The Rocksprings Record and Edwards County Leader (Rocksprings, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, March 16, 1928 Page: 1 of 8
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ROCKSPRINGS, TEXAS, FRIDAY MARCH 16, 1928
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Mr, W. E. Eaton Sells Rocksprings Light
^—Consideration Not Made
Possession Given on May 1st
On last
Friday, March; 9th, Mr.
W. E. Eaton, owaer of the Rock-
springs Light Company, disposed of
§p|g£.' his holdings here to the Central
Power & Light Company effective
Maty 1st, the consideration not be-:
ing given out for publication.
/Mr. Eaton acquired this property
from the Rocksprings Light Com-
Iptfr on June 1st, 1923, when it was
truly a village plant, furnishing at
that time intermittant service. He at
once began to improve his holdings
here as well as the service, and at
ived one the time of the sale we may venture,
without fear of contradiction, that
Rocksprings is among the few towns
in the whole country, of like popula-
tion that enjoys a twenty-four hour
power and light service from an inde-
pendant plant. dM, , ) \ : ' i i
Mri Eaton has had ups and downs
since coming to our city as the owner
of the lighting plant, possibly made
so on account of the limited capital
it his command and the demands
jmade on him for service second to
none anywhere. Q. /i 'Hf$i
Then again, he was hard hit when
the tornado swept nearly all of his
s getting ready for some extensive
improvements, and contemplate plac-
ing a central power station in this
section of the state, possibly at Camp
Wood, on account of the close prox-
imity there to plenty of water, and
the fact that rail facilities b^ing nec-
essary for the transport of materials
and supplies to the central plant.
In the event this company decides
to put a plant at Comp Wood then
that little city will be fortunate, for
with this power (riant will' come
other things so much desired in any
town. While that is the e^se, yet We
too will profit by its location within
>jf- Stone’s-thrpw of Rocksprings, and
feel that a plant located'there will be
joi inestimable value not only, to
Rocksprings. but the entire of Ed-
wards county, as well Power will be
distributed from this plat to the vari-
ous ranches in this section, and we
can lookjfor many new pumping plants
outside equipment and part of the
lant itsfelf off the face of the earth.
lii*not discouraged, 'Will buckled.
into the ruins ami began tb 'make
headway toward relieving the immed-
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engine to take The
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the day period.
In possesion of any ro-
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to go in all the rivers bordering our
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ranching interests.'-
Baseball Season
Fast Approaching
In less than a month the big league
as well as the minor league will open
• baseball season and the. dailies
38 s0?nMas "*• p,.ys,r will be crammed full of baseball news.
t j rebuilt lus lines >p0 many people this is welcome news
■aad for those people the Record will
hill030* tht ^OSt interestin8 baseball
KMP5.• pews through the season.
ji&VJJ*e sixteen big league camps and
f||f>eight Texa#jftftgbe 'camps, which
constitute the . group we are interest-
ed in, are all working hard these days
ipally in getting the regulars in
itkwv and M tryhtg opt r
year ft few# scantHliating
uncovered by the hone hunters
now everyone is interested in
e American game) the Record witt
glad to publish k list of the way
teams
finish before the sea-
possfldy feMf
e
be 6 cents fon th
son begins.
We *wouhi .like to see Rocksprings
a town team this year as most
our /neighboring^ fcpwhs are to
have one and we would like to mix it
With them. We have a large amount
Five Big Land Deals Are Made
Of Record Here This Week
Offers Warehouse
For Angelo Show
The Fedurary issie of the Angora
Journal contains the following 'as to
proposed facilities for handling the
show and sale of Texas Sheep and
Goat Raisers Associfttioii .which meets
in San Angelo this year:
“ Word has been received by the
Angora Journal that the new ware-
house, having 75,(WO square feet of
floor space, recently erected by the
Wool Growers Central Storage Co,
of San Angelo, Texas, has been offer-
ed for the show and sale of Texas
Sheep and Goat Raisers Association,
this year. The warehouse has a rail-
way siding. Exhibits can be unldded
direct from truck or traih. This marks
another point of advance in the hearty
support, jjiveh growers. At
a temporary pen wks used/and the
limited quarters of sales ring iir ft.
small warehouse were inadequate. The
directors of the Central Storage Com-
pany offered use of the warehouse as
a coprtesy to the association. ”
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RESURVEYING TOWN
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J. H. Schwal, engineer, and D. B.
