The twice=a=week herald. (Amarillo, Tex.) 1887-1906, 1905-12-26


Childress will pay out this year
about $4,000 for turkeys, also a
like amount for chickens. The
farmers of this section are begin
ming to realize that it pays to raise
turkeys and chickens, and the in
crease in this traffic will be no.
ticeable from now on.-Childress
PostA
West TEXAS LANDs.-Years ago
the wise men of that day prophe-
sled that the lands of West, Texas
could be used only for grazing pur-
poses. Time has demonstrated the
fallacy of such predictions. The
small farmer is pushing his way
steadily to the front, the large
ranches are being cut up and pros
porous settlements established in
every nook and corner of the great
west. Why, it hasn't been many
years ago when the stock men,
speaking of this section, would
shake their heads in disparagement
of the idea of this ever developing
into farming country But it has
blossomed as the rose. Here the
products of the soil are more varied
than.perhaps in any other section
of the state, Lands are advancing
in value every year because of the
rapidly increasing demand, and at
the present rate of improvement it
will not be many years before al
most all the available land will be
under cultivation. For these and
other reasons it would be the part
OF wisdom for every one who is
contemplating settling in Parker
county to get in the push" right
now. Many men have missed their
opportunity by proscrastinating,-
Memphis Herald.
The PLAINS RAlLRoAD.-One re-
suit of the Monday mass meeting
was the addition of about five hun
dred dollars to the right way
fund and it now totals up within
five hundred dollars of what the
company thinks will be necessary
to cover the cost of same. An
other result of the meeting is that
the committee, backed by several
prominent citizens, have deter
mined to guarantee to the Santa Fe
the required right-of-way to the
county line in order that the work
may proceed at once. 1t is expect
ed, however, that several citizens
who are not yet down for anything
will aid in making up this expected
deficiency of FIVE hundred dollars,
and, Notwithstanding the guarantee
by the committee, the subscription
list will be passed around all the
same until this amount is added.
Some three-fourths Of this right-of-
way the committee has already Sc
cured by contract; about one-half
of the remainder can be had in the
same manner and the balance of it,
say one eighth of the whole, must
be obtained through the courts.
To date, then, the Santa Fe has or
will soon have in its possession the
right of-way from this town clear
through to Plainview; the contract
for the grading of the road has al
ready been signed up; the Santa
Fe, by bond or deposit, guarantees
its completion by January /, 1907,
and it seems now to the News to
be about as much Of certainty as
human affairs we'll can be. As
stated in previous issues of the
News the Tallmadges are clear out
of it now, barring the trimmings.
True, G. L. Tallmadge and asso-
ciates appear in the right-of-way
documents but they, the Tall
madges, have conveyed this right
of-way to the Santa Fe. The trim.
mings referred to as retained by
C. L, Tallmadge and associates, in
clude options on about sixty-fve