The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-03-09
GALVESTON.

Editors Commercial: Well, al
my last did not find its way to the
waste basket of The Commercial,
will try, as | promised in my last
to say a few words to my former
friends about this great State.
This is my first trip here within
the last ten years, and if | could
only recall the last twenty years
that are gone never to return ]
would make this my home. Why
do | say this? First, / am sure it
is healthy country; second,
could find a climate in which j
would be pleased to live. And as
to soil, | could find that to suit me
or any one else that wanted to be
pleased. Take Eastern Texas, with
its light, sandy soil, adapted to the
growing of peaches and small
fruits. fine water and timber in
abundance-that would fill the
measure of man from Georgia
or any similar country. The farm
er who wants to raise cotton, corn,
wheat, alfalfa, etc., takes the cen
tral part of the State, the black
lands. If from South Carolina or
Louisiana, they go down near the
coast and raise rice and other
tropical crops that will make him
feel at home. So you see Texas
has the soil and the climate to
please any and all who are seeking
homes. All these different varie
ties of land are here and can be had
for a mere song, compared with
our land. Don't let the idea get
into your head that all the valu.
able land is taken up. There is not
one third of the State settled, but
| can tell you that land is being
rapidly taken up by farmers and
people from the North. Two ship
loads of emigrants have landed
here since the first of the year.
Two excursion trains arrive here
weekly from the North and the
excursionists are grabbing up the
fine, rich lands in this section.
l don't want any of my farmer
friends at home to think that /
want to get rid of them, or that |
am going to attempt to deceive
them in regard to this CT any other
but l do say that the man
who is renting land there surely is
nota good financier, for be can buy
as good land here as he rents there
for what he pays per acre for rent.
Just think about this for moment
and you will see it as ] do. A
man in our county with q farm of
less than one hundred acres, worth
from $50 per acre up, had better
sell and come to Texas and invest
10 these lands. He can go to sleep
DR. hunt jack rabbits for a living
Ind in ten or fifteen years be
worth more money than he would
De there in fifty years. But if you
ire contented with your lot |
would say, stay. But you will,
ike myself, grow old, and heap
aster than you think. Then don't
if you should have to 90
o bed hungry some time. Any
Id coon like myself who has lived
q one county for fifty. three years
an see that such change has
ONE over it. 1t is not betting on
utures when you put your money
a good, cheap land just SO long
s babies are born, and that will q
e as long as this earth is inhabit. t
4. Land is bound to advance in
rice and value. So don't kick at |
" feeble suggestions-do as You O
ke. or can; and when you turn i,
b your toes and skip for another e
ime you will own just as much a
nd as ANYBODY that is not taller Il
ian YOU are. want to pct home d
me time and any op saking ex- c.
'ptions to WIZ have said can v
tile the same with me, provided o,
can run faster than your hum /
g servant. &c
Bro. John Crawley sends his re- Of
.rds to his old friends. He is
re with me. w. AsKINs. |