The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1907-03-29


The Chicago Record Herald pub
ished the following individual ex
periences in South Texas.
Men who came here with $500 an,
$500 few years ago are now indie
pendently rich
"A young man who came to THU
country for his health, bought /;
acres and in one year cleared ovel
$4,000 from 1t, which was $333.33 pei
acre. -
Another man, SIS years old. from
20 acres, sold $4,000 worth of pro
duce. from which he realized $50. 20
per acre and then raised Cotton
crop on part of it, which made him
$35 per acre, which made the same
land net him $98.29 per acre for that
year"
Another man from 80 acres in 1904
realized as follows; From Onions,
$2,226.91; from Cotton, $1,000; 200
bushels Corn; IL tons Hay; 5000
pounds Sweet Potatoes"
Another made $4,000 from five
acres of early Cabbage, which was
So4O per acre, and grew a second
crop Of Corn and Peas ON the same
ground that year"
Another realized $4,000 from 90
car loads of Cabbage, averaging 5000
per car, which was $20z69 from each
OF the l30 acres he had planted"
Another Melted, above all expenses
$50 per acre on Potatoes, and planted
the same ground in Cotton that year.
from which he realized $35 per acre.
which made that ground yield him
$95 per acre"
Another realized $S2,s66 from 23O
acres In Melons, which was $143.33
per acre"
Another Melted $4,000 from 3s
acres In Onions, which was 5000 per
acre"
Another netted $17,445, or $79.25
per acre from nine cuttings Of 220
acres in Alfalfa, which yielded in one
year 2,475 tons and sold at Sill per
tom"
Another received 5000 from one
acre in Cauliflower; sown in July,
in August, and marketed
IN December"
The same authority quotes the fol-
owing statement from the Hon. Jo-
seph Daily, of Chillicothe, ILL.,, who
owns thousands Of acres in the I'LL
lois Corn Belt, He says:
Il am one Of the heaviest taxpayers
IN farm lands In Mason and TazeWell
Counties, Illinois, and | have been
amiliar with the conditions around
San Antonio for IL years. Any
hrifty farmer can get rich, and make
more money off Of this cheap land.
lcre for acre, than any land in the
State Of Illinois, that sells from $3.50
Q $225 per acre"
Come to the land of beautiful sun
hine and almost perpetual harvest,
Where the people are prosperous,
Iappy and contented
Where the flowers bloom ten
months in the year.
Where the farmers and gardeners,
whose seasons never end, eat home
,rown June vegetables in January,
nd bask in mid-winter's balmy air
nd glorious sunshine.
Where the land yield is enormous,
nd the prices remunerative.
Where something can be planted |
nd harvested every month In the |
ear.
Where the climate is so mild that |
he Northern farmer here saves prac-
ically all his fuel bills and three
ourths the cost of clothing his family |
4 the North.
Where the country is advancing
nd property values rapidly increas-
az. n
Where all stock, without any feed,
ltten winter and summer, on the ma
I've grasses and brush.
Where the same land yields the
Of the temperate and the
lxuries of the tropic zones.
Where the farmer does not have to
'ork hard six months in the year to
aise feed to keep his stock from
wing during the winter, as they do
/ the North and Northwest.
Where there are no aristocrats and
eople do not have to work hard to
ave plenty and go In the best So
ety.
Where the natives work less and
ave more to show for what they do
ian in any country in the United
tates
Where houses, barns and fences
IN be built for less than half the
lst In the North
Where sunstrokes and heat pros
atoms are unknown
Where sufferers with Asthma,
Catarrh, Hay Fever and
hroat Troubles find relief. I,
Where, surrounded by fruits and
which Tipen every month
the year, the living Is better and
SIS expensive than In the North, /
Where the water is pure, soft, and
eRtiful.
Where the taxes are so low that
e amount Is never missed.
Where Public and Private Schools |
id Churches of all denominations
. plentiful.
Where peace. plenty and good win
'evail
Where it Is SO healthy that there
. few physicians and most Of them /
make living, supplement their !
come from other business. q
to any one proving that H
.ment is not true. II
Plaza. San Antonio, Texas, 9
late Agency, Local Agents.