The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-02-27
TEXAS OPPORTUNITIES
Texas Panhandle Great in Natural
Resources lis Being Deyel-
oped by Northerners
GOOD CITIZENS SETTLING

During recent months we have had
much to say regarding Texas, and yet
all that has been written does but scant
justice to this wonderful state.
The southwest is developing in a
marvellous manner, but one cannot APP
preciate just what this means until he
goes through the country, and sees for
himself the opportunities which await
the coming of northern enterprise and
hustle. = Texas is veritable empire
and, although it even now leads all other
states in many products, it's development
has only begun.
The richest section of Texas and the
part that appeals strongly to northern
ers, is the panhandle district. as the
conditions are more similar to those
they have been accustomed to-; at the
s. me time the soil and climate are
adopted to the representative southern
crops, the climate is ideal, neither ex-
IRENE heat nor cold being known and
the altitude makes it immune against
malaria, the curse of many southern
states. THE soil is the rich chocolate
loan that looks SO strange to the man
from Illinois or Iowa, but the produc-
tiveness Of which cannot be questioned
in face OF the enormous crops which it
raises with never failing regularity
For unknown ages the buffalo ranged
these plains, and they now have
fertility that is apparently inexhausta-
BILE.
! The great problem in Texas was a.
water supply, but the Panhandle region
is located over a vast lake, so that soft
pure water is found at depths varying
from 100 to ESQ feet, and it is free from
all injurious mineral deposits. Of the
products many pages could be written.
Hard wheat grows in Texas as well as
in North Dakota; corn and oats have a
yield equal to similar crops in Illinois,
while alfalfa is a wonderfully profitable
crop, netting $40 to $15 an acre, all
fruits and vegetables thrive in this sec
ton, and many farms have been paid
for from the fruit raised on a few
acres. Stock raising is one of the lead
ing industries, hogs being fattened on
alfalfa at cost of two cents per pound
and the dairy interests give promise Of
big returns.
The more we write of Texas the more
we feel that we would not be believed
if we attempted to mention even briefly
all the natural resources of the state,
So, rather we urge our readers who are
/ interested to visit the southwest. A
! trip Of even a week is liberal educa-
!. ton for one series of surprises after
another greets the visitor, for be he
rich man, poor man, beggarman, chief
he will find opportunities opening be
fore him like the dream of his youth.
Hundreds Of people from the north are
taking advantage Of the low price Of
land in Texas and securing farms that
will one day make them rich
Northern farmers are selling 11heir
land at $75 to $3.50 an acre and going
south to invest in equally fertile land
. at $40 to $40 an acre Many people
who live in the city are making siren
uous effort to get away from the I'M
settled conditions and the unhealtful
environments of urban life; still others
are buying land merely as an invest
ment, knowing full well chat the price
will steadily advance with the increase
Of population and the development Of
the country.
Readers who may be interested can
obtain some valuable information from
Bayard Tourtellotte, Pleasant Prairie,
| Wis, who has some literature on Texas
that is thoroughly reliable and it gives
the records and statistics that tell more
eloquently than any words of the
growth and the natural possibilities Of
the state
/ Mr. Tourtellotte is also in position to
give personal information to all in
quiries, and he may be relied upon in
all of his transactions The next .ex-
eursion will be Tuesday, Mar. 3. DIV