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US. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE U. S.ABAA

APPLES; In appealing ways

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ANGELINA ORCHARD COMPANY wrapper title

1902WRCAM56268Boston: Poole Printing Co. 1902. 16pp. plus two promotional pieces laid in one a folded broadside the other 4pp. on a folded sheet. Original light green printed wrappers. Light wear. Near fine. An unrecorded promotional pamphlet and related ephemera touting the advantages of investing in the ill-fated Angelina Orchard Company near Lufkin in Angelina County Texas. Around 1900 the group of Boston investors who printed this pamphlet established the town of Manton in East Texas which was designed to support their commercial fruit farm on the Texas and New Orleans Railroad. The present pamphlet sets forth the details of the available land for purchase highlights the advantages of growing fruit in East Texas prints testimonials from others in support of the area and enumerates the legal protections for landowners in Texas. The inside rear wrapper is printed with a list of mean temperatures for the area from 1901. Laid into the pamphlet is a sample contract and a separate promotional detailing real estate and insurance offerings from the company. <br> <br> "The Angelina Orchard Company incorporated around 1901 with a capital stock of $130000.bought 12500 acres of cutover timberland near the site of what is now Southland Paper Mills for growing and processing fruit. The idea of raising fruit as an economic venture in Angelina County may have been fostered by the Lufkin TRIBUNE and the Houston POST which published articles early in the century advertising East Texas as a good peach-growing area. The author of these articles an industrial agent for several railroad lines had reportedly also sent out thousands of folders promoting this idea. About 1902 the Angelina Orchard Company planted 500 of its 12500 acres in peach trees 350 in pear and 150 in plum. The company planned to plant 500 more acres a year until the entire tract was under cultivation. The farm was envisioned as a community and business center. The company built tenant houses for orchard employees a commissary a school and a church. Also planned were a canning factory a sawmill more tenant houses and a spur railroad. The plans were short-lived however. Manager Fred Brunsterman was shot during an argument in a Lufkin bank vault. The company then employed two different managers but profits never met the original expectations. The last manager attempted to make money by raising cotton potatoes and cantaloupes with no more success than the peaches had brought cotton was then selling for twenty- five to fifty dollars a bale. The Manton orchard failed. The stockholders sold the land and what timber was left" - HANDBOOK OF TEXAS. No copies in OCLC or auction history. Megan Biesele "Manton Tx." in HANDBOOK OF TEXAS online. Poole Printing Co. unknown books

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