Elm Fork Echoes, Volume 26, May 1998 Page: 11
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know of three four hundred acre tracks it is said can be had for $2.50 per acre. If you
intend to move to this Country the Sooner you come the better it will be for you as
land is rising verry fast. There is a 350 acre track joins me that has got a good double
house orchard and about 45 acres in cultivation that can be had for $3000.00. I think
this will be a great season for people to move to Texas as there was plenty of wheat
made and a good looking chance for corn. IfWI was young and back in Virginia and
know what I now know about Texas I could not be kept there. I would beg my
passage to Texas. My opinion is that Collin Co., is a great deal healthier a place than
the Rye Cove. The water does not lie on the ground and the Springs and wells is not
fed by Stagnated water. There is allway a pleasant air stirring on the Prairies though
verry sultry in the timber. Our wheat harvest is over here and the people is generally
done laying by their corn and better looking corn I never saw grow out of the ground.
.........A word now to Sister Polly in regard to her beautiful flowers in her garden. Her
garden is nothing in comparrison to our Prairies for beauty. They are covered the
bloom from the large rose down to the little pink. When the seed gets ripe I will send
you some of the beauties of Texas.
To Harry and Polly Carter {from} John Pendleton
{Pendleton was born 1792 and died 1861 near Farmersville, Collin Co., Texas.)
On the next few pages you can learn about the land, the soil, the rocks, the hills and
dales of our particular part of the county from two of the best geologists ever to
come out of SMU - and there have been quite a few. Robert C. Dunlap, Jr., after a
stint at Harvard, came back to Dallas and joined Geophysical Inc., which later
became Texas Instruments. Claude C. Albritton, Jr., came home from Harvard with a
PhD to become a renowned Professor of Geology at SMU.
We are indebted to Mrs. Claude C. Albritton, Jr., for her permission to print the work
of her late husband and Mr. Dunlap. We enjoyed reading it and know you will also.....
and just think of the glowing reports the pioneers could have made if they had read
Messers. Albritton and Dunlap before they got here!!11
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