The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1912-05-03
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rates on their trains and free round
trip to buyers. Beware, my reader
friends. This is brief outline OF
their work. take you on a homeseek-
err train to your destination, load
you on an automobile and take you
to a private hotel, deprive you OF
your privilege of talking to what
might be your friend and after you
have staid over night and listened
to the hot air merchants or land
agents racket one might reload you
into an automobile and speed you
at rate of 40 miles an hour over
the bald treeless plains and sell
you section of land thirty or forty
miles In the country for two prices
by making you believe 1t is ten or
twelve miles from town. Boys, you
had better pay your own fare and
save money, stay few weeks be-
fore buying.
This has been dry country until
the last year. In 1910 the total
amount of moisture was ten and
firtyfiye one hundredths inchesWhile
1911 there was sufficient supply
to produce good crops, This prompts
the writer to believe that rain is
all that is needed to make this one
of the countries to completely de-
yelope In the near future. The his
tory of nearly all new countries
show that they once were dry and
1t appears that cultivation brings
rain and this country Is far enough
advanced in cultivation think to
soon get its share of the preciplta-
ton Certainly this rain proposition
lis to guess at in any country but
we only Judge future by the past
This land is a black wax and thinl
sufficiently fertile to produce good
grain and is naturally sodded with
prairie grass and stock of all kinds
grow well on IL and only need feed
while there is snow on the ground
as would be the case in any country.
1t is very level country and heal
thy with considerable wind at times
and a good breeze any time. The
water is deep down below the sur
face and is said by experts to be
IS per cent pure. This seems some
what flattering to the writer, never
theless IL may be true. II is further
claimed that there has never been
cyclone In the Panhandle of Texas.
But central Texas, Oklahoma and
Kansas has recently been visited by
a twister the result of which were
many lives lost and great many
more suffering from wounds receiy-
ed from the cyclone. The altitude of
the country is over 5000 feet and
gradually rising toward the north
west and southwest. Our nearest
river is the Canadian and it only
affords water through the summer
season and is fed from the snow
covered mountains of Colorado dur
ing the spring and summer season
this snow melts and by this means
The Canadian river is kept flowing
through the summer season
The game consists Of the Coyote
or prairie wolf. a few deer, and jack
rabbits Amarillo, the metropolis of
the Panhandle. is town centrally
located, has three railroads passing
through it. 10000 inhabitants an
increase in population of $50 per
cent in the past ten years, has
banks ranging in capital stock from
S50,00O to 100000. has 4 church
buildings that cost from $4,000 20
100000 dollars each, besides small
err frame buildings, has one grand
opera house, more than one mile
OF paved streets and approximately
% miles of cement sidewalks street
railway system, three grain elevator
and one packing plant, is the county
of Potter county and prohibitian
town and almost clear of bootleggers
1t also has four wholesale grocery
houses and one wholesale hardware
store and well supplied at present
with all kinds OF retail establish
ments from the Mexican hot Tomato
joint to hot air separator. And a
visitor can go down town and find
a representative from any state IN
the union, old Mexico and Africa
included. The people have all the
style of any modern city. everything
worn from the extreme hobble skirt
to the COW boys Sombrers. The mot
to is do unto others that you
wouldn't have others do unto You
and go to church, and the customs
are the same. Their religion is some
what flattering except in rare cases,
And after all the prospects is
bright for busy year and boom
this fall.
Those wishing further particulars
call on or write to the writer who