The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1906-12-27
Few Facts in Brief Of the Advantages and Opportunities
Of General Character Of Panhandle Of Texas.

low price and on easy terms OF pur-
chase.
The panhandle of Texas is very
small part of the state yet it contains
about $4,000 square miles. 10000, 600
acres. A little larger than New
Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecti-
cut and Rhode Island. 1t is composed
OF twenty large square counties and
part of five others along the southern
edge. 1t lies on the long slope up
wards from the eastern plains to the
Rocky mountains the elevation rang
ing from about 1900 feet on it's east
ern edge to $3.50 feet at Amarillo near
the center of the region.
The panhandle is probably the
largest single piece of land in the
world that is practically all alike.
There are of course parts that are
broken country, some more rolling
than others, few rocky or gravelly
bluffs, but in the main the entire pam
handle may be said to be identical
the same in character and soil.
Through the section that we are
located is beautiful gently rolling
prairie. 1t was in state of nature a
wide rolling grassy wilderness, but
is now sprinkled all over with towns
and settlements of white men. Rail-
roads traverse in all directions. The
public schools have come and the
mechanic, doctor, lawyer, preacher
and the church. Law and society are
organized on the lines as exist in
older communities. People here look
and live pretty much as they do in
other states, and the new conner need
not expect any of the "wild and
wooly." And yet the country is so
immense that comparatively speaking
it still lies idle in the sunshine as it
has lain for centuries waiting for the
touch of man to make it blossom into
homes and towns with all the op-
pOrtunities that are past in the older
states, still in the future.
To look at it from the car window,
the panhandle looks very much like
the plains of other states, Illinois,
Minnesota or Dakota. None OF it is
''desert" any more than Illinois,
Kansas, Nebraska or Oklahoma. 1t
used to be thought that Iowa and
e.. raj and northern Illinois, and
n.e recently Dakota and Montana
>,c,, regions fit only for the Indian
att buffalo, where railroads would
pcy.. be built and where the white
man could not live. These times are
long ago gone by. Look across this
vast expanse OF fertile soil noting
what it will produce, bearing in mind
its attractive climate, generous mois-
ture, nearness to market and other
manifest advantages. Is it any wonder
that it is attracting wide attention or
that on every hand we are besieged
with requests for information about
the possibilities existing in this great
country?
We have a few products raised in
Texas in our office and we will be
pleased to have anyone call and see
them.s We have corn, wheat, oats,
alfalfa, cotton, kaffir corn, corn, milo,
maize, California wheat and millet.
It will do you good to look these over
and let us have talk with you about
this wonderful country and we know
that you will make arrangements to
take this trip with us this winter.
Watch the Herald for more facts
and figures concerning this country.
Yours for the panhandle of Texas,
WILSON & HUGHES,
Office over Merchants National Bank,
phone 1913.