The Randall County News. (Canyon City, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, June 25, 1909 Page: 1 of 28
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ILLUSTRATED EDITION PART 1
RANDALL COUNTY
THE
NEWS.
Vol. XIII.
Canyon- Hamuli County Tkxas Kwidav Ji'sk -" !---
Xo. l.l
The Peerless Panhandle
No doubt our thousandsof read
ers will be interested in knowing
something about the early days.
soinet I iinf of the present and in
rettinr some knowli'dpre of the
future possibilities of that ireal
and vast area of land commonly
known as the Texas Panhandle
(tmnipotent Providence who
knew of t he fut u re. whose irreat
mind conceived and planned the
universe foresaw the day when
pe tple Would come to need
la ml that t hey m iy ht iu in i homes
and produce stistotiaii -o. Vastus
has been the to r rit i U'V lie p
Vlded.yet there is st i! I t h' cry
for field and sti-eim eity ano
town hie'lr.vavs and railroads; a
leii;aild ever llicreasinu'. ever In
he
iii'r supplied and still unfulfilled
The Pie-rim fathers found a
linLdno; in the New World ami
settled alone; the shores of the
Atlantic in the northeast part of
t he I'nited States. The advent-
urous Knj;lisliiiian and Spaniard
stoppetl on the shoresof X'iryinia
and l-'lorida. wtiile the Amster-
dam Dutch found a new home on
Manhattan Island and atony the
valley of the Mohawk- in New
York. The I Soones t he Juliet s.
and otln-r stout hearted pioneers
restless as theseas. pushed West-
wa ri i and w est vv a n I until the
yreat middle West Was reached
a ! n i a y rea t and ylorioiis section
..four land openeil ami became
Pled and vet the cry fr land
and homes was heard.
Today this cry is
leal'll.
and is beiny hearkened to. and
on f (mil's yarden spots is
beckoniny to the homeseeker
witha smile so ent ranciny and
an at t it ude so at t ract ive t hat he
is cominy to enjoy the richest
blessiny which can be conferred
by mortal hands a home in a
land produi-tive of all that man
lleeil
This is the Panhandleid'Texas!
The Panhandleconsists of thir-
tytwo counties in the extreme
northwestern pa rt of the State
coinirisiny a t ract of land about
one hundred seventy-six miles
lony and one hundred tifty inilcs
wide mak'inyabout twenty-seven
thousand sipitire miles.
Less than a yeneratioii ;iyo ihe
liiill do roamed the plains limlis-
f a r' '.-':' h " v; t;--.y:'-'o. . 'r '
f x-tj .jr.?n-!lK&
of the State of Texas.
tu rbed. It was a yreat grass
' fount ry and because of its mild
Climate t he bulTalos found here a
; very desirable place ami could
live here the whole year 'round
It was a reat hunting place
and thousands of buffalo hunters
came and put up their bungalow
and thousands of trainloads of
biill'alo hides were sent annually
to the eastern markets ltissaid
that the butl'alo was so plent 1 1 u I
that a hunter could at tl
shoot from titty to seventy of the
animals without leaving his shel
t e r. Tliei) I io W( l i y. i out and
take tin ir skins off ami let tin
carcasses lay where tbev fell
llisereatesi danger was the In
dian. who also ioved this count r.v.
its tine climate and tine hunting
grounds. Many hard liattles
were fought between bands of
Indians and buffalo hunters.
Then came the free ranker1
wi1h his immense herds and:
la rye numbers of cowboys. They
killed the buffalo and foiijjht the
Indians for years. It was no
man's land in those days. Miyht
was riyht.
The biy private ranchman was
next in order of possesion and
he held the country for a lew
years. The Worst ililliT of this
count r.v the Indians was past
and numbers of h'lte eo;e le-
yan to ruinn here. I'p to a b-w
years ayo t he t hoiiyht of this land
;n;i farminy country never en-
trred anyone s mind.
Tlietil'st ones who attempt ed
this task" met with serious oh
stacks. The ranchman did not
loolc on this project with favor.
They thouyht it would be their
doom.
Then the state took" a hand in
the yanieand put the school lands
up for sale to the luiblic at one
dollar par acre wit h forty yea rs
timeal three percent. These
lands beiny alternate sections
over the country the yreal mini-
her of the cattle ranches were
disoryani.ed. Itut ihe cattlemen
were not slow to see t hat farm
iny these lands was to them a
better proposition than cattle
herdiny. They secured all they
could purchase from Ihe slate.
They beyan stock' raisiny under
a dilTeivnt system. and
toyether wit 1 1 funning part leased to -:t 1 loinen. t ' rpi -of
1 1 it land mndea yivat micitss. j tions holdiny l:i rtr bodies of land
Ira! ually people from the older i slocked them wilhcattlcan.! such
states wore attracted and beyan -conditions prevailed until re
pouring in and purchased some centl.v.
of these lands at many times tlx-j The extent of ayricult u ral de
original price. During the last 1 vclop nt in the Panhandle is
few years the Panhandle coun-' scattered and limited to small
:try has heen rapidly developing j areas and had its incept ion in the
and it is today dotted with mini-'most natural way i mayinahle. In
ei-iius towns of morcor less com-; lime small ranches and a better
merchd importance and all on
stihstanl ial liases.
