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Just South of and in Easy Driving Distance of the Great
City of Houston, Texas
"The Cream of the Gulf Coast"
In tho heart of the rainbelt no irrigation or water-right expense a virgin rolling prairie, no inesguite, no chaparral, no
cactus, no grubbing and clearing cost, but NOW ready for the plow.
LOCATION -In the southern part of Harris and the northern part of Brazoria counties. Lies along and between" the Galveston-Houston
branch of the Santa Fe, the main line of the Santa Fe and the International and Great Northern railroads.
TRANSPORTATION Both rail and water, with low freight rates due to water and rail competition.
MARKETS Houston, a city of over 100,000 people, including suburbs, in driving distance of any tract of Suburban Gardens,
is one of the best markets for all kinds of farm products in the United States. Is also a place where all kinds of implements and
other farm supplies may be obtained at the lowest cost. Imports and exports loaded and unloaded to and from vessels in the
city limits, coming in and going out through the Houston Ship Channel by way of Galveston, Uncle' Sam's second largest seaport.
Houston's 17 railroads include the principal trunk lines, all of which have a "Down Hill Pull" to this point. Houston's bank
deposits today exceed $32,000,000.00. She has 252 factories, over 100 churches, forty schools, including the Rice Institute with
an endowment of $8,000,000.00, and the best social advantages. Her sky-scraping office buildings, mercantile establishments and
manufacturing enterprises compare favorably with those of the larger cities of the north ,alid east. t0 t .
SUBURBAN GARDENS AUison-Richey's Suburban Gardens is a tract of 60,000 acres lying south of Houston and sub
divided into 5 and 10 acre tracts, each facing a graded 'road, which are being sold on small monthly payments; no taxes, no in
terest. Over 3,000 people have already bought in Suburban Gardens, 90 .per cent of whom bought for the purpose of making
their homes on the land, developing orange and fig orchards and spending their remaining days in this delightful climate and
in this, the choicest section of the gulf coast of Texas. Over 300 families have already located in Suburban Gardens, which
breaks all records in settlement of new propositions, while four times that number will be living on the land in the next 12 months.
These people are the very best class of farmers, truckers, fruit growers, dairymen, poultrymen, merchants, bankers, lawyers, doc
tors, ministers, educators, mechanics, etc., from all sections of the country. They have already set out under contract more than
3,000 acres to oranges and figs, and have erected some of as pretty bungalows and cottages as are to be seen in any of the cities.
In fact, there is in Suburban Gardens every evidence of thrift, energy and practical progressiveness, although 1 1-2 years ago the
land was an open prairie a ranch.
SOIL The soil is a deep, rich, black hogwallow and sandy loam, easily reduced to cultivation. Its adaptability for citrus
fruits, figs, winter and summer strawberries and all kinds of vegetables has been proven, as is evidenced by the truck farms orange
and fig orchards, and flourishing general field crops. Many instances may be cited where one crop has paid for the land ' Subur
ban Gardens is in the citrus fruit belt, and Satsuma Orange growers in the vicinity have gathered over $1 000 per acre t'er season
from their orchards. Strawberry yields of $500 to $1,000 per acre are not uncommon in this section, while market gardeners
realize from $100 to $500 per acre from vegetables. This land will grow two to three crops per year, will produce as much of
each as any land m the north, and many varieties of crops that can not be grown in the north. Here there is a harvest everv
month in the year and at your door a cash market for every thing harvested.
HEALTH COMPORT, CONTENTMENT, PROSPERITY AND A LIFETIME INCOME-The salt sea breezes blow continu
ously over Suburban Gardens, and malana can not live here. Both winters and summers are mild. A developed orange and fig
orchard, a small truck farm, a dairy, a poultry yard, or a few acres of strawberries mean an income f or life a T,oaPHnn phUv
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descriptive- literature of your Suburban Gardens south of I dens. Cut it out LKlt u tod PTt wLn
Houston and advertised in The Commoner. I to buy. Suburban GaX tLf. does oMigate you
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