Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-02-10
"A Trip TO The Gulf Coast Coun-
try OF Texas.

a., Mr.. Editorials requested | win
give you 4 short sketch of the writer's
"trip into and through the great state
OF Texas. and through that wonderful,
wonderfully a'ivertis-d gulf coast
country. We went through Texas.
not on a steer, but on one of the
mighty equipped trains of the Rock
Island 4 Pacific system. ! secured
berth and seat in the private Pull
man Coach Of the -Richey Co.
at KANSAS City through to the gulf.
Left Versailles the morning of the fire
in Pric4's store at a a. m, nice, clear
and mbderate weather, snow all gone
but i@e on ponds. left Kansas City
at 40 a. M, over two hours late.
Was jwhirled throiszh Lawrence and
Topeka. no snow, but the Kaw river
w&s up and some of the immense ice
Mas gone but in places still solid, in
, other places piled high in gorges.
After leaving Topeka encountered
some remains OF snow, but before
reaching Harrington all traces OF snow
and ice gone, and passed through a
fine country, wheat looking fine and
green. Darkness overlook us just as
we reached the city of Wichita, later
we reti;sd and was oblivous of the
beautiful country spinning apast us.
Daylight overlook us as we entered
Fort Worth. Texas. Our train left
{about 8 a. IN. passing through a very
: fine country south Of Fort Worth for
200 miles: farmers busy blowing and
listing for cotton, and saw bea Itiiul
green wheat fields. Later Oh went
thropght a poorer country. The
farIFiers were busy preparing the
ground but were using OK teams to
;,HIw with, which does not show pros
fyor;ty or advancement. The fine
! white houses and red barns, like you
see here in Missouri. are conspicuous
in that country by their absence. bat
! instead you will find smaP shac!.s,
4 and everything indicating a iack Of
energy or a poorer country. The
only product of the country seems to
! he cotton, the land seemed to be very
thin through the pine belt. Darkness
again overlook us some forty or fifty
miles north of Houston, but landed
there safe at p. m. at what is known
as the Santa Fe depot, about ten
blocks from the business cenler of the
city. There were about fifty in this
car, all from the north. We immed-
lately to ook street car for the Alli-
son-Ri&hey Office in the center of
BUSINESS on Maine ST., was intro
duGed and they forthwith brought
forth from cold storage (not wine and
beer) but box of the Texas Satsuma
Oranges, the finest, sweetest, most
Uelicious oranges the writer ever ate.
}rhey are seedIess. Next morning
J (Thursday) 1890 a. m. our coach
was hooked to Santa Fc train and
landed us on a side track at Parcland,
twenty miles south of Houston, where
the Alison-Richey Suburban Gardens
are an immense tract of about tnir-
ty thousand acres, all plated in ten
acre farms, (the suburban gardens
are practically all on paper YETI. This
is an immense tract OF prairie lands
as far rs the eye can see and almost
as level as a floor. Well, they had
thirteYn teams in waiting, and drove
us alP over this immense tract, about
ten yniles across and four or five the
other way. About one-third of this
hfs already been sold to northern
parties. and a few have commenced |
So brake the sod, little or no building