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

81 bouis % lLdhlHS lew HiSH "ute.
MARKS. II is Il ought t. have broken
all Previous records Ia January. ami
1t continued icing ia February.
The greatest Texas months in the
history OF ST. Louis Union Station are,
up to date, the mOatns of the fall and
up to date, the months OF the fall and
winter OF 1907-S. with a winter move
ment of much the same kind going on
simultaneously through Kansas City,
as way station for what Texas pro-
motors call the Blizzard States" OF
the Northwest.
THE movement through st. Louis,
as the permanent gateway of the
Southwest, is continuous, winter and
summer, but Kansas City always is
likely to make a new record during
an Immediately after the blizzard
months" in the northwestern prairie
states. This is the authentic st.
Louis explanation of what is exploit
ed rs the Kansas City boom in its
Texas business,
The explanation of the Texas boom
az 1t moves through ST. Louis, reach
ing further East and Northeast this
year than 1t has ever done before,
goes deep into the history Texas Is
now making for itself and the rest
of the country. Asked to account for
It, one of the Texas specialists Of st.
Louis said:
"The ten acres OF land that was
needed to support one steer in Texas |
will support 10 people comfortably,
and Texas is now devoting the 10
acres TO tine 10 people instead of to
the one steer"
Texas In u Nutshell.
This is Twentieth Century Texas
in nutshell, as II Is booming in the |
first quarter of 1909, with the eXpecta-
ton Of breaking all its previous rec
ords before the close of the year.
It does not take a table of statistics
TO understand an explanation of this
kind. though hundreds of tables OF
long distance observation which gives
a bird s-eye view Of the State, with
a territory equal to that of the Ger
man empire, eyolutionzing itself by
cutting mp into small farms and town
lots what in Germany would be first
class principalities, dukedoms and
grand duches-though in Texas they |
call them Cow pastures
Without going out of the stock
business, Inc state IS going into 1t on
a TYentieh Century basis and going
out Of the Eighteenth Century sort
Of business it inherited through Mex
leo from Spain, as an education for
the District Of Columbia in the
craftsmanship Of the whoopee style
of rough riding across ranch OF
~ square miles. The situation in st.
Louis in the first three months Of
the present year shows that The WhCo-
pee industry Of the ancient long
spurred broncho buster OF the span
type, Who is now being
exhibited in London living picture
shows 70 illustrate manners in the |
United States. is disappearing fast az
81. Louis sends out one trainload OF |
Texas homesee kers after another.
They are locating at the rate Of a
thousand or more to the ranch which |
formerly supported nothing but
bunch" of cowboys and punch OF
lcnghorns," in herding which the
partly on their own merits
and partly because of the asonlSh'
ment the world felt at limitations at
tempted by wearers of spectacles In
the most spectacular period OF Amer
lean political history.
The business Of cutting MP Texas
ranches, which began more than ten
years ago, with more or less system
in Texas itself, has been systematized
now through st. Louis and other
cities. but especially through st.
Louis, until one Of the February feat
ures OF the Union Station is the spe-
cial trainload OF homeseekers, char
tered by single St. Louis agency
aud operated regularly as part Of It's
business of converting the immense
cattle ranches Of the Nineteenth Cen
tury into towns with a population OF
farmers around them.
This agency, as a type OF the mod
ern Oklahoma style Of getting action,
is handling tracts OF from 10000 to
70 900 acres "and up One OF over
million is advertised as last
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