Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 37
Marlin, Texas, Saturday, September 28, 1907
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North Texas Not Ahead of Falls Co.
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A press dispatch to the morning papers states that Red River and other north
Texas counties are producing cotton that is selling for 25 cents a pound.
The dispatch refers to the Sunflower long staple cotton and the claim is made
that the land in that section produces this cotton in large quantities but it
doesn't say how much per.
Well, Falls county land will produce this
cotton ina dry year and during boll weevil times at the rate of from
three-fourths to one bale per acre. It is doing that very thing this year.
Nick Goodrich and J. P. Hamilton will both testify to this fact, for they have
the cotton to show for itself. Both have exhibited sample locks to The
Democrat and the staple measures a full inch and half, whereas the Rev River
atricle measures one eighth less.
This cotton is now being grown on the
Sanger farm at Burlake and on the Goodrich farms near Golinda and Marlin.
It is this year producing two bales to three acres and better. A 500 pound
bale of this cotton, produced on Falls county soil is worth $150 of any buyer's
money, and the seed, say 35 bushels, at $2.50 per bushel, is worth $87.50 making
the total value of one bale of cotton, $237.50.
Red River county will have to try again
before she can get in hailing distance of grand and imperial Falls county.
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