Aransas Pass Progress (Aransas Pass, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, July 14, 1911 Page: 2 of 4
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Aransas Pass Progress
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Published every Friday at Aransas Pass, Texas, b
THE PROGRESS PRINTING CO.
C. S. CORRIGAN, Business Manager.
<3. P. TARRANT, Editor.
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Entered into the postoffice at Aransas Pass, Texas
’for transmission through the United States mails at
the second class rates of postage.
DISPLAY ADVERTISING RATES:
Less than one-fourth page, 20 cents per single
-column inch per issue, when run by the month
or one- time insertions! 25 cents per single column
inch. Minimum. $1.00. Advertising rates for
3arge space or for long time contracts will be
furnished on application.
Our forms close on Thursday evening; matter can
mot be received for publication after that time, ex-
•oept for a later issue.
A NY erroneous reflection upon the reputa-
-‘A tion of any firm, corporation or individual
will be gladly corrected upon the attention to
the publisher being brought to the mate.
OUR CALL.
We are busy about the missions
to which we are called .that we
cannot just now devote much at-
tention to politics. The editor
came to Aransas Pass to visit a
-few days. Agreeably surprised,
he was called to edit the Aransas
Pass Progress, and after getting
out one issue, the first trial of his
life, he has met with so mucu en-
couragement from the owner of
the paper and from the readers
generally that he has decided to
make his home in Aransas Pass,
and see what he can do by way of
showing the public what there is
in the Gulf Coast country, and
how promising is the future of
Aransas Pass City,
While we are endeavering to
teach we shall also be taught, and
the benefit shall be mutual.. For
twenty-five years *ve have been
trying to give and recieve instruc"
tions and every instance of suc-
cess has afforded us much pleas-
ure and made us feel that we have
been of soma use. If we can
show real opportunities to both
capital and labor, we shall again
be gratified hat our efforts have
not been a failure, and that our
life has been worth while. Poli-
tics is a great and laudable study,
and. politicians are necessary to
the progress of our country, but
our heart is now in the
^development of the perennial
garden of the Southwest in the
midst of which is the best and
only landlocked harbor, in front of
which is being built the seaport
city through which the produc-
tions of the great Southwest will
.find an outlet to the world, and
, the riches of the old world an in-
let It is readily seen that our
call is to a task that demands our
whble thought, of whieh the end
to be attained is altogether worthy
Behold, now is the accepted time,
now is the day to grasp the best
. opportunity.
EGYPTIAN COTTON.
TThekinds of cotton best adapted
to any particular section under
any and all circumstances con-
stantly engages the attention of
the intelligent farmer. Long sta-
ple. cotton of a prolific yield, that
can be produced ahead of the
many pests that attack the plant
is what is needed for profit' to the
producer and the cousumer.
Egyptian cotton fis attracting much
attention and is being tried nut in
sections where soil and climate
are favorable to its successful cul-
tivation. The Gulf Coast and
Rio Grande counties seem to be
adapted to this cotton, considering
the soil in which it was generated.
AN OBSERVATION.
Taking a drive into the country
through Wheeler Avenve, we
noticed the water tower in the
park, and seeing how much water
is standing there to no use it oc-
curred to us that with a very
small outlay the city might, place
a water trough outside the en-
closure and this trough would
serve two very important purposes;
for one it would furnish fresh
water to the many teams that are
driven into town every day; and
for another, it, would keed all
loose stock from strolling down
into the business part of town to
drink. We venture the suggestion
that the expense of the trough
and necessary pipes being placed
would be met cheerfully by pub-
lic contribution, and the mill can
be geared automatically, if not
already, so as to regulate the flow
of water.
VICTIMS TO HEAT.
Of the victims to heat, July, 1 -5
431 persons were overcome di-
rectly from heat, while eighty
more were drowned jn ^seeking
relief in water, making 3 1 1 victims.
The Southern boundry of this
affection is through Cincinnati
and St. Louis, at* each of which
cities there was one victim. The
lowest temperature during all of
the hot weather of this summer
has been along the Culf Coast
WHAT SUNK THE MAINE?.
