Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-08-13
FART LOANS
At 5 Per Cent. Complete set OF
Abstract of Title to all Lands
in Audubon County.
CHAS. BAGLEY.
Doctor Carrie Brooks. Wood, Dental off.
ice opposite Commercial Savings Bank.
CROSS-S-RANCH
A VALUABLE TRACT OF LAND In
SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS

Cross S Ranch is a body of land
containing 100000 acres of fine agri-
cultural land located in Dimit and Ia
valla Counties in the Southwestern
part of the State of Texas. 1t is stu
ated between the International and
Great Northern Railroad and the
Southern Pacific Railroad, and runs
within three miles of the town of Car
rizo Springs, the County Seat of Dim
init County.
Description
This tract of 100000 acres of land
is located in "The Heart of the Arte-
sian Belt" and comprises about one
quarter of the belt. The strongest
we'll in Southwest Texas is located
right here in the town of Crystal City.
The Nueces River runs through the
center. of this tract of land the entire
distance, and in the Southwestern
part of the tract are two large lakes
one about six miles long and the other
about twelve miles long. These lakes
are about twelve to twenty feet deep.
About Is per cent of this property is
what would be called level mesquite
land: the balance is slightly rolling.
Probably 95 per cent of the land is
adapted to farming and irrigation,
with the exception of the drainage
area. The Pecan, Live Oak, Elm and
blackberry grow along the Lakes and
River. The Timber is very valuable
and is considered one of the largest
and best bodies of timber in South
west Texas.
Soil and Climate
Probably 60 per cent of this land is
black sandy loan, with just enough
sand to make the land work nicely.
A large part of the balance is black
waxy and choloate loan. The soil
varies in depth from two TO forty feet
deep, and underneath the soil is clay
subsoil. A great deal of the land has
a soil of about twenty feet in depth.
The climate is about the same as the
famous climate of San Antonio, Texas.
The winters are very mild, having
only few frosts, and very seldom ice,
The climate is healthy, the air is fine
and bracing and fullo of ozone, and the
winters are so mild that one can al
most plant crops without regard to the
season. The summers are warm, but
not oppressive, while the summer
Hot winds are unknown here.
Cross S Ranch Lands Valuable
The real bedrock reason for land
values, measured from the standpoint
of productiveness, is CLIMATE, for
climate is the one great fixed and I'M
changeable factor in production. You
can change and even make soil, but
in nj
mate. Whenever, man buys patch
of land he gets a bunch of CLIMATE
along with it whether he wants il or
not. What, then, is the influence of
climate on the value of land? If pro-
ductiveness fixes values, CLIMATE
determines both the possibilities and
Middle West and in the Mississippi
Valley, farmers, if they are lucky,
make one crop a year. What is the
mate that goes with the land in those
states is the sort that limits the pro-
duction to five or six months while the
climate that goes with GROSS S
RANCH lands is such asto make pro-
duction possible every month of the
year. Instead of one scant crop which
the northern farmer snatches from
the ground while the sun shines be-
tween snow-storms and billiards., the
farmers of the Cross S County make
from two to three crops per year and
they are crops which yield profit
per acre many times greater than those
that are adapted to the whimcal wealth
er conditions of the North. There is
no getting away from the fact that
when a man buys land he buys more
than dirt. He buys climate, at least
he gets it and has to take it whether he
wants it or not. This is one of the
reasons why CROSS S RANCH lands
will soon be worth from five to ter
times what lands in the North, valued
at one hundred and one hundred and
fifty dollars per acre, are now consid
cred to be worth.
Go and Investigate The Facts
All the following crops grow proli
fically in the Cross S Country:
Sugar Cane, Oats, Alfalfa, Cottor
and Corn; All kinds of Winter vege
tables such as Celery, Bermuda Onions
Egg Plant, Califower, Cabbage, Strine
Beans, Roasting Ears, Irish Potatoes
Watermelons, Canteloupes and man,
other varities of vegetables. Also al
kinds of Citrus Fruits, including
; Oranges, Lemons, Lines, Grape Frui
Figs, Dates, Bananas, Pineapples
and many other varities of fruits
Grapes of different kinds are success
fully grown on these lands. In fac
! anything grown il Southern Califor
MIA will grow on Cross S Ranch. W.
are not trying to sell "a cat in bag'
Come to Cross S Ranch and ask to b.