The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-03
inviting TEXAS VALLEY
YEGUA OFFERS MANY IN.
JUDGEMENTS TO SETTLERS.
Climate Is Mild and Equable, Soil Is
Rich and Productive, and
Land Is Cheap.

Special Correspondence to The Inter Ocean
Lexington, Texas, Feb. 27, 1906.-In the
vast and inviting empire of Texas there
is no other spot, perhaps. that offers
greater indictments to the settler than
the Yegua pronounced "Yawah") valley,
which extends east and west through Lee
county. Giddings is the county seat, and
Lexington is the chief town Of the valley,
located on S. A. and A. P. r. r..
The section of this valley lying south
of the town of Lexington about three
miles and extending west about fifteen
and east about the same distance is richly
alluvial, from a half mile to mile and
half in width and is the choicest strip
in the heart Of a very choice tract Of
country. It is 348 feet above sea, level
and as narrow strip Of it's bottom land
is somewhat subject to overfows during
the winter and spring rains, the lakes
and ponds which are found along the val
ley become natural reservoirs for the
| storage of water for the dry season.
The usual temperature in. winter is As
degrees, in summer from IS to co. There
are no extremes and no sudden changes,
| and the equable climate, together with
the altitude, renders such diseases as
asthma, bronchitis, lung affections and
rheumatism rare among the inhabitants.
DR.. A. c. Conner, president of the Lex
i ing JIM immigration league, said yester-
does not, make any pretensions to cele-
brity as health resort When it boasts
at ALL its boasting is confined to the ad-
ya want Which.it has to offer the man
am cunt Of money, that he may draw
large dividends during all the years OF
his life and leave a dividend paying prop
/ efty to those who come after him.
ss-s4, .Rounteous Crops Of Valley.
1.-THE staple crops in the Yegua are
corn; cotton, sugar cane, oats potatoes
and the like. In the line of vegetables,
beans. cucumbers, radishes, english peas
asparagus, tomatoes. cantaloupes, cabbage
all grow profusely and ripen early. Eng
lish peas, for instance, ripen in May, can
teloupes in May. tomatoes all the sea-
panted for he 70 winter markea and IS
ready for northern shipment In January
and February.
'.Then as to fruit. Wild fox, post-oai
and mustang grapes grow in luxurian1
Indigenous. An excellent wine is made
from them, and they are so plentiful ir
their wild state that hundreds Of tons go
to. waste annually. The vines and stalks
Se"AA w pNSAuSN VI 81 dl leu Will dlly high
grade variety. Dewberries and black.
berries are also Indigenous and ripen il
April and May. Apples and pears pro
duce well, but the truth is the farmer
and hortlculturist may turn his hand tt
so many crops that require comparative,
little care, and secure a ready market
that there has been little temptation a.
yet to enter upon experimental
The government soil survey which wa
conducted in the valley last year wi!
show that the ,Orangeburg series of soil
exists in the vicinity of Lexington. Thi
is the soil which produces the famou
peaches at Jacksonville and Nacogdo
Abaja variety. The government has 10
Gated an expert here to superintend
but the advantage in the Yegua valley i
that land there can be purchased TO
from IS to SO an acre. while in the Jack
sonyillts1 o d Us rEo no better land bring
being planted. All the cucumbers, bean:
cabbages, onions, peppers, ETC., that ca
3 by one Of the greatest picking establish
u ments Of San Antonio, who have picklin
;. vats here to receive them. and som
! farmers are making from $50 to $500 a
0 acre in these crops alone. Fifty car load
Of hogs have been shipped from Lexing
}, ton during the past fifteen months, an
d the industry Is growing rapidly.
;, What the present settlers in the val
= ley are looking for most" continued D.
. Conner, lis not men Of great wealth, bu
: men Of moderate means who are willin
(, to work along with others who hav
e started in an humble way, but who ar
= now enjoying financial independents,
l. What is needed is industry down here
$ There Is no place for the prince or tn
o pauper. Extremes in civilization do nc
/ meet in this community. There is n
n opportunity among us for one class
:. live and subsist off another, but each an
, all can here receive the just reward
! their labor .ss--
Surely, as they say, here is g. chanc
for the man Of small means to forsake
smoky, selfish and overpopulated cit!
with all it's disheartening environment
and to cast his lot in a country of de