The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1906-11-14
FROM CORPUS CHRISTI.
Innocence f~naiits-S Short E.pisti. to
Ellis County Fricatis.


face OF the earth ALTHOUGH I am
cut off from 900 for a season I love
you still ! have been hers nov two
months and have only felt Hike writ
Ing one letter. Have been sick an
the time am better now and
Richard Is beginning TO feel like him.
self again | have for the past ten
years done my very best to help
make the Daily Light and Weekly
Enterprise good papers 10 read, but
! ncyc before appreciated JUST how
good these TWO papers were until
cut myself loose ANA moved away.
When a fellow helps to make a paper
and then stays al home TO read It
that individual Is rather q poor Judge
but cut him loose five hundred miles
away from home as my family aud
myself are and then il IL that We APP
preciatc our home paper and know
how good il is. 1t does my soul
good to read OF the prosperity now
Astounding in grand old Ellis county.
Some of my friends write me that it
Is better than 1900 was. We ought
70 be thankful TO the Great Giyer of
all blessings and that we are per
mitted 10 live in such a good country
and among such good people like old
Ellis is full of. A kind Providence
is smiling on all Texas this year. This
section which embraces all the ex-
IRENE southern and western part Of
the state has had a very prosperous
year. Farmers and everybody else
seem to have plenty of money down
here. Me and the boys have ten
acres of cabbage and five acres of
onions planted and they are up TO a
splendid stand and looking well. We
will continue to plant cabbage until
Christmas and will have in of that
vegetable twenty acres when we get
through. Il takes a pound of seed
to plant an acre and they cost one
dollar a pound. We break the ground
and ~pulverize it thoroughly and then
plant the seed with a small planter
made especially for that purpose in
rows twenty inches apart. chop them
out like cotton and pillow them with a
small sweep. This is a new business
to us all. We have n neighbor who
has been here many years and is
quite a successful truck grower, and
he kindly directs us. My boys wanted
to make farmers of themselves and a
little hard labor with these big hands
of mine. at the same time inhaling
this salt atmosphere. viii be the very
best kind Of tonic for me. and while
| have not as yet been able to do
much work, | can feel myself coming
around all right. This. is very fine
soil. My land is deep black hog wal
low Ike Ellis county dirt. These
! vegetables all come off and are sold
early in the spring and then cotton
is planted in the middles of the vege-
table rows. | know farmers here who
gathered three quarters of a bale to
the acre from cotton planted this
way. Already | have been offered
a handsome profit on the tract of
land ! bought must stay here one
year and We are going 10 try our
hands at this business. There is no
kind of doubt about this being one
of the |hcalthitst sections of tup Unit
ed States. A prominent physician
who has lived here thirty years says
he never knew a case OF malarial
/ fever contracted here and for grip
and c9tarrh this salt atmosphere, to-
gether with the use of "a mineral wa
ter that flows from aytesiau wells
4 hoo. 30 O.. o.. Id .tLH 1sIL mint,
are mild and already many are an.
irving from the North 90 take mp tleil
abode until spring. Tn, ducks from
the North are alightiug ON the bay.
and 10 b. just fun 10 catch trout
foot long. We have "a mess Of then
amy dag we want them and that q
pretty often There are numbers %
people In Ellis county who have ~.
money and are a|uifegiug with ,atarII
who ought Go spend their winter
here 80 doubt if would prolou.
heir days and give them more io
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