The Fort Stockton Pioneer. (Fort Stockton, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 1, 1910 Page: 2 of 4
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I he Fort Stockton Pioneer
CKO. T. SPKAKS, Kdltor anti l*r»|irl«‘tor.
U. H. KOSK, - - Associate Kdltor
Knt<»re«l as scvoiut-e^ans mutter April
2. 1908, ut the I’ostotliee .it F<*rt <toek-
toii, IVxa.i, muter the \ot «• l Dongress
of March 3. 1879.
91.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
I f you want a close-in location
in Fort Stockton, in either town
lots or irrigated land, make up
your mind now and come and
buy while you can get it.
Opportunity is the magnet that
attracts so many people to Fort
Stockton, and you are sure to
tiiul many advantages not found
in any other town or irrigated
district.
Would you buy Fort Stockton
property and irrigated land if
you were convinced it would
double in one to two years. A
trip to Fort Stockton will do the
convincing.
You don’t have to be rich to
own Fort Stockton irrigated land
and town property, but you can
be made rich by owning some of
it. So get a real estate holt here
and do it at once and you will nev-
er regret it.
Don't wait for prices to advance
and close-in locations are all
taken before you visit Fort Stock-
ton. Get your location at once,
for Fort Stockton is going to be a
city of im[>ortanee, and now is
the time to invest in Fort Stock-
ton real estate.
Every homeseekers’ excursion
is bringing buyers to pick out the
best location in Fort Stockton,
and while you wait others are
acting. Better come at once and
close a contract for some of our
land and town property, which
will cause a brighter spot in your
life when you have done so.
It is impossible to estimate the
values that high class irrigated
lands will reach in the next ten
years. Why not take advantage
of the best opportunity you will
probably ever have to secure
them? Fort Stockton is the place
and now is the time, for prices
will never be lower.
The spirit of civic pride is be-
ginning to take hold of some of
our citizens, but there is plenty
of room for a greater amount of
it. Don't think because the parks
and public school campus are to
be set to trees, grass and flowers
that this is all that is necessary.
How about that home of yours?
The place of all places that should
be made attractive and beautiful.
The Pioneer hopes to see every
home loving family in Fort Stock-
ton set out trees around their
homes and otherwise beautify
their yards._
Follow scientific agriculture
and horticulture in the Fort
Stockton irrigated valley. It is
an ideal life not isolated, lhe
very best educated people and
business men are buying and
developing our irrigated lands
and making their homes here,
and the social features of life
are better and more congenial
than in the large cities. The op-
portunity is yours to locate with
and among the very best class of
citizens to be found on the Ameri-
can continent, as well as in a
country with opportunities and a
magnificent future, if you will
take advantage of it now.
There is no place that we know
of or can hear of that ofiers the
same advantages as Fort Stock-
ton. She has one of the best irri-
gation system to be found, better
soil, with a more valuable water
right, better water, better cli-
mate, is a county seat, will be an
important division point on the
railroad, tine public free school,
constructed houses of worship -
Protestant and Catholic, good
society, the very best class of
people to be found on earth for
neighbors and friends, and in-
numerable natural advantages
that will make her the largest
city in Southwest Texas.
Auto Service.
Auto service to and from Pecos
j to Fort Stockton, Texas: Leaves
Pecos to Fort Stockton Monday,
Wednesday and Friday; Fort
Stockton to Pecos Tuesday,
Thursday and Saturday. Fare
to Fort Stockton $t».00: fare to
Pecos $5.00; round trip $10.00
thirty days limit. Tell your
friends they may wonder my
way. G. M. Brill.
Other ears in waiting.
Notice.
All persons are warned against
carrying wool off of the Imperial
Irrigaton Company of Texas. This
not only includes the sections own-
ed h.v them, hut the right of-way
along the hanks of their ditches.
Those people continuing to disre-
gard this notice will he prosecuted.
Imi’Kiuai. Irrigation Co.
By Ball Harrison. Kesident Mgr.
West Texas Lands.
Have demand from one section
to one hundred Pecos county lands.
Owners and agents will please
(|Uote price, terms and description
at once to
•1. D. Gunninoham,
Austin, Texas.
In the Matter of County Finance in
The Hands of Herman II. But/.,
Treasurer of Pecos County, Texas.
Commissioners’ Court, Pecos county,
Texas, in Regular Quarterly Session,
August Term, 1910.
