Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1913-06-07
SHALLOW WATER BELT HAS
GREAT FERTILITY AND
POSSIBILITIES
SENSATION OF THE ACE
Possibilities of Wealth Production
Greater Than the Wonderful
Gold Mines of California
Or Colorado
"a. S. sTINNETTE.)


4 veritable treasure house OF the
Panhandle Is the Shallow Water Belt
embracing some five million acres
OF smooth. arabic land, possessing
perhaps as grea "a degree OF fertility
as found in this or any other conti-
nent
There is hardly any number OF
gold mines that could have been
discovered and operated calculated
To add as much material wealth and
substantial comfort to country as
viii follow the development OF the
irrigation possibilities within the
limits of this shallow water belt.
In any other section except In
the Panhandle this particular belt
would be the burning sensation of
the age. but the Panhandle is so big
and fun of resources that such
things are taken for granted and
create but little, II any excitement.
California. once the most noted
gold producing region of this CONT
nent and yet a large factor In gold
production of the country. is now
and has for many years been deriv-
ing infinitely more from its irrigated
agriculture than all the combined
millions derived from its gold mines.
and with the progress now being
made In Colorado along the same
lines. IL now seems certain that ere
long the same can be said OF that
wonderful state. and II Is not an ov-
.erdrawn picture IN pointing out that
this shallow water belt of the Pan
handle of Texas has proven resources
and safely estimated possibilities
that should and at no distant date
viii ahoW up creditabiy alongside
both OF these states.
With land under irrigation and In
tensiyely cultivated, 30 acres 10
the family is considered n great alb
uudancc. II not exceeding the aver
axe holding, and II only half OF this
shallow water belt were TO be devel-
.oped and placed under intensive cul-
tivaiion through irrigation, such
would mean tifty thousand families.
of two hundred and fifty thousand
people. aud TO predict such as an ul-
innate development of the shallow
water belt of the Panhandle Is GER
tainly no idle dream.
As well as can now remember.
about the year lS92, the ]. A. Kemp
Wholesale Grocery Co.. of Wichita
Falls. OF which was then the man
a2or. received a circular letter. from
some one at Plainyiew, and II my
recollection serves me right. the au-
thor of such letter was Col X. T..
Smythe, still an energetic and hon
ored citizen OF Plainview, setting
forth tho ocean OF water lying COM
paratiyely a few feet beneath the
surface of several Panhandle coun-
Ties and suggesting the organization
of stock company with sufficient
-trcueth 20 make the initial develop
meui that would surely revolutionize
and bring untold wealth TO the Pan
handle end Of the State.
reflected deeply on that circular,
ana have reverted TO IL frequently
since ] had traversed the shallow
water belt and had seen the water
lIfted from thirty to sixty feet, ap-
parcntiy and evidently inexhaustible
iu supply both by windmill uumps
and windlass. and believed implicitly
q many others did. that in that un-
d"rflowing substratum of water was
"a magic wand that would one day
wave over the shallow water belt of
The Panhandle. and there would
priug into life an intensive husbap.
dry that would mean such a wealth
o' production, thriving population
and flourishing villages and cities
iuat this continent had not witness.
ed in 900 OF the golden ages present
and past
feel safe IN saying that no oil
fields gold fields and mineral fields
oi auy kind or character Whatsoever
can ever have the same inherent val.
u' ana yield the same blessings IN
a. would follow the devel-
upment Of this Justly renowned
shallow Water Belt. destined tn en-
d1re FOR ages. growing each dav 4,
t expanding wealth. beauty ana
el0ries.
This belt win produce all Of IN.
vegetables that now flourish An
california and Colorado; n win
produce with the same degree A.
perfection the apples. peaches. pesr~
'herries. plums. prunes and sr.n.,
That have made California, Wash,n-
ton. Oregon and Colorado s.,,~'.
The world over; II viii produce ~
he same degree OF abundance. -