The twice=a=week herald. (Amarillo, Tex.) 1887-1906, 1905-11-10

present population of Amarillo, anc
it can be further said that there are
no indications of industrial stag
nation, the fate of which falls to SC
many places further east. There
is in process of construction an up
to-date sewerage system for Anna
rillo that will cost $50, 900, and &
roller mill of large wheat and corr
capacity. The Federal Govern
ment is establishing an expert
mental station one mile from the
city, for the maintenance of which
ample appropriation has been made
by congress.
The government also maintains
in its own commodious building al
this place a fully equipped weather
bureau station, Official observa-
tons have been taken by it for
fourteen years past, and hence the
statements herein made of climate
and rainfall are absolutely accurate
The mean annual rainfall for four
teen years is twenty-five inches,
two-thirds of which falls from the
months of May to September, in
elusive. The rainfall for the cur
rent year up to this date is twenty
five and one-half inches. How far
this removes the Panhandle from
the aridity with which it has been
persistently charged, l leave the in
telllgent readers to Judge. The
mean summer, fall, winter and
spring temperature are, respective
ly "a, 81, SO and SO degrees, from
which reports will be seen that our
claims for superior climate are
we'll founded.
The first settlers didn't come here
to farm. They came, committed
against it. They didn't come here
to work. They came not to work.
They didn't believe this to be a
farming country, and didn't want
it to be.
Yet some farming has been done,
after a fashion, for all these years,
and has been uniformly successful
under the most adverse conditions.
| am sure that have no better
friends on earth than the pioneers
of the Panhandle, and can sim
cerely say that l do not believe
there lives on earth finer set of
meh nor poorer set of farmers.
The much abused and shiftless
Mexican is scientific agriculturist
in comparison with the average
frontiersman. His usual method
is to plough in a crop, and ride
and ride around on horseback till
gathering time, leaving nature, I'M
aided by human hands, to produce
the harvest.
Yet, under experiments like
these, the Panhandle has shown it.
self capable and dependable for
splendid crops of many profitable
kinds. That wonderful country
back from the foot of the plains
has leaped into prominence as one
OF the finest cotton belts in Ameri-
ca. Lands have bounded up to
fifteen, twenty and twenty-five dol
lars an acre. Within the past doz-
en- years, have seen hundreds of
acres of this land revert to the
State, because the holders didn't
think it worth a dollar all acre, on
forty years time, at 3 per cent
interest.
Experimentation is now going on
in the most approved and thorough
way. The national government
has experiment stations at Amaril-
10 and Claiming, The Campbells
have model farms at Bovina, in
Farmer county, and Farwell Park,
in Dallam county. They are prac-
tical farmers, and have been dem
onstrating and growing rich in the
far west for twenty-five years.
Their success has been achieved by
conforming to the peculiar climatic
conditions of the west, both as to
crops planted and methods of cult
walton. With the official weather
records of thirteen years before
them, they confidently affirm that
amazing agricultural results will
be achieved all over the plains.
AT nine different points, our bor-
ders are pierced by great railway
lines, with their incoming trains.
They are covering the nation,
bringing home-seekers by compan-
les, carloads and train loads. There
are two other railroads actually
building, and many Others project
ed. The Santa Fe people are get
ting ready to build from Texico to
Brentwood, and from Lubbock to