Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1912-03-29
LUBBOCK SHIPS
MUCH FEED STUFF
Hundreds of Cars Have
Gone to All Parts of
Country


country has shipped oIJ hundreds Of
cars Of feed stuff 10 all parts Of the
lcountrv especially 10 'he old farm
Ing sections where feed crops were a
failure last year This is D. no means
1.-The first great feed crop that mas
been raised here IN fact. there has
never been a failure of those 1nN
staple as well as certain and prCiit-
able crops. milo maize aud kaiiir
corn. hut 10 is the first time this
cou,try has ever had the advantage
of railroad facilities for shipping rs
produce Without tho relief furn-
/ lshed by means of the great feed
lCrop raised 0n the plains the past
wear. there is no estimation. the hard
ships that would have resulted %
those sections making no feed There
was really 20 section Of country from
witch thel co.ld obtain such sup
plies except from tho plains country
And now the humble hen comes Ga
as factor Iu the case Practically
Ia thousand dozen eggs were shipped
ont NJ Lubbock during the past week.
the local price ranging around l2la
cents per dozen. These may be lit
ilc items within themselves, but ihey
are the lustrous infants OF a new
industrial empire. They are the in
dspuiabie evidences of an immeas-
urahle possibility.
u Is doubtful indeed II there is n
greater scope OF country on earth
than the Staked Plains OF Texas. nor
section that will within reasonable
time undergo greater changes and
more wonderful development. Aver
axe the climate and you do not sind
one superior Nowhere is there
country with finer soil, nor country
wheT" So hieh per cent of the .aud
us tillablc and uniformly fertile aud
productive. Il is now conceded TO be
one of the finest watered sections CO.
the United States And herein 3D.
again differs from and surpasse5
most other sections II is indeed
rare thing that the very best water
in ineNharstible Quantities Is found
Ia connection with the very finest
land oar land and our water ore
alike free of minerals unpleasant tO
| the taste or deloterious to PLAN
growth Why, then. has this conn
ltry not been highly developed lone
laso. naturally asks. and 20 one fam-
Iliar with AN facts, the question
somewhat hard 10 answer There is
really no sufficient reason 0r meu-
tor,ous excuse for it Dut tbc plata
facts are these
First "a combination of ignore.
PloIYi..e and snn,r-tItufiou and POOR
policy Moore SAYS
Faith tauau. ath. once welded
fast
Tq some dear ias.bood br-s lt 60
the last
Away back wonder some one cot il
into his head that This Was terrible
country The school ecoeraphies
taught that 10 vJs au awful descr,
No one came 90 investigate and con
tradict the fable % was magnificd f.
rather than dispcIlcd This false idea
nicely prepared the vav for the land .
monopolist When the Farwells .
contracted 10 build the state capitol /
for three million acres of land along .
the line OF Texas and New Mexico, /
the people In all other parts of Texas /
pointed with pride 10 the fine trade |
they had made The Farwolls didn't .
know what bargain they had con-
trdcted. but came near going broke ]
on the deal This land Is now easily .
worth $i5.Ooo 900 The state capitol
Is still worth what 10 origInplly cost. .
Co any one really needing state .ar- .
itol Would the people of Texas hat,
contracted to have given Si- OOU.upu. .
payable within tW,nty-soyou years
fHr @ three million dollar buildm-.
had 10 been cash instead OF land
transaction N.t. 10 the state was /
iu tHa market for ID capitol huIliiua
f"'gr ul owned chat land vouldut /
b H. considered 60 -o1d bargain %
ur.o'l 10 for the average land rr.c,
of fifteen dollars poop acre Land
Was .lrd to sell for @ dollar per acr.
fVrn'f-sD1'n wears ago The reason
able value oft the same urdTs fifteen
dollars per acre today. D.. there an,
one foolish cuoUCh 20 think thi, same
land can be- bought for only fifteen
dollars per acre twcnty-scycu year
hynO.. The man of today Is us-
about as short sighted as was the
man of tWcnty-sc,cu wears a4o. and
there vou have one factor boz tho ease
Won say the land isn't worth fifteen
dollars now and never Will be. And
tWcuty-se,en years ago everybody
said the land WASH worth one dollar
per acre and never would Doe
Tweuty-seyen years ago a nan
would buy ten thousand acres Of land
when his ability was to buy. hold and
profitably use a thousand acres To-
day ho buys thousand acres when
mis- practical limit is a hundred acres
Il has been this desire TO gobble
the earth and hold for speculation
that has been another drawback to
the fun development Of the country
The buffalo hunter wanted moth
ing but the hides Of the buffalo and