Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-06-20
President Roosevelt Said:
"Texas Is the Garden Spot Of the Lord"
90, 900 Acre Ranch of Or. Chas. r. Simmons
Now On the Market.
Here is Your Opportunity to Buy a Farm Of from 10 Acres to $40 and
Two Town Lots in This "6arden Spof' for $210. Pay.
able $40 per Month Without Interest.

Investigation will show that this
81 5000 acres comprises n OF the
finest bodies of Agricultural and Truck
Farming land in the entire state, COM
mencing about SO miles south of San
Antonio and about two miles south OF
Pleasanton (the county seat of Atlas
cosa County,, and extending through
Atascosa and a part of McMullen
Counties, to within IT miles of my
co. 00-acre Live Oak County Ranch,
which l in four months last year, sold
to 1000 Home Seekers, on liberal
terms, without interest on deferred
payments, which gives the poor man,
from his savings, a chance to secure
a good farm and town lot for his home
in town. | will donate and turn over
to three bonded Trustees, $250,0O0
from the proceeds of the sale of this
property to the purchasers, as a bonus
to the first railroad built through this
property on the line which l shall
designate.
This property is located on that mid
die plain between East Texas, where
1t rains too much, and the arid section
of West Texas, where 1t does not rain
enough.
It's close proximity to San Antonio,
| the largest city in the State, with a
claimed population of over 100000, en-
hances its value as a market for Agri-
cultural and Truck farm products far
beyond the value of similar land not
SO favorably located.
Tonooranhv
Level to slightly rolling. Large,
broad, rich valleys, encircled by ele-
vations suitable for homes; 80 per
cent. fine farming land, balance pas,
ture land.
Forestry.
Ash, Elm, Gum, blackberry, Live
Oak, Mesquite, Pecan, abundant fol
shade, fencing and wood.
Soil.
About 60 per cent. rich, dark, sandy
loan, balance chocolate or red sandy
loan, usually preferred by local farm
ers, and each with soil averaging from
2 to A feet deep, with clay subsoil
which holds water.
Climate.
Mild, balmy, healthy, PRACTICAL!
free from malaria, few frosts, no snow
no hard freezes; continuous sea breeze
moderates extremes Of heat and cold
producing warm winters and cool sum
mers. Average temperature about 6!
degrees.
Rainfall.
From the Government record, it |
safe to assume that the rainfall on thi
property has been fully IS inches pc
year, which is more than some of tn
old States have had, and is plentiful
for ordinary crops properly cultivated
and for Grass Growing.
improvements and Water.
This property is fenced and cross
fenced in many large and small pa
lures, with four barbed wires, wit
posts about ~ feet apart. Also
number of fine shallow wells.
Also a number of fine Lakes an
Tanks.
Also, a number of fine flowing Artt
sian Wells, whose crystal streams fio'
for miles and miles downsthose creeks
whose broad, rich valleys, irrigabl
from those continuously flown
streams, make it the ideal place fo
the Marketing Gardener who desire
to raise from two to three crops
marketable produce on the sam
ground every year.
Farming and Truck Farming.
Seasons never end.
This land is adapted to profitabl
culture of Beans, Cabbage, Celer.
Cucumbers, Lettuce, Tomatoes, Beet
Carrots, Onions, Radish, Squasl
Strawberries, C%auliflower, Okra, Oy
ter Plant, Peas, Rasberries, Turnip
Apricots, Catalogues, Grapes, Iris
Potatoes, Olives, Sweet Potatoes, b
nanas, Dates, English Walnuts, Fig
Melons, Peanuts, Barley, B~lackberrie
Broom Corn, Lemons, Plums, ToSa
co, Alfalfa, Rye, Oranges, PeacEe
Pecans, Corn, Cotton, Oats, Whea
Apples, Pears.
Page 63 of the book entitled "Bea'
tiful San Antonio" officially issued b
the Business Mems Club of San Al
tonic, dated May, 1906, says:
1T is readily conceded by all thos
who know anything about Texas thf
the most prolific agricultural sectio
is that which recognizes San Antoni
as its logical center, particularly tn;
portion directly south of San Antoni
with the Gulf of Mexico bordering c
the southeast and the Rio Grande DO
dering on the south and west.
} Within the last four or five year
, in the territory named, special atte
tion has been given to growing veg
tables, they maturing at a time whe
they secure the maximum prices c
Northern markets, which markets the
virtually invade without a competito
The profit in growing vegetables
this territory will be seen by al exar
ination Of the following figures, s
cured from reliable sources, shown
Net Earnings Per Acre:
"Watermelons from $500 to $4,000
"Cantaloupes from $4,000 to $500
cabbage from $125.00 to $225.00
"Cauliiower from $500 to $3.50
Beans and Peas from $4,000
$125.00.
|, Tomatoes from $125.O0 to $4,000
Potatoes from $4,000 to $4,000.
Onions from $4,000 to $4,000.
"Tabasco Peppers from $4,000
100000 per acre.
THE Chicago Record-Herald pu
fishing the following individual expe
ences in South Texas:
'Men who came here with $500 al
$500 a few years ago are now inc
pendently rich.
"A young man who came to tt
Mans Precious Rib.