We. the undersign* d, as County Com-
missioners within and for said Pecos
county, and the Hon. Homer Pow’ers,
county judge of said Pecos county, con-
stituting the entire Commissioners’
Court of said county present and each
one of us. do hereby certify that on this
the 9th day of August, A. D. 1910, at a
regular quarterly term of our said court,
we have compared and examined the
quarterly report of Herman H. Butz,
Treasurer of Pecos county, Texas, for
the quarter beginning on the 9th day of
May, a. D. 1910, and ending on the 6th
day of August, a. d. 1910, and finding
the same correct have caused an order
to be entered upon the minutes of the
Commissioners’ Court of Pecos county,
stating the approval of said Treasurer’s
Report by our said court, which said
order recites separately the amount re-
ceived and paid out of each fund by said
county treasurer since his last report to
this court, and for and during the time
covered by his present report, and the
balance of each fund remaining in said
treasurer’s hands on the said 9th day of
August, A. D. 1910, and have ordered
the proper credits to be made in the ac-
counts of the said county treasurer, in
accordance w’ith said order as required
by Article 867, Chapter 1, Title XXV,
of the Revised Statutes of Texas, as
amended by an Act of the Twenty-fifth
Legislature of Texas, at its regular ses-
sion, approved March 20, 1897.
And we, and each of us. further cer-
tify that we have actually and fully in-
spected and counted all the actual cash
and assets in hands of the said treas-
urer belonging to Pecos county at the
olose of the examination of said treas-
urer’s report, on this the 9th day of
August. A. D. 1810, and find -the same
to be as follow’s, to-wit: ,
Aug. 9, 1910.
Balance to credit of Road and
Bridge fund on this day $2245.84
Aug. 9 19 0.
Balance to credit of General
fund on this day......... $3692.02
Aug. 9, 191n.
Balance to credit Court House
and Jail fund on this .. $ 555.35
6493.21
The foregoing amount of $6493.21 is
shown to be in the county depository
by certificate of deposit.
BONDED INDEBTEDNESS.
The bonded indebtedness of said coun-
ty we find to be as follow's, to-wit:
None.
Witness our hands, officially, this 9th
day of August, a. d. 1910.
Homer Powers, County Jndge.
R. W. Mussey. Com. Prec. No. 2
Edward I). Miller,
» om Prec. No. 3.
Tom Cope, Ctm. Prec. No. 4.
Sworn to and subscribed before me.
by Homer Powers, County Judge, and
R. W. Mussey. and Edward D. Miller,
and Tom Cope, County Commissioners
of said Pecos county, each respectively,
on this the 9th dBy of Aug. A. D. 1910.
]Seal.] Frank Rooney,
County Clerk, Pecos County, Tex.
Thf State of Teyas, i
• ounty of Pecos. )
I, Frank Rot ney, Clerk of the Court
of Pacos county, Texas, (and Ex-Officio
Clerk of the Commissioners’ Court of
Pecos county, Texas), do certtfy that
the foregoing is a true copy of the affi-
davit of commissioners’court to Treas-
urer’s Quarterly Report, for the August
1910, term, as the same appears of re-
cord in Volume A, on Page 37, of the
Minutes of commissioners’ Court.
Witness my hand and the seal of said
court on this the 9th day of August,
1910. [l. s.] Frank Rooney,
cleik couuty court, Pecos ('ounty, Tex-
as, [and Ex-officio clerk of the com-
missioners’ court of Pecos county,
Texas. [
AXXOTMEMEXTS.
For District < Mliccs........$15.00
For Genuity Offices........ 10.00
For Precinct Offices....... 5.00
For Representative, 99th District:
JAS. F. ROSS.
A. M. TURNEY.
For County Judge:
J NO. M. ODOM.
For County and District Clerk:
FRANK ROONEY.
For Sheriff and lax Collector:
D. S. BARKER.
For County Treasurer:
HERMAN H. BUTZ.
For Tax Assessor:
J. L. MOORE.
For County Surveyor:
A. N. LEA.
For Commissioner Precinct No. 1:
MART ADAMS.
I will have eleven sections to
lease with plenty of water and
grass in the Lockwood pasture.
W. T. Stewart,
SI5 Tessie, Texas
Ernest Boehrens, contractor for
deep and shallow well work. Vast
experience. Satisfaction guaran-
teed. See or write me at Marathon,
Texas. 823
JA. WELLS
PAINTER AND
PAPER HANGER
Agent for Deadening Felt.
SIGNS
Fort Stockton,
Texas
SHIPT0N PARKE
DF.AI.KK IN
ALL KINDS OF
FEED STUFF.
