Deseret Evening News | 1900-05-05 | Page 19 | In the Lone Star Conference

In the tho IlOilO Star Tex Tx April N 10 To IM I 1 am traveling In the central part pari of Texas In the I Len lle Star conference I This conference include a strip of country from en Clil to tour counties Wide wide and extends from the Louisiana line Ine lineon on the east to the Brazos river on the West The are at doing doln a good work There are about IC members but eleven Elders W We erE are now In what is II known ii AI the Black Lands Landa ot of cen teal trat This was Wat once a vast put pea peature ture with ot of tattle gracing upon It but it Ii fut fast giving Iv In way 1 to tb the theman man with tb the hot hoi and the once cowboy la is now seeking a livelihood be between tween the handles of the plow About ot of the he land landis I owned b by syn Irn ot of the large lare dUll cities and Is hI rented out to poor men who come here from the old Southern Itata tates Molt Moat of the people It this country countr came eam from the Eastern Stat The staple crops crop here are cotton cottO and nd corn corD but owing to the low price that bal ha been Paid ate fur otton tb the put few years eara many of the farmers are raising wheat In the place of cotton It anon anyo should desire an any from till this portion of tb the country countr Athens Henderson Co Ii I the heed head ot of our conference The News I Is a welcome c n It CIl North Ogden Old