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Geo. E. Barstow 



President 



Pecos Valley Land & 

 Irrigation Co. 



OF 



BARSTOW 

 TEXAS 



Any one who Is familiar with 

 the results from Texas Irrigated 

 Land will tell you that the safest, 

 surest way to pain a large and per- 

 manent Income from a email out- 

 lay Is to tret hold of a few acres of 

 Texas Irrigated Land. 



But, heretofore. It has required 

 some capital at least a few hund- 

 red dollars and it has been neces- 

 sary for the purchas- 

 er to go and live on 

 tliL 1 land and develop 

 it. 



Now, my company 

 makes it possible for 

 you to get ten acres 

 of the finest kind of 

 Texas Irrigated 



Land, all under cultivation, Income property from the 

 very beginning, if yon can save 83.00 a week. 



You can go and live on it absolutely assured of 

 an Independent living from it alone. 



Or arrangements will be made to have It culti- 

 vated for you for a small hare of the crops. 



Now I can and will prove all this from the highest authorities 

 In the land. 



All you have to do Is write to me and say, " Prove to me that 

 ten acres of your Texas Irrigated Land can be made to produce 

 an Income of from 91,000.00 to 85,000. (0 a year." 



I have the proof, so read what my company will do for you. 



New Safe Land Plan 



I will deliver at once to the Citizen's State Bank of Baretow, 

 Texas, a Warranty Deed to ten acres of the land of the Pecos 

 Valley Land and Irrigation Company as per the subdivision 

 of the Company's properly made by John Wilson and flled for 

 record with the County Clerk of Ward County, Texas. 



I will deliver at once to you, one of 

 onr Secured Land Contracts for the War- 

 ranty Deed at the Bank on the contract 

 appeal's a certificate signed by an Officer 

 of the Bank and certifying that the Hank 

 has your deed and will deliver It to you 

 eocorlingto the terms of your Secured 

 Land Contract. The Bank acta as an Inde- 

 pendent agent for both of us to guaran- 

 tee fair play. 



You must pay 83.00 a week, or at the 



Safeguarded 



The Bank will deliver your deed 

 direct to you when your $3.00 a 



week and interest credits total $483.00 



ite"of^6oaw^klnmolith"ly7quarteriy] If. IV^er***- "Tab-** T f\nrr 

 cemi-annual or annual payments. 11 1^065111 I Q.K.G L-ODg 



Or you can pay as much faster as 

 yon like. 



At the end of each year If you take more than a year to 

 complete your payments you will be credited with 5 per oent 

 per annum on tbe amount you have paid. 



15 down and 93 a week paid regularly, and the Interest 

 credits, will mature your Contract in a little over two and three- 

 fourths years. 



But you can mature your Contract by paying the same total 

 amount, 9483, in a day, a month, six months, a year, or In any less 

 time than 2,\ years, and whenever your regular receipts and 

 your interest allowance credit receipts total (483, all you have to 

 do to get your land is to take or send your receipts and your con- 

 tract to the Citizen's State Bank at Barstow, Texas, together 

 with twenty-eight vendor lien notes each for 939, payable one 

 every three months for seven years. 



The Bank will then give you your Warranty Deed to the 

 land, which, according to the Contract and the Deed, must be 

 fully Irrigated and all under cultivation. 



-* Remember this is ten acres of land which I must flmt prove 

 iy Is capable of producing an Income of from 91,000 to (5,000 a year. 



Yon get this land for (483, which you can pay In less than 

 three years (IB down and (3 a week and you then haveonly four 

 139 notes each year for seven years to pay out of your Income. 



Can you Lope in any other way, so safe and sure as this, to 

 have so large an independent income In so short a time! 



I believe the purchase of Texas Irrigated Land to be the best 

 way for a man of small means to make hlmnelf Independent. 

 And I believe I am qualified to pass judgment as I have been in- 

 terested In Irrigation matters locally and nationally for 15 years. 

 The results are simply astounding to those who are unfamil- 

 iar with the great subject of Irrigation. 



And I believe the happiest man these days Is the man with 

 the little ten acre irrigated farm (President Roosevelt says, 

 "Even B acres is enough to support a family and keep it busy"). 

 The owner of a Ten Acre Irrigated Farm doesn't have to 

 "knuckle to tbe boss," nor strain his conscience in the struggle 

 of the intense commercialism of the day. 



His income Is practically untouched by "financial depression." 

 His living and peace of mind are not dependent upon the 

 whim of any man. 



He is king in his own little domain. 



He can make his little ten acres earn as much as a quarter 

 section (160 acres) unirrigated, would produce as much as be- 

 tween twenty and eighty thousand dollars In cash would bring, 

 loaned out at 6 per cent. 



He has his close neighbors, his telephone, good roads, schools 

 and churches In fact, all the comloits and conveniences of life 

 that come with the prosperous close-knit community, though 

 they pass by the great isolated farm. 



The land I want you to buy la all good rich soli. Irrigated 

 from Canals and Ditches already constructed In the most ap- 

 proved modern fashion and carrying an abundant supply of 

 water taken from the ever-flowing Pecos River. 



It is within a few miles of Barstow, Texas, and Pecos City, 

 Texas, (the two towns aro only fi" J miles apart the land lies be- 

 tween the towns and a little to the north) and served by the Texas 

 & Pacific Railway and the Pecos Valley Line of the Santa Fe 

 System. 



With rich soil, a splendid climate and the uncertain quantity 

 moisture eliminated, agriculture and 

 horticulture can here be scientifically car- 

 ried on to the splendid profit of the land 

 owner. 



Tbe abundant crops of large and In 

 every other way superior hays, grains, 

 cotton, vegetables and fruits are equaled 

 in only a very few favored spots. 



The justly celebrated Barstow Grapes 

 are considered by many to be even better 

 variety for variety than those raised 

 In Southern California and we are 1,200 

 miles nearer the great Eat; tern market. 

 But all this is the merest outline of what 

 I desire to show you in detail. lam only 



attempting to make It clear to you that you can have an assured 

 Independent living income In less than three years if you can 

 possibly save 93 a week. 



I have promised to submit the proof. All yon have to do Is 

 write for It. Will you do that today , even If you can't commence 

 right away I I want the address of every man or woman who is 

 willing to save 93 a week if I can prove that the result will be 

 financial independence In less tli&n three short years. 



There Is nothing philanthropic about this proposition, bnt I 

 especially want to hear from the wage-earners. I have worked 

 for fifteen years to develop this Irrigation System and this com- 

 munity. It would be gratifying to me to have those who most 

 need it reap the benefits of my labors. 



It will be more convenient f or you to address me at St. Louis, 

 and I am equipped there to best answer you. 



GEORGE E. BARSTOW, President 



Pecos Valley Land and Irrigation Company, of Barstow, Texas, 

 849 Missouri Trust Bldg.. St. Louis. Mo. 



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