Show iDAY IDA Y EVENING FEB t i LAUNCH I I. I FARMING 1 gees g es Experiment With D Dry A re I LEAS ILAS Tex ex Feb 10 The The first dryg dry iii g In Texas Is believed by older lits ts' ts here to have been attempted just west of at Dallas Ind- Ind ally where It was attempted has been tl d t to tp bo bG land with valuable deposits for making cement The ground never had the appearance of at good I 1 land d. d I of ot the land for tor farm tarm puras pur- pur was as undertaken by a group of ch political refugees who founded ay a ay y just west and north of ot what Is known cnown as Oak Cliff a part of Dal- Dal I Dal-I The first dry farming was by JE JEnd E. E ond nd who also had ideas that land other ther values including gold deposits clays good for pottery Inexperience conditions as encountered In the I colony olony difficulties of farming and andI caused the colonists to ly lua abandon their project and I ty moved into Dallas Dalas be e French colony came to Dallas i ty in 1855 under tho the leadership oi ot or Prosper M M. Cante- Cante for whom street in Dallas tamed arned was prominent with e colony consisted of ot political refu- refu from France most of whom were had distinguished themselves in ir ics ics' or science They settled on the tha west of at Dallas which is called West West- Heights and which was then known Heights The colonists I took Agriculture and built houses of stuff from the hills sandO Only t two r or 1 t U still stand t and they are e in I condition I of the colonists was E E. Remond was famed as a a. scientist and spent iwas greater par part of his life developing possibilities in the formations or of se western Rills Ills He made pottery I cement and terra cotta and various r things from the materials found re It was said to be due to his ef- ef j 31 that that the existence of gold in pay pay- in Jn the hills was 1 but It was found to be more profit profit- to to make cement than to separate gold bother other member of the colony was who was famed as a natural- natural Jand nd wrote many books on this sub sub- ti was his intimate friend often visited him on Western hu Other members of the colony aided dad ded Jean Barbier Barbler J J. J B B. Louck and Dessaint Dessaint she first dry farming firming in Texas was wa tlc ti by the French colony it was wasand and the first dry farmer in the theny ny was Remond He is said to have led eda edra la good corn crop which had only rain Irain from the time it was planted 1 lilt it matured and that rain was In y resources of the Western country were pointed out in artl- artl for the Dallas News by Red Reid Re Re- id d d. d He claimed that it had splendid for pottery making and similar kland and wonderful shale for cement |