Hockley County Free Press (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 16, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 17, 1964 Page: 5 of 14
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MAY 17, 1964
CONT. FROM PAOE 1
PREHISTORIC
MAN
*veral thousand of them--
completely disappear
the face of tile earth?
<o one seemingly knows
Ifere they have gone
In making other ex-
plorations we found sea
shells along the canyon
floor, and also embedded in
the walls, indicating that at
some time in the dim past
this was the oottom of the
sea But that reaches back,
far beyond the dawn of
history
Coming down to more
modern times, it has not
been so many years ago
that the plains of Texas
were called the “Great
American Desert” Actual-
ly, at one time it was def-
in^aly thought this expanse
(^^BrtiU' bind was a desert
and would not support
human life For this reason
it was shunned oy many
Lp until less than a
hundred years ago there
was no farming on the
South Plains As far as we
know until the Quakers
settled near Kstac ado in
the early 1800’s, no people
lad the audacity to try
rming However the
ichers learned it was far
from being a desert, and the
country was broken up into
huge ranches on which
grazed the Texas longhorns
Much of th land was public
domain but no one filed on
it but the ranchers \|any of
them leased it from the
state for the purpose of
g.azing cattle
When these ranches
flourished the Indian had
loi^ since gone to the
r^^Bvation. and it was in-
deW a cattleman’s para-
dise. It was in the early
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1900's that a lawyer by the
name of Jarrot, then county
attorney of Erath County,
discovered there was a
large tract of land which had
not been filed on lie saw
a great future for this
country, and with foresight
knew it would be a great
farming region
It is not difficult to
imagine the consternation
of the ranchers when thp\^
learned he had filed of a
wide strip of land in what is
now Hockley County and
northeast Terry County It
took quite a slab of their
grazing land The killing of
Jarrot was told in another
article which ran a lew
weeks ago in this news-
naner
A W. illakenship was
the first farmer to buy land
Irom Jarrot [je moved his
family here in the early
1900’s As far as I have
been able to learn, he built
the first wire fence, with
cowboys telling him they
would tear it down
However, farming ac-
tually was practiced on a
small scale in the county
long before Blakenship
settled here, but on this
particular ranch small
plots of grain were harvest-
ed which was fed to their
horses.
The first farming on a
large scale—the exact date
is not known—was made on
the old wouth camp of the
\ellowhouse Ranch where it
is said twenty-five hundred
acres was put into cultiva-
tion The green silage was
reportedly stored in two
silos three or four miles
south of Whitharral There
are some who question the
size of this first operation
but at any rate it was
farming on a large scale
When the strip of land
near where Ropesville is
now located was put up for
homesteading, several far-
mers drifted in But the
exact date of the establish-
ment of Ropesville I have
been unable to learn. But
it was more than twenty
years before farming was
actually started.
In 1926 the large ranch-
es commenced to break up
their holdings and sold to
people who wanted to farm
Records show that from
1925 to 1930 the increase
in farm operations was more
than one thousand By 1935
this number had oeen in-
creased by 144 But, the
depression of the early
1930’s curtailed the buying
of farms and slowed up the
cultivation of new land
Until irrigation crops
were uncertain and seemed
to run in cycles, running
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from bumper crops to almost
total failures Checking on
irrigation it appears the
first well was drilled in the
county by W H .Still west
of Ropesville We are not
sure of tile exact date, but
was in the early thirties
Later, other wells were put
in operation
It was in 1923 Alexan-
der Bros offered for sale
• 42,000 acres of land for
the Y ellowhouse Land Com-
pany This was part of the
XIT Ranch It was the
beginning of Pep, and the
purpose of placing the
land on the market was to
establish a Catholic com-
munity in Hockley County
In 1924 Alexander Bros
built a small land office
near the present location of
the Pep school and oegan
selling the land The cam-
paign was kicked off with a
buffalo barbecue which was
attended by several hundred
prospective buyers from ail
over the state The cele-
bration was held at a cattle
watering place known as the
“Big Tub” because of the
large water tank located at
the windmill It is stated
Father Ledwig a Catholic
priest, was toastmaster
By the end of that year
much of the land had been
put in cultivation and new
homes erected which were
soon occupied by the
owners This naturally
brought jn a numoer of
children and Alexander
Bros, recognized the need
of a school To meet this
need the land office was
moved to the vicinity of
where the present school is
located, and Miss Peggy
Cosgrove was employed as
the first teacher It was'
during this first session of
school that the pupils often
were forced to stay inside
the building because of the
great herds of buffalo graz-
ing around it There was a
large herd of these animals
on the ranch.
A grocery store was
opened in 1925 oy J G
Gerik in a stucco building
erected by Alexander 3ros
That same year the com-
munity organized its own
j ustice precinct and A J
Jungman was the first
justice of the peace, while
J F. Gerik acted as its
first constable.
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CQNT. FROM PAOE I
GRADUATION
PROGRAM
The number of this year’s
graduates is 25 per cent ovei
that of last year The foll-
owing students are to re-
ceive an Associate in Busi-
ness Administration: John
Nelson Brock, Levelland;
Cassie Mae Ervin, Little-
field; Doyland Ray Lewis,
Tahoka; Raul Everardo
Moreno, Anti>n; and Vondal
Rinne, Wilson
The following students
will receive an Associate
in Arts degree: Jimmie
Michael Bowman, Luwilla
Dianne Burney, Nancy Jean-
ette Bussey, Ernie Lon
Caoper, Thurman Arvil
Cowan, Robert W Ewing
Gary Rhea Gill, Wayne Ray
Howard, Anita Rosine Hud-
gens, Wesley Levoy Long,
Laverne Boudreaux Martin,
Donald James McCulloch,
Karen Jo Palmer, Deborah
Elaine Perkins, Patricia
Bowman Rogers, Gary Don
Rush, Riley Lynn Sanders,
Jr , Robert Everett Simpson,
Tressie Ann Stafford, Martha
Nell Viaille, Wilda L Stag-
ner, Marilyn J Crunk, Jean
Gregston Hughes, Mildred
Dailey Moore, all of Level-
land
Also Nilah B Rodgers,
Littlefield; Thomas Leonard
Abbott, Jr, W B. Snodgrass,
Odis Ray Summers, Wynell
B Smith, Kenneth Dariel
Welch, White face; Cheryl
Ann Allred, Vega; Burl
Clinton Anderson, Plains;
David Carroll Bessire,
O’Donnell; Dewey Lewis
Boatmun, Afton; John Ray
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Two choral numbers'
“O, Magnify the Lord,” by
Lynn? and “Lord Make Me
An Instrument,” words by
St Francis Assissi and
music by York, will be pre-
sented by the college choir
Dr Marvin Baker
college president, will
introduce guests and speak-
er and award the diplomas
after the certification of
graduates by Academic
Nathan Tubb.
The benediction “The
Lord Bless and Keep You,”
by Lutkin, will be by the
college choir.
PAGE 5.
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Hockley County Free Press (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 16, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 17, 1964, newspaper, May 17, 1964; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1168786/m1/5/?q=%221964~%22: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting South Plains College.