Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1908 — EXCURSION TO TEXAS. [ARTICLE]

EXCURSION TO TEXAS.

There has never been but one crop of land, and the gleaners are picking up the last remnants of that now. The great harvest is past, and you must go to the market to get the product. The land we are offering in Middle Texas, almost in the geographical center of the state, is not a wild or unoccupied region, but Is interspersed with farms owned and occupied by prosperous, thrifty farmers who make the price of the land every year in profits. The soil is a rich dark sandy loam with a clay subsoil; the surface soil is extremely deep. The lay of the land is practically ideal, it being just rolling enough to afford sufficient and quick drainage. The rainfall is far more than in the territory north of this and the soil is classed as semi-arid by the U. S. Weather Bureau, but is rated as humid, the same as Indiana or Missouri. Running streams traverse this region and water In abundance is to be found in shallow wells, Tie climate in this locality is ideal. Delightful summers and winters where men work out every day in the year with comfort. Every advantage is enjoyed, good climate; good soil, good water, good altitude, being 2,000 feet lower than the Panhandle of Texas. All ,kinds of crops are grown at a profit here, corn, oats, wheat, alfalfa, one of the best money crops that is grown in the west, is successfully grown here. Cotton, the big mortgage lifter and money maker, yields from one-half to one and one-fourth bales per acre. I have an especially low rate-for next Tuesday to see this land. Anyone desiring to take one of the finest trips they have ever made, call at the office of Chas. J. Dean, in the Odd Fellow’s building, Rensselaer, Ind., or call by phone at his expense and don’t forget the date, Tuesday, March 17 th. We leave Rensselaer at 4:30 Tuesday morning for Chicago; leave Chicago at 9 a. m. over Alton road.