[Texas]. [Land]

Office of J.S. Daugherty, General Land Agent, Solicits Correspondence with Parties Wishing to Buy, Sell or Speculate in Texas Lands [caption title]

Dallas: [ca. 1885]. Broadside, 18.5 x 8.25 inches. Printed header and map with typed text. Previously folded, with a few short separations and minor losses along old folds. Light tanning. Very good. Item #2614

Scarce broadside promotional for property in Presidio County, Texas, offered by land agent J.S. Daugherty in Dallas. Daugherty came to Texas from Kentucky in 1872 and opened his real estate office in 1873. He was also involved in several other ventures -- he laid out the town of Eastland, Texas; her supplied grain to Texas military posts; promoted the excavation of a deep water harbor in Galveston; and more. In addition to information on Daugherty's offices and services, the broadside prints a map showing several blocks and forty-one smaller sections of land available in the West Texas county organized in 1875, which at the time comprised nearly all of the Big Bend. The area in question actually now lies in Brewster County, which was separated from Presidio in 1887. Below the map, a lengthy typed text describes the land, "Situated in the South Eastern portion of Presidio County, within ten to twenty miles of the Southern Pacific Railroad. These lands have sufficient timber for fire-wood and fencing posts, with a good quality of mesquite and gramma grasses, on which cattle, horses, and sheep feed and do well the year round with out other food.... San Francisco Creek has permanent water in it in places, and good water can be found by digging, at from [sic] 12 to 20 feet." The remainder of the text offers several complicated price structures for the land, and opines that then was the time to purchase owing to the ongoing drought causing hardship for the current owners. We locate only one other copy, at SMU.

Price: $1,500.00