Aransas Pass Progress (Aransas Pass, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, June 18, 1909 Page: 4 of 4

                                
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E. 0. Burton is Con-
sidered a Lucky Man
We heard a fellow say the other
day, “A man with Burton's luck
don’t need any brains.” That put
us to thinking and finding out a
few things, and wp don’t think it
was all luck.
E. O. Burton, of Burton & Dan-
forth, as he expressed it, came to
Texas “dead broke, chewing on
a borrowed five dollar bill,” and
took a $50 a month job as night
operator. He’d gone broke in Mis-
souri, but every one was paid in
full; that’s why the home went too.
Things didn’t break well for him
in Texas for several years. He
wasn’t “lucky" then. He got be-
hind and left one town several
hundred dollars in debt, and went
to work for the “Sap.” The first
year he kept up current bijls and
paid up every one of those old
debts. He had waked up to the
fact that one must save to get
a head. It wasn’t, luck then, but
thrift.
The Sap gave him one of the
hardest jobs -they had, a head of
his seniority right because no one
else would have it. He made
good, but that wasn’t luck either.
On the wall of his San Antonio
office is a paid note for $25 and a
power of attorney to collect his
January, 1 89 7 wages, which he had
to give to borrow the $25 to get
his family to him. He was still
broke and not at all lucky.
They gave him the station at
Lincoln, Tex., which paid $60 a
month, and they lived in the depot.
The work was light, so he looked
around for something else. He
got charge of a little lumber yard
“on the^side,” which gave him $20
more a month and a house instead
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ReraStiiber
/ We will pay railroad fare on all
purchases of 525 or more to
customers from Aransas Pass
MIRRORS
Just received a new line of
oak framed mirrors which we
offer at the following prices:
7x9,____________
25c each
8x10,
__30c “
9x12_____________
_.35c “
10x14,    ________
__45c “
10x17,__________
-_50c “
12x20,___________
__60c    “
14x24,___________
__70c “
Among this weeks bargains
we would mention the fol-
lowing:    >
24 Wash stands $
1 50 each
1 2 Music Racks
2 00 “
6 Quarter Oak
Rockers
2 50 “
12 Rattan rockers 3 00
6 Rugs 9x12
5 00 “
12-Fibre door mats
80 “
White paint, gals,
1 75    “
White Lead, Lb
08£ “
Large Lanterns
85 “
Sewing Machines 1 8 00    *■
(Guaranteed for
10 years).
A fine assortment of mat-
tings, rugs, carpets, beds, mat'
tresses, springs, cutlery, hard-
ware, washing machines,
churns, pictures and house
furnishing goods.
We refer you to those who
have purchased from us and
would be pleased to have you
pay us a visit. \
W. I SPARKS
Furniture Store
ROCKPORT, TEXAS
I W. H. Grant j
§ Barber Shop f
Hot and Cold Baths §
Paul Laundry Agency
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Next door east of ..Chicago Hotel
3. H. BEASLEY
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Leave Calls at Bay View Hotel
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Aransas Pass Realty Company
Buys and Sells Real Estate I
Bargains in Lots and Acreage
25 Bay Front Lots ranging in price from $125 up.
24 Lots 6 blocks from Bay View Hotel at $110 each. A snap.
50 foot front on Ocean Drive, one block from Deep Water
Channel. A bargain
Business Lots on Commercial Avenue from $300 up.
Choice acreage in 10and 20 acre tracts from $50 per acre up.
Improved Property at Sinton and San Antonio paying 20 per cent, to trade for Aransas Pass Property.
Write us and tell us what you want.
ARANSAS PASS REALTY COMPANY
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of a depot for a home. But still
it didn’t keep him busy, so he
encouraged the growing of pota-
toes, truck etc., which he marketed
for them. He bought eggs „ and
originated the shipment of eggs
by refrigerator cars to distant mar-
kets. He was the first to market
mistletoe by mail at Christmas, and
was probably responsible for a lot
of kissing over the whole United
States. Still nothtng very lucky,
though they began to talk of his
“luck.”
Then he went to a better job as
agent at Karnes City, Tex. Again
he made good, and here he waked
up to the plan of buying land and
letting its increased value add to
his savings. He bought 1 GO acres ^ ( ^    Qr ^orpus ^nris
of land for $2,200 adjoining Karnes i miles distant. Now, here’s
$7000. Now the firm of Burton &
Danforth is rated half a million.
