Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1912-04-26
GROOM IS HEAVY
GRAIN SHIPPER.
Carson County Town Draws
Big Trade from Three
Counties

By Daily News staff Correspondent.
Groom. Tex April . -Gsoom. 10.
Gated in the southeastern portion OF
Carson county an1 on the big Nom
phis arm OF the Great Rock Island
railroad system. is the center OF che
Of the most farming areas Of the Tex
las Panhandle and a heavy grain ship.
per
Last year about o. 900 cultivated
acres we're Immediately tributary 20
Groom. with wheat averaging twrn-
'y bushels per acre. oats % bushels.
milo maize 90 bushels kafflr corn Be-
bushels mili-t D. bushels. and cane
seed 20 bushels
One farmer gathered 60 bushels
per acr" from So acres NJ milo maize
while se'aral ether farms recorded
Yields of so bushels per acre 1f tha
same Grain
iu kafflr corn one farmer tar, sh-
el 1900 bushels with q mavic'uw
WELD Of &. bushels per acre. while
one Of Dis neishbCts sold So."pp
worth Of general grains from $50
acres In millet production s. OF
az per acre we're added by the sale Of
The straw after the seed had been
ihrcshcd ogt
Owing chiefly 10 the breakinc on
of sod soil by new settlers about 90
0oo acres will be aided this year TO
froon's tributary farming area, or a
total Of 1900 oacres
A. least cne-third of these 7n.01o
acres Is In wheat, with the balance
iu oats milo maize klffir. millet and
cane
80 Per Cent Bcttcr Ouilool
The general harvest outlook this
season Is better than over before
known IN the region "a this time Of
me year Many farmers considering
fbe outlook r. per cent ahead OF tina.
Of the April of last year Wheat is
3Iready OF myI RANT growth ma1y
fields indicating a return Of so bush.
%. 20 the acre
None and Heavier llogs.
Three years ago only two carloads
~ hogs were shipped from this sta
tion, while I = carloads have already
been fattcned aud shipped from last
wears milo maize harvest. with T.
more carloads v,t 10 he marketed
These porkers are from ~ to l6
months old aud weigh out from 2So
-ia roo pounds, with net AVERAGE
selling price IN Fort Worth OF ST.
$50 per carload Of ~ hoes one car
load lately topping the marke' and
dettins Sl7oo Cattle marketing
this season g. also developing in
creased values in alike numbers ami
profit.
The Groom State Bank has clri-
tai of $l5.o0o. OCCUPIES its own build.
inc OF brick construction. costing So
600 and has handled fro mlast years
local grain harvesis over 5000 ooo.
Other Groom buildings.
Construction on an $4,000 p ihlis
school building is soon TO begin -.
the building 10 be completed for tails
falls school term.
Work rs now In active progress on
In - .0eo bush,l farmers corporation
Grain elevator which will cost M leas,
$4,000 Eighty or ninety farmers
are interested IN this elevator. each
ono Of whom ANNUALLY cultivate a.
least goo acres OF grain
Several now business buiidiues az D
residences are started for this yea b.
erection while numerous farming im.
provemen's viii be made
IN the Groom vicinity are twenty
four German families which count an
aggregate OF two hundred and fifty
children with heavy percentage pros
rCCt.v' Increase.
Three Counties
Groom draws tributarr hu,iucs.
from fertile farming and richly grass.
81 'tockgrow'ug REGIONS of Clrson.
Gray ana Donles counties