Aransas Pass Progress (Aransas Pass, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, September 24, 1909 Page: 6 of 8
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If You Want Contracts
You Had Better Buy Them Now
E sold all the contracts we advertised last
week and had on hand, but a few of our
clients who had more than they wanted
will part with some if you want them
and will take them at once.
Those we have listed sell at $1 20, all paid up, and remit-
tances in full should be sent to the Union Trust Company.
Mr. Powers says when the opening is announced there will
be no more transfers of contracts on the books of the company.
Mr. Powers is expected to announce the opening soon after his
return, Oct. 1 st, so if you want to get in this big deal, you had
better get contracts now. It is expected that they will be sell-
ing for upwards of $200 by the time of the opening.
Harbor Investment Exchange
Aransas Pass, Texas
ARANSAS PASS
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George Bourfce, Manager
SHEET IRON
WORKER
Tanks and Cisterns a
Specialty.
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Will H. Vernor
Advertising
Specialist
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Good Service
Redaction in the Average Size
of Texas Farms.
Missouri boasts that, according
to the latest count, it has more
farms than any other state. But
that boast is considerably dispar-
aged by the further statement that
the average size of Missouri farms
is 120 acres, for that means that
the average Missouri farm is not
well tilled. However,|Texas has
no reason to point the finger of
scorn at Missouri. The average
size of Texas farms, according to
the census report of 1902, was
over 300 acres. It is at least ques-
tionable if it has reduced in the
meantime; for although the open-
ing of the Brownsville county has
brought into existence a great num-
ber of farms of very much less than
the average size, the influence of
that fact has probably been partly
nullified by a development no less
marked in West Texas and the
Panhandle.
In 1 860 the average size of farms
in the United States was slightly
less than 200 acres. Ten years
later it had been reduced to slight-
ly more than 150 acres, partly for
the reason, perhaps, that a good
many of the ante-bellum planta-
tions of the South were broken up.
During the next ten years there
was another slight reduction in the
average size, but a slight increase
in 1 890 and a further increase in
1900 at which time the average
size of farms in the country was a
little less than 150 acres. It can
hardly he said, therefore, that the
progress has been either marked
or steady. Nor could one predict
with much confidence that the next
decade will show a very marked
diminution in the average size of
farms in the country, for the dis-
covery of methods by which the
sem-arid lands of the West can be
cultivated, but successfully so only
in rather large tracts, will for a time
oppose the law of economy, and
the law of agriculture, which are
operating persistently to reduce
the average size.
The outcome of the conflicting
influences is certain. The aveage
size of farms in Texas will be re-
duced, and we in Texas have
abundant reason to be impatient
for the coming of that time. Opin-
ions as to what ought to be the
average size of Texas farms differ
widely, as well they may in a state
so diverse in climate and soil.
But we doubt if any one would
say, giving full weight to the fact
that we have so rpuch arid and
sem-arid land, that it might be
half what it is. We venture to
say, at a guess, that in the humid
sections of Texas the average size
of farms could be reduced by 75
per cent wit^* profit to the farmers
! themselves and, of course, to the
state as a whole.
The old metaphorical extravag-
ance that you have only to tickle
the soil to make it yeild its beauty
has won too much acceptance. It
has become the rule of our agricul-
ture. We merely tickle, or scratch,
rather than cultivate the soil. We
underestimate i t s indolence.
The soil, the best of it, and despite
the metaphor, will only lazily re-
spond to persuasion. To be made
to work it needs to be spurred; and
the distribution of a man’s best
energy over the area whose bound-
aries have been marked by his
greed enable him to spur no part
of his field. The fields we have
chosen to till exaggerate both our
strength and our energy. It is as
if Liliputains had armed themseves
with hoes and invaded Broading-
nagia,
We shall get more from the soil
when we cease to persuade and
begin to command it, and we shall
not be able to command it until we
restrict our strength to such plans
as will yeild sovereignty to our
power. The coming of that time
is certain, though the approach of
it in Texas is apt to be impercepti-
ble for several years yet.—Velasco
Courier.
The Wave returned to her
mooring in the Aransas Pass turn-
ing basin Sunday morning, looking
as neat and trim as if she were
bran new*. Since being so serious-
ly damaged by fire some six weeks
ago, the Wave has undergone a
complete working over, new deck-
ing having been put on, a new
canvas canopy, and minor repairs
that have made the good boat
look better than she ever did be-
fore. The pe )ple of Aransas Pass
all love the Wave as their own
boat, and are with one accord de-
lighted to see her back in com-
mission again, and ready to take
friends and passengers on trips
about the bays. Captain Charles
Grey and engineer Charles Abbot,
have the boat in charge, and they
were accompanied by C. H. Wal-
ton, of Bayside, on the trip over
Sunday.
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Three lots for sale on Ocean
drive. Lots 19, 21 and 22
in block 684. The three go for
$1000 cash. Address John Saun-
ders, care Progress, Aransas, Pass,
Texas.
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J.H. HARWELL
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POOL HALL
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For your comfort and
enjoyment
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L. J. GANDY
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Cf Will practice in all the Texas
courts, U. S. courts and depart-
ments at Washington.
Office at Bay View Hotel.
S. H. BEASLEY
Transfer Baggage
and Express : :
Leave Calls at Bay View Hotel
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Contractor and
Carpenter
ESTIMATES FURNISHED
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Aransas Pass Progress (Aransas Pass, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, September 24, 1909, newspaper, September 24, 1909; Aransas Pass, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth974139/m1/6/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Ed & Hazel Richmond Public Library.