The Albany Echo. (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 29, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 8, 1883 Page: 4 of 4
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t* 4ut re! in
sb *it 4*> miles from
from p u*i
IhrTesu
it. tlx:
IS miles; Bslrd,
IS
m 9m
of the bidden «
Whwrt. rum. pad*. millet,
i. rye. barter and eat to*. yield
pw! ivtwrni a hen property rtbini#i
ami Mown* tsvonafale. > egeUd* * of at!
kind* sre produced here: *n# fruit*. such
pearhe*. aprtmia. grapes fad
pro** a remwnenlUr rrop.
As in war ud poliiira, "To tlr *kior
hrlon; the spoil*," ao in hmbsndrr to
the Emm r nUo property cultivates the
the lriitien gf hi
The fuooe*<-!'ul farmer* of thi*
le twenty-five to thirty-live
bushels'of wheat to the
of iWr neighbors did not haw half that
yield. Corn prwlirei from twenty to
to theaere; while oat* ha*
yielded « Ugh M one hundred and tw
ly-flre bushels to: the: acre. Cotton I
the expectation.* of tho*e w
tried it expdimentally * few years past;
so much so, thai It now forms no incon-
. part of onr productions. on
Oeep creofc there lias been mwle one bale
to the acre, or in the eotto u jmrtane* of
tfe older states, a Ml crop. SiUet*U a
He article on the Jam; and ha*
a* many a* three tall crops in
It is cut and saved for wiu-
Sorghum is another crop thai
besides the
that i-i madevfrr m it, the stalk,
make* sgoodfeed for stock.
■HimHttt parts of
r*
h i
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prosper! y of the «ttTOtmdin<; conntry.
yr«wio* wifh iNgronth.and stn-nyiben-
h it* s.reagth. until Jur. popular
lion ha* reached *bo*t one thousand.
Stately reside wes :wv l^ginnib;: to U-ao
dfV heroeburb*. while the business «« :«!-
ities ani? being rapidly filled tip with tine
structures of large dimensions. 0«r mer-
chant* i^oem Mftdl «h their goods by
owing to inKtve trade esrr-
ried on With the countie* north ami north-
west. The daily frahH arc ladcu with
ten to fifteen ear load* of lumber. to meet
the unprecedented demand for building
material. Building ruck of the fln^t
quality is found in tbf hilfe in close pro*-
hntty to town. Several hondredthou-
sand tons of this rock wu shipped to
Houston last summer. for building bridg^
piers ami paving the streets "Of that c*ty.
thus showing to superiority ov.t rack
much nearer Houston. A great saving in
handling this rock is that it can be readily
quarried from the sides of the hill* without
the expense of Wasting. The gieat boast
of Albany is its pure, healthy watec^ lite
creek ha* living water *11 the year.round.
g supplied by never-foiling spring*,
add well water can be found at a depth of
frMH twelve to thlrtyfeet oil any lot in
the town. By the liberality and far-see-
ing judgment of the founder* of the town,
ample provision liaifbum made for Alba-
ny to be the incteu- oT a Lirge ci
to give tliem
■■■with
a substantial,
their Import'
west part of the
Salt Prong of Uubba
[>ri Kitted by evspo
Court House square is 430 feet sq
all the streets are 100 feet wide, and are
are awaiting tlie influx intersected by alleys 20 feet wide. On the
north i* tlie Railroad Addition and Barns'*
Addition—the latter almost a town In it-
self—on the east and soutiieast, Nixon's
Addition; and on the west Jacobs Broth-
ers' Addition ; all picturesque'sites, and
most eligibly and conveniently situated.
All the brandies of business. pertaining
to a large city are well represented; well
selectod stocks of general merchandise;
for several
work*, about
south-
on Se head ot
ROSE & KEENER,
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DEALERS IN
and sell at Dallas prices.
'iwkl i .1
assortment of good goods
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Come to our counter, there is where we do
We have a house fall
rv -V-.V.S
Ml^ngth and qtwlity oouipares fitvoial>l\|bhard.vare and agricultural implements.
with liverjltxri, salt. They are kite at
present, and here is a good opjiortunity
for profi table Irt restoHut-
stores. hotels, restaurants, meat
■. livery stables, saloon-, pirnlture
•tores, and stores for the sale of uxlsoelU-
Tliere has been a fine crop of pecans [ neon* goods of all kind*. The kgal.and
piaw ; and torihe year 1882. $1.037.3«/0.- , , ,
tu>; showing an infuse of $282.^.10. ^ugaod^U^n
very good slio wlng in tlie foce of the
itig s school, itsylum
If twig. There is a hit-'
[ this season, and tne sales
thousand dollars.
Stock-raising. wUhb includi s cattle,
heep. horses, mules, hojra and goata, is
the principal Industry of the county.
WKAI/TH.
Jfolx-
I the county can be furnished U« by eo '
IjpMI ami pie".-.sat.t, especially j jiarisotf of the taxable values of the pres-
DfBing saunm r and aututdn ■ ent year, mith those of the past, to toe
■Jpi1 , . „ ■ year 1881. the total «uiseMe<l property trf*
hrftM from the bult]^ ^ for llM amoHnt o{
t Which ar. Omit- for the good
lit a uut
IAXM.
