Falfurrias Facts (Falfurrias, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 27, Ed. 1 Friday, December 10, 1926 Page: 1 of 12
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FALFURRIAS, BROOKS COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY DECEMBER 10, 1926.
NUMBER 27.
lasater to Subdivide 25,000Acres
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MORE MONEY TO TEXAS
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There it probably no section of the United States better
fitted for the profitable raising of turkeys than is parts of
Brooks and adjoining counties.
Pracl 'ally the last stand of the wild turkey which used to
be so num < us all over Texas is being made in this section. In
many parts wf this country flocks of wild turkeys may yet be
found.
Every natural advantage to the turkey is offered by this
ection. Plenty of the kind of feed they like; mild climate and
so far as man knows free from any desease that would affect
!he turkeys.
Such efforts as has been made have so far met with grati-
fying results.
In speaking qf the turkey business of Texas Victor H.
Schoffelmayer, agricultural editor of the Dallas Farm News
says: ,
Another powerful argument
for diversification is this year’s
Texas turkey crop, which con-
servatively estimated at $10,-
000,000 by State Department
official. All-cotton farmer take
notice!
About 50 per cent of the
crop has been shipped to the
markets of the East and North
where tens of thousands of
birds were consumed for
Thanksgiving, but an equal
number will move within the
g.fxt few weeks to grace the
/JhK
t>tmas tables outvie Nation.
ers has av-
°v
The price to fa^m—------
i eraged about 25c a pound, or
» !c to 28c a pound delivered at
dressing plants. The consum-
* '8 market in New York, for
instance, is 44c to 46c a pound;
in Dallas it was 41c a pound
for dressed birds last week.
While turkey-raising is large
ly confined to the counties
comprising what is known as
the Edward.* Plateau, with
considerable f production in
South and West Texas and less
in West and Central Texas,
there is no reason why the tur-
key industry should not em-
brace Ir'^ger territory.
A few years ago North Tex-
as raised turkeys successfully,
'*and there were several large
flocks in Dallas County, nota-
bly one on the Worthington
farm, near Mesquite. Because
turkeys, after the first weeks
of hatching, practically raise
themselves, they should have a
place on hundreds of farms and
thus add easy money to the
farm income.
While Cuero in DeWitt coun-
ty for years has claimed to be
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the center of the Texas turkey
trade, Brady in McCulloch
county has made rapid strides
in turkey concentration and
now stages an annual turkey
celebration second to none.
Flocks of 200 birds per farm
are not uncommon in the Brady
section. Some of these flocks
have returned an income of
$500 this year. When this is
compared with the average
loss from cotton it is signifi-
cant!
2,000 Cars of Birds.
According to J. Austen Hun-
ter, State market news special-
ist at San Antonio, some 1,500
to 1,800 cars of dressed tur-
keys will be shipped out of
Texas for the season. Dress-
ers, Mr. Hunter reports, state
that they believe the shipments
will total 2,000 cars, while the
railroads pre rmore conserva-
tive.
To date some 600 cars of
dressed turkeys have left Tex-
as for the Thanksgiving cele-
bration, not to mention numer-
ous express and truck ship-
ments to Texas and Southern
(Continued on page 6.)
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Just 15 Days
until I arrive in
Presents ready.
1-
alfurriag, (Jet your Lists of
Santa Claus
ESCUE
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SOUTH TEXAS MAN
WANDERS FAR BUT
FINALLY RETURNS
John A. Kerr, late of Cuba
and Florida has located in Fal-
furrias and expects to engage
in the real estate business.
Mr. Kerr is a former citizen
of South Texas who wandered
far but finally came back to
the best land of all the world
—South Texas.
He is a native of Washing-
ton county, Texas, and one of
the founders of the town of
Tilden, McMullen county, at
which place he was engaged in
MICKIE SAYS—
TUB MERCHANT WHO THINKS
oc AO Should bring- in A
deluge os 'toads poravear
MIGHT M OOMflKRED WITH A
GOLFER- WHO EXPECTS TO
DRiVE THS BALL I WTO THE HOLE
WITH OWE STROKS OP HtS
Cuts, success in advertising,
At IN OOLP. COMES WITH
REPEATED KPPOPTO t
E
SOS
Kingsville’s new oil field has
now a daily production of 650
barrels of Gulf Coast Crude.
This production comes from 4
old wells and three new ones,
the latter having been brought
in during the past three weeks.
