The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1913-03-07
PeriCo, Texas.
Perico, Texas. Feb %, 1918.

signed came to the Perico Catho-
lie Colony lands with w A. Will
son of Jasper on the excursion
leaving Huntingburg Feb 18th
to see the lands that Father
Spetz. an executive officer OF the
Catholic Colonization Society u
S. A. talked about last week in
Jasper and Ferdinand. They
are the same lands that are being
colonized with German Catholics
by the Interstate Colonization
Company of Chicago and the
LANDS that have been inspected,
recommended and Endorsed by
the Catholic Colonization Society |
lU. S. A. Mr.. John A. Schmitt |
and o. o Reed of the Interstate
| Colonization were with us.
We found everything as good
or better than represented. We
went over the Southern and Rock
Island Railroads through ST.
Louis and Kansas City. We WIS.,
lifted the farmers and went over
| the Perico Colony lands in aut'
mobiles. The farmers we saw
had lived there three, four and
five years anu had good llve
stock, poultry and crops on hand.
I'VE saw good potatoes and our
) kind of corn, and such crops as
are GROWN in Southern Indiana
do we'll. The broom corn is fine
/ also milo. maize, kaffir corn and
sorgum are feeds for cattle.
horses and hogs They grind
flour from maize and kaffir corn
as we'll as wheat.
The People here are happy, &C.
commodating and al making
4 making money. We ate dinner
: with Joe Hickman, a Dubois
: County man who is doing well
The lands are all near.the rail-
/ road and Perico and noneof them
n Iare over Z miles from Perlco.
e They are smooth and gently roll
+. ing prairie lands covered with
d good buffalo and blue stem grass.
:. |es. We could see Perico from
e most any part of the lands.
d From Peri @ we can see the
S towns of Ware, Messmer, COrlena
t and Texline, Texas and Clayton
S New Mexico. The water is ex-
:, |cellent, soft and plentiful. The
Iclimate is fine and healthy. 1t
lis not so warm in summer as
many think on account of being
about 1000 feet above the sea
level. 1t showed the morning
e we arrived, which was good for
eI the lands and spring crops. 1t
IS had been nice weather and some
Is were blowing the early part OF
% the week.
d Hogs and poultry do well ard
L are free from cholera.
n We saw thousands of cattle
y that lived OH the grass land with
rs out shelter and were in good
y healthy condition and looked as
1T we'll or better than many cattle
le in Southern Indiana that are
II well cared for wife shelter ano
ii grain. We saw some cattle that
d " eie he'd over 1900 lbs 10 1906
!, ro1 = II one that weighed
n lie vere in the new cement
81 bloc kGat tel. Church at Pericc
land saw - eW school building,
~ 1.-THE CONT ct for building the
% Priest House with cement blocks
, was arranged while we were
, there.
~ We had a fine trip and splendlc
h accommo dations as we ever had
- We do not hesitate to recommenc
= to any one wanting good stocf
! and farm lands to 90 with tht
+ Inter State Colonization Company
= of Chicago and see the German
r Catholic Colony lands at PericC
and select and purchase one OF
s. the farms
y At least 100 Catholic familie!
If will move there. You can ar
, range with w. a wilson OF Jas
If per about making the trip,
d John Donbrowsky.
n Mat Donbrowsky
Henry j. Huebner.
It J. A. Freyberger Sr
J. Ben Thieves.
n John A Stcnftenagel
It Peter Hopf.
2 Henry Weir.
= - y 49, II s'-ptYy =
n 80. All 4s,.As:.zlE'3.5;4 q
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