The Aspermont Star (Aspermont, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 25, 1909 Page: 3 of 8
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AN EXCELLENT COÜNTY AND A
SPLENDID TOWN.
CAST YOUR LOT
With The Best People in lie Best
County, in The Best State
In The Union.
Are you looking- for a good
town or a good country in which
To make moneys
To make an investment,
To make a home,
To engage in farming, stock-
farming, ranching,or in "any kind
of mercantile business?
If so, Aspermont and Stonewall
County offer What you are hunt-
ing. Read this and determine
for yourself. It is a truthful, con-
servative presentation of an inter-
esting proposition.
stonewall county
• Stonewall is one of Jhe best
known counties in Central West
Texas. It is noted as a great
stockfarming county, as a great
fruit, vegetable and all purpose
farming county, and it is one of
the very few counties in Texas
where you can still get good lane
cheap. It offers the man of limit-
ed means an opportunity to get a
home, and these ppportunities
are fast passing in all parts of the
United States. Here the poor
man still gets the advantage of
good land cheap, with easy terms
and low rate of interest, and land
that is cheap in price and high in
quality is the very best kind of
investment. A considerable part
of Stonewall County still remains
undeveloped principally for. the
reason that it has heretofore
lacked railroad facilities, much of
the land being owned in large
bodies and used for grazing and
ranching purposes. The coming
of the Stamford & Northwestern
railroad passing entirely across
and through the center of the
county, changes this condition.
Nearly, if not all, of the big
ranches are being and will besub-
<livided into small tracts and sold
in large or small bodies.
location.
vStonewall County is just a little
west of a line running north and
south through the center of the
state. It is about 60 miles east of
the Staked Plains and about 200
miles east of the line of New
Mexico. It is commonly termed
a Central West Texas county,
but it is really one of the central
i counties of the state, being only
about eighty miles a little west of
north from the officially desig-
nated center of the state.
typography.
Along the streams are stretches
of beautiful valleys, with hills,
brakes, mountains and canyons
for a background, making some
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of the most magnificent scenéry
in Texas, and beyond these are
expanses of fine table land or
mesquite covered prairies. The
Double Mountains, the most
famous landmark in the Central
West, are in Stonewall County.
Clustering around them are some
of the finest and most beautiful
farms to be found in any country
and spreading all about and far
beyond them are thousands of
equally fertile but undeveloped
acres, and this illustration well
typifies the varied typography
and rich resources of Stonewall
Countv. As an industrial propo-
sition there is practical^ no waste
land in Stonewall County, the
roughest of it being unsurpassed
for grazing, pasturage and stock-
farming purposes.
SOILS.
The soils are sufficiently varied
to satisfy aay^ individual prefer-
ence and accomodate any variety
of diversification or farming.
Here you will find tight black
land,deep sandy or shinnery land,
dark sandy loam, light sandy
loam and red sandy loam. In fact
anything from a fertile river val-
ley to a broad mesquite flat.
climate and altitude.
The average altitude of the
county is about 2,000 feet above
sea level. The climate is even,
temperate and healthful. The
winters are mild and the sum-
mers delightful. The temper-
ature seldom falls lower than 30
degrees above zero in winter
and rarely runs higher than 90
in summer.
CROPS.
Corn, cotton, milo maize, kaffir
corn, sorghum have so far been
the principal crops in this county,
and no count}' in the state has a
better record in the production
of these crops. Wheat, oats and
millet do well here, but owing
to lack of profitable marketing
facilities have not been exten-
sively grown. The advent of
the railroad will doubtless give a
great impetus to the cultivation
of these crops. For fruits, veg-
etables, peanuts and melons no
county in the state surpasses
Stonewall.
CULTIVATION.
The soil is easily cultivated.
It is not poisoned with crab grass
and other crops destroying agen-
cies; crpp or fruit pests and para-
sites are practically unknown
here. It has been tested
demonstrated that a man can
properly till three acres of land
here more easily than he can one
acre in the black land counties
or in counties where the ground
is poisoned with crop destroying
agencies. For a period of ten
years cotton has averaged above
half a bale per acre, and the
staple has always graded very
high; corn has averaged from 30
¿o 60 bushels per acre, and there
has never been a failure of feed
crops '
STOCKFARMING.
