The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1913-03-14
PePiCO, Texas.
Perico, Texas. Feb %, 1913.
To whom If NAV concorn.

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To whom it may concern:
We wish to say that the under
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 indorsed by
the Catholic Colonization Society
u. 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
tied the farmers and went over
the Perico Colony lands in auto
mobiles. The farmers we saw
had lived there three, four and
five years and had good live
stock, poultry and crops on hand.
We saw good potatoes and Jour
kind of corn, and such crops AS
are grown in Southern Indiana
do well. 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 well as wheat.
The People here are happy, &C
commodating and al making
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
are over 7 miles from Perico.
They are smooth and gently roll
ing prairie lands covered with
good buffalo and blue stem grass
es. We could see Perico from
most any part of the lands.
From Peri 20 We can see the
towns Of Ware, Messmer, Corlena
and Texline. Texas and Clayton
New Mexico. The water is ex-
cellent, soft and plentiful. The
climate is fine and healthy. 1t
is not SO warm in SUNNI ar as
many think on account of being
about 1000 feet above the sea
level. It showed the morning
We arrived, which was good for
the lands and sprir G crops. It
had been nice weather and some
were blowing the early part OF
the week.
Hogs and poultry do we'll and
are free from cholera.
We saw thousands of cattle
that lived on the grass land with
out shelter and were in good
healthy condition and looked as
well or better than many cattle
in Southern Indiana that are
well cared for wife shelter and
grain. We saw some cattle that
weia he'd over 1900 lbs to 1900
pounds and one that weighed
1850 pounds
We were in the new C ,ment
block Catholic Church at Perico
and saw the new school building.
The contract for building the
Priest House with cement blocks
was arranged while we were
there.
We had a fine trip and splendid
accommo dations as we ever had
We do not hesitate to recommend
to any one wanting good stock
and farm lands to go with the
Inter State Colonization Company
of Chicago and see the German
Catholic Colony lands at Perico
and select and purchase one of
the farms.
At least 100 Catholic families
will move there. You can ar
range with w. A Wilson of Jas
per about making the trip.
John Donbrcwsky.
Mat Donbrowsky
Henry j. Huebner.
j. A. Freyberger Sr
Ben Thieves.
John A Stenftenagel.
Peter Hopf.
Henry Weir.