Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1913-11-23
SANTA f SPECIAL
At SWEETWATER
WILL REST Al THAI PLACE To.
DAY AND BEGIN WORK on 6.
&. a =. .. TOMORROW.
ATTENDANCE UNEQUALLED
Officials ON Demonstration Train
Pleased With Work ACCOM-
ulished and Interest IL
Intense.


spseinl to The News.
sWEETwATER. Tex. Nov %
over seventeen thousand people
have been received into the Santa
Fe's Educational Special. ending it,
second week IN Swectwater this ey
enins.
The party rests here tomorrow
AID Monday the Special leaves Over
the Gulf. Colorado a Santa Fe line.
with ] u. Tinsley. agricultural dem.
onstrntCr for that territory, In
charge. From this point. the train
will have four weeks. ending IN
Southern Texas shortly before
Christmas.
Nothing comparable has ever been
known In the form OF educational
work from a railroad train In all this
section The train consists OF ten
cars. showing approved appliances
ooking TO farm liberalization. in
justification and the added features
of home economies.
At every stop alonl the lines
leading from Higgins where the
train started October 10. TO Sweet
water, the people have shown an in
tense interest There have been
farmers in attendance at the stops
)f the Educational Special coming
for distance Of twenty-six miles to
the station.
1t was stated by J L. Pope, In
charge OF publicity from the train.
that the attendance this year was
more than double that OF last sea
son. and the interest was described
rs more intccse than ever known In
rho demonsiratlonal WORK OF the
Santa Fe.
Weather conditions are described
rs having been ideal throughout the
trip with exception OF a drizzly day
between Clovis and Canyon and a
lust storm between Hale Center
and Lubbock. This slightly disa-
yrceablc condition had q tendency
20 cut the attendance at the points
covered during the prevailing wea-
thor
This train has been operated over
he entire stretch OF road from Iiig-
Gins 10 Sweetwater including a run
over the Pecos Valley line In New
Mexico, without an accident or un-
pleasant incident. and the party IS
enthusiastic over the results shown
To date the following stops have
been made IIigEins. Glazier. Can
adian, Mendoza, Miami, Pampa,
White Deer. Panhandle, ST. Francis.
Amarillo, Hereford, portales. Elida
Kenna, Roswell. Malaga. Otis. Carls-
bad. Lakewood. Dayton. Artesia.
Lake Arthur. Iagerman. Dexter.
Clovis. Farwell-Texico. Bovina Fri
)na. Canyon. HAPPY Tulia, Kress.
Lockney. Plainview. Hale
Center, Abernathy Lubbock, La
mesa. O'Donnell. Tahoka. slaton.
Post, Dermott snyder. Hermleigh
md Sweetwater
Reports by members % the party
ihow that farmers aud housek
'ra we're pressing forward at each
lf these stops 10 avail themselves OF
he missionary work offered by the
santa Re. The percentage OF this
lass Of people is said TO be greatly
increased over last year
Hundreds Of the visitor have OK
,ressed the hope that another train
sill be operated next year They
ave IN many Instance. GO O. said
expressed a desire as 20 the char
.cter o. the train, asking that a
lumber of tho same topics be con
iuued a year hence.
Speaking 20 a News corresponden 4
his evening. u. NJ. Baiutr. agricul- !
ural demonairator Tor tho Santa Fe
ystem .ono Of tho speakers aboard I
be- Educational Special. said II !
AVE never bee- SO we'll pleased with /
he work accomplished from train /
n the demonstration of vital facts
or the benefit 81 the people along I
,anta Fo lines The interest IS /
little short OF wonderful. /
md the people are being awakened I
% the Importance Of many changes /
ulgcsted hy the lecturers. They are /
cfermiued 10 condense or Intensity
b their farm work. looking for an .
Increased yield from a decreased ac- /
cage. instead of spr sading over
uch a large stretch % land as On
hc past
Live stock and poultry are be-
ng inciuded In the general farm
rheino. and the farmers are begin
ina % rotate their crops instead ~
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