The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-05-28

twenty years In Kansas and twenty
years here, Judge Nelson said that
Judging by the changes made, he
must be much more than hundred
years old, lie told Of riding on Train
No. /, Trip No. / on the Santa Fo out
OF Topeka when the line was eighteen
miles long and OF shipping the first
car OF hogs from Burlingame to To-
peka, OF visiting Wichita in 90 when
the first eighty acres had just been
plated, In the same way he told
Of the changes that have come over
the Panhandle in the twenty years
mat he has spent here, ~
Wichita and Amarillo are In the
same class" declared c. p, Chandler,
president OF the Kansas National
Bank. after confcsslng that he had
been trying TO figure ont where
Judge Nelson spent the other sixty
years beside the twenty years in Kan
sas and twenty years In Texas.
Amarillo Is not as big as wichita
but she will be some day" lie told
of the visits he had made TO ANA
rillo and OF his interest In the city
and further emphasized that ANA
rillo would be working for the same
recognition in freight rates that
Wichita is working for and that the
interests OF the two cities would new
err conflict but would ever be parallel
Amarillo is the best town we
have visited In all this trip" IL the
compliment paid by Upton Cox Of
the Cox-Blodgett Dry Goods COM
pany, who talked dry goods and WI
chlta business houses, and In giving
Amarillo the compliment he gave big
credit to the other thriving towns
where the visitors have been so roy
ally treated during the last few days
lie also talked freight rates and
counselled Amarillo men to stand
with them in fighting for fair rates
In ~ meantime he urged them to
stop in Wichita and buy goods OF
their friends instead of going on
through to Kansas City, st. Louis
and other points. Wichita people
we're the kindest hearted on earth,
he said, and they gave such liberal
terms that Il didn't matter much
when the buyers paid for the goods.
Back Of this country" he said CIV
ing his explanation for the develop
ment that Is being mode, lis the in
domitable, unconquerable spirit of
the people who are living here, the
people who say we shall never fail
so long as God smiles and nature is
kind 81"
Profoundly moved and deeply Inn
pressed by the words OF Mr.. Cox, was
the way e. d. Green expressed his
feelings, in making a response for
Amarillo dry goods men. Those
terms which Mr. Cox described have
done my heart good and for one,
and now ready to buy big bills of
goods from those Wichita men"
George II. Hunter, president OF the
Wichita Union Stockyards company
and A. D. Moore, president OF the
Wichita Livestock Exchange, follow
ed with rapid fire statements of what
Wichita is doing In the livestock in
dustry. Mr.. Moore told OF driving
cattle from Waco to Caldwell Kan,
OF inspecting cattle in Amarillo
eleven years ago, and Of the devel-
opment since. II was almost beyond
his comprehension, but he said that
greater things were undoubtedly
coming for all these towns and ANA
rillo, already the biggest town would
certainly develop her industries along
the lines followed by Wichita.
B. II. Branch, cashier of the Ma
tional Bank OF Wichita, confessed
that on looks the Amarillo banks