Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-01-05
/ TRIP TO TEXAS
Mr.. GUTHRIE OF THE U. S.
LAND OFFICE WRITES INTER
EsTINGLY ABOUT HIS
TRIP. sssa s

Wichita, Kansas, Dec 29.Wichita
is a busy, lively growing place, but
does seem so dirty to me. MY old
friends and associates who have not
checked In seem to me generally to
be aging fast, and it has rather de.
depressing effort upon my feelings.
The south county Of Texas i found
very new; crude and undeveloped, diff
.ferent from other places in the south
where I have been in that all or prac.
ideally all of the labor is Mexican.
These people at this time work for
less wages than the negroes work for,
and for this reason a person seldom
sees a negro in that section Of Texas.
5A grown man Mex. } in that section
receives about $40 to $12 per month
for his work, and ST Mexican, sor fifty
cents per day currency Of the United
States is about the average wage by
the day. The Mexicans pick cotton
for less than half what is paid to ne
groes and whites in the north Of Tex.
as and Oklahoma. Brownsville, Tex.
as, was informed, is about seven.
eighths Mexican in population, and
but little Improvement going on in the
city. The military reservation while
quite large and well planed for build,
ings and location, is unoccupied, and
the general sentiment there was or
seemed to he that the citizens would
rather have 1t remain vacant rather
than have the troops like they last had
there. n 4: IS Nv
Matamoros, Old Mexico, is quaint
old town. Formerly a city of 10000,
but now only about 5000. Our half
breed guide who seemed to beSquite an
intelligent fellow for a Mexican, said
since Diaz had been president and
petty revolutions had been kept down
that the town had run down badly, as
it had formerly been quite a place for
the starting Of revolutions. We saw
many things Of considerable interest
to us, but / don't believe / want to
live there. Is
While about 1000 more miles south
of San Diago, Cal, 4 found the mini.
mum temperature at Brownsville to
have been twenty degrees lower at
Brownsville than in Southern Califor.
MIA. This at once explained to me
the reason for the absence of orange
and lemon grooves. Raymondville ]
found to be very new little town that
/ think; will be a thriving northern
settlement in a few years. The land
being cleared Of the chapprel very fast
around this place is quite level and is
being cleared of the chapprel very
fast, but it seems to me that the land
is held to high as the wild land before
clearing is held at more than inn
proved farms can be bought for in
Kansas, Oklahoma and the Dakotas,
the labor, expense and ddelay of clear.
ing is quite an item in the opening Of
a new place there. 81
Corpus Christie was the only place
where touched the salt water Of the
gulf. This is quite a pretty place and
has many white Americans with the
Mexican part Of the town off to one
side. While this is also an old place,
I found many new and modern places
and new buildings going up. It is, how
ever, largely a place Of resort for
winter tourists and sportmen for hunt
ing and fishing.
Ft. Worth found to be a hustling,
bustling place, and the emigration is
immense to that country. Many set
tiers, but also many looking for In
vestments for idle capital.