'I'll r liivet hues of railroad' The more thrifty and resource-
now penetrate the Panhandle. ' fill cast about and sawthesiic
and several others are contein- Cess of milo mai.e and kal'tircorn
plated. J u i iri njj from ihe past in Kansas and Oklahoma and
few years of development we asked themselves why not raise
venture to sav that in less than the same kind of cereals in north
ten veai's this country will lie as
thickly si'ttled as Iowa Illinois.
or any id the states in the middle
west.
The law of supply and demand
obtains in land prices like it
does in ivyululiny the prices of
the commodities of commerce
The millions that annually swell
our population constitute an in-
creasing demand for homes and
cultivated areas. Less than twen
ty years ao our eastern neih-
hor. Oklahoma lay avast unde-
veloped public domain tenanted
by .scattered herds of cattle. A
". w years have witnessed a
change so radii al ami rapid that
i he world looks on i n a mazement .
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than with it.
.
.arly a million people have
taken possession of this territory
and are ri vaiiny in t he extent a ml
w'ealthof their productions the
desi slates in the I'nion. With
rj mate soil and ot her coin! it ions
pracl icail v the s
ame who ca
gainsay the predict ion that t he
Panhandle of Texas is the next
in oialer for a like settlement and
development. Who disputes 1 1n-
statement that t his is t he last of
the en-am of the yreat soiithvva'st.
that for a ipiarter of a century
as taken care of the tide of im
mjy ation'r We lind our eastern
am northern neiyhbor. Oidaln.
1I1M developed and populated; on
the south of us wo meet a denser
populat ion and hiyherluml prices;
on the west are the K'ock-y Moiiii-
tains ihat sti'et.h t hei r ha rrdi
and inaccessible wastes to the
Pai'itic slope. The quest ion 1 hal
should interest the homeseeker
' more than any ol.-r should b-.
"ThePanhandleandtheii where;"
1'nlike other Sta'es. Texas re -
fused 1o turn her public lands
over to the I'liited States. In
order lo secure the development
which comes with the buildiny d he opinion that the Par. hand'.
of railroads she yranted 1o v a!' "f Texas is destined t.. be.-o-n.
ions railway companies the odd one of the lcadiny wheat pro.luc
i numbered sections of kind: sub iny sections of the world. Pro
seipient laws were enacted re ; lessor ( 'ami bel 1 si a tes 1 1 ia t w it I
Icpiiriny corporations to dispose!" system of culture that con
'of their lands within a limited
Itiine. In order to realize on this'
lland. the railroad corporations
yrade of cattle beyan to make
their appearance.
Texas where climate soil ami
seasons seemed etpially adapted?
It was t ried and with what mark-
ed success the whole count r.V is
just now learnuiy where kallir
corn and milo maizethrive. broom
corn sorghum millet rye. bar-
ley and other allied varieties tind
adapt at ion. Thus the ent ire cat a-
loyuo of the leading cereal that
.compose the granaries of the
older communities were success-
fully tried. Kven the golden
wheat lields that have enriched
the northwest heran to wave here
ami there over the Panhandle.
until opinion is st remrt heninr to
the etl'ect that for variety and
ca aeit y of prod iicl ion 1 his c nin
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1 1 1 -I or v ln-h-l I ni i !d i ni' I ri mini e id
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l:it!li -r in.r a I - nii..'ni'ln'
. . . a pee-! n
trv is unexcelled bv any other
section of ihe Tnion. The oi'iyi
nal callleman who yave in his
verdict lony ayo that it was only
tit for yra.iny purpsses. had to
i siua-u m b to the inevitable. e
ll'couldllot and does not now face
; t he ka fli r corn experiment - t hat
is familiar to thousands. A yiven
acivaye of kaftir corn will pro-
duce forty times as much feed as
a yiven acivaye of bi.ff.ilo yrass.
It reipiires no more rain to pm
d m e i he ka fti r corn than it does
to producetheyrrss. Theaiuoimt
of rain necessary to pr . 1 1
kaftir corn when conserved by
scientific cull iv al ion. w ill produce
all'aifa and wheat as has i.eeii
a i .u n. la nt ly proved by the ( 'amp
I" i1 systei a of wheat culture
Th-'' eminent a a ' I n .r;t y. II. W.