Stonewall County is already
famoiis for its fine cattle, horses
and mules, and it can and cer-
tainly soon will be equally famous
for hogs, sheep goats, poultry,
etc. Contagious diseases and
epidemics are unknown here and
ailments of any kind are very
rare among live stock and poultry
No part of the United States of-
fers the stockfarmer, the hog or
poultry raiser greater opportun-
ities and natural advantages than
does Stonewall.
timber,
There is an abundance of elm,
hackberry,cottonwood, mesquite
and small cedar throughout the
county for fencing and fuel pur-
poses. It is always estimated that
the timber on land easily pays
theexpense of grubbing, clear-
ing and preparing the land for
the plow.
WATER.
There are two rivers, the
Double Mountain and Salt Fork
of the Brazos, and a number of
small streams in the county, some
of them furnishing living stock
water. A good quality of well
water is obtained at a depth of
from forty to seventy-five feet,
and there are few sections of land
in the county on which great
surface tanks or reservoirs can-
not be easily and cheaply made.
PRICE OF LAND
You can get good unim-
proved land for S3 to $8 per acre
and improved land at from $10
to $25 per acre.
OUR PEOPLE
Nowhere in any country will
you find more intelligent, hospit-
able, generous, progressive, law-
abiding people. They are just
the kind of people you appreciate
as neighbors, friends and citizens
SCHOOLS, CHURCHES, ETC.
Throughout the county there
are good schools, no county in
the state has better, and in every
community are good churches
and strong fraternal organiza-
tions.
a few successful farmers.
If you want to know more par-
ticulary about Stonewall County
we present you here a list of men
who can furnish the information.
They are old citizens, solid, re-
liable, practical farmers, men
who*know from years' of person-
al experience and actual results
just what has been and can be
done here. See any of them
personally or write to them about
it.
John S. Zant, W. P. Guest, W.
A. Trammel, T. W. K. Head,
Thos. C. Hoy, J. W. McMeans,
F. C. Wright, C. N. Poore, W.
L. Turner, T. R. Duke, W. H.
Lee, H. Lee, W. A. McLaury,
J. A. Whitten, P. L. Anderson,
S. B. Pierson, Steve King,
Aspermont.
W. C. Newton, Tol Ginn, W.
S. Crowder, J. A. Gholdston, Eu-
gene Mayfield, Mattie.
T. M. Hill, J. H. Hahn, J. M.
Hahn, E. O. Watkins, W. A.
Huntsman, J. J. Craft, W. H.
Alls, A. L. Mullin, Gatlin,
E. S. Bilberry, H. Myers, L.
V. Goodrich, W. L. Matthews,
Charles Featherston, J. D. Pat-
terson, R. I. Goodall, Oriana.
(CONTINUED ON SEVENTH PAGE.)
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If you want to buy or sell Land iri any size
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If you want your teams cared for, or if you want to buy, sell or trade
horses. Fair treatment and honest dealings. Feed constantly ott f^jjj
hand for sale at lo <eest prices. . .
W. B. BINQHAM, Prop. ASPERJ
.. BLUE FRONT WAGON YARD ..
One Block Southeast of square. Horses
and mules bought and sold. Feed al-
ways on hand. : : : : :
E. B. & W. S. FEATHERSTON,
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complete, reliable, and in sympathy with the J
common people.
Try the Fort Worth Semi-weekly Record
Besides these qualities, the Friday edition con- j
tains a COLORED COMIC PAGE, which is not
found in any other big semi-weekly paper.
THE RECORD'S MARKET REPORTS are
unsurpassed; published at the great packing1
house center of the Southwest, it is in closest
touch with the livestock situation.
THE RECORD was the first newspaper in the I
South to advocate organization among farmers for J
maintaining a Fair Price for Cotton; it
steadily contended for this movement; has been |
of great value to the caese, and deserves support.
THE RECORD'S EDITORIAL PAGE is alert,
courageous and outspoken on all current questions
Semi=Weekly Record 1.00
The Aspermont Star 1.00
Both '« $1.75
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Thomas, S. W. The Aspermont Star (Aspermont, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 25, 1909, newspaper, February 25, 1909; Aspermont, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth168395/m1/3/: accessed May 3, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Stonewall County Library.