The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1907-04-25

hiANNi hH"Np NntItoI no hpthkhi loi
ne lived 10 the southwestern portion
what is known as the blue grass
Iegoln," from 1877 TO 1904. Yet
this Is no reason that there Is not
other sections OF the country Just
as flno where the climate the year
round discounts Iowa There Is also
no reason that we know OF, why
Iowa people, who have become az
flleted with bronchial troubles, and
Other affllctlons, and who find the
climate Of Texas far superior to that
OF Iowa, have not the right to sell
their belongings In that state and In
vest II here In Texas, where Il VIII
buy them much more worldly pos
sessions, and bring them, health and
happiness II they choose.
In this Panhandle country, at no
time during last winter did the Their
mometer go below Z above zero.
and there we're two nice snow storms,
neither Of which we're like the bliz-
yards we have seen rage In Iowa,
With the thermometer below zero, for
three days and more at time, And
the coolest weather we had here dur
iEg the winter lasted but couple Of
days at time, and only twice during
the winter did we don the heavy
overcoat and winter cap we would
wear In Iowa the winter through,
and each time they we're in use but
two and three days. Such is the
climate OF the Panhandle country
which is attracting the Iowans.
While Iowa has been experiencing
severe weather for the past two
weeks, here in the Panhandle we are
enjoying fine sunshine, mixed with
plenty OF wind, to be sure. Peaches,
Plums and cherries are well set on
trees hanging full, and roses are
blooming, While Missouri, Nebras-
ka and even portions OF Oklahoma
were visited with nearly las cold
weather as we had during the en-
tire winter here, a few days ago,
which killed most OF their fruit, this
country was not disturbed with frost,
even, and our fruit was not even
in danger.
True, we are having It little dry
here this spring. but we have seen
the same in Iowa and Illinois While
the wind blows strong here, yet we
remember In the early years we re-
sided in Iowa before windbreakers
were grown all over the prairies,
that the wind was something ter
rifle. We do not have the cyclones
Iowa is subject to, and the records
Of rainfall and crops grown for many
years, are that the average rainfall
Is ample to raise good crops, here,
and It comes at time needed to
grow the crops. Should these con-
ditions fail us one year, that is no
against the country, for
honest Iowans will acknowledge that
every few years wet or drouth eff
iects the crops of that state, in va
rious sections, and some years there
are only few localities where good
,rops are grown,
In 1901 when we went to Ottum-
wa. where the paper is published,
the above spiteful remarks
against the Panhandle and Texas, for
hree straight months, not drop of
ain fell, in a large section of that
state, and ottumwa was in the dry
,elt, and corn and pastures we're
Tried up, and not enough was raised
or local use.
The Iowa editor does not want to
lee his constituents interesting
themselves IN the Panhandle, no mat
er what the chances here may be
o make money, and find agreeable
Innate. He Is interested in a chain
u newspapers at Ottumwa, Daven-
,ort and Muscatine, and 1t is natu-
al and expected, that he will stand
in for his own localities and state,
gainst all intruders. We are free
o admit that Iowa is a grand state,
nut the many former Iowa citizens
Who have cast their lot in Texas, |
nd the Panhandle with the writer
viii acknowledge that there are
many more opportunities in Texas
nd the Panhandle, as well as in Ok
ahoma and New Mexico, for indi-
iduals from Iowa to make much |
1ore money here in these sparsely |
opulated yet undeveloped localities,
t the present time, and for years
. come, than there is in Iowa. They
Ill also subscribe to the belief of the
ritter that fifteen or twenty years
ence, this country will be thickly
opulated with a prosperous and
Apply people, and will be one of
he finest diversified agricultural,