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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1900
Page
2
A 1900 appeal urges Texas truck growers to join the Texas Truck Growers' Association and state group, detailing low costs, no salaries, and benefits from local to state membership, with emphasis on keeping farming profits within Texas and resisting competing outside interests. The notice notes shares at one dollar and the need for strong local bonds.
A. G. Pickett, President, appeals to truck growers to join the state association. He explains that paying three cents of a ten per cent commission will fund the association and eventually pay members a handsome dividend on their dollar. He urges unity for the good of the cause.
A dense roster of names including CXCHANGE, Jack Steele, McKinney, F W McConnico, T K Lawrence, City, W J Taylor, J W Sullivan, Hous ton, Ed H Hardin, Waco, P KE Wilson, Dal las, G W Griswold, St Louis, Hill Wilson, Mumford, W A Withers, City, A L Gray, St Louis, F W Evans, New York, WC Brashear, M E Glass, W C Connor Jr, G Waldo, Houston, J E Van Riper, Co. W. & B. V. surveying corps, Jaok Henderson, Austin and many others listed alongside civic and regional centers.
Prices quoted in Bryan yesterday show cotton middling 8c, strict middling 8c, good middling 9c. Eggs 6c, chickens 2.00 per dot, beeswax 16c, turkeys 40 to 50c each, honey 8c, country lard 74c, butter 12?4 per pound, bacon 74c. Irish potatoes 100 per bushel, sweet potatoes 75c, onions 5c, dried peas 8c, corn 50c per bushel, hay 7.50 per ton, wood 1.75 per cord, rotten seed 10 per ton. Wool 17c, hides green 4c, salted 7c, dry 8c. Bones 20c per 100 pounds. Cattle cows 15 to 20 per head, yearlings 10, hogs 34c per pound, sheep 2.00 per head.
All members are ordered to meet at the Bryan courthouse at 2 p m on Saturday March 31 to elect officers and pay per capita for 1900 and to transact other important business by order of Commander A C Brietz and Adjutant W G Mitchell.
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