The Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 26, 1910 Page: 6 of 8
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Railroads
We have 33,000 miles of railroad In
operation. The average cost of trans-
porting freight over “the railroads of
Texas last year itfas less than 1 cent
per ton per mile.
' ter, Mrs. Mattie Pool,spent Thus- J
day in Livingston. Mrs. Pool re-1
turned to her home in Knox.
Geo. and Henry Williford and
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ducing the cost of tra:t<p-'.rt;it.of.' '■
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1 Cent Per Ton Per Mile.
Railroad transportation saves 42
cents per ton per mile as compared
with public highways, and illustrates
the economy of improved methods of
transportation. As a producer the
farmer who hauls a bale of cotton
twenty miles to the railroad gets the
name price as the farmer who hauls it
one mile, and as a consumer the farm-
er who hauls his goods twenty miles
from the railroad to the farm buys
them at the same price as the farmer
who hauls them one mile.
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Distance levies a penalty of time
and money against the long haul
which the farmer-must pay.
Bringing the railroad to the farm
reduces tlie cost of transportation and
adds perpetual value to future produc-
tion, says the Texas Commercial Sec-
retaries’ Association. A new railroad
makes a free and equitable distribu-
tion of values to adjoining property
estimated at $04,000 per mile.
their wry to their home in Bragg.
Lee Dowden and children spent
'Wednesday with relatives here.
C. C. Moore and wife of . Krjox
were here Tuesday.
Rev. Matthews will preach fierFj,he C1‘icag0 )/ac
Sunday, if nothing prevents.
Mrs. Eliza Williams and grand-
daughter spent Tuesday with
relatives..
The Misses Murphys of Dow-
den, attended church here Sun-
day.
Jim Walters and Miss Levia
Walters of Sinithtield were here
Tuesday.
Mrs. W. L. Johnson and Mrs.
Mattie Pool spent Tuesday with
Mrs. Barle Collins.
Miss Willie Collins was here
Tuesday.
Miss Grace Dowden visited
relatives Tuesday and Wednes-
day.
Charlie Dowden, spent Wednes
day in Milvid.
he must travel ;:! h:,- t w\ '.-••pen •<
until he reaches the factory.- no nsat
ter where 'it i-
per head to •■•
4 houses.
Freight $5.00.
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interurhans have practically the
same clloct on property values as rail-
roads.
Texas has 4.95 miles of railroad per
100 square miles of territory, and Illi-
nois has 21.8 miles per 10Q square
miles of territory.
The engines shown above represent
the relative transportation facilities of
the two States on basis of area. To
equal Illinois in railroad mileage per
square mile we would have to have
32,000 miles, and this increased mile-
age will provide facilities, cheapen the
cost of transportation and develop the
resources of the State.
Knight Locals.
(Too late for last week.)
C. W. Dowden and family of
Knox, attended church here, Sat-
urday and Sunday.
Mrs. Mattie Pool and little son,
Lester, are here this week visit-
ing her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E.
P. Dowden.
James Gildard and Miss Emma
Creel of Knox, were here Sun-
da.v, visiting friends.
Zemu Zm.amial of Rye, visited
friends and relatives here,Satur-
day and Sunday.
E. P. Dowden and daughter,
Sadie, spent Monday in Milvid.
Mrs. McDaniel and Miss Nellie
McDanial of Cross Roads, were
visiting E. P. Dowden and family
Friday.
Geo. Sutton of Cross Roads at-
tended-phurch here Sunday.
•i Missels, Clara Chambliss and
Ethel Griffin of Menard, were
here Tuesday.
Dock Cherry aud Frank Capps
of Fuqua visited friends and rel-
atives here Saturday and Sun-
day.
Mrs. McMillon died Monday
night. She leaves friends many,
who mourn her death
Rev. Matthews and family of
near Fuqua attended church here
Saturday and Sunday.
j. w. Duff of Knox, attended
church here Sunday.'
E. P. Dowell, wife and daugh-
Good Roada Work In Other States.
Texas Must Keep In the Lead.
Franklin county, Tennessee is
planning to issue $20,000 in good
roads bonds.
Dorchester county, Md., has
petitioned to hold an election to
issue $50,000 for road improve-
ments.
A bond issue of $50,000 is con-
templated by Sumpter county,
S. C. for good roads.
Giles county, Tenn., will hold
election in August to issue $100,-
000 bonds for good roads.
Quincy, 111. will offer gold
prizes for the best pieces of road
dragging in Adams county, the
prizes ranging from $2. to $100,
aggregating several hundred dol-
lars. The pieces of road will vary
from one-half to five miles.
At a meetig of road instruction
in Iowa recently, editor Henry
Wallice said, that taking care of
the water that accumulates is the
secret of maintaining country
roads. That cared for and the
road drag employed, he made the
assertion that Iowa would have
as good roads as any state in the
union. He said that the clay road
is better than any other, with the
possible exception of asphalt
paving, and the more clay the
better as long as the road is kept
oval, smooth and hard. Drainage
first,tiling on each side, and a
grade that throws the water into
the sides—these are his ideas,
and he said that the only way to
bring this about was by use of
the drag.
At a meeting of the Jefferson
county, Ala. Good Roads Assn,
the following resolutions were
adopted:
“Realizing the great value of
good roads for the industrial ad-
vancement and general uplift of
the state, and believing that the
time has come for the state to
take some definite action, and,
whereas the old system of build
ing and repairing roads in the
state, has failed to accomplish the
results we desire and has been
wasteful of the money and labor
employed.
Bv bringing the packing bonce to
Texas we will add $5 per head to all
the cattle within the State ars well as
to future production. We have 8,917,-
000 head of cattle, and by building
packing houses we ran add $40,000,000
to their value. It costs approximately
$10 per bale to ship our cotton to Eng-
land and return the finished product
to Texas, and by building cotton mills
in Texas we can add $10 per bale to
our cotton crop.
