The Seymour News (Seymour, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, May 24, 1901 Page: 7 of 8
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SUPERB PULLMAN VESTIBULED SLEEFEBS,
HANDSOME NEW CHAIE CAES (8«ati Free).
FASTEST TIME TO NEW ORLEANS
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ONLY LINE SUNNING THROUGH COACHES
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Showing the trade territory tributary to it. Seymour
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territory here shown, being the nearest tl. R. point.
All that country West and Southwest is the
trading territory of Seymour.
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Take the ULtiehlta Valley f^ailcuay to Seymav.
Seymour is situated 160 miles northwest from Ft. Worth; is the terminus of the Wichita Valley railway and is the county seat f Baylor county. It is benntifuiiy located on the east bank of
the Brazos river and is the center of the wheat region of Texas. Will command trade from more than a dozen counties surroundin«, bosides ail tho (treat country in the great Northwest and New
Mexico, fpyntour has the iinost building stono in the state, in the greatest abundnnce, cropping out along the banks of the river. Vory easy to quarry. She has one of th9 finest and most sub-
stantial court house in in the state, an iron bridge spanning the Brazoo, numerous stone houses completed and occupiod, a two Btory stono bank building costing ubout $20,000. The present popu-
lation of Seymour is about 1000. Good water can be had in all parts of town by digging wells from t(J to 50 foqf deep. '
The elevation of the city of Seymour is about 1500 feet above sea level. The atmosphere is light and dry; there is no malaria or natural causes for sickness. Wo hnvo good schools utul
chnrchos. Our town is rapidly filling up and prices of real estate are gradually advancing. You cannot make a mistake. Invest in town lots now and you are sure of n big profit in loss than
six months, because we hold the location for a railroad and irrigation center. Just look on the map of Texas and jiwlge for yoursolf. First, tho Wichita Valley Ry. will probably build to the
southwest, nleo to tlio Northwest from this place. We havo good reasons to believe that the following railroads will come to our town; Tho Houston & Texas Central, «r Wnco branch is built to
Albany and some time in the future will be continued northward, perhaps to Vernon, in that event it will undoubtedly pass through Soymonr. Wo can safoly roly on either Dallas or Fort Worth
land perhaps both cities) building railroads into our town, *sn route to Albuquerque, New Mexico. The V/. M. W. & N. W.from Mineral Wells, Texus, is sure tocorno hore this year. should t(,6
Kock Island Ry. come to Wichita Falls or Ilonrletta our town will be greatly benefitted. The fuctsare wo huve better prospects of a railroad center than Ft. Worth had fourteen years ago nndu bet-
ter prospect for building a big city.
Baylor county is mostly lino agricultural land, being on either side of the Brazos and Big Wichita rivers. It is gontly rolling and undulating prairio, sulliciont timber for fuel for many yeare
tr. come, soil is dark and chocolate loam, easy to work, is deep and very rich, apparently inexhaustible, and will produce all kinds of small grain to perfection. The yield of wheat is from twenty to
tlurty-five bashela, oats 40 to 00 bushols per acre, barley, rye, millet, sorghum, etc. in proportion. The yioid of corn is enormous whenever the seasons are suitable, from 10 to 00 bnshels per aero
Unimproved lands can be bought from $2 to $<! per acre, on easy terms. Our county, us well as tho adjoining country, has filled up rapidly, still tlioro are thousands ofgimd school sections wliicA
may be purchased from the State for $2 por aero on 40 years time, only oHe-fortiath being required in cash, all othor payments may be deforrod for forty years, provided the interest. Which is a per
cent on tho total purchaso price, is paid each year, all of which is deposited in tho Treasury to the credit of the Free School fund of tho state, thus mukiug a munificont provision for eiucatlngthe
rising generation. '
Should you deBire further information, writo us and we will gladly furnish it.
THE NEWS. Seymour, Texas.
The Loco Weed.
Loco everywhere is the report
we hear from every part of the
Texas Panhandle, Western Okla-
homa, Southwestern Colorado
and Northwestern New Mexico.
Never before >n the history of cattle
raising in this county has this ter-
ritory pest, scourge and death-
dealing narcotic been known to
be one-half as prevalent as this
year. In some parts of the west-
tern edge of the Panhandle and
Northeastern New Mexico it
seems to cover the face of the
earth, and as a result, the cattle
have died to such an extent that
on one ranch near Portales n, m.,
g000 haye died and several thou-
sand have aborted their calves.
We have heard of other losses
amounting to thousands of b«ad,
but it would do no good to give
names and ranches, but we are
fully convinced that a canservative
estimate of this item will place the
loss at 200,000 head, and the calf
crop will show a shrinkage of at
least 150,000 head compared with
that of Inst year. This is not a
scare statement, nor has it been
estimated without diligent inquiry.
Many men have sustained such
losses that their calf crop this
spring will not make tip the num-
ber they had on January 1. For
several yeare the loco weed has
been growing ranker, and unless
something is done to exterminate
it, it will gradually break up the
range cattle business. When
cows have once acquired a taste
for it, they will return to it every
fall, winter and spring with increas-
ing avidity, and ihey either abort
or become barren, though having
the appearance of being iu calf,
dying suddenly, and apparently
without cause. Cattle that are
well fed on the stock farms will
not eat the weed. It does not
eeetu to effect steers to the same
extent it injures she stuff' from 2-
year-olds up, and for this reason
alone many ranchmen are giving
up breeding and turning their pas-
tures into steer ranches, which on
the range is the safest and most
profitable investment. That the
shortage on the calf crop and the
cutting down of the cows will
cause a greater demand for the cat-
tle from this country there can be
no doubt, and perhaps the shortage
will be felt to such an extent that
cattle raised above the quarantine
line will advance in price this
spring ancf'cotning summer, and
thus help out many a man in sore
need.—Amorillo Livestock Oharn-
pion.
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Barber, George P. The Seymour News (Seymour, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, May 24, 1901, newspaper, May 24, 1901; Seymour, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth235275/m1/7/?q=waco+tornado: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.