Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1912-07-13
OALHART REGION
SHOWS PROGRESS
Crops Promise Fine Yields
and Farmers Delighted =
at Prospects
~ DALI News Staff Correspondent.

Hy DdllJ News 1idll 'DlI tnppAAFhAs
Dalhart. Tea. July - -Dalhart.
the seat Of Dallam county. IL pro-
gressiye and prosperous city Of $500
people located on both the Rock
Island and Fort Worth and Denver
railroad systems.
The city is q freight division on
the Rock Island and Kansas city and
Pacific coat frans-confiueutal line
and has extensive railroad shops with
a heavy monthly payroll while the
Fort Worth q Denver does heavy
Dalhari railroad traffic
The city has handsom, business.
blocks with construction cost. AS high
AZ $50. 600 $4,000 hotel. com
blned electric light, water works ana
ice plant system representing an IN
yestment Of 800 ooh one of rhe best
equipped and most efficient fire de-
sirtments boo fhe Panhandle a SUI
perb public school buIlns with a
similar smaller STRUCTURE. rommo-
dlous chure hes three banks with
combined current deposits approx
mating 2a1s.000. l0I-barro' flour
ing mill with large attached grain
elcyatlng capacity and wider flour
marketing radius q busy planning
mill. sheet metal works iNo steam
laundries. O wholesale grocery house
a chop feed mill. notable newspaper
residences running from the coly and
comfortable 20 the handsome and
elegant with shade tree empowering
and wide adm naturally excellent
streets
The TRANSIT nnadian NanItarium.
Tho Traus-Canadiau Sanitarium
established here last falI by Or g.
Waller Dawson has proven SO popu-
OAR aud successful that oonvalescing
patients arc overlooking Into the city
hotels and private residences The
a1Iiur.um Zoo consequence. now ar
RANGING for practically doubling oil
Hs patient a0oommodations
This institution which draws
alike from tho Panhandle region
north of the Canadian river and OK
lahoma localities b. of The latest
modern equipments
About 800 per cent more of small
grains will bee harvested this season
In the Dalhart region than there was
last year with the now maturing
or maturcd grains assured Of eN-
ceptlonally heavy yields.
There Is, also. a large increase
over last years acreage In all the
row feed crops and. quoting a loca
farmer. The Dalhart region will pro.
duce more grain of all kinds TINS
season than It has aggregated during
the last three years
small Hail Damage.
The hallstorm on the 18Th of last
month which was thought 10 be so
damaging. has proved practically
the beaten-down crops
Swinging mp again with little or no
loss in harvest production.
Last fall and winter Dallam coun-
~ had over 10000 head Of cattle.
while already $1,000 head of steers
have been shipped In from New MeN- (
co and Arizona together with I''-
GOO head OF Missouri farm yard Steers
Tor summer and fall pasturage and
eastern feeder shipment
The County's Deep Well.
Last summer the county comm
sioncrs appropriated 100000 20 m..'
the expenses OF sinking 800.
foot we'll on the county poor fa
near Dalhart. the contract hoine Pc.
10 W !. Miller for $4,000 Nr
Miller began sinking on August
with a $4,000 drilling plant rGd
now down $500 feet work being
al present delayed by damage lately /
sustained 10y the we'll drIll.ng plant
from a wind storm