Mines.
Opening our mines will eliminate
the cost of transportation on iron,
coal, brick, marble, petroleum and
other minerals. It costs $400 per car
to ship iron from Pennsylvania to
Texas.
Freight $400.
We have a sufficient variety of min-
erals in Texas to supply all nf our
needs and the development of our
mineral resources will save millions of
dollars in freight bills annually.
Cities.
The building of cities -will eliminate
the cost of transportation, as all citi-
zens are consumers, and the Texas
producer must pay the freight on ship-
ments to the large cities of the North
and East.
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we recommend the
construction of fine modern
roads under the direction of
competent engineers.
We feel inclined to give our
support to Senator C. C. Stoke of
Houston county in the Congress-
ional contest now on. He is a
young man of promise who talks
straight from the shoulder, and
who, we beleive, will be strong
either in advocacy or defence of.
The rights of the people of Texas,
touching any matter with which.
Congress may have to deal.
To reduce and eliminate our trans-
portation expenses to the minimum
we will have to improve 120,000 miles
of public highway, build 50,000 miles
of railroads and a network of intcr-
urbans, improve 10,000 miles of water-
ways, traverse the State with pipe
lines, t encourage aerial navigation,
open our mines, invest millions 4of
dollars in factories and build a thou-
sand cities, and this is the work the
Commercial Secretaries have under-
taken to do for Texas.
Notice to Fanners.
We will soon begin work on the
booklet that we were making pic-
tures for, last year. It has re-
quired much time to get half
tones and data in shape for it, as
we want it to be a credit to our
countv, as well as to us forissue-
ing same. These booklets will be
distributed among the northern
people who are looking for loca-
tions in Texas. Now we want the
farmers to assist this work by
furnishing us a written state-
ment, telling of a good record
that they made on some product
last year. We will publish this
statement from you in this book.
If you made a fine fecord on an
acre of corn last year, write to
us and tell us about it. Or if you
made a fine record on potatoes,
peanuts or any other product,
let us know. You might have
made a nice sum from selling
chickens and eggs, or from your
tigs, watermelons or vegetables,
if you did we want to know it so
we can tell other people about it.
Now you will do this much to
assist us in advertising Polk
county' wont you? Your letter
will go in this book just as you
write it to us. We want to show
the people that these statments
are from the farmers and hot
from us. We are doing all we
can to aid the farmers in their
great work. And if we can get
more farmers here who will help
us raise these products in larger
quantities we will then have no
trouble in marketing anything-
that might be raised, for the.
market will then come to us.
I Farmer friends it is for your
| good that we are a,sking for these
statements and we hope you \vill
send them in, to our paper as
soon as possible.
Woman’s Home Mission Society.
During the past year Texas
Conference sent more than any
other conference in the connect-
ion.
Nacogdoches auxiliary holds
the banner this year in Baby
Roll, having 20 new names in the
roll.
Since the division of the North
west Texas Conference, Texas
Conference stands first in sub-
scribers to Our Homes.
San Augustine district has
six auxiliaries which are ideal fi-
nancially. One of these is Living-
ston.
A relief fund for the help of
worn out workers is a forward
move. This consists of an assess-
ment of ten cents per annum per
member. Workers who have serv-
ed as much as ten years get the
benefit of this fund.
Moscow Locals.
The many* friends of Mr. Mc-
Kinon, of this place, deeply sym-
pathize with him and hi9 wife in
the peculiarly sad death of their
little boys.
W. M. Kennedy and wife at-
tended the funeral at Livingston,
Sunday.
Mrs. Angie Rowe, accompanied
by her brother, A. B. Magee, re-
turned Sunday, from a visit to
relativesm Livingston.
Miss. Gertrude Moses and lit-
tle sister, Irene of Keltys, were
guests of Mr. Murphy’s family
Sunday, going to Camden Mon-
day.
Mrs. Hunt of Laurelia and her
sister, Mrs. Evans and little son
of Diboll, were visitors here
Sunday.
Am ong those w ho are attend-
ing the Normal in Livingston are
Prof. Anderson and Misses Eva
Rowe and Minnie Murphy of this
place.
At a recent meeting of the
board, Miss Eva Rowe was elect-
ed first assistant of the school
here.
T. W. Legett and daughter.
Miss Inez, of Trinity, arrived in
the city Monday on a visit to
relatives.
Don't Feed Your Cotton to the Boll Weevil
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where Ike Doll weevil n absolutely unknown—n cannot live nere. y
The mppet Brazos is angularly adapted to cotton growing. Crop never fails.
It is well established that the staple of the cotton grown here N annually good—
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faming lands in 'West Texas at prices from $12 to $18 per acre—one-ffth down,
fit1— I, 2,3,4, 5 and 6 yean, payable on or before maturity. Wonderful Iwg
cosnstry—nc cholera. General crape of all kinds adapted to the country dune
vreadofuUy. Feet— swin indmtrioua farmer in this new < nmtry, to which
the Wichita Vale* rdraed has lately extended its lines. Healthy_ cErtsle.
Alfreds 2000 te 2500 fed. Net an the plains. Canon and Ingi will be Kmgi
for yeses to come. —
SPUR FARM LANDS
In Dickens, Kent, Crosby and Garza Counties, Texas. For foil information,
with illustrated booklet, address,
CHAS. A. JONES, Manager,
far 6. M. SWENSON & SONS. SPUR, DICKENS CO., TEXAS.
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West, W. L. The Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 26, 1910, newspaper, May 26, 1910; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth657744/m1/6/: accessed July 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Livingston Municipal Library.