Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-05-14
TEXAS CHEAP LANDS
Homeseekers' Excursion May 10
to the Land Of Great Oppor-
tunity
SEE E. w. WINERY, AGENT
w. P. soash Land Company of Water
loo, Iowa, Will Send Special Train
You Travel in Comfort and Get a
Trip That Will Interest and Instruct
You-Read the Details.

Get ready to go to the South Plains
of Texas Tuesday. May 10.
You travel in comfort on our spec
ial train composed of buffet, library
car, standard Pullman and diner. 1t
is trip you will remember all your
life-to a country of Astounding nat
ural resources and unlimited POSSIBLE
tiles.
If you have never set foot on the
South Plains of Texas, you have no
conception of its wonders, its riches.
its golden opportunities. For many
years the millionaire cattle kings held
sway over this great empire of the
southwest They fought against the en-
croachments of the settler with every
resource at their command. In their
anxiety to prevent the peaceful invas-
ion of the farmer, they went so far as
to circulate reports rejecting on the
fair name of the Plains country--seek-
ing to spread abroad the idea that the
land was fit only for grazing pur-
poses.
But right on their own ranches these
same cattle kings were raising from
four to six crops of alfalfa year from
which they realized $50 to $50 per acre.
Their orchards were loaded down with
fruit Their grain fields were produc-
ing tremendous yields. AS these facts
became better known, the tide of i'm
migration set in toward the southwest
with irresistible strength. The cattle
kings have yielded to the inevitable.
One by one the great ranches have
been opened to the settler. Today the
South Plains Of Texas are rapidly
passing into the ownership of farmers
from the middle west, and being trans
formed into highly productive farms.
The last of these great ranches to be
opened up to the settler is Running
Water ranch, a noble body of rich land
$1,000 acres, known thru
comprising $1,000 acres. is known thru
ders as one of the finest ranch prop
critics in the world.
It's recent purchase by the w. P.
Soash Land Company, Of Waterloo,
Iowa, has created an opportunity for
northern farmers which in all proba-
biity never will be repeated.
In line with his policy of develop
ment, Mr. Soash began dividing this
great ranch into farms and selling them
off at low prices to progressive farm
ers and investors of the central west.
The rapidity with which this rich
farming land is going is the best evil
dence that it is all and more than is
claimed for it, Already half of Running
Water ranch has been purchased by
men who responded to the invitation
of Mr.. Soash: "Come and see for your
self" When an Iowa or Illinois or Min
nesota farmer sets eyes on this prop
erty. he knows that it is really worth
ten times it's present price. There are
portions of this ranch, already under
that the owners would not
sell for 800 an acre. You can buy the.
same kind of land, capable of produc-
ing the same yields, at $3.50 to $40
per acre.
1t is because you will find the facts
exactly as we state, that we offer to
take you to see it yourself and then
decide whether to buy or not to buy.
Abundance of pure, sweet water is
assured not only by the innumerable
rivulets, spring fed streams and ponds
which gave to this land the name
Running Water Ranch but by the
which insures water i'll
unlimited quantities at a depth of from
10 to go feet. The country is underlaid
With sheet water. With an altitude OF
$500 feet and an abundant rainfall
from March to November, followed by
/ dry winter, the climatic conditions
are perfect for both health and the
growth of crops.
Railroad transportation is vitality
If farming territory. The Panhandle
Shortline is already within eight miles
IF Running Water Ranch, and con-
;truction work is being pushed with
Ill possible speed. This new railroad
enters Running Water Ranch in the
extreme northwest corner, crossing 1T
for a distance of nearly
twenty-five miles. This railroad opens
Up several hundred thousand acres of
rs fine agricultural land as the sun
ever shown on.
Three townsites have already been
located upon this line of railroad on
our tract, including the county seat of
Lamb county. Good, smooth, hard
.oads run in every direction, enabling
'armers to market their crops easily
md cheaply.
Come now. Get in ahead of the
'ailroad and get the benefit of the big
advance in the land values that fol-
ow railroad construction.
Our land experts have covered the
state, carefully and critically exam
ming the various tracts, and our i'm
nense holdings are the cream of the