The Ordway new era., 1907-03-08
From Texas.
Corpus ChrIsty. Texas

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So many of your kind readers have
asked "rslI us about Texas" that
with your permission will all thro'
the columns of New Era. To tell all
absut Texas would make big book
for you know Texas is a "big thing"
But to tell all know of this old new
state will require little space.
January 9th found us among the
tourists of that quaint old health re-
sort of Texas, San Antonio, a city of ,
sion churches and the historic Alamo, !
where is shown you bullet supposed
to have killed the remarkable David
Crockett, all built in 1875. The old
showing the broken walls and punct-
ures from Santa Annals cannon balls,
is now preserved and covered by an
outside enclosure. AS the ladies of
the Ordway club have gone into the
details, probably, of how this band of
three score or more, valiant patriots,
chose death rather than surrender and
fought until death came to all but one
Me xicau who escaped alone to tell the
story, I will leave them to tell you the
particulars.
January llth. while enjoving the
hospitable fireplace of the Kingville
Inn. who should descend the stairway
but our whilom Ordway friend, Fred
Warron. Hello Fred and a smile
spread across that genial face as
welcome was heard, Hello Roberts
What brought you here? What bro't
YOU here was the answer. and an hour
of Ordway news and Texas iuforma-
tiou was the result. Our old timers
will remember Fred.
Texas is so big that you must take
| in a part only a time, as the youth did
in huggiug the fat girl. This gulf
coast country embraced by Browns
vile, Corpus Christy, Laredo and San
Antonio is semi-tropical region, cor
responding to Northern Florida, but
in humidity and products to Central
and Southern California-also very
damp and chilly in winter. Once in
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llo and at another time II but half
the years have no frost at this point.
Summers near the coast are very plea
saut, Corpus Christy being summer
as we'll as winter resort. Summer
for the hot interior regions and win
ter for the blizzard states to the north
but imagine the Good old summer
time" is rather long. The Lone
Star" state is having veritable boom
Cheap rates from Chicago and ST.
Louis twice month bringing in thou
sands of homcscckcrs, who lingcr for
thirty days along the railroad filling
every hotel and boarding house, and
YOU may be awakened any midnight
by persons begging TO lie down in
your hallway for the night.
A score or moro of land buyers get
on and off at every railroad station
between Houston and Brownsville.
The whole country seems changing
Ihauds-.from the old cattle kings to
the speculatipg Yankees or the the
northern invalid seeking more con
genial winter. Lands sell in tracts OF
j. 900 to 100, 600 acres at an average OF
about $40 per acre. 1t is broken up
iuto farms of 40 to so acres by the
colonizer and retaiicd at $50 to $40 per
acre. Much of this. when the dry
years come, If they ever do. will prove
grazing land, but the majority is fine
black soil from to feet deep and ca d
not be worn out in life time of con-
slant cultivatiou-will produce from
/ to ~ bales OF cotton per acre,
worth now about $50 per bale and can
be raised at an average cost of SIS
per bale. No irrigation is needed as
the annual rain fall is from so to 40
inches. Corn, oats, sugar cane, rice
and other crops can be raised success
fully. From Corpus Christy south
the orange, lemon, fig and other semi
tropical fruits do wcll-except in the
Goth year of severe freeze.
| or course "A tenderfoot can not tell
YOU very much about the health CIV
ling qualities of climate. The writer
left Ordway victim of the grip. on
New Years day, and has forgotten all
about the pesky trouble. The salt air
makes you eat whether we'll or not.
1 am told that all catarrhal trouble OF
head, throat or lungs is greatly i'm
proved and many invalids are living
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