■UBia of Ada county are j ^ that the large stock* of cattle have
. been dlniinishiiig by sale* and removals
.ma—*,. i to range# farther west. Tlie above figures
*s "e*erB c"'0"5",' tthuw' only for the property on hand Janu-
««rned hy Uiy i of each year. It is sale to, figure the
*7^^' j aetual increase since last January te. be
'*^1 n(rf 1 8 than $800,000 from entetwd
lue of pnoper^r In and arontwf Aibsnv.
com-1 fh>m lica; buildings erected, and the
J great number of docks of sfavp jjiya;
} into the county from New Mexico, and
oth<r planes. The lands owned by non-
hav««not beeo a source of aa
Tf gr««t revenue lor the eoonty and state M
tltej- shoiUd he. There is certainly an un
diKThuliutdon made In permitting
oou-resiitein* to render land* at one dol
! lar per aepe, and lew, when the same
laiels are held by tlie owners and n*
at from two to Ave del lam per acre. An-
other cogent reason why there should be
a more eqnltable assessment of this class
i from the fact that die actual
*et ler on school and asylum lauds is
at the full a dp raised vslw of all
land, and addhfonal assessifient for
eveiy mere he uiay have under fcn«* or in
HN
i lie
to
i two to
professions are well represented,
and tlien; are two newrspapcr*. published
here—tlie Albany Echo and the Albanj?
Star. There aie nUo two churches—
I'resbyteriiui an.'l Methodist Tlie Baptist
ehureh Is in course of eonstmetlon,
There Is a Masonic lodp*, Knights of
Pythias and legion of Honor, also a cor-
net band.. A huge and commodious
school house is about to be built, not to
cost less than five thousand dollars. Al-
bany does * considerable amount of for-
MfeBflpipJnIv 'the]
adjoining eountks. "Being on the direct
line of the cattle trail, here all the drovers
buy their outfits and supplies for the an-
nual drive to Kansas, The drive for the
year 1882 exeoeeded 250.000 head, and it
will probably be more than these figures
for 1883. Posses.-lu< all the advantage*
hereing eniHuer.ited. with a population of
iutejligeiiwi. •enterprise and progression.
It woqld ben safe prediction that in te;i
yearelAlbany will be the largi-st city in
northwest Texas. . ' .' $
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assortm^it of
i
m
EPS fJ
is iinsuri)assed in the State.
On with patent fasteners. 5
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We ask you to examine our
purchasing elsewhere.
buttons put
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ROSE & KEENER.
Rock Building, N. E. Cor. Court Square.
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Sheep are taking the phua: of cattle, and
the wool dtp of 1881 formed a large Item
lr. tlie exports of^he county.
ami driven foil, the
Dm, Texas Central
on*
e bowi shlpiHil
and tldrtoen
ten
I.
Of motive power ami roli-
| the county at eleven Umhi-
thrwo hundn^land five dollars and
The total Aate teg for 1H8J U
$1J 1.5I. ami for the county $§.171.63.
AUtiaY—THK oottimr aaatr.
Alliauy, the comity seat, Is situated on
the #o|1h prong of Mill <?reek, or Nortli
I'rouf 01 IIuIiIhuiI creek, as It la ukwi
ami Is dime miles «a«
rkmty.
1$76.|
hut tlie
THE TOW|^>r roCT OltlFFIN.
This town tooints name from the fort
which la adjoining. WU sitnateii in a
tnesqidt valley, on tlie south bank of the.
Clear Fork of the Brasos. abotat sixteen
miles northeast from Albany Tlie fort
was Mtablisbed iu 1807, ami nn/nvd after
Brigadier Oencrt Ur|fiin. ot the U. 8.
Army, at that time stationed at Gal eston,
and was sbandoned in 1881. Tlie town
started sliortly after the tort was' e*tab-
Ihlied. but did po' aa*uine much propor-
tions until 1$74. l he first term of tlio
l Uti let < ourt for Shackelford county was
held la-re June 7,187ft. The gran.I Jury
found thlrl^-seven bills of lodkttoeol at
this term, principally niis<ieniaanora. for
gaming and keeping disorderly houses;
tliU < li*m« ter of offendem being in tlie
m*}<a1ty in all towns contiguous to frou
tier posts. Hie rnlmy days of the town
ty be dated from, he fall of 1876 to 1878,
during tlie flourishing times of the great
It Wss no unosiuil (Keur-
I > those days to see fifty hunters at.
a Ume on tin- streets, all in with wngon*
and amunkion. To form a
klca of 'he immeuM business in
with the buffalo heut, the
should l*sve awn tlie large wagon
loads of guns and smiinltlon reortfod at
that Ume by the Fort Urifflu meri^ants.
fbe writer saw unlondnl Uiere
at one time, five wagon load* of
haul. With a large garriton of troops,
afftl a town composed principally of sll
nationalities and colon. It la natural to
would arWe. afid^ften
seriously. Tho law
tot;
county sent
at Albanyi The
the list riot Court held at
« th - 15th of Nov.-mbet
I hlrty-fourtli judl<-hd district, J
Jwlge. The writer <*n
the Albany of that dale,
of the present, Then lb-
were tli*y tlie
te town.
