Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-09-20
A Catholic PASTORS Letter, from
San Angelo, Texas, to Robt. !
Phelan, Cresco, Iowa.

To all who are seeking safe invest
ment for their money, as well as to
those who are seeking homes | will
say, come and see this lovely country
this land of perpetual summer before
purchasing elsewhere.
San Angelo is located in the central
western portion of Texas, where the
three streams, north, south and middle
Conchos unite to form the main Concho
River. 1t is the county seat Of Tom
Green county and is the largest and
richest City in West Texas, being the
trading center not alone of Tom Green
county, but for a large agricultural
country throughout the neighborinp.
counties. 1t is near the geographical
center of the state and is about two
thousand feet above sea level which
insures COOL, delightful climate in
summer. We nave only three or four
months of very mild winter. AS a rule
people do not have to feed their stock
during the winter months.
The fame of this part Of the country
as a.health resort is well known
throughout the North and East. The
country is perfectly drained, and there
are no malarial swamps to contend
with. This country possesses a great
variety of soils, black, Fed, Chocolate
and sandy. The soil of prairies and
valleys is of a soft loan varying in
depth from three to ten feet.
Along the river valleys farming bv
irrigation is carried on successfullv.
Seventy per cent of the country is
fertile tillable land, while at present
only about fifteen per cent is being
utlllzed Tor farming purposes. I'm
mense bodies of land are now offered
for sale in tracts of from so to 5000
acres on easy terms, an the table
l25 feet.
IT The San Angelo country is exception
ally well supplied with running water.
Beginning with the Colorado river on
the north we have in succession the
North Concho, Middle Concho and South
Concho Rivers. Then we have Lipan
Creek, Dove Creek, Kickapoo Creek.
On our dry.land farms windmills are
failing supply of water. Our timber
is mostly mesquite and Pecan timber.
One OF the most important natural pro-
ducts is the misquito grass. 1t will
support stock ingood condition through
Another great natural source of rev.
enue to this country is the pecan crop
of which there is shipped, every good
worth. The Shipment of CATTLE from from
San Angelo annually amounts to $2,-
zoo, 600. 90, necessitatipg 1000 cars for
the spring shipment alone. Fifteen
thousand are shipped from San Angelo
annually.
San Angelo is today the largest in
terror wool market in the United States.
more wool being concentrated here
than at any single point. The Angora
goat is raised probably, this being
according to the opinion of experts the
best place for them in the United
States.
Poultry raising is also profitable
business, and small dairy farming is
uunfaillng as money making industry.
San Angelo is the terminus of the
Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway.
The crews of Kansas City, Mexico &
Orient Railway are now laying steel
rails from San Angelo north to CON
meet with the present terminus Of the
<. M. q Orient at Sweetwater and
through trains are expected to run
from Kansas City to San Angelo by
the first OF January 1903.
San Angelo has four Banks with a
united deposit of 81, 500, 600. 90. Five
large wholesale houses, a SIS. 900
hotel and several smaller ones, a SIS, $
900 court house, two large steam
laundries, two daily and three weekly
newspapers, two bottling works, a
$l00, 900 water plant, $50, 900 electric
light plant, two ice factories, a $40, 900
telephone system, twelve churches.
The Catholics have one of the prettiest
churches in the West. The Methodists
have a good church building at the
cost of $40, 600. The Baptists are
building a church at cost of S25. 600,
aud all the other ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS n,a