Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-06-26

$4,000 acres comprises one or 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
eosa County,, and extending through
Ataecosa and a part of McMullen
Counties, to within II miles of my
6O,00o-acre Live Oak County Ranch,
which I 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
Q good farm and town lot for his home
in town / will donate and turn over
to three bonded Trustees, $250,000
from the proceeds of the sale of this
property to the purchasers, as 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
Il rains too much, and the arid section
of West Texas, where it does not rain
enough.
It's close proximity to San Antonio,
the largest city in the State, with a
hanees Its value as a market for Agri-
euiturAl and Truck farm products far
Beyond the value of similar land not
20 favorably located.
Topography.
Level to slightly rolling Large,
broad. rich valleys, encircled by ele-
VAtions suitable for homes; 80 per
cent. fine farming land, balance pas
1ure land.
Forestry.
Ash, Elm, Gum, blackberry, Live
Oak, Mesquite, Pecan, abundant for
shade. fencing and wood.
Soil.
About go per cent. rich, dark, sandy
loAm, balance chocolate or red sandy
loan. usually preferred by local farm
0rs, and each with soil averaging from
! to feet deep, with clay subsoil,
which holds water.
Climate.
Mild, balmy, healthy, practically
9fee from malaria, few frosts, no snow,
NO hard freezes; continuous sea breeze
moderates extremes of heat and cold,
producing warm winters and cool sum-
nsrs, Average temperature about 81
Degrees
From the Government record, it is
safe to assume that the rainfall on this
property has been fully 35 inches per
year, which is more than some of the
old States have had, and is plentiful
for ordinary crops properly cultivated,
and fer Grass Growing.
Improvements and Water.
This property is fenced and cross
fenced in many large and small pas
lures, with four barbed wires, with
posts about II feet apart. Also a
number of fine shallow wells.
Also a number of fine Lakes and
Tanks.
Also, number of fine flowing Arte-
sian Wells, whose crystal streams flow
Tor miles and miles down those creeks,
whose broad, rich valleys, irrigable
from those continuously flowing
streams, make it the ideal place for
the Marketing Gardener who desires
20 raise from two to three crops Of
marketable produce on the same
ground every year.
Farming and Truck Farming.
Seasons never end.
This land is adapted to profitable
culture OF Beans, Cabbage, Celery,
Cuoumbers. Lettuce. Tomatoes, Beets,
Carrots, Onions, Radish, Squash,
Strawberries, Cauliflower, Okra, Oys-
ter Plant, Peas, Rasberries, Turnips,
Apricots, Cantaloupes, Grapes, Irish
Potatoes. Olives, Sweet Potatoes, Ba-
nAnas, Dates, English Walnuts, Figs,
Melons, Peanuts, Barley, Blackberries,
Broom Corn. Lemons. Plums, Tobao-
90. Alfalfa, Rye, Oranges, Peaches,
Pecans. Corn, Cotton. Oats, Wheat,
Apples, Pears.
Page 63 Of the book entitled Beau
0ful San Antonio" officially issued by
the Business Mems Club of San An.
tonic, dated May, 1906, says:
TT Is readily conceded by all those
who know anything about Texas that
the most prolific agricultural section
10 that which recognizes San Antonio
a. its logical center. particularly that
portion directly south Of San Antonio
with the Gulf of Mexico bordering on
the southeast and the Rio Grande Dor.
dering on the south and west
Within the last four or five years
In the territory named, special atten-
zion has been given. to growing vege
tables, they maturing at a time when
Northern markets, which markets they
virtually invade without a competitor
The profit In growing vegetables in
this territory will be seen by an exam
nation OF the following figures, Sc
cured from reliable sources, showing
Net Earnings Per Acre:
"Watermelons from $500 to $4,000
"Cantaloupes from $4,000 to $500.
Cabbage from $125.00 to $225O0.
"Caulidower from $500 to $225.00
Beans and Peas from $4,000 to
$4,000.
Tomatoes from $125o0 to $4,000.
Potatoes from $4,000 to $4,000.
"0nions from $4,000 to $4,000.
Tabasco Peppers from $4,000 Il
$4,000 per acre.
"The Chicago Record-Herald pub
Ashing the following individual expert
onoes In South Texas:
Men who came here with $500 and
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