Albany is
V 4v«ndn
•ho terminiis of (he Tesss
, awl It la thought will t*-
. .
eraUy
a 6 w 'ye«rs. To note Its
m Infitnev to lis
growth would he tedious,
this tH^fsMth
•f l ha |«
of It* past ami present
peep behind UwMlrer
Oh Me lianner nmy truly
tlnee-
187ft,
pnpmrt
Inffsted vai
with the
Ml -< I I I \NKcl
Shackelford county had at one time
thirteen unorganized confides attaclud
to her for judicial purposes O^e of the
drawbacks to '.lie rapid settlement of th^
county was tl e exaxgeftded reports ol
depredetions bv Indians from tne Fort
Sill reservation. Her exposed condition
made her a kind of breastwork ,for the
counties east and >oi*th; but when the
Army of buffalo hunters went to tlie front
there was a new protection from the sav-
age#. wlio censed their predatory raids,
She can now point with the exultad >n of
a pr-Hid mother to her firosierous prog-
eny ; for these are her children: Ste-
phens, Callahan. Taylor. Throckmorton,
MltiheH; ftolsn; Join s <uid > toward «-omi-
Ues, now establisbed as Independent
households; Haskell, Suinewall. Fisher.
Scurrv, Borden, pawoou, Andrews and
Uainee counties had also been attached
to her.
lessmwe r4| ng^in^ the
<y 0nty at thl« time, wldle having some
toaudatlon. wr« grtmtty. exaggerated by
the press of neighboring ooMtiea. It la
two ihfeinteeharactora mnda their head-
at Uriffln,aml piled their nefn
calllnga, but there lived in ami
•round the town at &be same time, a< law
alddlng, honorslde and chivalrous gen lie
men aa any oounty in the alate eoukl pro-
duce llow over much it may ho H
•sited Ihsi men will some time take
h w Into their own hands, and how
much It nmy be deplored that cim rgen-
thw o..ur lint csnmit lie remedied by
h'gal nmMMi still In troth, ami to their
ho It aaM, tlie vigllaiiM muuitU-
days did not make one mla-
Hlnce the slmn-
i f thc|Miet the towMi hss de
In poptilathm a"d
two good atorea
there yet, a drug (forth one saloon and a
po«t o^ce, |t will be tlie trading |mlut
U.K. A.,ta stsHomnl
uf the Tonkiiws Indiana.
*esr nrflMh. ffcere is a
The pttbllc building* , owned by the
county "ire the jail ami court hoitao. The
court house wss built In 187ft, of cedar
posts at a cost of $800, and wss weather
Imi a riled and other wlae repaired «t vsr-
lous times since, whk'h, with ftirnlture,
•loves, etc., would probably amount to
$400. Tile Jail la of rock, t wo-story Idgh h
with chilled Iron cages-In upper atory.'
The cKMilnu-t for building It was let to
Thomaa A Werner, of F"rt Worth, on
the 24Ui of September, 1877. for $8^10;
payments- Movemlier 1, 1877, $800;
January I, I8T8% $l.* j beUnue In
bonds payslde In one, two and three
years, with wlwust at ten per oeul
per annum. There wars alterations
In the orlelmd plan, which "oat the coun-
ty aliout fl.MJU addHitmal. Aa the jail U
about paid tor. or will be after oolleoflon
of taxes lor thla year, It la e*| e« teil a
aultahh) court hotfse a III he erected to
jOMt I he ileiuamls ot our lncreas<il |mb-
lie business. Tho county owns four
length's of hind In Motley uounty, bfil as
this Is a donation from tne state, for eilu-
<-siimml put poM>s. tlie proceeds artdng
from hiaso or saloi esnuot be expanded
for any other purpose than tluit of ado*
cstlot). '
Wtr. UMr 4 a,
UAKlirAOrVKKRH or I
CHEWING AND SMOKING
TOBACCO,
LYS0HB0B0, -- VIR0ISIA.
Among our loailing hmmla are
^ 3aap-r. "i!
tUQAh MA PLC,"
- Tsv|et.
tA." "rOMTUNl,"
•making. ,
In Tc*s h)
DICK ffcLEOO.
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Is- not the only paper in
Northwest Texas, but it gives
the bulk of the -news, espe-
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cially
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LOCAL.
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THE ECHO
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also claims to give value re-
ceived to both advertiser
a n d Subscriber.
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JOB DKPARTMEN T
; <f.' ' ' I ' ' •-<.. ,, • Jl • •* ... *
ot tlie Echo is first-class and
prices as low as any country
office can, work for and live.
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Patroniie It and It will do you good*
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Robson, G. W. The Albany Echo. (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 29, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 8, 1883, newspaper, December 8, 1883; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth393427/m1/4/?q=%22~1%22~1: accessed July 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting The Old Jail Art Center.