Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1915-02-11

cd, SO utQnI get TO see Cne
Duii fight. But did walk pa t
che pen and heard one below
with pain and rage as the more
brutal creatures than himself
were punlshlng him. Of course
che bull fights could not be
maintained ii l5 were not TO,
the audiences furnished from
the United States, but it is not
surprising that when people
come so near TO the place where
these relics OF barbarlsm are
made prominent features that
lney spend some time and
money i'll getting a fics5 hsno
idea Of what we have read So
much about. When we walked
up in El Paso and looked OUT OF
the window we 1ell like some
fairy had picked US up and set
us down in Iowa, for the
ground was covered with 2 in,
of snow and it certainly made
things look fine, IS there were
green trees and flowers III pro
fusion in all the streets
The greatest disappointment
that We had at 81 Paso was in
looking at the great Rio Grande
river, great as we had studied
it in childhood from the &C.
counts given in the geograph-
les, bus in facr, it was a little
stream and not deen enough to
drown q man face downward
As our auto drive remarked
One can see the 5eNicans II
sher best at El Paso and
Juarez, the majolIry uf the PEG
pie in the former being Mex
cans and ali of tire people in
the latter being 50 mixed up in
nationality as to pass for thor
oughbred Mexicans. We went
through their public market
place, their old churches and
various points of interest and
came away from Mexico with
firm conviction that we don't
want any more Of it.
This ended our visit to Texas.
and | will always feel that I
nave not done the state justice
in my opinions regarding the
cities and the country, for |
had no means Of making such
comparisons as | would like to
make in order to be absolutely
fair, however, | have one deep
seated conviction ard that is,
chat Texas would still be a
bowling desert had it not been
for the enterprise and push Of
Northern people who went
there in early days and for the
wonderful advertising that has
been done to draw more people
there.
The state is badly overwork-
ed with land agents and was
interested very much in a con-
versation had with a gentle
man who travels out OF San
Antonio. He told me that
through an inheritance lis
family had come into possess
sion of sixteen sections of land
reported to be very valuable.
After many years of efforts 10
sell he had finally succeeded in
getting rid of ten sections Of
land at SOC an acre, and he
thought the fellow VINO got it
was badly cheated. He said
that he found out later that re
had sold it to a Northern boost
err who in turn had taken up
the selling proposition and was
selling the land at from $40 to
S25 per acre, and that it was
being distributed in manv off
ferent states of the Union.
The land adjoining it could
still be bought at SOC an acre
if they would come down there
and deal with the owners.
Now | suppose this was an ex-
aggerated case, unusual, but |
am sure we passed over thous-
ands of acres of land that was
absolutely worth nothing and
never will be although it is
easy to find land suckers in
Iowa who will listen to the stor-
lies of INSCRIPTIONS lard
agents. NY advice to those
who read this article is to new
err invest in land in any place
without seeing it and taking
time TO investigate sufficiently
so as to know the facts concern
ling the proposition.
G. A. Lisle.