Bisbee daily review., 1907-11-03
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Settlers By the Thousands
Take Up Homes Where
Climate and Opportunity
More Agreeable Than East,

wore AgeedDle man Last
SAN ANTONIO. Nov. IA marvel
Gus transformation is going on in va
and Southwest, and there is no place
where the change is more remark
able than in the gulf coast country
of Texas. Three years ago there were
FIVE houses. inhabited by white people
on the line OF the railroad between
Brownsville and Corpus Christi
the st. Louis. Brownsville and Mexico
railway. Today there are fully 20
600 families in this same district
More than three-quarteTs of them
have taken mp their abode in the
gulf coast district during the last
twenty months.
With the aid of the various rail-
road systems this development IS
going on at a remarkable rate. 1t is
said that Oklahoma and parts OF
Texas have in a few years equaled
the development that occupied forty
years in Kansas. There are no more
slow professions OF prairie schcon-
ers" carrying a few families into an
n0LflE0 luEtSdd VI TINS h4ANA =
are excursions arranged by railroads
which carry homeseekers by the thoh-
sand into the new districts. The
new settlers have the advantage also
Of a ready market. which can be sup
piled by use of rail facilities
Railroads are piayinS a DrCm!ncnc
part in this settling process. as il is
for their interests to have thriving
farms along their lines II Is saia
that settlers are going into The
Southwest at the rate OF almost
I zoe coo a month.
Land anywhere in the great tract
that stretches back 100 miles or SO
from the coast has an established val
ne today and is steadily approaching
in worth. yet it IS onl va few years,
comparatively speaking, since cattl
grazing was the only use to which
millions of acres were devoted.
Cattle kings fought hard to retain
control OF this fne grazing country
where they had reigned supreme for
many years. and they are stu doing
what they can to discourage farm
ers. whom they regard as INTERIOR
ers. Having had control for so many
wears the cattlemen had come to re-
ElNU llc iGnu do AlANtA BlSiNAN=T 49,
they are now forced to fence in their
herds. and rice and cotton grow
where formerly the ionghoTns roamed.
The ranches, some Of them Of cnor-
nous size, are being pafcciei out
among the farmers. On one Of nrs.s
ranches, the King rGs-ch. It was .lossi-
! bic to ride forty nIi 5 in a straight
I Enc.
Texas is of sum enormous size that
/ great variations Of climate are TO be
/ found within ITS b2i:lUr5. And in I'd
dition to being the largest state, ii
( bids fair to become one of the rich
est N the products of the soil.
/ The southern portion of the gulf coast
/ IS said to rival Hawaii as @ sIG2-
a ns9@5' soa a. eGH = no. ea7s
frost. F..1e soil s uaeqaaiIleI ii
! richness, even in Cuba. it is said.
Conditions generally are remarkably
\ favorable for the growth of sugar
cane, which can be allowed to ripen
| for twelve months. Great plantation
| Texas is planning to become a lead.
Z factor in the sugar markets. Rein
| cries are being built and railroad facil.
: tiles are good. 1t is believed that two
! years win see this region entirely
settled up with thriving farmers.
This is a great place for the man
of moderate means. The usual plan
| is for such a man to buy a small
| tract. pay for it with its own produce
the first year, put up a house and barn
the second and enjoy the income after
| that. The prospects are so attractive
| that many a prosperous farmer in
| Illinois and Iowa has gone into the
new country, along with those from
the worked-out farms in the East
Rich as the land is, il Is worthless
almost, unless irrigated. Fortunately
there is what appears to be an I'M
i dergTound river, OF lake, that can be
| tapped at various depths up 10 1000
feet. The water from the deeper ar
| tessan wells is too warm to drink.
1t is the introduction of water that
has wrought such a wonderful change
on the former cattle ranges.
Cotton exports flcn the port OF
Galveston for the year ended June so,
/ 1897. amounted to s211,409 .055. Some
OF this cotton came from Oklahoma
and come from the indian Territory,
but most Of il Wa, Texas grown
7 fdluE lflt E1I aRE
realized from the fact that Galveston
exports more cotton than any ether
Eort in the United States. This
brings It into the position of the sec
ona exporting city in the country. II
all products are taken into consider
alton.
/ curious story IS told regarding
the discovery of the fitness of the
ground N northern Texas and okla
homs for the culture OF cotton. E
p McCabe, former auditor of Kansas
bought two sections near Guthrie and
induced upward of 1000 negroes TO *
there from various parts Of the South
The town founded by the negroes
proved a failure, as nothing would
grow on the dry soil surrounding 1t
In the fan OF 1892 some negroes ven
Ia Che business men CT Guthrie an
told them that few stray seeds O.
cotton which had been planted had
grown splendifIy They believed the
could raise good crops II supplied
with cotton seed. The soil Tesembiet
that Of Georgia, and the cotton which
they had grown In small quantities
war OF extra fine quality
The business men knew little mor'
about cotton thsn do the farmers o