Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1912-05-05
(liuracc VI. Russell

TWenty-threc years a"o the pioneer
printer of Amarillo kept drayman
engaged To haul the major TART of his
plant. a l0xl5 iobber and a couple
Of forms of type, in weekly pilgrim
ages to spot on the prairie which
some prophets declared to lie part OF
the true site Of Amarillo, the me-
! tropolis For. besides most OF tho
difficulties which beset tie prosper
ours followers of this art in Amarillo
today. this patriarch of the printing
luite spent many anxious months and
much real money in drayman's wages
while he was trying. alter he got
here, 70 find on. where Amarillo
was.
When he reached Amarillo he
pitched his tent II was real tent
and not figurative one, promi-
nently among the new frame build.
inss of what the enthusiastic bcos-
ters of that day called Amarillo, only
they said II "Amareeyo. These busy
people who stuck To the Spanish and
. REALIZED II "Amareeyo' were so ri
diculously In the majority that the
printer and many more woomers
could not believe the one lone man
who trilied his LIS and declared that
the true Amarillo was n mile and
y half away on an untouched cXpansC
> Of short grass.
"Sanhorn's town" they scornfnll'
" asserted has about as much ohanc
as a face card has IN the draw
hut those iovous denizcns of oil
'Amareevo' FORGOT that the game O
toWn-buildlng holds fully as many
surprises as the gentle game oI
further certainty that much de
ponds on the man who holds the Ion,
face card.
II u. Sanborn lad started 10 move
Amarillo when the first printer man
larriycd. hut e took nearly a yea'
moro 20 finish the job All that year
besides kicking his platen and rust
ling business the printer had "a
worry about where Amarillo was. IL
was townhul1er. th9t printer and
newspaper man. they all are. but h.
wanted to be- sure about building th'
Gown ir D." rirut place. 50 once 81
week regularly he loaded the print.
linz industry OF Amarillo onto draw
had hauled Il q half o mile east OF
his tent across an imaginary line
In The gIoat Flatucss aud there
kicked rff on his iobbcr the HON,
lrriut PAGES OF few of his weekly
Issue That done be- had the driy,i
take the industry back 10 his ten
n might have been due 10 his de
sire as q printer for absolute accur
acy that this publisher kept th'
L. printing industry on wheels Ever,
l. weekly Issue Of This paper bore tn
D. assertion thai 10 was printed b
N Amarillo and that whether An
20 arillo stayed whore they called
"A Amarceyo or moved where the
talked 30 iu United States. b
p, would be- sticking 10 the truth BOO hi
p published statement because B.
% printed part of his issue in the n,'
~ town" and part Of n Boz the "ol
town There were these az This tim,
n. however. who declared that The print
In or was 'double-crossiug Sanbcrn an
1s offered tho printer a block ~ choic
Al property 90 tho new town if b
arIwpuld print a newspaper there am
1s in his weekly iorrncvs boy draw. N
r. printer and publisher was ~ Yea,
Ifmlng the letter of his bond Z
course. 70 IL turned ont that Sll
born was the loser and tho "oI
= town remained Amarillo. he ha
lost nothing and still had possessio
81 tha field
Later In that year whom II becau
clear that sanborn hcd won y
icwnbuildinr game tho prlnter-n,a
10 tho sorrow % the remaining o
tovn citizens end ~ tho thrifty fra
man took a last draw ride ard locate
HIS plant In the New Town. whero J
established tho first printing on
in the present amarillo IN a plar
III eidad 'on' whera tho Famous s'o
III now stands His former location w
~ somewhere not flr west and south
II tho noirt where nc present Rock
~ 'ar1 grade crosses "ashinrt.
street on TIE block ~ land viii
tho printer received f,r his first pu
al Ucauon. now stand tho Magnolia h
II tel and a half dozen or ST. rcoi re-
II dcrces. worth a handsome fortu
II amt certain 20 Increase many tim
in value