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The Hotel Proposition.
The
above named company has taken over the concrete Beach
hotel on the Gulf front of Matagorda Peninsula, across
the bay from Matagorda, together with 300 acres of
adjacent land, and will renovate and greatly enlarge the
building, terrace and beautify the grounds with palms
and other tropical plants, shell walks and grassy lawns,
etc.
The bath house will also be enlarged and improved and an
adequate hack and livery service provided.
The company is now having a fine power boat constructed
to convey passengers to and from the main land at
Matagorda. This boat will have comfortable seats, a
canopy top and adjustable side protection and will carry
100 passengers and their baggage, and is expected to
make the trip of four miles across the bay in 30 to 40
minutes in any sort of weather. She is to be equipped
with two gasoline engines and two propellers, so that if
one balks the other will keep her going.
During
the last two years this has been pronounced incomparably
the finest resort on the Texas coast by all who have
visited it, without a single exception. No place on a
bay, where there is always a mixture of fresh water and
more or less mud, is to be compared to it. Here the
pure, unadulterated brine of the rolling and roaring old
ocean quickens, vitalizes and invigorates. No undertow.
A smooth, hard bathing beach and automobile course
stretches away more than 30 miles in each direction.
The
Santa Fe railroad will put on excursion rates to this
resort twice a week.
Another Proposition.
Adjacent
to the hotel grounds the Southwestern Land Development
Co. has platted and staked off 1000 acres of the finest
land on this famous peninsula--famous for its freedom
from frost, its sub-irrigated, warm, early soil, loose
and easy of culture, and for its adaptation to the
production of tropical fruits, winter berries and
vegetables, and such crops as sea island cot-ton,
peanuts, sweet potatoes and melons in summer.
This 1000 acres is subdivided into lots ranging in size
from one-quarter acre to five acres, and of course those
who want larger tracts can select as many adjacent lots
as they wish.
The quarter acre tracts are ample for those who want
only a site for summer bungalow or a winter cottage; and
those who wish, while renewing flagging energies or
re-covering lost health, to have a healthful, delightful
and profitable occupation, will want a larger lot upon
which to raise oranges, lemons, figs, pineapples, etc.,
or on-ions, cabbage, cauliflower, celery, lettuce,
asparagus in winter, and cotton, melons, sweet potatoes
and peanuts in summer.
Strawberries and tomatoes can, be put on the market from
this peninsula in January, and melons in May, and you
know what that means in the way of fancy prices.
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You
Are invited to the Grand Opening of These Enterprises on
Wednesday, May 26th.
When
the new boat will be christened, the hotel opened for
the season and an opportunity given to purchase stock in
the Ben Hur Beach hotel and Boating Association
entitling you to membership and special rates and
privileges, and also an opportunity to select such lots
or tracts as you may want out of the 1000-acre
sub-division. On this occasion there will be a
Grand
Barbecue, Oyster Roast and Fish Fry,
with
such other diversions as oratory, bathing, boating,
motoring, etc. Don't miss it. You can't afford to miss
it. For further particulars call on or address the
DRAWER 595, Bay City, Texas, or GOODWIN STERNE,
Matagorda, Texas.
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