All luck of course, but we find that
every bit of land they handled was
good land, that every one associat-
ed with them, or who bought from
them has made money. Every bill
is paid as presented. Their labor
roll is paid weekly. Every prom-
ise is kept.
When they took hold of Aransas
Pass in November it was consid-
ered a joke. A few of the faith-
ful believed in it. A few believed
the government would get deep
water some time. All thought if
they did, a city would build some-
where: Here, 6 miles away; Rock-
port 14 miles, or Corpus Christi 22
°    i miles distant. Now, there’s not
City, paid $500 down,owed $1 700 j fche slightest doubt of where it wiH
People said he was a sucker and -    ........ • >    1
had got “bumped.” He started to
put it into a farm, and they said he
wouldn’t get it cleared, but he did.
It was a dry spring, and they said
he’d never get it plowed. Early in
April the rains came; next day
there were 1 4 teams plowing. In
a week it was all planted. Then
they said the Mexican tenant
wouldn’t make a bale of cotton.
He paid Burton nearly $700 rent.
Burton's “luck.”
She Burton addition to Karnes
City was platted and sold. Burton s
“luck” again. Acres for $21
and lots for $100 are pretty good
business.
He was put in charge of the
“Sap” agricultural exhibit at the
San Antonio fair. It happened to
win the gold medal. Again it was
all Burton’s “luck.”
About that time the Sa.p wanted
a man for general immigration
agent, and Burton was the lucky
one to get it. He made good at it
and made Texas known to thous-
ands who now own happy homes
be, and it’s all “Burton’s luck” that
a $600,000 proposition was over j
sold 50 per cent in six months. j
They told us they were going to :
bring a channel right into our
shore. In five days the big dredge
was at work. Now it s only 1 000
feet from the shore. The knock-
i ers said the channel would fill so
| the dredge couldn’t get back. They
I struck clay and shell and it s not
i filling at all. More luck.
Now Burton & Danforth.are put-
ting on a million dollar channel and
Dock Co., to bring a 25 feet chan-
nel straight in from the harbor
near the light house, direct to the
city, and all believe they will do it.
They know just where it s going to
run, how they are going to do it
and what it will cost. Better than
that they know what to do with it
after they get it. It will central all
the usable water front in a harbor
that now has 20 feet of water and
that will have 35 feet, the deepest
on the Texas coast.
Doesn’t it occur to you that
Burton’s luck,” or “Burton & Dan-
Insect Investigator
Visits Aarnsas Pass
D. K. McMillan, connected with |
the United States Bureau of En-j
tomology, spent a time in Aransas
Pass the past week looking ' over
the truck farm districts in the in-
terests of the truck farm insect in-
vestigation. He has investigated
the bugs in most of the truck farm-
ing country from Brownsville to
Rockport, and came over to Aran-
sas Pass from Tarpon Sunday, via
boat. In his opinion as expressed
to a representative of the Progress,
the country surrounding Aransas
Pass is better adapted to the pro-
duction of the different varieties of
truck than any part of the country
he has visited. He says that a
small amount of fertilizer should
be used in the culture of onions,
and that he believes the product
woYild be superior to those raised
in the Brownsville country, and the
quantity raised to the acre just as
great. He commends the Skinner
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Harvey T. Smith
Blacksmith and
Wheelwright
NEAR THE BAY VIEW HOTEL
in Texas, and bless the ciay l hey    luck” may be just good
had the courage to break away judgment, and that it happens too
from the narrow limits of the old j j-egUlarly for just bull-headed luck?
home.
From five years ago till the pres- j Mr. Burke, of Sinton, Texas, will
ent it has been a succession of j move here in the near future and
samples of “Burton’s luck” through establish a tin thop. He is an ex-
various successful big deals. Five pdrienced workman in hisjline and
years ago he wat worth $6000 or I will find plenty to do her
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irrigation system, and while it is | f
not absolutely necessary, it would | j
allow of a larger production to the
acre than is possible without, and
in the long run would bring great-
er returns. In other words, where
a man is now cultivating some six
or eight acres, he believes he could
take two acres, and with the more
careful and allowable care from
the smaller piece of ground, would
reap as good a return from two or
three acres. Mr. McMillan was
very favorbly impressed with the
town of Aransas Pass, and express-
ed some admiration at the sub-
stantial and rapid growth that is
being accomplished here. He is
planning to purchase some ground
and build a summer home for the
use of his father and family at this
place, and Aransas Pass would be
very glad to have them as citizens.
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