The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1905-03-23


prayer or predictions. This Is ees-
tasnly an ideal way til farm About
125 acres are plated III onions. cab
|bageS are being grpwn on i large
strip and larke acreage IL cultivat-
ed IN cantalonpes, watermelons, fa-
matoes. Irish potatoes and other
vegetables. and all these were up and
growing nicely. Mexicans, to my
surprise, are said to be splendid
laborers and their pay in all this Sec
tion Is SO cents a day. They feed
themselves. There is no scarcity OF
them.
We also visited the same day the
farm of Mr.. Childress one mile from
Brownsville. He had everything
planted on his farm heretofore men
toned, and in addition was cutting
alfalfa he planted last November.
His foreman was setting out orange
and lemon sprouts shipped from
California. I saw oranges ripening
and some ripe ones hanging on trees
in the yards here.
A Mexican and his little burTo are
as inseparable as a negro and his
mule up in Texas Mexicans and
burros with cart and barrel are the
water works down here They even
hitch buTro to a barrel without
cart and haul water. There are some
fifteen or twenty hacks run by Mexi-
cans on the streets of Brownsville
and they are pulled by the shabbiest
specimens of horseflesh | ever saw.
We had occasion 10 ride one morning
and after my wife and Col. Simmons
had gotten into the hack ! sized up
the scrubs and decided they could
not pull us all, and hired another for
myself.
The Brownsville Herald, owned by
Mr. J, o. Wheeler, is a splendid pa
per and he and his daily reporter,
Mr. Dickey. treated US nicely This
daily and weekly have been run by
these gentlemen for thirteen years
and they are making money The
Mexicans at Brownsville and in Mata-
moros also publish several papers,
but this is the only American paper
anywhere closer than Corpus Christi.
II is worth while for any one up in
our section to visit down here wheth-
er they invest or not Since last
July when the Brownsville road was
completed. thousands from all sec
tions of the United States have visit
ed this section, and still they are
coming, Each night in the week the
big Constantine hotel here is filled
With ira, clers prospecting in this
country. | can walk out from where
am writing and meet men and wo-
men by the scores from all over the
union. The hotels and boarding
houses here and at Brownsville are
full of guests who are coming and
going all the time AZ we returned
from Brownsville last Thursday we
met the private train OF John w
Gates, the Chicago millionaire. with
his family. and several other capital
lists going to Brownsville They stop
ped oil at Kingsvllle TO 90 out 10
the King ranch and dire with Mrs
King and NJ. kle lrg, Ter son-.n-
LAW. Lots of people coming iAta this
section are buying property Proper
ty Ia Corpus Christi is 2 5 to SO per
cent higher than il was last summer
when | was down here This de-
lightful salt breeze. the pretty Cor
pas Christi and Neuees bays. teeming
with fish and oysters, make THIS @
nice place to stop for awhile / love
GIllS tbaAhS "Ao A@Q AdtiCt avg tAtIe
than any place in this world ] hage
ever been land / have been around
somet also love my business, our
papers, and our subscribers, hut over
aud above ali / love my health, and
these several hard spells OF grip have
nlft hen II comes 10 going of
on pleasure 1aunt simply for
pleasure, no man enjoys that better
than / do, but when II comes that /
have TO 90, then II IS not such Il
pleasant thlnB WhlIe ] am putting
IA my time down here the very best
can ana am sehdlng bacS 10 our
papers "fltenps OF what l am See
Tag 'Eal ! thlhA VIII interest our read
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