. Texas ... an illustrated description of present conditions in the Lone Star state, with comparative tables showing the marvelous growth and exceptional advantages offered to the prospective investor or homeseeker . rworks system,in connection with a large irrigation plant, to water more than10,000 acres of land contiguous to the town. Iowa Park is another good town, surrounded by a good agricul-tural country, having good schools, churches and good businesshouses. 50 Near Wichita Falls is located the town of GERALDINE, a newtownsite and colony recently founded by the American TribuneColony Co
. Texas ... an illustrated description of present conditions in the Lone Star state, with comparative tables showing the marvelous growth and exceptional advantages offered to the prospective investor or homeseeker . rworks system,in connection with a large irrigation plant, to water more than10,000 acres of land contiguous to the town. Iowa Park is another good town, surrounded by a good agricul-tural country, having good schools, churches and good businesshouses. 50 Near Wichita Falls is located the town of GERALDINE, a newtownsite and colony recently founded by the American TribuneColony Company, of which Mr. P. H. Fitzgerald, of Fitzgerald,Georgia, fame, is president. The colony, which is being rapidlysettled by people from Northern States, contains about 120,000 acresof very fertile land. An excellent start has been made, and thecolony bids fair to become a very important one in a short time. The new town is accessible either from Wichita Falls or fromHolliday. A railroad line direct to the town is contemplated, andthe rapid growth of Geraldine will make such a line a necessitywithin a short time. A large percentage of the shareholders areprosperous farmers from Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska, H. Spechts Ranch, Wichita County. 51 CENTRAL and SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS. THE BLACK LAND COUNTIES. The Black Land Belt, traversed by the Missouri, Kansas &Texas Railway, embraces Hunt, Collin, Denton, Tarrant, Rockwall,Dallas, Johnson, Ellis, Hill, McLennan, Bell, Williamson, Falls,Travis, Caldwell, Hays, Comal and Bexar Counties, the rich prairiesection of Texas, between the Red River, North Texas, and the GulfCoast counties. It is the largest rich body of prairie land in the world. The soilis especially adapted for raising corn, cotton, wheat and oats. Com-mercial fertilizers, so commonly used in the Northern and East-ern States, are not used at black waxy lands, whichhave been in continuous culti-vation for more than thirty-fiveyears, are today producing aslarge c
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