Dupriest, or the rating • department,
both from the State Fire Insurance
Commission, are here this week re-
mapping and resurveying the city of
Rocksprings, with the idea of rcrat-
ing the town's fire insurance risk. At
present ‘there is practically no cred-
its that we are getting and which we
are entitled to, and these gentlemen proved.
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Visitors
As evidence thht Edwards county
land is always desirable for ranch
purposes and that investment in land
in this county in good, five ranch
sales are announced this week. A
total of several thousand acres of land
are involved in *the sales and in each
case the price in not given.
Alfred Welch sold 3,840 acres of
land out of the Chicago Cattle Loan
Co., ranch which he bought, to H. R.
Bean, also an Edwards county ranch-
man. This land lies to the west of the
Uvalde rold about eight miles south
of Rocksprings. Mr. Welch will re--
tain the balance of this land as his
home ranch.'
1 Chas. A. Stapp, Jr., sold his ranch
consisting of 5,120 acres, situated
about 20 miles east of Rocksprings,
tb J. L. Hankins of Abilene, Texas.
The price on this land is not known
but it is known to.be good for. the
ranch is well improved. Mf> Hankins
is the father of Jess Hankins, local
ranchman, v and will move here and
make Edwards county a citizen fn the
future. Mr. Stapp is looking for an-
other ranch in this county if he can
find one that suits him.
Alfred Welch sold to J. N. Lock-
ley, local merchant and mayor of the
city of Rocksprings, six sections of
land, being the part of the Chicago
Cattle Loan C&, ranch lying east
of the Uvalde road. This land is well m
imoroveftU/'^i^^^e^p-
w Mr) Welch has purchased the old'
ht>infc ranch from Jerry Burleson
which' consists of seven sections and
is situarted about 25 miles eaftt of
Rocksprings^ This innch is well im-
Chas. L. Mason and
ville spent Friday after
ing in Rocksprings. Mr
display here a
attracting a good
that it had
this place to Kerrvil
been in raa
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ge psers.
range* and such like, aqd in
we fcel;«ha« *'.!»«
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the acquisuiuu
t, , and the possession of same on
y 1st there will be added to the al-
ady long chain of high line electricity
iers of the city of Rocksprings.
j; W® welcome the • Central Co., to
Rocksprings, and heel that with the
|this coro
e to this section will be
of.untold valite, in that they will al-
ways be found ^ready and willing to
promote everything that would tend
to sdvanoe the interests of the com-
j munity in which they have their
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SkW t m tMhrv:
VO■> team Vrth .very httle expense. The
they will give an attrac- Wgh
t_ ^ »°n and, the pubhc owes these boys
to tnoae umo ww* cicctnp suppoft Ufs hQott for . the
high school baseball team, add’ help
m ff°m put them over,
at once, where f
devices driR be j*
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purchaser,
n of thfs prop-
are here for the purpose of working
the rate from the ground up.
Many impftbbenients have be£»
since the hoping that
the effect of "lowering
rate, with the result that th*
ance hill for local people w
mubh less in the futtwft. '
Mr. C. L. Anderton of San Antonio
representing the Rebublic Fire In-
surance Company, has jbeen here
this week roan effort to help redne*
our insurance rate. Mr. Anderson's
Company is represented here by W.
T. Day local insuror.
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CURBING BILLBOARDS
From widely separated localities
comes news of efforts'being made to
place a curb on the enforcements of
billboards, which deface the natural,
scenery and offend the sena^OPcs of
lovers of • natural beauty.
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called
40 CENTS
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invested and which
we are reproducing an arti-
appearing in the (Jamp Wood
of last week, of much inter-
of this section:
~ MADE BRIEF SURVEY
Messrs. J. A. Smiley, N. D. Simp-
son and G. $. Ramble, representatives
of the Central Powef & Light Co.,
were in Camp Wood Monday and
made a brief survey of ihe town.
The Central Power & Light Co. is
investigating the feasibility of a power
plant in this city, with the extension
of a high 'line to Leakey, Rio ^rio
and Utopia. -‘,H
An option for the purchase of the
Jjght plant, we learn, has been
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Camp Wood will welcome the en-
sterling public utilities con-
1— section. Just as soon‘as
are made, the cora-
ma.ke definite an-
)d Crony.
Louis Domingues, Hupmobile and
star dealer of Kerrville was a visitor
to Rocksprings Friday displaying the
Durant 65, which is the Star six. 'The
Star and Hup cars are very popular
in this section, and we understand
Mr. Domingues is enjoying a nice
patronage here at this particular time,
in fact his demonstrator was sold
While on this trip, it being fully
equipped 65 sedan.
