Texas country, and Il has a branch
line running from san Antonio 10
Falfurlas. crossing the hsxiean az
Alice. FalruriBs is twenty-five miles |
south 81 Alice and IL the terminus 4
Of this branch. The country around \
faifurias is being settled rapidly 4
Flowing wells have been dug In that /
e"etiou. There Is room in tisss coast 4
country for thousands aud thousands \
IF settlers Lands are cheap aud IL 4
fbis irrigation proves a success. ana
there seems 20 be not much doubt /
about that many = poor man without 4
q home wiil la failure years be sitting 4
here under his oNu roof. yine and 4
ftg tree Right here close around 4
toFpas Christi soM* 1T ms old Il
friends and acauaiutAnc~a are farm
ms without irrigasion. aud seem to
tse doing sell
Oysters aud fish stilI come on the
table az our boarding houae. nor
have ! get losi ms god relish fas
hem. bat of all sh~ baK eating I ever
AS aroused Of. ever heard of az