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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1902
Page
2
An author argues Bryan should pursue a smaller, timely canning factory rather than a $100,000 cotton mill. A $10,000 plant could be the region’s largest canner outside Baltimore, drawing attention, supporting diversification, and boosting farming land value, with broader benefits than a cotton mill.
A Bryan cannery offers a path to diversified farming and broader markets. It would raise farming lands, attract immigrants, and unite town and country to build up Bryan together, while a cotton mill may prove riskier and harder to fund. A cautious start with a $3000 cannery is proposed, with potential expansion if promising.
The Southern Pacific Railroad immigration laborers are settling about 15 families weekly in Texas, chiefly along the coast, on rice lands to be cultivated in small tracts. They are described as thrifty and industrious and expected to boost the state’s productive energy. In the H E W T railway corridor fourteen fruit and truck growers associations have formed this year from Joaquin to Humble, with 25 to 150 members each, planning 600 acres of tomatoes and similar acreage in other truck crops, plus large peach orchards in the same region.
For sale 9000 bushels of Brazos bottom corn stacked in the wagon at my farm 11 miles southwest of Bryan and 6 miles northeast of Wellborn Texas. Act quickly before it is gone. Call or write William Koppe Bryan Texas 85 22
J T Bond has bought the F. 8. Wilcaux blacksmith shop, noted as one of the best equipped in the state region. The shop offers blacksmithing woodwork and vehicle painting with satisfaction guaranteed and invites patronage.
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