Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1913-02-01
CHIEF CITY Of
BR|SC0E AST|R
Silverton Keeping Face with
General March of
Prosperity
BY Daily News Staff Correspondent.

SlLVERTON. Texas. Jan. 3l.-sil-
Verton-the seat OF Briscoe county,
has eight hundred people two
banks, heavy goods stocks OF all
mercantile classes; a $4,000 pub
lie school building; active churches
and Sunday schools, and daily mall
and storage line to Tulia on the
Santa Fe railroad. The First Ma
tional Bank is one OF the strongest
financial institutions in the Plains
country. while the popularity OF
Cashier Stevenson places a high cap
sheaf on the banks business. Supt.
and Principal NJ A. Cannon is able
alike as an organizer, executive and
instructor and the now noted excel
lence OF the Silverton public schools
Is very largely due to his active ca
pacity in all OF these directions
The Briscoe County school lands,
located in Martin county, are TO be
sold soon and the sale proceeds pla-
eed on interest with resulting rev
enue OF about eight thousand dollars
per annum: thus furnishing ample
funds for the advancement and main
tenance of the Silverton schools TO
state university affillation.
The Birthrights OF Briscoe
Briscoe County has an area OF $50
square miles. an enviahle climate !;
deep and fertile soil; abundant and
succulent native grasses: and is un-
derlain with an enexhaustible sheet
water deposit OF the purest character
AZ an average depth OF 100 feet.
County soil prolfically grows cot
ton, wheat. oats, milo maize. kafir
corn, Indian corn, millt, sorghum
melons. long list OF garden and
market vegetables and tree. bush and
vine fruits. Alfalfa is being success
fully introduced, while flax rye, bar
ley and speltz can be extensively and
profitably grown-with tobacco as a
very probable future paving crop.
Cattle and hog raising and fatten-
ing conditions; poultry breeding OPP
portunities and dairy advantages are
all ideal. land Is alike practically
limitless. choice and cheap and with
her inevitable and now rapidly ap-
preaching railroad development and
accompanying settlement Brlscoe
county will enter into full possession
OF her great birthrights of popula'
ton, progress and prosperity.
Orchard, Poultry Pen. Market Ncge'
tables and Diaries
For many years small orchards IN
the county have been profitably pro
ducing apples. peaches. plums and
cherries and there are promising IN
dications OF an extended early move
ment for individual farm combina'
tions of the orchard. poultry pen
vegetable market garden and the
dairy. Such farm combination
would represent at once a minimum
OF land cultivation and a maximum
OF profit-the more especially II vel
pumpage irrigation was used-an AK
ricultural method which Is already
more or less practiced In the coun'
" with marked success.
The First Railroad
The Altus & Roswell will probably
be the first railroad TO traverse Bris
coe county. This road. as far as al
present actually projected, starts at
Altus. Okla, and in Texas, is 10 fol
low a general southwestern course
passing through the counties OF Col
lingsworth. Hall. Briscoe, Floyd
Hale and Lubbock Considerable
grading has already been done OF
the line. one stretch Of which enter'
Silyerton and il Is understood thai
construction will be finally resumed
this year Running into Briscoe OF
southwest line until II reaches Sil
yerton In the countys geographical
center and thence following an al
most southern course TO Floyd Coun
tvs northern border, this railroad
will be a great country development
medium-practically all county 10
calIties bring within convenient wa
gon hauling distance OF its forward
ing and receiving rails.
Easy Access
Silverton is now OF speedy and cas-!
access TO the visitor as daily autoI
ply between Il and Tulia. on the
Santa Fe railroad. the concerned 81
miles being trayersed in an hour an'
O. half
SiloS
Like It's twin sister county O
Swisher. Briscoe Is rapidly equippin;
herself with silos-the county nov
having IS OF these great stock feed
ers and fatteners "a number which
will grow 10 30 or 80 this year.
CUT THE HIGH COST OF LIVING
"a Uffpuahago Nah