The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-01-20
INVASION OF CROSS $50 RANCH
TERRITORY.
Ward d. Williams Returns from South
west Texas with Party of
Wisconsin People.

/ Ward u. WHlldmS, northern Man.
| ager of Cross 49, Ranch Farming
/ Company, has returned from Southwest
Texas with party of Wisconsin peo-
/ pie, who accompanied him on his recent
trip. Mr.. Williams is very enthusiast
tic in regard to development and prog
ress taking place in the Artesian Belt,
| and in an interview said:
eff the splendid type OF southern
Wisconsin farmers and business men,,
the salaried employee, or the man who,
works for wages, could realize and ap-
preciate the wonderful opportunities
for homes and investment in the Great
| Artesian Belt of Southwest Texas, it
would take special train twice each
month to carry these people to this dis
trict.
.sThere is an old saying that mans
| two eyes are better than two hundred
| arguments, and the truth of this old
saw was never illustrated in a more
| forceful manner than in connection
with what is taking place in the Sunny
| Southwest.
.sYou can talk to man, you can
! show him photographs, you can present
| to him reliable evidence and statements
| from parties in whom he has absolute
confidence, but still you cannot get,
under his belt. People can read about
Yellow Stone Park, they can look at
beautiful paintings, but when that old
stage coach swings around the bend
| into the great canon, there is some
thing that grips a fellow and makes
him sit up and take notice. This can
| truthfully be said of the man who
makes trip to Southwest Texas. The
Land Bug lands him and after he has
spent two or three days in personally
investigating and seeing what has been
accomplished in a period of two years
| time, he realizes what it means to To-
| cate or invest in a section that has
climatic conditions outrivaling Southern
| California, fertile soil and an mex
haustible supply of pure water.
| s"The owners of Cross s. Ranch
have spent hundreds Of thousands of
| dollars up to the present time in de-
veloping this wonderful property. Ex-
! cellent roads have been cut through
and two railroads have been built,
| traversing the center of the Ranch
| from north to south and east to west.
| One of these roads connects with the
| Great Southern Pacific System at
Uvalde, and the other traverses the
| Ranch from east to west and connects
with the Gould lines at Gardendale.
This insures fair freight traffic and
| the best marketing and shipping facili-
ties in the entire State of Texas.
! "Second in Importance TO the build
! ing of these two railroads, the owners
of the Cross IS Ranch have secured
| the services of Prof. Fred F. Mally.
| Professor Mally is man who enjoys. a
national reputation and is an expert on
irrigation, fruits and vegetables.
| Until recently he was at the head
! of the Agricultural Department of the
| State of Texas, has been connected
with the Government service, has serv-
| ed as President of the Texas Truck
| Growers Association, has enjoyed the
| distinction of being on the Faculties of
some of the best Agricultural Colleges
| in the United States, and his writings
! have appeared in the leading periodicals
and magazines of the country. ~
Professor Mally is carrying on a
| Great work, in organizing associations
| for the marketing of products raised
on the Ranch, insuring the producer a
| good price for his product at all times.
| where heretofore he was robbed by the
unreliable middle man and commission
merchant. He is organizing the farm
ers on the Ranch into different associa-
tons and they hold weekly meetings to
| determine what product will be put in
at certain time and when it will be
shipped, in order to insure carload lots
| leaving on certain day.
''Cross IS Ranch producers being
connected with the Texas Truck Grow
ers' Association are protected in every
respect on what they raise. Shipments
being made in carload lots and the
| amount received from such shipments
goes into pool, so that, for example,
the market on Bermuda onions being
good at Pittsburg and poor at Omaha,
general average is determined and
the producer obtains his honest share
1--WE do not care to sell any of Cross
IS Ranch farms until the prospective
buyer has made a personal investiga-
ton on behalf of himself and friends, -
said Mr.. Williams. ..lWe have selfish
motive in this, as every visitor to Cross
81 Ranch becomes an enthusiast and
Immediately interests his closest friends
and relatives in our proposition.
1--WE can take prospective buyer to
any number of farmers who one year
ago purchased. Cross 81 Ranch land for
$50 an acre, secured their water, put
III crops anu TeccIVeu Their HrSt market
last August and April. Go to these
men today and try to buy their land at
$500 an acre and they will laugh at you.r
Certainly if such conditions exist as
we represent, it would be foolish to
take people there unless we could
make good, as that would be business
suicide, and if conditions exist as rep
resented, man who wishes to make
money should at least investigate per-
sonally.
"There is no fuel to buy and the saw
ing on coal alone would keep man and
his family in this country for several
months. A man has no cellar to build
under his house as he can raise at all
times of year enough in his garden to
supply his table.
3sThere is no limit to the possibilities
existing on the Ranch. The finest
grade of Figs, Oranges. Grapefruit.