The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-06
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q dozen cattlemen wgFth around Q MILTON
each, thanks 10 the hie pasture -.
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their Kind msrrly found ", dfuve 4 bunch
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year to phaae the red hot brand Of owner
ship on The Increase. Others clme IN later
tho pastures werc fenced. Tho cowboy,
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Even while The pasture was being fenced,
It's doom was being sounded, and thtg ny
tho railways of the Northwest, which
planted colonies 10 raise the stock and the
produce that make dividend. paying trainc'
The Texas roads saw, lnated and copied,
One owner Of wide acres said that the
management Of the nearest railroad gave
him no peace. Ito offers TO find buyers
for his land we're persistent and attractive
At Sabinal ono Of the smaller ranchmen,
who recently retired, bought 1000 acres
at 81 an acre, when hat was considered
a high price. He sold for 90, the land going
in lots Of from 200 to go acres.
At Uvalde, Tex, a syndicate has 100000
acres OF ranch land. On IL a colony Is TO
be located, the settlers not paying a tenth
Of what similar soil would bring In the
old settled regions where the savings OF q
lifetime would hardly make the new col
onist q landowner.
The low rate home seekers excursion,
coupled with the descriptions issued by
the railroads immigration agents, attracts
the hundreds who would see for themselves.
Once on the ground the big pasture seems
to Northern eyes a great implanted
garden, Of which part is to be had almost
for the asking, II ia the dreamland that
lies somewhere under perpetual ummer
When he returns with his family. the
settler must have a house. Several hum
ne ldtUllltS Tar u to"h Vi oN'HD
Often short of money, the settler Pays
little by little from 500 to $500 for a box
house that satisfies the first few years.
Among all the settlers there may be no
one financially able 10 furnish the lumber.
Here the linevard lumber company APP
pears-a wealthy corporation. often owner
of sawmills and miles of logging railroad,
of cars and locomotives. 1t IL called line
yard because il plants a string of lumber
yards through the country where new
towns are being built.
Talpa (?5O p%opulation) is such a new
town. .Dunn's some time ago noted only
fourteen concerns in business there, yet
OF these four were lumber dealers. Miles,
near Talpa, has grown in four years from
three families to it's present population OF
LOO. It's W lineyards have q capital Of
almost half a million, which IL many times
the combined wealth of the towns remain
ing dealers.
What do the years bring those who break
all the old home ties to find a greater life
in the new land? They are ambitious.
With the material wealth that comes to
the Western community generally the am
bitions begin to take on material form.
The granite front bank buildings show
entrances supported by massive polished
columns; the plate glass Of the dry goods
store reaches down close to the sidewalk:
again and again the schoolhouse rises
above the town like a county court house:
the electric light service is apt to continue
all night, and all this in what seem mere
hamlets to city ewes.
In time the little box houses give way to
larger homes. In n small west Texas town
tied means now lives in q $50 600 residence,
complete even to the buffers pantry and
Flemish oak finish.
From her window, the town below and
beyond forty miles of rolling country lie in
the clear air under the shifting sky. When
Houston ia taken, OF course not all prosper
80, but the s~ettlers as a rule fares well
enough to fll the country with whatever is
most modern, regardless Of cost:
Prosperity is there, but loyalty offers a
higher test. Is there with all the new riches
longing for the old home, a wish to go back
that will not DOWN. =
A former New Yorker who travelled
Texas, returning home twice a year to spend
q month and his accumulated salary, voiced
the universal sentiment, He finally came
TO think morn Of the Southwest than OF the
big city. in tbe East; he moved West He
ended his atVount with:
Texas is Good enough for me-
The Eastern schoolboy, dreaming over
the map Of the Southwest, reasoned that
the railroad terminating several hundred
miles out on the plains stopped where the
dwindled to nothing; probably the
last place was a few shacks and a turntable
for heading the engine back again.
San Angelo, Texas, has such a location
the end Of the railroad. To reach 1t the
train runs straight out for half q day.
The report that one. and often more, heav-
ily loaded freight trains left this terminal
daily, aroused q suspicion that possibly
more than the squatty cabins Of the school
day imagination might be there; and more
there was. A long stage hauled by two
Ralloping teams bumped past a mile OF
lumber yards, warehouses, public buildings
and stores to the hotel on the further edge
OF the town. The business places had all
the modern architecture that men OF money
make use OF to make for themselves a show
4 count showed seventy odd men in the
hotel office. From the buzz OF voices and
the Jam IL might have been a lobby in the
State Capitol when the Legislature was in
session.
This crowd was q mixture Of Easternere
enioying the warm, dry winter OF the South
west plains and OF wealthy COW men tast-
ing town life. The latter seemed common
place until named. =,
aWho are those dressed like hired men2'
the porter was asked.
sThem? That one is Jones, worth several