Bent County register., 1888-03-10
LauaarSs support.

1SAxx4dI - support.
We are frequently asked BY stran-
gers what have you TO support such
town as you have now, aud the
certainly of much larger town,
where does all the trade come from
that supports 40 many stores with
such large stocks, what keeps up SO
many livery stables, hotels, newspa-
pers and many other like questions.
And as these are questions non-resi-
dents would like to have answered we
will give an idea of our support by
saying that Lamar has been since the
town was started the center of at
headquarters, where everybody who
first comes to the state makes their
first stop. Being land office town
information that can not readily be
obtained any place else can be OBJ
tanned here without trouble. Here
the agents and representatives of
other towns are located to solicit set
tiers for their towns, which in addi-
ton to the land Office is good means
of obtaining information of towns,
distances and the people who resid.
in the district. Stage lines run out
of Lamar to all towns north and
south. THIS alone brings many peo-
pie here 10 take the stage to whatev-
cr point they wish to so. The natu-
raj travel, the people looking at the
country, the land hunter, and those
having business at the land office,
keep our many hotels well filled and
makes business good for them. We
have fiye good livery stables every
one doing good business. The town
would naturally support two, while
the land hunter, the real estate agent
and the private conveyance travel to
other towns support the rest.
Lamar has merchants who carry
stocks of goods that are 4 surprise to
stranger and it is even wonder to
resident what becomes OF all the
goods they get in. They sell goods
as far north as the Missouri Pacific
road, while on the south, southeast
and southwest their trade extends
eighty and ninety miles and even to
the Neutral Strip.
We are located In an agricultural
country that is justbeing developed.
That farming is a success has been
proven for years by the cid settlers
who have farmed along the streams.
Our country has been one of the
greatest stock ranges in all the west.
There is now and always will be
thousands of cattle in this section of
country for the reason that the coun-
try is peculiarly adapted to stock
raising. The only difference between
now and the past is there will soon
be no open range. Our soil is rich
and productive with the farms being
opened, the public and private indus
tries of our city and the resources men,
toned is it not plain what supports
Lamar, and we have not even men
toned the half. 1t is good deal
like . gentleman remarked to us
short time ago. "Why" said he ''thc
little army of freighters that come to
this town would support fair sized
town, and then there is the cattle
trade, the cowboys and SO on until
the support of Lamar is not one of
the Questions that worries the peo-
pie. If we had nothing back of the
town but the agricultural Interestthat
would be sufficient, as this is sure to
be . successful farming country. 1t
has been we'll trie for the rast fif-
teen or eighteen years, when depen-
desce was put in the raising of cat
tie and not farming, and as a matter
of course did not receive that atten-
ton that it does now. Our town and
our country have such start now
that there is only one course left, and
that in onward.