El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-01-22
By t. R. GORDON

II ROGRESS has marked every week
Of the past year in the great en-
pire Of West Texas and the Pan
handle, and prosperity mas attended
every effort made during the past year
in agriculture, mining and livestock.
In many respects the year 1915 was
phenomenal one From the first day
10 the closing hour there was no halt
in the development of the great terri
tory which stretches in fertile acres
from the Rio Grande to the uppermOst
reaches Of the far Panhandle, a terri
tory which belongs Commercially 20 FL
PasO in 81 greater measure than It
does TO any other city, because FL Paso
knows its commercial requirements
and fills them, and because FL PasQ
men and money have contributed their
ISL share in making the land one Of
plenty and happiness.
Great Ranger Reflect Prosperity.
On the broad ranges. stretching for
miles over plains and means there has
been abundant grass and many thou
sands OF cattle have fattened upon the
fullness Of the land
The year has been an unusually good
ore for the cattlemen Of West. Texas
END the Panhandle. The demand has
been heavy, the supply, as result OF
excellent range conditions, abundant,
and the prices far above, the average
for good stock in the Midland, Maria
Pecos and Fort Stockton districts and
in the Panhandle districts Of Amarillo
Hereford, Plainview and Lubbock,prog-
ress has been made IN the improyli.ns
Of the strains Of cattle many tine
Hereford bulls and cows being i'm
ported by eattlemen for breeding
Improving Grade of Cattle.
At Maria there are several stock
farms which make a specially Of Here
ford cattle and thousands Of Hereford
calves have been sold during the past
year TO other West Texas cattlemen
and to cattlemen in Arizona and New
Mexico, who are also giving attention
TO raising a better grade OF cattle
Hereford. in the Panhandle, has loE
a number Of years been the center %
high grade cattle breeding and around
Plainview and Amarillo there are =
number Of breeders who are paying
especial attention 20 blooded cattle, The
same in even a larger measure is true
OF Midland, where some CT the largest
cattle raisers in the West Texas couns
try have put extra high grade cattle on /
their ranges to improve the strain
Bulls. for which cattlemen paid as
much as a thousand dollars each, are
numerous in the cattle country and i
IS becoming no unusual thing for (
yearlings to sell for $50 and calves |
have sold for as high as $75 in many /
cattle transactions of the year.
FL Paso. as the logical center OF the |
cattle industry OF West Texas and the |
Panhandle country, has reaped the /
benefit Of the prosperity which has so
abundantIy been showered upon the I
cattlemen Of the southwest and in this I
city the larger cattle buying concerns /
OF the country maintain offices through ]
which many big deals are made
Great strides in Development.
In industry and commerce, IN town I
building and civic Improvement and IN !
2 agricultural advancement the year 1915 /
witnessed greater strides in the Wesi I
Texas and Panhandle country than any
year that preceded it. Among the /
larger industrial achievements OF the
year was the securing for Lubbock OF I
a great cotton oil and grain mill the 4
closing OF a deal by Midland Tor a new /
TO the north; the closing of 1
negotiations by Childress people for a 1
big Touring mill; the extension in Hale !
county Of electric light and power lines ]
IN towns around PlainvieW and TO I
ranches in Hale and adjoining coun- /
ties PIainview also started during the /
year a campaign for street paving and 1
closed a deal for electric lights on all /
the street corners, with ornamental I
lights in the business section !
Maria, in the center Of the west i