Delivery to any part
of the City.
FREE WAGON YARD.
FORT STOCKTON
TEXAS
City Meat Market
TOM WOOD, Prop.
Nelson Street. Phone No. 15
The best of meats can be
had at my market for all
occasions. We keep the
best the market affords.
We are always in the
market for fat cattle, hogs,
sheep and goats. Highest
price paid for hides.
Choice variety of Spring
Vegetables instock. Will
appreciate your trade,
(iive me a call.
FORT STOCKTON, TEXAS
Irrigated Land
INTHE BEST
Fruit and Alfalfa
Valley in America
is now open for settlement at Fort Stockton. Richest soil in Pecos Valley, limestone
formation, (no gyp) natural flow of pure ater exceeding 55,000,000 gallons
per day for irrigation and domestic uses; irrigation system completed and in o|ieration
now; no waiting for water; assured profits of Sloo to |H*r acre, no drought: no
crop failures; finest all year’round climate in the United States; altitude 3,050 feet
above the sea level.
NATURAL LOCATION for LARGEST CITY of SOUTHWEST TEXAS
Port Stockton is county seat of Pecos county and important division |H>int on the
Kansas City, Mexico & Orient Railway, now under construction. Has 30,000 acres
of the finest irrigated land the sun shines on; ad jacent to town. Population now 1,000
and will soon lx* a city of from 10,000 to 15,0<X). Greater opportunities for home-
seekers and investors than were offered in the older irrigated districts, where orch-
ards are valued at from $2,000 to $5,000 per acre. Those who have investigated irri-
gated districts of New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, California. Oregon. Washington.
Idaho, etc., say this is the finest body of irrigated land they ever saw.
This is one irrigation project where the water supply has not varied in 50years;
where every drop of water used fur irrigation is good to drink and where there is
water in an abundance for every acre of land that is irrigable. Choice locations open
to those who locate now. 5 ou cannot afford to buy land anywhere without seeing
Fort Stockton.
References: First National Bank, Kansas City, Mo., First State Bank, Fort
Stockton. Texas. *
Prospectus, map and illustrated folder describing these lands mailed free to all
who address
Fort Stockton Irrigated
Lands Company
.'111 Fldrtity Trust Midi:., Kansas City, Mo.
NEW
FEED STORE
I have opened a new Feed
Store and will appreciate a part
of your patronage. A large
shipment of corn, chops, oats,
bran, hay and stock salt just
received. Call and see me.
FRED GIBSON
Fort Stockton, Texas
Nelson Street
LARGENT & LARGENT
DENTAL St KOKOXS
Prepared to do All Kinds of Dental
Work.
Fort Stockton, ... Texas
R.C. THOMPSON
JEWELER
ON STOCKTON STREET
Watches, Clocks and Jewrelry Cleaned
and Repaired in Workman-Like-Order
RAILROAD CONSTRUCTION WORK BEGUN
Fort Stockton
Now Being Placed on The K. C. M. & 0. R’y Map.
The county seat of Pecos county is the next big railroad division on main line of
Orient railroad west of San Angelo.
Here is Your Chance to Get in on the Ground Floor of a Future City.
Grading on tho Orient right of way has begun. A $15.0<ni stone railw ay station is now
being erected, a $35,000 stone hotel will L* put up shortly and other extensive improvements
are in progress.
Four hundred thousand dollars ($4<)0,<>00) are being ex| tended in building an irrigation
system at Fort Stockton.
Fort Stockton lias artesian springs flowing 50 million gallons of water daily, the altitude
is 3,050 feet, 35,0004icres of rich land is being pu* under irrigation. Artesian wells are being
developed at Fort Stockton.
ORIENT RAILROAD BACKING FORT STOCKTON FOR A GREAT CITY
The Orient and its rich allied interests are developing Fort Stockton which will make a
city of 10,000 or 15,000 in a short time.
Keep your eye on Fort Stockton sure to become greatest city in Western Texas—
GROWING MORE RAPIDLY than any town in Texas.
There are openings for all kinds of business at Fort Stockton. More work than men.
Fine two colors illustrated bulletin and map of Fort Stockton free.
Apply for all information, prices, etc.,
F. A. H0RNBECK, Manager Townsite Dept.,
Kansas City, Mo.
F. E. GRIMES, (Ex-State Treasurer of Kansas) Local Manager, Fort Stockton, Tex.
GET THERE AHEAD OF THE ORIENT
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