Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1908 — Texas Trip March 17th. [ARTICLE]

Texas Trip March 17th.

There has never been but one crop of land, and the gleaners are picking up the last remnants of that uow. The great harvest is past, and you must go to the market to geu profits. The land we are offering in Middle Texas, almost in the Geographical center of the State, is not a wild <pr unoccupied region, but is interspersed with farms owned and occupied by prosperous, thrifty farmers who make the price of the land every year id proffits. The soil is a rich dark sandy loam with a clay sub-soil, the surface soil is extremely deep. The lay Ot the land is practically ideal, it being just rolling enough to afford sufficient and quick drainage. The rain fall is far more than in the territory north of this and the soil is not 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. The 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, for 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 bale per acre. I have an especial low rate, for next Tuesday to see this land; any one desiring to take one of the finest trips that they ever made, call at the office of Chas. J. Dean, in Odd Fellows’ building, Renßselaer, Ind., or call by phone at his expense, and don’t forget the date, Tuesday, March 17th. We leave Rensselaer at 4:30 Tuesday morning for .Chicago; leave Chicago at 8:00 a. m. over Alton railroad.