1 '! 'I' i'bell. of Litlcojn. Ne'-e-:.s.;a.
aiter a careful study of the
amount and d ist rihu' .u of tin-
rainfall for the last I .". ya rs as
rep.-ricd by the I'. S. W. a'her
' I! uvau Station at A u.a ri I lo a :. !
a thorouyh ea :: in d a m of !!
sod and other conditiotls beard-y
Upon the suiiiect.
s a i is.-r 1 1
serves the moisture conditions
;"'' perfect in the Panhandl
h.r a profitable wheat yield as
'-'6 A vrit
;mv extensive royioti lie has eer
ninei I
Ka Hi r corn and milo m ai.o le I
tM. way in the march of ayricub
... ;.. ti(. anhandle. I udian
corn wheat rye. oats and the! selves into wealth and thost
lead iny veyvta hies followed. Sub i who a re looking for invest inents
; stantial farm houses and luxuri j that are safe and remunerative
s;l(e tree tovvoriny above I ami who peruse this sketch are
'them are found here and there not expected to do more on the
and are living monuments to the faith of the statements herein
-.ady response of the soil to the contained than verity the truth
hand of imliist ry. P.arns are till-jor falsity by a personal investi-
. j the ruards with t he pro- Ration. "There is a tide in the
ducts of the farm an unanswer-1 affairs of men which taken at the
able argument to the libels on Hood leads on to fort line; omit ted
the prod uci ive ca pacit y of coun a II t he voyage of t hei r iife is bound
t r.v. The ii'ospcctor of a decade ! in shallows an I in miseries." I n
a':'o had t o rely la ru'el v n on what ; t a ki n-j a n-t respect of li fe and its
he heard. Tiie iiomeseelM-r ami opportunities iiu! for tiie"i's"
i n est or 1 1 tlie present has but t hat an- strewn in one's path-
lo iutellieellt I Use his eesto Way. what achievements coiod
be convinced ih it the country ha ve crowned his endeavors'; 'If
lack's only pop 1 1 a 1 ion to raise the my grandfather had left the hills
price o l iiul from nominal tii;' of New Kulaud and ltoiic to inj-
ures to what it is selling for in nois when land could be had for
the leading agricultural states a son: if my fat her had left his
Improved farms are compara i t rucli farm in Illinois and j;ene
lively few and far apart. I!ut to M issoii ri or Kansas where la nd
they are here ami can be accept coukl be had next tllimrto the
cd as safe experiment stations in ' asking: if I had stopped in Olila-
deinoiist rat in-r the productive homa when the government could
ness of t he count ry. The pioneer not nive away land that is now
in a vast expanse of practically selling for S." 1 an aoiv. a V a iiioiil;
free .soil does not em ploy the lat the "it's" which frei pient ly a sii b
est devices 111 scjentilie farming' ject of discussion. If the reader
nor has he means to em ploy t he ever thoiiehl of 1 1 n plieat injj his
best horse power and modern lather's wisdom in turiiinir his
inai-hinerv and iinpleiiieiit s. e bici upon hiuh priced land and
has no occasion to nmio in
1 he amount o n'iv;ii.'i' he .mi ploys
a lid In el' enyays in the more
'. ' ens i v e a i id proti i a 1 de I i r 1 1 1 : 1 1; .
Yet crude as have I n the uot
ml- w I ie.it lields t li.it rival t hose
of the lakotas nave iieen oiiserv
ed lof yeat's. A I fa i fa Without i r
riyation vv u Id remi ml one ol 1 1n
sub irriyated valleys of t he inter
mounlain ivyion. l-'oraye crops
of all kinds would siiyyesi the
similarity of cliinate and soil to
'!" ( Oklahoma. Aiipleor
chards rival the best prod nd ions
in those oMens'ivdy cultivated
porlions of the Pecos Valley
drapes and small fruit yrow in
profusion and to perfection. Th"
P"cky l-'ord i-o-iniry never d d
more for t he luscioiisness of t he
canteluupe and (ieoryia uev.
did re h u-1 he per feel n u o! t h.
watermelon than has the P.c
handle for but h. Were a for-'.-'
and yraphic pen t-. i.i;.' i.p
script ion of the .-. s : . - s .-
country so suscc;.' i .... - !. i m.-s.
!:'d i m i us- -i -s. m. .. ...... '..;
-s w-s-
v- . V
accept it as a fairy tali' unless
his cu riosit v should lead him 'o
v iew the location of the story
Those w ho are lookiny for cheap
i homes that will ymw of them
providiny 'or eacn child a farm
s la rye ami productive as hi
bis
i '.v I! i u t 1 ii -so da.v s i f d ' m i ii ish i ny
uppurt unit ies we re 'ommoml to
his consideration tle P.mh.indV.
The .! late colored loam.
uiievi-e led 111 ertiiitv "V' anv
otiier section of the M i ssisci pi i'
vailey. and seasons with iheir
tweutv four inches o rainfall.
coupleil with an ayreeahle ciim
ate a re in t heiiseves eiio.iyh tu
account for the larye immiyra
tioiiofihe p.-eserp. Mi' their
are other weiybt.v ind in men'
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Terrill, R. A. The Randall County News. (Canyon City, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, June 25, 1909, newspaper, June 25, 1909; Canyon City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth322613/m1/1/: accessed July 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .