Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1903-09-25
THE GREAT PANHANDLE.
WIN HERE IS THERE A
NAX country like the
~ PANHANDLE? The


answer is, there isn't any. W.
can truly say that we never livec
in country where the people gen
orally were SO prosperous. Nc
real poor people or people in neec
are living in this country. The
people of the Panhandle don't real
iy know what want is. They are
all doing well and are making a
good living and the most of them
some money. In all the twenty
seven counties of the Panhandle
there is not poor house maintain
ed at public expense. No such
thing as poor farm has ever been
known in this country. All these
things certainly speak we'll for the
country. The very fact that moth
ing of this kind exists is evidence
of the thrift of the people. In 9TH
er countries where land is selling
from 500 to $50 per acre the peo-
pie are forced to maintain such in
stitutions. In other countries
where they boast of wonderful
crops and plenty they have the
poor always with them and beggars
upon the streets of their cities.
There is room in the Panhandle yet
for thousands more. We want till
ers of the soil to join the settlers of
the Panhandle, assist in the culti-
walton of the soil and help US build
up the country. Our country is
prosperous, has always been pros
porous and more people with more
means will make it more prosper
Gus. Land is cheap enough to in
duce good settlers to take hold and
its producing qualities sufficient to
remunerate them with a bountiful
crop for their labor. The Panhan-
die needs more good settlers.
The eyes of the people of the east
are now centered upon the state of
Texas, and especially the Panhan-
die portion Of it, as place for in
vestment. The fact that the lands
of the big cattle companies of the
plains have been offered in tracts to
suit purchasers who desire to be-
come settlers and has been adver-
tiSed for sale has induced the popu-
lace Of the crowded east to consider
we'll the situation. One by one they
visit our country and return to tell
the story over and over again to
those eager to better their condi-
tons by coming to new country.
The east is full of people, they are
wonderfully overcrowded. The
trades are all overdone. There are
more workmen than there is work.
Men are hunting jobs to find that
there are many others after the
same job. The Panhandle hasn't
enough people. We want more peo-
pie. The trades need more work.
men. There is more work than
there are workmen to do it, more
farms than there are farmers to
cultivate the soil. No one has to
hunt job in this country, a job is
always ready il there is willing
man to take it. The opportunities
for the farmer are better in this
country than in the east for the
reason that the land is cheaper, it
doesn't take near the capital to l
farm the land, and then again the {
farmers can handle more acres to a
better advantage. The product US t
lally is just as good and the prices |
received will aggregate as much t
upon the whole as the higher priced !
and in the east. The interest on t
the difference in the price of land
Will accrue to the farmer of the {
cheaper land in the west. The west
will gladly welcome the surplus 6
of the east and the Pam '
handle of Texas has the land to d
urnish homes for thousands upon G
to come here and improve v
which vii! provide them with a c