The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1909-07-16


ington helped this out, by bringing
their count down to 1905. They have
not yet had a chance to take hold on
the results of the cutting up Of
Texas cow pastures" as 1t has been
going on since 1905, and as 1t Is now
going on, to explain the Texas boom
this year
New towns, developed out OF this
are too new to appear in any census
up TO the present. But even If they
have Just been founded, with no more
than three or four hundred people in
them now, a thousand people located
around them on what was a COW pas
ture three or four years ago, makes
each one OF them mean local
plant" to he QUILTED, with the
stores and factories the thousand of
people around them need in their
business of converting the opportuni-
ties of the COW pastures into freight
When asked about this, and how 1t Is
working now, the Texas experts OF
ST. Louis are ready TO elucidate with
facts and figures.
More Freight for Railroads.
The explanation appears in full
when they show the people put actu-
ally on the pasture, with the long
horn steer who took up 10 acres of
ground shipped as a final shipm ent
In the corner of a cattle car, In his
stead will De 10 Jerseys and other
cattle OF fine and mixed breeds. II
not nov, then soon. II Is only neces-
sary to think of him shipped as
finality.
The original suggestion of the con-
trast between the one steer on 10
acres as against 10 people belongs to
the way Texas problems are thought
out by John c. Small OF St Louis, a
Texan himself, who now thinks out
such things as part of his regular
days work as Texas specialist for
one Of the great railroad systems CON
Meeting St Louis with all parts OF
Texas and the Southwest. 1t was
confirmed as an explanation OF the
present movement to Texas by JOS
eph p. Lickllder, the Texas expert for
system.
Where both systems are actively at
work in the same line of business, the
only advertising they need here Is as
ST. Louis railroads doing for bust
ness reasons and In ways that are
strictly business, great and bene-
ficial work with bene fits to the city
and It's trade territory In the South
west, greater finally than those they
see resulting at once for themselves.
It was In speaking of the country
around Fort Worth that Mr.. Small
reached his general conclusion that
Texas was going out of the business
OF 10 acres TO "A steer" into the bus.
mess OF support for 10 people from
the same 10 acres
As case in point, Mr.. Licklider
cited the recent developments in the
Red River country and elsewhere
with special case that Of the we'll
known Barnett pasture Of a.
900 acres. This was a "medlum-sl2ed
COW lot in Texas few years ago.
-Four years ago It supported a med
ium-szed bunch of cattle and Of cow
boys. the mcdium-szed bunch Of eat
tie meaning thousands
Less Longhorns, More People.
In the four years since that part of
Texas began losing longhorns and
gaininS population, the area around
the ranch mas acquired an increased
population OF a thousand people, who
bought land at from 81 to s. an acre
in what for Texas is small farms Of
usually not over 1850 acres. The re-
suit Is the town OF Burnett, as
their point OF local supply for the
goods they need and OF shipment for
their products.
They ship to St. I.ouio and get
goods back from 81. Louis, as freight
both ways, moving during the year,
instead OF the movement OF the bunch
Of cattle marketed perhaps not more
than one year a. surplus. Land
they bought for not over s. has gone
up to forty and fifty
While the town has only several
hundred people in it this year, it Is
on the map. and the work done
around Il means that It Is to DE out
fitted with the canning factory, the
compress, the oil mills and the other
industrial and manufacturing plants
every Texas town begins TO outfit
itself with a. soon as il gets h1ous-
and people around it. shipping stead
ily and calling for steady shipments
back
One Pasture Many Farms.
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