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Hc Likes His Home.if thp 'etter reproduced below s from a well known Austin coub-tiun and was written to and pub-»e. livhed in The Earth,” a Santa u,e Fe industrial magazine issued from Chicago. Read:preareEditor of The Earth:iljst * I came here from Austria, Europe, in the year 1886. Five years I lived in Rexvdle, five ' miles south of Seaij, and in the year 1891 I bought 136 acres of land at Freydeck, six miles northeast of Sealy. A few years latermg,erssdin' i bought 279 more acres of land.ldcrSo now 1 have 415 acres of fine ter [an(i For the first 136 acres I t paid $12 am acre and a few years t!le later I had to pay $20, and nowany it is still going up.I canie to this country a very iu°t poor man, renting: now 1 am as d,s‘ well fixed as anybody around nix- here. On my land we can raise anything. The early cotton always does better than the late. ||j We make at any time thirty-six B bales to forty acres of cotton.Other things do well here, such the as corn, potatoes, beans, cabbage aud onions, etc., all planted for ship-_ ment. Also fine fruits of every description; strawberries grow abundantly, lemons and oranges are cultivated to some extent. The water is as fine as you find it anywhere in the State of Texas. Our wells are only forty to fifty feet deep. Land, such as mine, is worth now $30, $40 and $50 an acre. There is plenty of woodland here, and one can get it at $6 to $8 per acre right now.John Damek. Sealy, Austin County, Texas.-is15c;“Si Holler’' which comes to
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Bellville Times
Bellville, Texas, US
Thu, Nov 14, 1907
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