The Humble people brought
in two wells on the Dennett
lands and another on the Kle-
berg tract. The Kleberg well
is reported to be flowing 500
barrels of oil per day. rlhe
Humble people have finished
the derrick and are preparing
to spud in a new well on the
Hughes tract next week.
The Witherspoon Oil com-
pany of San Antonio has an-
nounced that it will drill two
wells in the new field. These
two locations have been made
on submerged land belonging
to the state and aie about half
a mile from present produc-
tion.
Operators in Kingsville ex-
pect the Texas Company and
the Gulf people to invade the
field about the first of the year.
It is reported that an offer
of $500 an acre with royalty
has been refused for acreage
in the vicinity of the produc-
ing wells.
Santa Claus has made an ad-
vance shipment of some of his
most choice articles to W. S.
Belton, of Falfurrias. Mr.
Belton says there is more to
follow. Karnes Kirtley and
Fred Price Goodenough de-
clare that if more goods are
received that there will not be
enough room left in the store
for even a “skinny guy” like
Fred Price to get around. in.
The goods receivea so far
consist of many kinds of can-
dies made and decorated in the the mercantile business for sev-
confertioner’s best and most eral years.
skilled manner. Everything Later he removed to Cotul-!
Friday and Saturday the
welkin rang with the beat of
the tum-tums as the tocsin rang
thru the scraggly mesquite and
scrawny tornillos for the as-
sembling of the clans for a
mighty hunt.
Big Chiefs Wampum Scott
and Happy-face Hopper wrap-
ped their blankets around
LAND WILL BE SOLD TO
PRACTICAL FARMERS,
DAIRYMEN AND
TRUCK GROWERS
Ed. C. Lasater has arranged
to subdivide and place on the
market 25,000 acres.
The land will be divided in-
to 80 acre tracts and will be
sold on eight years time, with
7 per cent interest, if so desir-
ed by purchaser.
The tract to be divided is lo-
cated west of Falfurrias on the
Copita prairie and is a splendid
body of agricultural land.
It is expected that plans will
V*oLnnn nopfwpfuH ttiiffipipnt.
their stately forms and await- |J £ commSwetheYctuaT selL
ed the gathering of the tribe, j in(, by firsl the ye«r af-
rom tepees, wigwams and ^er whjch sales will be pushed
the big open spaces braves,1 : i
followed by their squaws and! KA good‘proportion of the
papooses answered the call of •land *con8is‘t8 the so-called
the toesm. -red sandy soil,’’ the soil
he braves uonned their which many experts predict
lunting togs; loaded their wjj| prove to be some of the
guns, sharpened their knives ^est berry an(j tomato lands in
and greased their laces as a TTnitPd StRtos
protection against sunburn } R(Tal estate offices will be
Hie squaws bedecked them-:opened in the Creamery build-
m- \es in paints and pigments; jng for handling the local
s rapped wailing papooses to j work of the sales campaign,
tiuir backs and autos; secur- l A. Dickey will have charge
eu the services of Heap Big 0f the local office in addition
ru°°u:„ made reudy for i to the general management of
the Mercantile company.
The subdividing and sale of
this land means much to Fal-
furrias. It means the bring-
ing in of from 250 to 300 addi-
tional farm families, and an
increase in population of from
1,500 to 2,500. The incerase
in wealth will run into the
hundreds of thousands of dol-
lars.
Practically every acre is
well adapted to truck fanning
and citrus growing as well aa
dairying.
Efforts will be made to in-
duce each purchaser to keep
dairy cows as dairying has
been and is a pronounced suc-
cess in all the Falfurrias sec-
tion.
Every needed element is
found here for a successful
the big feast.
From far and near the mem-
bers of the tribe came; they
came afoot; they came in fliv-
vers; they came astride cayus-
es and broncs and great was
the palaver as the hunters of
the clans foregathered for the
great occasion.
