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

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ranch. Now the same county is
the home of eight thousand pros
porous contented people, pursuing
diversified industries. Then land
was valued at IS cents per acre and
the land and the roaming herds it
pastured composed a full list of
taxable property. Now the in
crease in land values and the di-
versihed business and industries
of Potter County alone have
brought the assessed valuation of
property to the handsome sum of
So, $50, 900.
Then the number of postoffices
in the Panhandle were four; now
Amarillo, the commercial metropo-
lis and railroad center of the Pan
handle, enjoys the advantages of
free delivery and the post office re-
ceipts of that Office the last fiscal
year amounted TO more than $I2.-
900. Such prosperous and grow
ing county towns as Quanah, Chill
dress, Hereford, Clarendon, Dali
hart, Canyon, Claude, Plainview,
Lubbock, Lockney, Floydada, and
Panhandle, that enjoy every con-
venience and advantage, had no
place on the map twenty years ago,
take their place in commercial i'm
portance and the prosperity along
side of the best county towns
in Eastern and Central Texas.
Twenty years ago our nearest
railroan point in Texas was Wichi-
ia Falls, and on the north was
Dodge City, Kansas; each a dis
lance of 200 miles from us. Now
three of the great railways have
placed Amarillo on their transcon-
tinental routes, giving us a market
in every direction and are prepar-
ing and projecting feeders and
spurs that will in few years give
us that proportion of railway mile
age to which our varied and un-
limited resources entitle us. Among
contemplated railway extensions
may be mentioned the Amarillo
Tucumcari road, upon the grade
of which the Rock Island has ex-
pended $25o,ooo, and a line run
ming south into the Plainview coun-
try upon which route surveyors are
at this writing reported to be locat-
ing the permanent survdy. The
Fort Worth and Denver City road
has 29I miles of railroad in the
Panhandle, the Rock Island has
IT'S miles, the Southern Kansas of
Texas has 1870 miles and the Pecos
and Northern Teqas has ninety-fve
miles. AT present the Santa Fe is
shortening its main line to the Pa
cifc Coast via Amarillo and the
Fort Worth and Denver City has
completed arrangements to make
Galveston their terminus on the
southwest.
Twenty years ago the govern
ment post at Fort Elliott, one mile
from Mobeetie, was the only tele-
graph Office in the Panhandle and
it was no uncommon thing for one
to ride two hundred miles to send
or receive a telegram. What l
have written of railway and other
improvements makes it unneces-
sary for me to add that telegraph
and telephone systems are not left
out of the march of progress.
Twenty years ago the entire pop
ulation of the Panhandle did not
exceed one thousand, and now the
most conservative estimate would
not place it at less than fifty thous-
and, increasing at present at a ra-
ito greater than ever before.
Twenty years ago the business
of the Panhandle was confined to
the cattle interests; now there is a
wide and increasing diversifcation
of business pursuits, including farm
ing, manufacturing and the whole
sale distribution of goods. The
import and export business done at
Amarillo by the railroads is estima-
ted at not less than $50, 600 tons
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