Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1912-02-04
Progressive Lockney- Styled the "Pride Of the Plains"
accounted for this season by Lock-
ney station.
Cotton. Corn aud Other nnllarS.

accounted for this season by Lock-
ney station.
Cotton. Corn aud Othor Dollars.
shipping this season at least 5000
bales of cotton. as AGAINST t.i29 bales
in 1910. Lockney region farmers will
receive S2OO. O0o for their cotton crop
of lall, and taken altogether. grain.
cotton, beef, pork and other incidcn-
tai products, II is probable that the
estimation made last July by the
News special staff correspondent thet
the Lockney region would return ia
1911 one million dollars 10 its farm
ers and stockmen, will be we'll bornp
out. the more especially I'm view OF
the fact that since Oct. I Of las,
year there has passed through the
First National Rank Of Lockney alone
ovcr eight hundred thousand dollars
Increased Acreage.
Probably 10000 acres OF new land
will be broken ont this year around
L.ockney, as many new settlers are
opening up farms, while all the older
ones will add to their cultivated
areas.
A new shipment last season from
l.ockney was a carload OF peanuts,
bringing si00, while indications
point to the marketing this year Of a
dozen or more carloads 81 this pre-
life and valuable crop, with also II
large retaining of these nuts for PORK
%fattening for market shipment.
Recent articles in this paper on
the undoubted profits OF Texas Pan
handle flax cultlre are being taken
VOL to heart by Locnney farmers and
a considerable local flax acreage will
result this season.
Well Punipage Irrigation.
The Lockney region Is n of the
most noted of the now famous Texas
Panhandle Shallow Water Belt" and
with II exhaustless water supply at
an average depth of so feet is deg
tined 10 develop extended we'll pump.
age irrigation farming. Two weels
of this kind have already been put
down, one Of which goes 70 the third
water strata, or $50 feet. This well
has a 40 horsepower gasoline engine,
a centrifugal pump, discharges about
l,i00 gallons of water per minute,
and will irrigate this season an ap-
Proclamation Of 100 acres Of alfalfa.
The other well will also Be In ir-
risating commission this season. with
however, a lesser acreage. IL Is prob
able that several more of these wells
will be installed this year.
Fruits.
Apples, peaches, pears, plums,
cherries. apricots and prunes all at
tain rare perfection in the Lockney
region, producing. all around. 81 per
tress, or an approximation of $500
per acre in annual harvest. an espec-
ial exception. however. being made
in favor of the plum, which yields as
high as $500 per acre.
Grapes return $500 per acre and
the inevitable general DEVELOPMENT
OF the local vineyafd constitutes q
future heavy commercial asset.
Annually increasing Watermelon
and cautalope culture will probably
hc profitably utilized by the forma-
ton this ear OF a permanent farm
.rs' melon growers association. with
train-load shipments 20 objective I
market points.
Both sweet and Irish potatoes are
natural local crops and are slated for
and large commercial Develop
ncnt.
rive, barley, speltz and buckwheat
all be successfully grown here
while tobacco will fully Justify cNpcr-