Led by Chiefs Wampum and
Happy-face the tribe journey-
ed to the famous hunting
grounds of Tepeguaje. Arriv-
ing there Big Chief Wampum
called for a council of his
chiefs and big hunters to plan
for the drive. i
Among those attending the
council were Chiefs Man-eats-
a-lot Bennett; Big-gun Black-
well ; Heap-big-gas McIntyre;
Big-Medicine-Man Elkins, of
the Sinton tribe; iBig-hunter-
king Kirtley of the Taft tribe ;l dairy industry. The world’s
Head hunters Holcomb, Sulli- best Jersey herd to draw from
van and gun carriers Tommie in building up and maintain-
rhompkins; Lem Yates and ing the dairyman’s milk herd;
Mat Gouger with their respec- a wonderfully pleasant and a-
tive tribe followers. greeable climate, plenty of
Heap Bib Cook John assist- shade, excellent water and a
known to please the palate and la, on the building of the In- ed by the squaws assembled system of feeding already
appeal to^he sense of beauty ternational railroad. Selling his pans and his pots for u worked out that has given the
learned by the world’s best can out in Cotulla Mr. Kerr moved grand and stomach filling feast, world one of its best brands
dy makers is to be found in the
Belton assortment.
There are Christmas cards,
novelties, toys, perfumes and
toilet articles without number.
But the piece de resistance
as the society writers would
say are the toilet sets made
from the new material known
as Ivoryoyd, an ivory appear-
' ing substance that has beauty
and appearantly much dura-
; bility.
This is a new line which is
! placed on the market for the
lo Kansas City so as to give his
children better educational ad-
vantages and engaged in the
real estate business.
Being hit with the Florida
boom he left Kansas City and
was in the real estate business
in Florida and Cuba for the
last few years but during all
his wanderings he has had a
Away! Begone!” shouted of butter.
Chief Wampum to his hunters Mr. Lasater has made ar-
and lead by Sullivan, the intre- rangements to start a vigorous
pid, these mighty hunters rang- and state wide advertising
ed far and near in search of
the fleet footed deer; the
whirring partridge and the
wild and vicious javelin.
But woe is the lot of the de-
scendants of the once mighty
first time this season. The]gress being made in all this
beauty and artistic design of section that he definitely de-
these sets are such as would cided to again locate in South
lenging to return to South Tex- Redman in these piping times
as. •
Coming to San Antonio a
few months back on a visit he
was so impressed with the pro-
adorn the dressing table of the
most dainty miss in all the land,
or the regal splendor of the
most stately dame.
OLD FALFURRIAN HERE
Dr. Frank B. Young of Wau-
Kee, Iowa, is in Falfurrias on
a visit to his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. S. F. Young. Dr. Young
is a former Falfurrias boy and
has many friends among the
old citizens who are glad to
see him again and to learn that
he is making good in the state
in which he now makes his
'home.
campaign to bring this great
opportunity of securing choice
lands in one of the world’s
favored regions on favorable
terms to the attention of prac-
tical farmers, dairymen and
truck growers thruout Texas
Texas and began to look about
for the town and community
offering the greater opportuni-
ties. It did not take him long I only a few of the deer and
to see the unusual advantages | have driven the sporting, fight-
offered by Falfurrias Land, ing death dealing javelin to the
and after making a thoro> in- deepest jungles of catclaw and
vestigation he concluded to'cacti.
make this his future home and) The hunters ranged far and
deal in real estate.
Mr. Kerr is known to many
of the older citizens of this
section who all welcome him
back and express pleasure that
he has decided to again be-
come a citizen of South Texas
and make his home in Falfur-
rias.
of peace when the sons of the and Oklahoma,
pale face wastes his time wash- j Again FACTS repeats, this
ing and currying the docile time more emphatic than ever,
Jersey; and is content to suck that Falfurrias will have a
the juice of the orange and tan-1 population of not less than
gerine where his progenitors 6.000 by the end of 1928. Any
were wont to imbibe the fiery one want to bet that this Pre"
juice of the corn. The pale diction does not come true?
hr.YJieiYTf^hrb^fXleftONE BOOTLEGGER, *'
ALIENS CAPTURED
BY BORDER PATROL
Officers Rene Trahan and
__ PLee Terrell captured a Mexi-
near urged on by the lust and can Thursday morning on the
hunger of Chief Happy-face highway south of town driving
they exerted themselves to • Ford in which 39 bottles of
make the grand kill, but alas teQuilla was concealed in the
Big Cook John in the midst of upholstering of the auto.
clacking squaws and wailing -The maIL c a,ms to hvein
Weslaco. The car was confia-
cated and the man lodged in
hotel Grimes.
papooses sat around his pots
(Continued on page 4)
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Edwards, Harry. Falfurrias Facts (Falfurrias, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 27, Ed. 1 Friday, December 10, 1926, newspaper, December 10, 1926; Falfurrias, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth869481/m1/1/?rotate=270: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .