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M E M 0 R A N D U M
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April 24, 1951
When I first contemplated my visit to West Texas -- Pecos in
particular -- it was with the thought that I had never seen these
properties at this particular time of the year, that is the beginning
of cotton planting and irrigation, and that the visit would be one of
relaxation and pleasure. It developed to be one that covered 1, 740
automobile miles going out via Austin, Llano, Mason, Brady, San
Angelo, 1 idland, Odessa, Monahans to Pecos through the Davis
Mountains, Marfa down to Presidio, back to Marfa and home via
Alpine, Sanderson, Del Rio, Uvalde, San Antonio and Galveston.
In addition to the 1, 740 miles covered going and coming, approxi-
mately 500 miles additional were with Wilson in his car around
Pecos to Monahans, Balmorhea, Barstow, Rancho Rio, Grand Falls,
La Junta, Presidio, Alamo Farms were all visited and inspected.
Not only did we inspect these properties carefully but we also
met, talked with and visited some of the bigger and more prosperous
ranchers in these areas such as the A. R. ppenauer 300, 000 acre
ranch in the Davis Mountain National Park, the Reynolds Ranch owned
by George T. Reynolds of Fort Worth, the Fowlkes Ranch owned by
Edwin Fowlkes of Alpine and his brother, Manning Fowlkes of Marfa,
who married Maco Stewart's adopted daughter, whose life in Galveston
to a wife of an owner of a 30, 000 acre ranch reads something like a
modern Cinderella story.
The visit was made during the time of MacArthur's recall by
the President; the excitement was intense and everyone was talking
to everybody else giving us an excellent opportunity to talk not only
politics but ranching and irrigated farming in particular. All those
to whom we talked or expressed an opinion were decidedly opposed
to MacArthur's recall and the manner in which it was done except
one woman, a waitress in a cafe, who was quite uncomplimentary
and bitter toward MacArthur, but upon inquiry it developed that she
was a former WAC and didn't like some of MacArthur's orders toward
WACs in the Phillipine s.
Pecos Area
All of our lands are in excellent state of preparation, perfectly
level and in beautiful shape, the first watering having already been done.
Practically all of the Pima is through the ground, some of the other
cotton up and almost all that had been planted in the so-called "kink".-2 --P% - A4. Z
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Kempner, Daniel W. (Daniel Webster), 1877-1956. [Memorandum for West Texas Trip], text, April 24, 1951; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1012764/m1/1/?q=%221951~%22: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rosenberg Library.