The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1909-06-18
FINE EXAMPLE or PLANS FARMER,
w. 7. Helm Makes Money With Hogs ard
Other Stock While Building Telephone.

company. arrived in this city this
forenoon from Wayside, and is
negotiating deal whereby Hap
DIV is to be added to the two eX-
listing trunk lines. Claude and
Tulia now being reached by the
system. Mr.. Helm is an inter-
esting character who has been in
the Panhandle eighteen years,
and never has seen the time when
man willing to work with his
head and his hands could not
prosper. Speaking primarily OF
his telephone enterprise Mr..
Helm said;
Up to about three years ago
the farmers thought they could
get along all right without a tele
phone-it was looked upon as be
ing in the strict luxury class,
suited to the needs Of the towns
people exclusively But they
have learned differently, and now
all insist that il : absolutely a
necessity. even 10 the success Of
the Ieast farmer and rancher.
This service was first in the
form of a neighborhood circuit,
the barbed wire fences Of the
community being utilized ocon-
meet the various points. These
lines are. for the most part, out
OF use at present. But there are
a few who still get their mes
sages in the same good old way
via the wire fence route. Casting
little further in the matter Of
investment. taking little more
OF sweep into the Speculative
realm, We have found safe land
ing and are now looking to the
spread and increase OF our ser
vice and incidentally Of our rev
enue, Happy i next to be added
az a trunk-line point along with
Claude and Tulia.
Our people. while occupying
little place perhaps not greater
than the village class. away down
in Armstrong county are con
templating the erection Of a sum
mer hotel on the Palo DUro can
yon and Offering inducements to
campers and outing parties.
Another matter, though small.
that viii show that We are far
from dead, i the proposition TO
float a bond issue of $1,000 for
the erection Of a modern high
school building.
After catching his breath and
looking about for a moment Mr..
Helm said: All that have told
you has been about a com munity
and a company, and | like to say
a little about my own affairs.
You have asked me as to what |
raise: Well l raise hogs. mule
colts and COWS, and ! give them
in the order of their Importance
as producers of money. Ofcourse
] raise feed for the livestock. Nv
oats and pasturage for the hogs
will make good crops with rain
at the close of two or three weeks
and We are practically certain TO
get it within that time. l have
ceased to try 10 DO any great big
thing at cattle raising, and now
Keep only about forty cows. and
these are whitefaced and very
profitable. Eighteen to twenty
mares are kept from which to
raise mules, and brood hogs to
the number Of approximately
fifty rounds out my livestock OPP
erations. Not large, it is true,
but quite satisfactory with close
attention, and perhaps more
profitable the investment con
sidered than would be shown
were the scale more pretentious.
Why. | have sold 800 worth
Of hogs since Christmas. and it
was almost like finding the mon
ey. The hogs cost next to moth
ing, and my herds have increas-
ed right along. In the eighteen