Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-20
CHILDREss COUNTY.
A Claim that the County is the Garden spot
of Northwest Texas-To be Represented
at the Spring Palaee-Notes.
correspondenoe of the Gazette.

Correspondence Of the Gazette.
CHILDREss, TEX. March 17.-That the
Childress country Is yet new and to de-
gree unsettled is generally understood,
but this in favor of the immigrant and
home-seeker, because it gives him the
wider range of choice, the greater scope
and variety of country from which to
make selections, and thus guarantees
him whatever he may wish for, dry land
or watered, level land or broken, valley
land or rolling prairie, farming section
| or grazing; but they must not make the
| mistake OF supposing that these oppor-
tunities will last always. There is no
country better advertised or more talked
about or exciting more intense curiosity
than this Panhandle, and each
day sees throngs of prospec-
tors and home-seekers pouring into
ChildreSs county by rail and by highway;
many esta blishiug In permanent homes,
to grow up with q fast-growipg country;
many locating farms and ranches, many
starting new enterprises, many opening
up lines of business not previously repre-
sented, or not full, and all, without ex-
ception, subscribing to the unanimous
verdict that the Childress country in gen.
eral and Childress county in particular
is ''the garden spot' of Northwest Tex
as, and the southern gateway to
the Panhandle; presents finer pros
poets and opportunities to the
settler with some means, even though
small, and to the man of business in
whatever branch he may elect, than any
other section of our great and glorious
state. It is therefore important that
those who seek a new country, q new
field of operation, should direct their at
tention to this peerless Panhandle, and
particularly this peerless Childress coun-
ty, and should recognize that the present
is an emergency when delay is not wise.
Our people seem to have "sorter'
half way walked up to the gravity of the
occasion and have decided to have Chill
dress county fully represented at the ap-
preaching Spring Palace. At a meeting
held here last Saturday night $3.50 were
subscribed to have our county properly
represented. An auxiliary Spring Palace
association was organized with the fol-
lowing officers: w. P. Jones, president;
w. T. Levy, secretary; W. P. Brewer,
treasurer; L. E. Haskell, corresponding
secretary. The following committees
were appointed: Exhibit committee-W.
L. R. Dickson, L. E. Haskell, J. H.
Mundy, S. III. Voss, J. T. Winton, 10.
Fl. Estes, B. T. Williams, J A. Carson,
&. W. Armstrong, J. Fl. Patrick, w. B.
Polling, 6. w. Deahl, John Q. Adams,
L. L. Thompson, J. II. Bowman,
Ben Wallace, Ebert Howard and Fritz
Kuppse. Committee of arrangements
Judge J. A. Fires, L. G. Warlick, John
q. Adams, James T. Van Hoy, Frank
Slack, J P. Burlington, w. NJ. Holland
Mesdames James T. Van Hoy and Harry
Mundy, Misses Mamie Montgomery,
Lummie Deahl, Telulah Collier, Polite
Winton and Belmont Griffith. Advertis-
ing committee-Stovall Johnson, Sam
P. Britt, Charles e. Brown, Judge Fred
NJ. Campbell and W. NJ. HOLLAND. FL
nance committee-Harry Edwards, Wal
ter Edwards, Sam Tyler, Judge Fred NJ.
Campbell and Judge A. j. Fires.
Judge Campbell was appointed
a committee of one to go to
Fort Worth and secure space IN the
Spring Palace for the Childress county
exhibit. The meeting adjourned to meet
again ID q few days, at the call of the
president, to hear the report of the COM
mittees and to perfect arrangements for
booming Childress and the Childress
country. Also, a progressive committee
will be appointed, and fund raised for
the erection of a small house on the
right near the depot, in which
to hold perpetual Childress Karporama,
so that passengers on the trains, when
they stop here to take their breakfasts
ana suppers, may see the fruits of our
soil. Our new courthouse corner stone,
barbecue, ETC.. will also be discussed,
and the proper committees appointed to
make the occasion success.
DR.. Cristler has had well dug on his |
addition to Childress, and struck pure,
clear, cool, freestone water at forty five |
feet, and in an ineXhaustable quantity. |
This solves the water problem for Chill |
dress and secures for her the head of the |
divivision, machine shops, round house, |
hotel. etc.
Building stone of fine quality, and |
worries of it, has been found on Scatter |
Branch six or seven miles south of town.
Our people are discussing the feasibility |
Of Incorporating the town-for school |
purposes only.
SENSATION AMONG CRUSADERS,