30,000 Acres Texas Land, Now Offered For Sale In Tracts To Suit Purchasers. Big With Golden Opportunities. A Great Cornucopia Ready To Yield Abundant Wealth To The Man With The Hoe. This Is The Country For You! The Famous "Cibolo" Valley. Texas Is Getting The Tide Of Travel

H. W. TRUAX LAND COMPANY

Publication: Alamo Printing Company, n d (ca 1907), San Antonio

First edition. 5 3/4" x 3 1/2" printed wrappers, n. p. (18 pp.), illustrated from photographs, maps, advertisements, tables. An aggressive promotional booklet by the H. W. Truax Land Company, 528 Moore Building, San Antonio, Texas, to sell Texas land to settlers and businessmen. "The section of Southwest Texas in which our lands are located is that part southwest of San Antonio near the towns of Dilly, Millett, and Cotulla, Texas, which is located on the International and Great Northern Railroad." If coming by railway "Be sure your ticket reads to Millett, Texas." Texas, Greatest of all. Texas has more railroad mileage than any other state and more new railroad building each year. Texas is second in the production of hogs. Texas is third in per capita wealth. Texas is fourth in poultry and eggs. Texas is the fifth state in population. Texas has more iron than Alabama, oak than West Virginia, prairie land than Kansas, timber land than Michigan, oil land than Pennsylvania, wheat land than North Dakota, Kaolin than the whole of Europe, grape land than the balance of the U. S., tobacco than Virginia, corn land than Illinois, fruit land than California, lignite than all of Europe, watermelons than Georgia, granite than New Hampshire, gypsum than any other state, and rice land than the balance of the U. S. South Texas produces the greatest yield of the finest pecans in the world from trees growing wild along its streams. It has planted over a half million trees and planting more each year. Much information on production, yields, markets, rainfall, stock raising, cotton, sorghum, peaches, cowboys, etc. Map shows the way to reach the lands via the M. K. & T. Railway. Cover is loose but interior is clean. Overall a very good copy.