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The sinking of the Maine was
by no means the c ause of the
Spanish"American war. It matters
not whether the explosion came
from within or without and even
at the time that was a matter of
surmise, and has hardly been
settled, even by the re-floating of
the vessel for s critical inspection
of its hull.
The war had to come as a relief
to humanity and that is all there is
to it.
The Teachers’ Institutes are no
longer regarded as mere child’s
play occasions, but are occasions
for all teachers to become social,
exchange views, and derive
mutual benefit. State Superin-
tendent Brallery insists upon sin-
cere attendance by both city and
country teachers at Institutes held
at such time as will not interfere
with the work of the country
schools.
The Cotton Carnival at Galves-
ton will afford an occasion of so-
cial joy and profitable information
to visitors from every county of
the Southwest. The Boston Tea
party alone will be an educative
feature of spectacular amusements
and will be well worth its cost to
elder people as well as to school
children, who will talk with de-
light of the display and apply
themselves with renewed dili-
gence to the study of their countrys
history. Of the many fairs that
will be held in Tekas, none will
offer better opportunities than the
Cotton Carnival.
The Texas negro is better off
than his brother elsewhere. He
is duly regarded and protected in
localities where he is most useful,
and other communities will not
have him. He would better ac-
cept the decision of his best
friends and cease to force him*
self into sections that forbid his
presence. He produces a very
small part of the wealth of the
country, but each negro child re-
ceives as much of the school fund
as the child of any Anglo Saxen.
The negro comes into each
community when he is needed
there and the people are ready
to accept his presence and his
services on terms which they
have a right to make.
The general precipitation of
moisture in sections where the
drouth had become so alarming
should be accepted a® a God
send. While the grain crop is
very short, cotton had not suffered
beyond redemption and the rains
of July 7th and 9th will almost
insure a profitable crop. The
southern half of Texas has not
suffered, and all crops are yet in
a promising condition. South and
Southwest Texas rejoice at the
late down pour on more northern
lands, and extends the glad hand
to people in ever}' direction.
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THE DROUTH AND ITS
EFFECT.
Kansas City corn, on the 5th,
advaoced 5 to 6 cents per bushel,
and in sympathy with this, wheat
advanced 2 to 3 cents. White
corn sold as high as 71 cents per
bushel. Cattle are being forced to
market on account of the lack of
pasturae and exhausted water
supplies. South Texas and the
Southern States have been blessed
with rains and wifi relieve the
situation with some of the surplus
products. Good crops will be the
rule throughout the cotton belt,
with one more season, but the
prospects for grain is not very en-
couraging.
The heat ware broke after
claiming more than 500 victims.
Like the cold wave, it rarely ever
extends to the Culf coast, where
balmy air prevails throughout the
year. Here at Aransas there is a
calm about three hours in the
morning when the temperature is
a little oppressive, but never-
never alarming or prostrating
About nine or ten oclock the salt
laden breezes spring up and
rarely ever is there extreme hot or
cold weather.
It is a pleasure to meet and be-
come acquainted with citizens of
Aransas Pass, they are so hospit-
able jj while showing the bright
prospects of their city. The edi-
tor is indepted to Major Hinkel
for iuformaiion as to the work on
the pass. Capt. Hinkel is on the
Engineering corps, and is in a
position to give true information
Aransas Pass Commecial Club
has quarters of its own, in front of
Aransas Pass Harbor and less
than six miles away. Aransas
Pass City is nearer to Aransas
Harbor than any other city, and
with its shortest terminals, shortest
and deepest channel accommodat-
ing seagoing vessels, and whose
situation on the mainland gives
the best access to all interior
cities, is in reality beginning to
use the many advantages which
nature has dropped at the North-
west corner of the Gulf, and
claims only such landmarks as
have been established by mature,
within whose boundaries man’s
development is easy and rapid
There is a mutuaL dependence
between Aransas Pass and Aransas
Harbor. Other cities by the
sea, may use Aransas Harbor,
but Aransas Harbor must and
will use Aransas Pass City.