Mr. Domingues was glad to see the
articles in the Record relative to the
good roads propisition now up by the
Kerrville Chamber of Commerce, and
backed by all the Chambers of Com-
merce along the Old Spanish Trail
from Junction to San Antonio.
In speaking of this move that will
mean so much to the commercial ifr
trest of this country, Mr. Domingues
states that “this would give Rock-
springs hundreds of tourists during the
spring and summer, that are not
eeming this may now. If the high-
wayq from North Texas, now in ex-
cellent shape, tap highways in the Hill
Country of like nature, then we can
expect a large influx of people here
during the entire year, as it would give
them a direct line to Del Rio, from the
north, whye if this road from San An-
tonio to Junction, was tarviated and
a good road built from there to Rock-
springs to Mountain Home, connect-
ing there with the main highway,
then travel out of San Antonio and
Texas towns points
come this way,”
i system of good
fSjij-
imw
roads are? being planned now, with a
fairly good road to Junction, would
give your particular section of the
country an advertising feature seebnd
to none in the state, whereby- hund-
reds would be attracted to your sec-
tion that are missing the beauty and
grandeur here, simply on account of
Ihe condition of many of yottr tdads.”
* Like Mr. Domingues . we think
Rocksprings buisness men should put
their shoulders to'lhe wheel and join
with Junction, Kerrvilie, Fredericks-
burg and other towns in the Hill Coun-
try, in an effort to perfect a system of
roads here second to none, and make
an effort to attract the visitor to this
particular section of the great south-
west, for we are truly “setting on the
top of Texas,” having an altitude of
something like 2550 feet, and in the
very heart of the Angora industry
of the entire United States.
As for scenery, we have as much
beauty in this particular section as can
be found anywhere in the United States
majestic “mountains” dot our high-
ways in every direction, beautiful clear
springs are seen everywhere spouting
frpm the mountain sides, forming the
many rivers that head within *a few
miles of Rocksprings. Truly we are
living at the very huh of nature’s
paradise, and by little effort on our
part, the outside world will be inter-
ested in this particular section, and
many will com4 among us to spend
their vacations, and go away well
pl«K< with wlut nature Ma* the
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ten months, establii
record. Mr. Mason v
the rapid manner i
spring WftsBj
was amazed at
buildings erected
months.
Hf wxs 'plc
titude toward *-the
highway betwe*W.
Antonio, by Way .
expressed
chants here will
▼iile Chamber of
ting this over. Hft
himself as
have an active t
here, th||y
citizens >
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Bob iWner has purchased 7,000
acres of the old Welge ranch from
( First National
lajud
rings and
| ranch. l\
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- According to a statement
Pacific Cooperative Wool Gro\ .
,1927 mohair pool was
checks sent out to its
were va(g
Kid, 73 1-2 cents, Nb. 1
cents, No./2 Combing, 53 3-4
No. 3 Combing, 50 cents
cents. ,
This report goes on to say
sixteen per cent of the pool
kid hair, agiinst twelve per cent last
year. This ts about three times the
percentage of kid hair for which
growers are usually receive credit.
ri Manager War<| visited mohair mills
iql the Eaqt and found demand for
choice furniture pluses was consider-
ably reduced and that business on kid
plush Jot Pullman eftrs was very limit-
ed. The entire plush buwriess had been
injured by the use of a much cheaper
plush made of coarse wools and cotton
wit,h a per centage of the coarser
grades of mohair. Accordingly, the No.
1 and 2 grades were not sold by
Association untjlm dfcpiand developed :
which would utilfec them at what was
considered their real value* This took
place in December,
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GUARANTEED TIRE IDEA
The Seiberling Rubber Co. has in-
augurated a new idea in selling their
tires and one that is likely to prove
quite popular, for all the tire buyers
wants is service 4br his money and
the Seiberfing interests aare just offer-
ing to give him that kind of service
that is for one year. You buy a tire
and tube and it is guarenteed for one
year. If you use it*six months and
anything goes wrong up to snagging 1
it you get a new tire and tube for
$6.00 and a like schedule 'm
month you use it.
The Rocksprings Service
owned and managed by G
has a stock of these
selling them on the
guafentee.
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Stokes, H. V. The Rocksprings Record and Edwards County Leader (Rocksprings, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, March 16, 1928, newspaper, March 16, 1928; Rocksprings, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1073772/m1/1/: accessed June 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .