The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1908-10-14
OFF TO TEXAS
WITH JULIA
EDITOR ELOPES WITH EXCURSION CAR TO
THE SUNNY SOUTH.
STRAIGHT THROUGH DIXIE LAND
Thirteen Hundred Miles South Through Five
States to the Gulf Of Mexico.

is not bad a bit, for Julia is a most |
comfortable, commodious and eXpan-
sive travelling companion as all the
land and pleasure seekers who have
made the long trip of the c. S. Fowler
& Bro. special car Julia can testify.
We left Denison Monday morning
and saw the sunrise on the beautiful
Boyer valley on the first of our jour
ney. Near Council Bluffs, just lit
tie way from town we saw one of the
prettiest sights of the journey-a flock
of several hundred pelicans; when
they rose in flight it looked as if the
sky was suddenly filled with great
White Conyne Kites. 1t is surely un-
necessary to tell anything of Council
we waited an hour for a Burlington
tain the great building with the score
of waiting tourists appeared at the
ghost of those earlier days in tie 70's
and SOS when it was the busiest tran
sfer station in all the world and when
every day saw under its roof natives
The glory of the Union Pacific trans
fer depot had departed, partly on ac
count of the great depots at Omaha,
but more because the great stream
of immigration has been diverted-it
is no longer go out west, young man.
| but go northwest or south-west-any-
| land.
While our primary object in taking
this trip is to view the famous lands
of the Gulf strip, We are not keeping
our eyes shut and we have decided to
divide our letters; this one will be
about the journey south, next one
we shall see today; next about Corpus
Christie, still farther south; next about
Camado Ranch, the objective point
of our trip; the Houston and Calves
| ton.
Reaching Kansas City we met Jas.
1
Fowler who was TO personally con
duct the excursion He is a clever
| bright young man who has the knack
OF making you feel perfectly at home,
without continually striving to be ''e,l-
tertaining.' AT Kansas City We met
a man who had visited these Texas
lands owned by the Fowlers. and
from him we got our first dose OF Tex
as fever
They have lands down there. which
YOU can buy-3 to 10 acres for one
acre OF Iowa land. They are just as
| productive in any one erop-eXcept
with this difference-you can work
them the year round. Your Iowa
farmer works like SIXTY Chat was
not the word he used) for afew mont as
in the year and then he aud his fam
lily and the horses and the taxes and
the interest keep ON eating up the
profits during the winter months. The
Texas farmer farms all the year and
his expenses are not so heavy, fuel is
much less, clothing bill smaller, taNes
not so much, even his board is cheap
er for ii his Wife keeps a garden they
can have fresh vegetables the yeal
around with fresh picked oranges all
the time"
We told him the Iowa farmers were
getting rich at it, and then he asked
us ii they We're not getting ric. more
through the rise of land values than
through the actual production of the
farm, and at any rate, if it was not a
better proposition for the young man
to buy cheap lands with the rise
still in them, than the land that had
done riz"
Kansas City is the heart of the
great Southwest there are many otnel
splendid cities but Kansas City is the
nerve center for all the grain and cat
tie business of an empire as large a<
Germany and it is growing by leaps
and bounds
Julia started at $3.50 a. m and We
made her acquaintance an hour earl
, Ter. She is a comfortable Pullman Will
excellent accommodation for the trip
Frank is head porter and has
boy at his command and thel
there is a Chef who works wonder.
in miniature kitchen not half so bis
as a good sized closet.
The board-for we have our meal
on the car-is excellent, well cooked
plain hearty food that touches the spo
though of course the fancy frills o