The Aransas Pass Progress has
subscribers abroad who are
moving around and notifying us
daily of change of address, thus
showing the advantage of using
our columns to advertise industries
both at home and abroad.
Worthy Contribution.
The following isj gladly ac-
cepted from Mr. Charles Ward of
our city, for the benefit of our
many readers. Shell, lands lie all
along the Gulf coast,, especially on
the bay shores, and! the state-
ments made in this article go to
prove our claim that every foot
of our lands is productive, and
the narrow strip of white sand-
beach already possesses the fer-
ilizer which needs only to be dis-
tributed on the lancb. whos^ edges
are already' full ofst. We gladly
copy this article from the Texas
Farm and Fireside^
Discovery Of The Best And
Cheapest Fertilizer.
It has been well, and truly said
that “thrice blessed is he who
makes two blade® of grass grow
where one grew before,” and it
there follows that he who will
teach others to* make two blades
grow where they could make only
one grow before, is indeed blessed
and too much 'credit cannot be
given him. This is. especially true
of Andrew Davis of Smith’s Point,
Chambers County, Texas, fox it
was by his own foresight and in-
dustry that he learned that the
shell reefs of Galveston bay afford
inexhaustable amounts of partly
decomposed shell which contain
a large amount of lime phosphates
and salt, which makes, when well
plowed into the soil* the best,
cheapest and most enduring ferti-
lizer, and how he came to test
the value of decomposed reef
shell, viz:
Hj says: “About thirty years
ago I bought thirty-five acres of
land at Smiths Point for the pur-
pose of truck farming, but after a
few years of hard work, during
which time I used barn and com-
mercial fertilizers, I found my land
too poor to make truck farming
profitable. I had a neighbor whoJ
owned seventy-five acres of which
about three acres was an ©Id oys-
ter reef which projected into the
bay shore, and upon which he
had raised from 369 to 499 bush-
els of Irish potatoes [per acre,
which were large, smooth and
free from scale and other diseases.
Upon this shell bank I saw cab-
bages raised the equal of which
I have never seen grown elsewhere
I weighed one cabbage head
raised on this shell bank which
weighed 28 pounds. This gave
mean idea that if I plowed shell
into my poor land it would make
it as productive as my neighbor’s
shell bank, and as the Hanner
shell reef was about one mile from
my farm, myself and two sons be-
gan boating shells from that reef
and spreading it over my land.
We put on at least 39 tons per
acre and plowed it well into the
soil. That was twenty-nine years
ago, and 1 have not since used any
more shell or fertilizer upon the
land and it produces just as well
now as it did the first year. The
first year I planted my land in ir-
ish potatoes about the latter part
of December, and in the following
May I harvested them and I found
I had averaged *259 bushels per
acre which netted me above all
expenses$l ,96 per bushel. After
I had harvested our Irish potatoes
I planted the same ground in sweet
potatoes arid averaged 499 bushels
per acre which netted me about
30 cents per bushel. Within three
years after I bad shelled my land,
1 had cleared over $12,000 from
my small farm,, and as we had no
schools and churches near by, be-
cause our section of the country
was sparsely settled, I moved in-
to the Texas Panhandle where I
bought a large tract of land and
improved it, but owing to my
wife’s health, I sold my farm and
spent several years traveling with
her. Three years ago I returned
to my farm at Smith’s Point,, where
my wife died, but myself, and
three sons and one daughter still
reside on our old truck farm.
I stiil raise Irish potatoes as my
main crop, because it is a crop
easily raised and Lhave no trouble
in selling potatoes L raise at prices
averaging 39 per. cent abovq.the
prices oh, potatoes on lands fer-
tilized otoher than with shell..
I now plant my land in corn, after.
I harvest, my Irish potato crop in
May, and average fifty-nine bush-
els of corn per acre.
The present year (1911), owing
to the long drouth of last Decem-
ber, November and February
caused me to raise only 13 V
bushels, of Irish potatoes per acre,
but they netted me about $1.96
per bushel, and 1 now have a fine
crop oh corn growing on the same
and. From ray own experience,,
I am convinced that any one who
will fertilize their land, well with
decomposed shell as 1 used the
first year;. they can cover, bottom
of furrows with shell,, then plant
their, seed on top of the shell, and
cover, with soil, and the next year,
make new/rows between the old
rows and shell the furrows and
plant the. seed and cover with the
soil as they did at first, and con-
tinue thia process, until they get
the soil well mixed with the shell.
