The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1884-09-25

" Wv 49, Hf'"
counties constitute tho Pan Handle al
Texas. md hos other ,]rrlinns ARE geo,
gr,phic,lIN d~,-i4nHttl, Il must u" >HlH
81 the nut-,t thai 10 well defined drSiE
nation. r.i-I, had however ~cuuN"ul'ul
and Al .,lrahIr % would hc, IN cNtml-
milton uftrr nam Viii show lhli u II
dihiruil H. d,liuc such honndhtl = ~
Would hr both intvllglhl" hnd "l'SllA Sc
memhrred, The q Information ct Ton
ucss,c renders nj once iutiltgthlu ~
long accepted division into east nidnl'
ans west, az Illinois into unrln'f''
central and southern. Missouri, biScrt'
ed by the river of hat name, IN usnhlIN
Ciassua 4u iuuT Omissions h'! ,N'"','
nnrihwU u, southeast ANA ~~"iln"'H'
aud these are easily compTrhrhucu' anu
an i'm other Stltr- whose shapes hllh-
rally suu.ostt These descriptive dcsrrlm,
nations, u, Massachusetts Is divided
MO eastern and western, avn Sew
York into western. central AMI Tee !iud
son river country. Nnn" ul th"''' '"nIh
he applied uudvrstandingly 10 ia" snap"
and great Hrra at Texas. Ana what was
nj least iu~telliSihlc III thr, carrier u'y'
ofthe country, ~ population inc 'N-
listed, would Ice Hun~cusirh now IN
my Youth in thusc DAYS th"
settled rurt of tho country
was elasscd as east n west
leAIs-. east a.! .ur it.Nl'N wis i.''l
Toyns-ni. west at th" Era&"S, west
Tpra.-lrtwuou tao tWo was u sort 81
ncutr1l srouui. In the cnst u was gen
orally considered ~ n part OF Tue Mtst'
while the western people regarded II
tonic and Nacugduchcs road oi the span
iartis, vru~,iug a. New BrHunlriH' NNl
Marcos, ha>,u.p aust 50 on, WAS mo ""'
side boundary ui III" settlements ,N,
ccpiing the IIltlC communities on lie"
riycr in lho northeast corner of the
State, The EXPRESSIVE rCctprnrll term
4 N use were, "Out West ANA "En>l'' II
a party were going from anywhere IN
tile country farther west Mh"lllrr 10
san Antonio on anywhere s"uth OF liha'
,owards the lower Rio Grande, whether
To trade, smugglc, in search oi lln-tllm,
Indians ar MrNicans, or 10 "r"uiiu up,
and bring i'm the wild aud abandoned
cattle of the MoNiCans on and btNohi
the Nurccs-Uhc true, original Gov
boysn of Texas, big-hearted, chlNaIiuls
fellows, fearing neither man nor the
chef of Pluto'S kiugdom,) all snch were
said To he going .'Out West" notwilh-
standing the most of the distance with
COWBOYS would he due south. IN thuSe
days his upper country, a coihpari'lVH-
iy unknown wilderness, was general
lied as tire Three Forks OF the rim
ity country" Afterwards, when
settlers came and some coun
ties were organized, IL came 10 U"
designated as Sorth Texas. lnthis des-
ignation was included all the prairie
country north ot'about latitude ~. eaH'
of the Brazos and west of the timber llfie
running ~northeaSterly rom Porter ;
Bluff, on the Trinity, through Kaufman,
Rains and Hopkins counties 10 i'eu
River. When the country west OF Aus
tin was settled, say from Ne" nrau,ieis
and San Marcos north to the san Sanh,
il was simply and appropriately called
.sThe Mnuntains." After the adjust
ment of our upper boundary IN ls'o anu
its survey a few years later, a surveyor,
Il think Mr.. ii. Wickland or one oil ms
party), in writing of that sectloh nortn
nf Red River, alluded to it as III shape
sometbinr like the Pan Handle of West
Virginia, and thus the name graiilaily
come into general use. II is wholly In
appropriate for the Handle has much
more width than length, .u Inc anne
has become too familisr Ia he now
changed. -,
1t must he borne IN mind thai while
these several designations grew mo
common use, the remainder ofthe state,
includinglthe Pan Handle and excepting
the three villages in FL PasO county,
remained unsettled. Now this Is 81
Changed, every section of the State is
now occupied to some extent, ana inc
new parts are steadily receiving populn-
nu1, All llttlllstIlI IN ph'iiJ 'N''
bered subdivision INTO geo
graphical districts, would therefore, he
desirable in a State so large, and so rap
idly filing up with new settlors from
other States and countries. Beyond n
few suggestions on this point, where
every man of taste in such matters,
whether odd or new settler, has a right
to be heard, ] do not propose to go. Ana
first, as to
THE Fan HANDLE,
it Is, if there is any appropriatcne-s III
the term, al the country lying between
our boundary, from Red River north,
and the corresponding boundary or New
Mexico. its southern tier OF confuse
being Greer, Childress, Hall, Brlscoe'
Swisher, Castro aud PNrmer. The South
Fork OF Red River or Prairie Dog Town
River, running nearly parallel to tins
line, would be a good, natural boundary
for this section. There il no possible
'Ht1ess of things' in including more
southerly counties in the Pan Handie.
WEST TRXAs
NAV sppropriately be defined Al em-
brsoing ali the country south OF the
Pan Handle and New Mexico, west OF
the Tooth meridian (sbout the west line
of Jones, Taylor and Runnels count'es)
and north Of the South line of Crockett
the south and west by the
fact, this is West Texas. centrally |
pierced by latitude 50 and the Texas q
Pacific railroad.
EAST TEXAS.
Jts old designation holds substantially |
rood-all the timbered country east OF
the Trinity, leaving the prairie or small
grain counties in North Texas.
SOUTHWEST TEXAS. !
All the country south and west or the
GUADALUPE rivers and south OF Crockett
county. This includes the most south
arm point i'm the State, the mouth o the
Rio Grande, but has boon so long Gallo
THE Southwest that the custom must
control.
SOUTH TEXAS.
All the country south of the Interna
tOnal railroad, east OF the Guadalupe
and wost of the Trinity.
NORTH TEXAS.
All the country south OF req IixoI'
north of latitude 81, east or the lO0th
meridian and west Of the timber region
Il East Texas.
TEXAS.
wonld embrace, and with fair pro-
nriety. the remainder of the State
bonnded south by the International
road. north by latitude -, east by the
Trinity and west by the Guadalupe, In
cInding the towns of Georgetown, Bel
ton, Waco, Hillsboro, Burnet, Lam
pazas, San SABA, FREDERICKSBURG,
Brentwood. ETC..
aasiiv color the lines indicated on their
ofiee maps and soon become. fanniiiat
Win them; but they are offered with th"
nerfe~t understanding that they. In th"
main. have no claims to p~rescriptive
t1A2e. but seem calculated to meet the
OF uniform sub-geOgraphical dos
igna,ious for the u 'he