The Springdale news., 1906-02-09
Something About Texas.

lSe t0 number of friends 1 will write briefly about kuox, Baylor and Has, kell counties, Texas. According to my notion this is one of the finest sec tions of the state.
 Knox County is situated in the northwest part of the state, Ben jamin being the county seat. The country is level, with scattering musquite trees here and there. and number of its inhabitants are old Arkansas peo. pie The Wichita and Brazos rivers run through the county from west to east, the timber being along the riv- CTS and creeks. Knox City is In the south side of the county, on Knox prairie, one Of the finest rolling prair- ies I ever saw. Water can be had at a reasonable depth. They dig hole. put Tn wind mill and when the wind blows they have plenty of water. They raise whest, oats, corn, cotton, millet, milo maize, watermelons, pumpkins, and 1 saw some real nice fall gardens in the middle of October when 1 was there. Mrs. T. L. John- son had the second garden growing and she had cabbage, tomatoes, green beans, mustard. lettuce, radishes, turnips, just real nice, young and ten- der as in spring. She had peach or ehard With lots of fine peaches on it. gathered some of the peaches and brought them home with me the first of November. She had lots of sum- mer peaches, too. Knox County seemed to be twe-thirds in grass on which cattle and horses graze. Ny uncle had lots of cattle and horses that were fat that had never eaten any corn There was plenty of water but it Is not as cold as the water in old Arkansas. I will give the names of some of the Arkansas people that l visited while out there: R. F. Iohn- son and wife, Thomas Williams, Thomas Dutton, John Sanders, Jack Johnson, Thomas Johnson, John Will Hams, George Sanders, Mrs. Addie Merick and many others. had been told that the people just lived out Of tue grocery stores out there, hut l found plenty to eat wherever l went, ana l gathered some ef 1t IF their gardens and fields. Of all the inc. sweet watermelons l ever saw they  were at my uncles. He hauled them te town hauled them te the hogs and gave them to the nefghbors in abund. ance have an uncle. an aunt. d SOD, cousin and many other Arkan. sas relatives and friends whe are de- Ing much better out there than they did here They have good schools and churches and good Christian peo. pie generally.
 Baylor County is ane county. Sey- moar being the county seat and sitaa- ted on the north bank of the Brazos Riyeri Plenty of good drinking water is obtained at depth of about twen. tY feet. Bra2os and Wichita and their tributaries furnish plenty of water for stock. Some people have tanks in their pastures. went fo one tank that covered three acres Is feet deep. They raise wheat, oats, corn, cotton, katfir, milo maize and sorghum 1 saw several peach or. chards and ate some peaches as fine as 1 ever saw. Seymour has fine stone court house that cost BIO, GOO, public school building of stone that cost s20, 900 and the buildings are well cared for. Seymour has five different church denominations. l visited sey- eral people in and around Seymour, among them being Mrs John Meriek, an old Arkansas friend. They are we'll satisfied and are doing well.
 took nice drive in Haskell Coun. ty and found 1t to be fine level prair ie, with some creeks and branches for stock water. Stamford Is the coun ty seat. I visited Carney, new town on the railroad and went to Cliff also. As I came home l travelled with MT and Mrs Bowman from Seymour to Dallas, and found them to be real Christian people.
 My love to all the good people.
 DALLAS SANDERS.