But; it will be best to sow evenly
on the soil about thirty tons
to the acre broadcast so that it
prevent any part of the land from
baking. By sowing in the
furrows I think about ten tons per
acre per ye^X will do until the
land has about thirty tons per
acre well mixed in the soil. I
advise this plan in furrows so that
the farmers will not be put to too
much expense the first year.
Another great advantage gained
by shelling the land is that it
keeps the soil porous and well
pulverized; it holds the moisture
so that the land can withstand
drouth far better than it could
formerly do, and it can also with-
stand a long wet, rainy season
far better, for it keeps the land so
porous it drains easily. I can
plow my land next day after a
heavy rainfall and this is a great
advantage, for it enables my far-
mer to keep his crop dean of
weeds and grass. It is my opin-
ion that if black waxey land is
well shelled it will prevent it
from baking and it can be plowed
within two days after, a heavy
rainfall. I know it will be of in-
estimable value to our coast land
in not only making the soil as
productive as the Brazos river
soil but also in the way of drain-
age. My land before I shelled it
was poor white flat sand soil, and
Ihad to ditch it well, but it was
three days or more after a heavy
rainfall ^before I could plow it
before it was shelled.
In connection with this we wish
to state that this not mud or clam
shell, but a very fine small shell
that when thoroughly dry crurrtbles
easily and is absorbed and taken
into the soil. The mud shell
taken out by the dredges for shell
roads will not do for fertilizer.
Your correspondent also inter-
viewed Mr. H. H. Hansen of
Smith’s Point, Texas. jHis state-
ment follows:
“This is to certify that in 1894,
I bought seventy-seven acres of
land on Galveston bay shore, at
Smith’s Point, in Chambers caunty
Texas, and have resided on said
land since I bought it up to the
present time. About three acres
of my land is a natural shell reef,
formed by the action of the bay,
the shell is mixed in with common
bay sand and is about two feet in
depth. This shell reef soil is the
most fertile and productive land I
have ever seen. I have raised
269 bushels of Irish potatoes per
acre to as high as 300 bnshels per
acxer and after harvesting the
potatoes in May have raised other
crops- of vegetables on the same
land in like bountiful proportion.
I have raised cabbage heads that
weighed as high as twenty-eight
pounds per head. All varieties
of roses, shrubbery, fruit, garden
and farm products which I ha^\
cultivated in this shell reef soil are
the best I have ever seen grown
elsewhere. The few fig, pear and
peach trees I have growing on this
shell reef soil bear as fine fruit zM
it is possible to grow. This shell
reef land drains very quickly after
a heavy rainfall. This is a very
great advantage for the soil can
be plowed the next day after a
heavy rainfall, and it also with-
stands drouth much better than
anv other land I have ever seen. i
After a long drouth the soil is
still moist two inches below the
surface. In like manner it also
withstands wet, rainy seasons. I
also certify that Mr. Andrew
Davis, who is one of my nearest
neighbors, shelled his thirty-five
arces of poor white sandy land
about twenty-nine years ago, and
it made his land so productive
that he is now one of the most
prosperous citizens we have in
this section, because he has raised
more and far better products on
his land than it is possible for
others to raise upon any land not
shelled. I therefore recommend
all farmers, truck growers and all
fruit growers to fertilize their land
with decomposed shell reef shells,
for I know from my own experi-
ence and observation that it will
double and probably increase the
production of all land threefold
or more. I gladly make the above
and foregoihg statement for the ^
benefit of all farmers, truck and
fruit growers.”
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Tarrant, G. P. Aransas Pass Progress (Aransas Pass, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, July 14, 1911, newspaper, July 14, 1911; Aransas Pass, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth974078/m1/2/?q=%22Business%2C+Economics+and+Finance+-+Advertising%22: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Ed & Hazel Richmond Public Library.