Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-03-19
Town Had Deans Which
Did Not Come
True.
HIGH PRICES IN TEXAS
Writer Says Wisconsin Is
as Good as Gulf
Coast.
By P. I'll. Crossman of Baraboo

CoIlegep2rt, Texas, March 8. 1914.
--COllegeport, with population OF
some four hundret, lies spread out
over large portion of the gulf coast of
Texas. All of this region being without
hills or woods to obstruct the view,
the whole of the village may be seen
from any point within its borders ex-
cept for the curvature of the surface of
the earth. When the Burton & Hurd
Land Co. laid out the town some five
years ago and began showing people
why this was the only pl4cs on earth
where anybody ought to want to live,
they had pans and specifications
drawn upon q grand and liberal scale
and, had not litigation and lack of
Considerable part of their great expec-
tItions might have been realized.
Though public Improvements are now
moving at a pretty slow pace, the
people are looking hopefully for live
lier and better times
There are evidences here of plans
formerly under way, but not entirely
carried out. AS part of these plans
there may be ssen large, many room
ed bath house and boat landing at
the end of long pier on the bay and
from this point a fine cement walk
running about mile ia straight
line the only sidewalk in town, and
extending almost to the depot where
some stay of proc aedings left the work
unfinished. There are several hotels
with Accommodations for whole lot of
patrons not yet in sight. One of these
hotels, large one, has a bath room
with every two sleeping rooms, There
was to be college for white folks on
an industrial plan somewhat after the
Tuskeege idea. 1t was started in a
large, temporary, one story shanty
style building where teachers and
pupils boarded, worked and studied
together for two or three yeass, when
1t failed to be self-supporting and sus-
pended operations. The institution
was called the Gulf Coast University
of Industrial Arts and included thir.
ty acre farm adjoining. Thisl tempo
rary college building, now being torn
down and not likely to be replaced,
answers The question-Why College
port?
Prices are High
It has been said that COM pa son
are odious, yet it is almost imposs.U {
to think except by comparisons. The
first thing person considers when
changing his place of residence is the
comparative cost Of living. The ten
dency of the times is to make the cost
of living very nearly the same in one
place as in another. On the average it
Is bout the same here as in Baraooo.
What we, in the soutd, call Irish pc
tatOes are here 81. so a bushel. If they
Gould be kept the year round, as in
the north, the price would not be over
one-haIf so much. AT this time of the
year they are shipped in from the
north, but are grown here for home
use and for the northern market be-
fore potato planting is flashed In
Wisconsin.
Owing to floods in this district last
summer sweet potatoes ale uncommon
Iy high. They are now retailing al
the same price as Irish potatoes. This
is more than double the usual price at
this time. Our butcher asked forty
five cents quart for oysters and the
bay at our door is full of them. AMI
am sure that his profit was not any
too much. This, if anywhere, should
be called lhe home of the hen. AT the
price here for fresh eggs, fifteen cents q
dozen, she is perhaps more profita DIE
than with eggs at twenty-six cents in
Baraboo in the winter ime as now
quoted. Until within very few years
this gulf coast region has been entirely
uncultivated and used only as stock
range, yet we are getting all the first
rate dairy butter we want at Thirty
cents per pound. This was my great
est surprise in this vast, new, thinly
settled section where not one acre in i
has ever been plowed.
Here where it has been one OF the
principal products, rice retsils for as