The Springdale news., 1909-02-24

i brick hotel, and it's doors and windows were as we'll set in the i building as any building in i Springdale, but 1t is an actual fact that We could not sit down in the office of that hotel and write q letter owing to the sand blowing through the doors and windows and covering your pap CT so that you could not see your writing. and We were ln grave doubt all day whether there were any buildings across the street from the hotel or not. But about sundown the street became pis- ible and we found quite neat little town filled with people who had Tn d measure become tribe of sand eaters and they did not seem to mind little zephyrs like that, but as iu the Biblical his tory of the Good Samaritan, .there were some who passed by on the other side well, we were one of themuns.
 Now only to connect the threads of our story IS our only reason for mentioning any DOT tion of territory from Fl Paso to Del Rio, Texas, for of all the desolate, rocky and worthless country that We have passed through, that strip takes the whole bakery with the baker thrown in, yet the wild desire for land las so taken the people of this T.. $. that thousands of acres of that worthless dirt are being sold 1t prices that are beyond | reasonable value for good land. Passing Del Rio where we struck the irrigating districts raising the water from the Rio Graude river and distributing II over land held 1t from 9lO0 to $500 per acre, not being blooded enough to Wrestle with a aproposi- ton like that, We again hit tile track for a new proposition, be- ing I new town down in the arttsian belt about the center of Dlmmit County, 100 miles south west of San Antonio. And now excuse uS | moment, NIT. Editor, while We cool off enough 50 that We. in our enthusiasm narrate only such facts as will seem prob able to you people down in Ark anSaS, for were We to tell you all the actual facts, and proven by our persoual inspection, of this territory, you would say Hoole must be getting flighty.
 First this climate, whlch was my first consideration. IS abso- lutely perfect. The altitude IS about 700 it., and the air is so pure and seems to possess such all abundance of collaboration that when you get up of morn- ing and open your door klnd of carefully for fear of catching cold, as you would in some sec tions, the balny air strikes you so pleasantly and forcibly that you just feel like you can't wait to change your palamas for your clothes, but that you must get right out and shout and drink in oceans of the pure ozone before thinking ot the casual things of this mundane sphere. But after getting filled up with Texas at mosphere your appetite comes on with such rush that 1t taxes the hotel to its capacity to get the rations to you fast enough to satisfy you.
 Now, naturally you all want to know about Asherton, and the possibilities and proba bilities of this wonderful section. This town has just been laid out and IS to be the terminus of the new railroad now. building from a San Antonio connection with the 1. X c. II. to Laredo, and winch is to be completed by May 1, thls year. The owner of vast tract of land in the center of Dimmit County. Col. Asher
 Richardson, one of the oldest and most prominent and respected citizens of the state of Texas, and a man of tremendous energy, has Lad o40 acres surveyed into ppa ba tnpSt baat,fitut fowr