The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1910-03-25
book for mail, express and pas
senger use, two or more times a
week.
Elements Of Canyons Future 6ro~th

pOPulatioL ioi NS"A - W >N'
and that population will be of
desirable quality. The man
who comes to Canyon to live will
be a man of some means, having
a business of his own and a
family to educate. These men
will be independent. self-respect
ing men, a factory and a mill
proposition is alright and the
more we have of these enter
prises and the more hard work
ing, honest men they bring, the
better it will be. but men who will
seek a home in Canyon will not
be of that class. There will not
be sufficient employment here to
support large population of
this kind. SO the other class
/ the stockman, who owns ranch
/ in a neighboring county, and
the small farmer, who will want
a farm near town on which to
make a living, while he educates
| his children and the business
man with more or less capital,
these must become our citizens.
/ There is no more desirable
class of citizens anywhere than
these and their families. Such
men will always be found on the
right side of questions that
have moral elments. Their
families will be found in its
schools. Sunday schools and
churches. We need these peo-
pie to help build the town and
give them a hearty welcome.
The man who owns property in
or near Canyon can well afford
to sell it cheap at a small profit
TO himself to the man who
wants to come here to live. Let
prices be high to the Spectator,
they are worth nothing TO town
except the money they give in
their purchases. but the good
man who will come here to live,
bringing his family, is a source
of strength to the town, in every
sense of the word, sell him prop
erty on such terms as will in
duce him to come.
Close akin to this is the pro
blem of board at reasonable rates
for the students who will come.
We would not undertake to say
how many students the town
would accommodate at present,
let the reader if he lives in Can
yon, stop and make his own es-
innate. How many will the
reader himself be willing to
board at $500 to $1,000 per
month: Within six months from
this day there will be crowd
of people coming to Canyon, es-
timated at from $50 to 800 or
more. What shall we do with
these people: Where will they
eat and sleep: We have the
Normal school that is destined
10 attract many students here,
the year around, they will not
be willing TO sleep on the grass
and cover with the blue sky and
fill themselves with our light
breezes. however delightful
these may be in their places.
We must have plenty of board
ing places by September 18th,
to lake care comfortably and at
reasonable rates, all who will
come TO Us. Think of the con
sequences ofturning people away
or Of crowding them into un-
comfortable quarters. Think Of
students being turned away
from our school for lack Of good
clean, comfortable places to stay
Think ofsending out literature"
concerning the opportunities Of
fered, inviting people to come, in
response to our invitation. we
have no places for them to stay.
If such a condition should arise
our school and our town will re-
ceive a blow from which we can
not recover in ten years. 1t must