Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1913-06-17
MANY EX-TEXAnS
NOW 0KLAH0MANs
SOONER STATE THICkLS fUr'
uLATED By EMlGRANTs
FROM THIS STATE.
.OVERCROWD|NG IS CAUSE
stinneti Says Great Panhandle fssr
Would Bring stream of Inn
migration To This section
Of Texas.
"a. S. sTINETT.l

Did II ever occur 10 the people OF
the Panhandle that the quick settle
ment and development OF the state
.of oklahoma was mainly by ana
through the people emigrating thith-
or from Texas, There 10 a large
sprinkling OF Texas people In the
northern and northeastern section OF
Oklahoma. but most OF the people OF
the old Indian Territory subdivision
Of Oklahoma are ex-Texahs, and II Is
this division OF the state that carries
the heaviest population, and has the
development and wealth. and such Is
largely true of Western Oklahoma.
Oklahoma has population OF
something like two million people.
and II would be no eXaggeration to
state that 500, 900 of the said popu-
lation are eX-TeXans. There had
never been a previous misrepresenta-
tion Of the conditions and resources
In Oklahoma as has been and Is yet
the ease with reference to the Pan
handle, and had the people of Texas
known the Panhandle as II Is. and as
they should know. the Panhandle
would have been settled and develop
ed as has been the case with Okla
homa. aud II the people OF Texas are
made TO know as they must and will
be. through the agency OF an All
Panhandle Fair" they will yet settle
the Panhandle of Texas, and do 1t
quickly and substantially.
There are at least 100 coun-
ties In the state OF Texas that have
every tillable acre. and In their ex-
tremity, many acres that are not till
able. under cultivation In a desperate
effort TO keep the rising generation
at home, and the overflow from these
counties Is now growing and increas-
ing each year. and thls overflow Is
h.ill sochiag a resting place In OKLA
hom III one direction. California.
| Washington. Oregan and other
Northwestern states. in another d.
reciion. and there Is a steady and in
Icreasiug stream of Texans passing
through the Panhandle to the North
western States. and this | know to
be- true. as have met them with in
! ICredsiug numbers the past several
years. and happened TO know person.
ally many of them. who related 10
mr something OF the thousands of
! others going just as they were.
Many other counties in the more
Ipopulous districts OF Texas. are get
Itius into the condition OF being COM
plotod and oyercrowded. and are
beginning 10 send forth their streams.
land what sane-minded man is II who
could deny the soundness OF these
statements and question the expedi-
|cucy of providing means at once to
|,ncctually divert these tides to the
] Panhandle. and what other means
could there Doe excepting the ALI
Panhandle FAIR"
lu the first place. this Fair would
have the enthusiastic and cordial
support aud cooperation of the great
railroads. consisting OF the santa Fe.
|tatcr. large section OF the Pan
. handle. aud most all sections OF the
. -Hr. 0, ToN1s and the Fort Worth
/ O. Denver bisectine the Panhandle
Nf. rs Iue. extended from Fort
I Worth fo Galveston. and the Rock
. .l.lHrI Jrayersing the Northeastern
land rprr Panhandle, and the sec
Ir.n- ol Fort Worth and Dallas. and
.nm Dallas 10 Galveston. and all
/ deeply and Intensely Interested In the
settlement and prosperity of the Pan
handle
These railroads would gladly af-
iHrI every facility IN the way of ad-
/ ...f.re the Fair and Exposition.
rt would also afford lowest possible
.n.....-.- rates from all sections OF
. T... and % need be other states
.0r -.,ors 90 the fair. and In fact
. ...r. b. nothing conceivable that they
.....# I1 fHaf they would not do. and
|...u moro besides
The plan would be get up and
'.. thoroughly and artistically. an
/ Et..mf Car, representative OF the
|Ur.furfs 1f every community Of the
Panhandle and also to store this car
tIfl attractive literature. profuselv
illustrated. such to be descriptive OF
/ fHc products and OF all the possibil,.
/ ..s. ot the Panhandle. and send out
/ |fHi. car In charge OF capable and az
er"ssi.o men, for the purpose of coy-
I.r'nL many Of the populous counties
pi Texas. Just before and up to the
/ Iop"uin- OF the "All-Panhandle Fair -
This car can be advertised In ad-
vance. and would be inspected hv
thousands Competent lectures.
could accompany the car. and invite
nn interested and eager public To IN.
All-Panhandle Fair and Exposition.
land with glowing vat truth...,