Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-10
THE GREAT PANHANDLE.
THE WHEAT PROSPECTS NEVER
BEFORE so BRIGHT.
Eighteen Ninety-Two Promises to be a Sue
cessful Year IN Northwest Texas-A
Gazette Mans Observations.
oecial Correspondence Of the Gazette.

! Special Correspondence OF the Gazette.
CLARENDON, DoSLEY COUNTY. TEX, Feb.
cit is safe to say that Northwest Texas
has never had before at this season of the
year such bright prospects for large
wheat crop as it has this year. Having
just completed three weeks trip TO all OF
the counties along the line of the Fort
Worth and Denver City railroad as far as
the New Mexico line, 1 am forced to make
the above assertion, based not only on my
| personal observation, but from repeated in-
quiry of the farmers direct. After the re-
cent heavy snow storms and cold weather
the young wheat looked backward, but the
warm weather which followed brought out
a radical change for the better, and the
fields are now green and show heavy
stand. Inquiry leads me to believe that
the wheat acreage In Wise, Montague
and Clay counties will fall somewhat below
that of last year, owing to the unfavorable
planting season, but, judging from the
present prospects, it is safe to say that the
total yield will be far in excess of 1891.
The wheat acreage of Wichita, Wilbar-
ger and Hardeman counties will probably
be fully up to or in advance of last year,
while the production will be far in excess
of last season.
The counties of Childress, Hall, Donley
and Armstrong will show vast increase in
acreage, as this section of the Panhandle
has been especially blessed by the advent
of new farmers since last planting season.
and all have put in heavily of wheat
Armstrong county last year raised but
little wheat, while this season 10000 acres
are covered. Hall county, also, has great
increase and fine prospects. While the
counties of Potter, Oldham and Hartley
have but small area in wheat, yet there
is enough to fully demonstrate that they
are in the great Texas wheat belt, and a
few years will see them sending to the
markets great surplus.
THE new plains countless are fast de-
veloping as farming lands, and claims are
being taken up by the thousands. Another
healthy sign is the vast amount of last
years wheat is still in the hands of the
farmers. The most of this surplus is in
Wichita, Wilbarger and Hafdeman coun-
ties, and is daily finding its way to the
markets. Many cars day are being loaded
at the various stations and shipped to the
milling centers. These bright crop pros
poets mean much for Fort Worth and the
state, but adequate facilities must be pro-
vided to handle it. At present not q point
on the line has elevator facilities enough to
handle the crop and this condition of affairs
has telling effect upon lack of complete
success of grain raising.
Capital can find ample and remunerative
investments in the Panhandle, both in con-
structing elevators in which to store the
grain and in the forming of banks so as to
provide better money facilities for grain
men. This is one of the years that prom
ises to be a successful one for the Pan
handle and one that will be a great factor II
the future Development OF tbs great coun-
try. c. w. W.
To all broken dow ey disease, overwork
or worry Hoods SfteRparilla is OF great