The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1910-12-22

| should see nothing else. The streets
in Metamoras, like all old Spanish
places, are narrow and generally poor
ly paved. The buildings have gloomy |
appearance, being generally low and |
squatty with small openings all of
which are protected by heavy iron bars, !
similar TO those used on our county
! Jail. don't know whether it was to /
! keep the thieves in or out, one thing |
noticeable there wore many dark-eyed |
Senoritas peering out upon the passing |
stranger but not many to be seen upon |
the streets.
After visiting many places Of interest
our return brought us to the city mar
ket. a very interesting place, here were
stalls that supplied almost every
known thing that could be Thought Of,
every variety of tropical fruit, nuts,
vegetables, flowers and manufactured
articles, curios, etc Some good, but
mostly trashy and the tourist will pay
all thing is worth If he buys. Our
purchases were limited but we had our
first experience with custom officers on
getting back to the U. S. side one of
them asked very politely to inspect our
purchases, as they were light and most
ly carried in hand it only took about
, minutes for him to tax us about 80
per cent Of all we showed up, being n
little hard Of hearing suppose ! did
not understand and failed to show up
some light silks, etc which came in
duty free.
From Brownsville we took the coast
line road to Houston, distance Of 3iS
miles, the road was about 20 miles back
from the Gulf shore. elevation y to 81
feet above sea level. \ great deal Of
good country TO be seen on this route,
but many land and townsite schemes
being promoted in locations that will
, be disastrous To- the investor. While
surface appearance may be very pleas
ing to the eye there many Graw backs
such as gumbo, sour Of other defective
I soils and all tourists should be on their
guard before purchasing.
e From Houston we took the run down
10 to Galveston, distance OF 80 miles
+ much good country enroute, but the
\ principal attraction was Galveston it's
}, self with the wonderful docks and sea
e wall and ships of all nations, loading
+ and unloading at the docks There
i Just came in an emigrant ship from
I Germany with 2O0O passengers to be
r located throughout Texas. 1t was O
o monster vessel and will return to Ger.
n many loaded with thousands OF bales OF
o cotton of which there were acres and
J. acres piled IN waiting shipment, There
h were many vessels in port but the
n rules are so strict we did not get to in
i spect any of them as closely as We
t. would have liked. The weather wa
II perfect and the water was just rufller
10 enough to make liue sailing and give i
ID the appearance of FURNISHED silver a
r. it glisteued in the sun at the lishinl
ii dock where boat loads of fish and oys
ID tiers, one boat came in with 10 tons o
l. sea bass, that sure looked good to on,
who loves fishing, while many launche
ST were anchored far out on the bay fish
20 ing for tarpon.
: The city is making great improve
II ments and under present conditions
N think offers good inducements to in
ie vestors. Our trip from Galveston wa
g. without special interest rain for abou
e. 100 miles. Houston to Fort Worth
; Secured section in Pullman car all tn
t. way to Harrington, Kansas. Fror
OF Fort Worth all the way around to Bca
go yer county is droughty, wheat poo
,h prospect, other crops were light, bes
us on route was from Pratt, Kans., t
Us Greensburg Had but one break dow
10 on the road, draw-heah pulled'out max
Id ing delay of two hours and causn
Is some excitement, the main part {
! which was rather laughable. one ol
] gray headed darkey riding on the trai
an was anxious to see what was the eN
re element and | suppose not KNOWN
k what window was and the one besid
ht which he rode being large plate glas
st looked like all out of doors, he butte
ed his head into it smashing it to splinter
lr, He rubbed his head and said, "goll
of dat was a pow'ful jolt dis ole he'd got.
gn With our safe arrival home and lindin
co our friends and dear ones under til
n usual prevailing conditions in old Beo
ad yer, cheerful and happy, our trip end
10 AnIrr