Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1912-02-25
HEREFORD. GROWING HABITAT OF PROGRESSIVE OTY-MAKERS

of 60 miles. or between Dimmitt. ia
Castro county. and Adrian In Oldham
county on the Rock Island, Hereford
being midway between Dinnmitt and
Adrian.
4 Magnificent structure.
In the Deaf Smith county court,
house. Hereford has n magnificen;
structure. The building is of Georg-
ian marble; fcur stories high. tiled
floors. marnleized wainscoating;
steam heated electric lighted; city
waterworks and sewerage connec-
ton a spacious public balcony; a
display exhibition chamber 81 feet
square; private apartments for dis.
tri,t and county judges; reception
and reading rooms toilets; a large
law library room, fire-prcof vaults,
and the NEST commodious and finest
equipped district court room between
!ercford and Fort Worth. The
building has six entrances and stands
IN the midst OF grounds see feet
square. that have $4,000 worth Of
cement sidewalks and an irritation
! from concrete porous sub-tiling, tho
grounds being shaded with cotton.
wood, black locusts and evergreen
trees. some of the cotton woods hay.
Inc a height of 80 feet and a circun,.
ference OF A. inches. With the op-
ening of this spring these groands
VIII be s%hrdbbery and floral planted
and sowed to blue grass and clover.
The Christian Church.
The lately completed Christian
church is of modern construction and
convenience. the edifice itself beiu.
OF veneered pressed brick and eouip.
ments including 4 built in baptismal
font, pastors study and residence
apartments a banquet hall with eX-
Eadstive cuisine attachments: city
water and electric lights; Sunday
school rooms and a congregation
seating capacity of l,20O.
Commission Go, ernmcnL
Hereford has lately adopted n com-
mission form Of government by an
elective board Of three commission.
ers to hold office for two years, the
concerned city election being called
for the 26th Of next month.
Hereford Livestock Car Shinments
aud Receipts.
From July |, Of last year. Here.
ford station has shipped out 2ll
ears Of livestock and received e25
cars.
Hereford NJ Present.
herefcrd is the sea of Deaf Smith
county; has a population of 5000.
is rapidly attaining the commercial
strength and civic scope insured nv
her location at the junction of m,
main line of the Santa Fe railroad
system and the coming Colorado.
Hereford & Gull railway: has three
banks, two National and one State
with a combined capital Of 5000. ace;
has a Sl25,00C courthouse. has \
>-',ooo public school building. to-
sether with two com. nodious irstrrc.
ton a%nneNes; a $4,000 Christian
church a city water works system of
exceptional eycelleftce. costing sac
600, a $4,000 electric lirht plant
running both night and day: brick
and cement business blocks costing
mp to $4,000 nearly all the church
denominations, with respective.
churches strict Sunday observance
and solicitous Sunday school work:
an efficient fire department with
equally efficient fire pressure. an
opera house with a 600 attendance
capacity; sheet metal works. two
modcrnly equipped newspapers. a
steam laundry, a concrete block man
ufactory; two irrigation tile plants.
one wire and the other cement: four
lumber yards 20 miles of cement
sidewalks two public parks ten or
twelve thousand shade trees OF lux
nj iant foliage, Including the var
ieties of the black locust. maple. ash.
box elder; residences of So. 500. So
GOO. $4,000 and Sl2oO0 construction
cost lovely lawns. swelling shrub
berries. and'a floral growth of many
hrcd fragrance over tee wiadmili
wells with the shallow water depths
Of - to 30 feet the merely nominal
cost Of Sl35 per entire we'll pianr
and a prolific home vegetable garden
IRRIGATION. has a S25.0oO sewerage
system Of inclusive distribution and
efficient drainage a $1,000 Santa
Fe depot a 2o.ooO bustel grain
elevator. 5000 head s~'ockyards: ITO
automobiles and q modernlv equip
{ ped garage. and the largest and most
varied ruryery in the Panhandle