The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1908-04-21

0ditC otOu diN A4oNSloAs
visited.
Il visited this section and re
NAMED some time in the month o
August, few years ago. The onl.
time / suffered from heat, was dur
ing ny ride from Syracuse to But
falo. | never saw the thermomete
as high in this portion of Texas a
| il is frequently in and around Cen
trail New York. Not only does tn
mercury fail to go as high. but thu
air is more balmy, while the breeze
from the gulf and bay SO tempe
the atmosphere that one invariably
requires covering at night.
During the hottest days, sun
stroke is rarely, if ever, heard o
in Texas and in fact more cases o
sunstroke occur in New York city
or Chicago in one week during the
summer, than have ever beer
known throughout the whole stats
of Texas, during the past Fifty
years.
THE WINTER IN TEXAS.
ION Monday morning Feb. Ia
1908, actually found thin coat
ing of ice in the cutters, of Calves
ton, something that many of the
citizens had never seen before and
by those only vino were around
early. Soon the sun was out ano
light wraps were in order and with
in forty eight hours thereafter,
was purchasing Tin about as large
and extensive a clothing house as
I ever had SEEM light wearing ap-
parel. l remained in and about
the state until March II, and dc
not remember putting on my over
coat after my first two days.
DEMAND FOR LABOR.
As to the possibility of various
mechanics and laborers finding
work, the question is almost toe
ridiculous. With a state growing
more rapidly than any other por-
ton of the globe in the way OF
railroads, warehouses, public
buildings, bridges, building up OF
new towns, while temporarily they
are compelled to live in tents and
shacks. numbering, furniture and
other factories. etc, etc, makes
the question absurd"
THE FARMERS PROFIT.
Contrary to the rules in the
east, the greatest profit is here ac-
cruing to the tiIlers of the soil /
hardly dare tell you what is being
accomplished in the way of truck
ing along the coast line, in yre-
scribed territory, and which is to-
day aot excelled, if equaled by any
other spot on earth. Land that
here could have been purchased
two or three years ago. before the
railroads reached it. at 81 or less
per acre, has since jumped up ten,
twenty and thirty times the price,
and is still advancing"
WHAT CAN BE RAISED.
AS to what can be raised in the
gulf coast country, he said
Vegetables of every kind and
class, most prolifcally; berries,
that often bring the gardeners,
81, 900 or more per acre; grapes.
peaches, figs, musk melons. water
melons, oranges, nuts, and in some
places, apples in great abundance;
rice. cotton, all kinds of
grain, sweet and Irish potatoes.
Why not say, as is nearly true,
everything produced from land.
1t is not an uncommon thing
to harvest two, three or even more
crops per year off the same acre. 1
might further speak of bees, cattle
sheep. goats and poultry"
Mr.. Lawton continued: Like
all new countries, there is plenty
of hunting and fishing. l am told
that you are limited to
rs ducks a day and if you are a
good marksman you will have
reached your limit in from one
half to two hours. Not only do
the streams abound in various
kinds of fish, but oysters are otonly
delicious but obtainable all times
of the year. .
Closing his article, he advis-
ed the people of the north
to make just one trip to Texas and
the Gulf Coast country, and assur-
ed them that they would stay here,
once they fully realized the posi-
bilities of this wonderful country
Deafness Cannot he Cured