TH E N E W B E R O Q R A PH IC , Sept, al, i p i l
LETTER FROM TEXAS
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Stories of Success
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Le« Dadiaman Writes From
His
New Home in the Southland.
ANDREW CARNEGIE
Some men suc
ceed In almost
everythin*. The
business acumen
that guldaa and
direota them
rarely (a lia The
•ealua Industry
and determlna-
11 oa
ot
that
titan Scotsman.
Andrew Carne-
e. were amply
evidence rl*ht
at tha outset. At
11 he waa a bob
bin-boy
at
a
quarter a week In
dollar and
Pittsburg;
in
the
boiler
room,
at
11.
rg;
■ earning
U _1 Two
w dollars; delivering
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sages at 14. and learning
telegra
phy; an operator at 14. and In hla
early 14‘s a railroad superintendent
with 11,540 n year.
He smiled at difficulties, and
rounded up every tank ho attempt-
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wm
N
Whoa naked how ho established
hla tortone, he replied: “ By saving
my mosey. I h a t* alway. put a
Rttte aside, and my revenus at an
times, exceeded my expensed.
To save ta to have.
The road to wealth la the road to
the savings account In some
bank.
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It Is the road that laads to corn
iest and competency.
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3 and 4 per cen t paid on Certificates o f Deposit and
Savings Accounts.
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National Bank
OF NEWBERG
Newberg Graphic:—Dear ¡re a d
ers of the Graphic in and around
Newberg, to you greeting. As I
promised some o f you a letter
when we got located in this new
land, I feel this morning^that I
mast not delay longer. When
we think back to the time when
we associated with you, it seems
that much time has already past
since we sojourned among you
but when we consider the time
through the interest we have
had in developing our new home,
it has passed swiftly. I might
here add that there has been no
time in our remembrance when
the days, weeks and even months
passed as slowly and monoton
ously as when we were w aitin g
for my wife’s father to come from
Kansas. As some o f you knew
we were to get an 80 acre tract
from him as a gift. We had
word from him that he would
be here when we would get here
but there were hindering cat
that figured in the matter and
instead o f him being here when
we arrived, it was around near
February 1st. We stopped tem
porarily with my wife’s brother,
who by the w ay was living in
tent, as they had arrived here
but a few months previously
from Kansas, and “ Stopped’
tells'it all, for a time, which under
mosl.any other condition would
not necessarily seemed long, but
one tent was inadequate to ac
commodate tw o families, one o f
seven children, the other, tw o
and they would not be children
if they did not feel their rights
should be respected.
Now, going back to the time
o f our departure from there, it
goes without saying that our
anilfety began to increase when
wife and the dear little ones and
I separated for a time, while we so We have 160 acres in a square.
sped over the speedy highway, It was the 1st o f March when we
wife and little ones coming by finally g o t located on our land,
Tourist Sleeper and I coming having previously had a well
with our car we had chartered drilled -and were successful in
to bring the young stock, canned getting good water and plenty
fruit, etc, we thought best not of it, w e were ready to begin the
to sell at onr sale. Our journey slow tedious but interesting task
was a safe one. No accidents o f developing the land from the
more that should be expected on raw,—covered with timber, in
such a journey and we were in size from brush up to trees good
deed thankful. M y wife and size for fence posts, and prickly
little ones did not start for some pear, for variety, into what we
days after I left with the car and believe w ill be a productive con
should have reached Sanantonio genial home. The grubbing and
(her last change, about 70 miles clearing is all done by Mexican
from her destiny) tw o days and laborers. The “ Mexican” as the
one night sooner than she did term is used in this instance is
but was delayed and consequent- evidently a half-breed ofSpaniard
ly r e a c h e d t h a t p l a c e only and Indian. As a rule they are
not as dark as the Indian
a b o u t t e n minutes before
did, as we learned afterward by while they are more industrióos
comparing notes. Had I known than the Indian, they are
it I could have had dinner with decidedly shiftless non-progres
them that day in Sanantonio sive class o f people that
but I had no w ay ot kuewing from hand to mouth.”
and one hesitates to leave an procured one family o f
emigrant car while it is being peoples, to start with, to
shifted about in the car yard! o f for us and later, f o ir r a time, we
a large city. She reached Green worked five men. One has to
(our destiny) one evening at 5 furnish them a tent or honse to
and I reached there the next day live in and keep on hand a stock
at 11 a.m. She was seven days o f eatables. “ Provisions” such
coming and I lacked three hours as meat, beans, lard, potatoes,
of rounding out a full tw o weeks. sugar, etc., with which to furnish
soon set about to get our them w ith the necessities o f life
horses out for the first time in which o f course is charged
that tw o weeks. The law against their work. They speak
requires that stock be unloaded the Spanish language. While I
every twenty-four hours, while had men grubbing and set about
in transit, to feed and water to build us a house. I am no
unless loaded so they can lie carpenter, but thought to build
down, and are regularly fed and it myself which by the way has
watered. Our stock had these been a very slow task asllookek
later provisions.
after and waited on the men,
I will add here that we made done all my own hauling and
no mistake in shipping the stuff trying to build at the same' time ¡
we brought unless it would be it is necessarily slow. However
the apples crated. We barely
have the house well enough
came out on them. In fact along that we have gotten into
counting the time and bother it at last and it begins to look as
we were out on them we lost though I may get it done some
some on them. A t that time day. I t is 14x30 one and a half
choice apples could be bought stories with a 7 foot porch the
almost as cheaply here as there. full length on the south side and
Our cargo for the most part was a 10x14 porch on the north side
temporarily stored in a cotton from the west end. It is a box
seed house in Green and after house ceiled.
some unavoidable delay already
The climate, seems, so far, to
mentioned, the eighty acres of agree with us. The summer was
land was given us and we bought not as hot as weexpected. They
another eighty acres adjoining it all agree that this has been an
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unusually hot and dry one.
107° is the highest temperature
I have heard reported and that
was in town and only one day.
We are almost continually blest
with a cool and pleasant gulf
breeze.
But little thorough farming
is done, it practically all being o f
the shallow “ go as it may”
class.
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It is onr judgment that the
country has *a bright future,
though the “ bright” may be
further in the future than some
are figuring.
Lovin g regards and best wishes
to all.
Lee Dadisman.
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