Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-11
RUSH TO TEXAS
REACHES CLIMAX
SEASON PROVES A GREAT
SUCCESS
NORTHERN AND EASTERN LAND
SEEKERS REJOICE
Coast Country, in Rain Belt, Attracts
Intensive Farmers-Local Office
Sells 1874 Five-Acre Farms
in Region

The fall and winter rush of home
seekers to the great southwest is ABOUT
over, and while great many are stu
coming the number is decreasing with
the coming of the northern and east
ern harvest seasons. 1t is interesting
to go over the country that attracted
this horde of land hungry Americans
and note the result.
Texas is one of the favorite regions
for the northern and eastern land seek
err, and this has been the heaviest
home seekers year in the history or
the rush to this section. The gulf coast
country continues to rule as the favor
ite with those looking for the more
productive lands, and what was only
q few years ago a country OF great
rice fields in the Galveston
country is today assuming the form or
a great city, each resident occupying
five or more acres of land.
One of the most successful OF the
many colonization enterprises in TINS
famous district is the Provident Land
company, Columbia Trust building,
Los Angeles. This concern owns a large
tract of land about fifty miles SOUTH
west of Houston, on the hrst plateau.
The land is subdivided into five-acre
farms, which are being sold all over
the United States to colonists and IN
yestors. While this company has been
operating less than a year the progress
it has made is remarkable. Hundreds
of these small farms have been sold,
and today more than 200 families are
living on the land. and new residents
arriving every week. In the townsite
on this tract several stores have been
opened, supplying the colonists with
various necessaries.
Big Business in Los Angeles
The Los Angeles branch, which is
the western office of this Kansas CITY
company, has been doing business but
a short time. In the past six weeks IL
reports the sale of 1874 of these five
acre farms to parties living in South
ern California, and has completed ar
rangements with German colony OF
several hundred persons to move to
this tract.
Since the property lies in the rain
belt irrigation, except for rice ana
oranges, is unnecessary. intensive
farming is the watchword, and north
ern and eastern farmers are learning
that where they formerly secured less
than 1 cents worth from thirty square
feet of land farmed in the usual man
ner they can. by practicing intensive
farming, reap the same income from
third of one square foot.
Land which can be purchased todav
for $40 to SIS an acre in this section
offers am excellent field for the nome
seeker and investor who can only at
ford to invest a small sum. Garden
vegetables of all kinds are ready for
the market early in the season and
command top prices. Cabbages, toma-
toes, etc, produce from $100 to 5000 an
acre, and many other products are
equally profitable. Small fruit, such
as Strawberries. blackberries, etc., also
produce heavily, and are ready for the
market very early in the season.
The editor of one of the Chicago
trade papers recently visited the Hous-
ton Galveston district, and has the fol-
lowing to say regarding the country:
'"The wonderful resources and pos
sibilities of Southwest Texas are rec
ognized by all who have had opportun-
nifty to see the country and study its
conditions. The rapidity and magnitude
of it's development is the wonder of the
world A few years ago the best agri-
cultural land could be bought for few
dollars per acre. The same land today
is bringing $50 to $50 an acre. The enor-
nous increase is due to the fact that
it's value is beginning to be realized.
Who can figure the value of lands that
yield 5000 to $1,000 an acre annually,
with every element of chance elimin-
ated 2"