Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-07-14
CITY NAMED AT TER
POST, FOOD MAKER,
BOOMING IN TEXAS
Post City, Tex, Now Ten Years Old,
Is Fulfilled Dream OF Man for
Whom was Named.
BY A l.. MILLER,


BY A l.. MILLER,
Editor and Manager, the Enquirer.
News Battle Creek. Mich.1
The vision and energy which estab-
lishcd a list now familiar American
products in The markets Of the world,
thru iudicious advertising, also turned
two hundred thousand acres OF 4 raw
Western prairie land into a paru!oas
farming community, and built as its
capital thriving modern city.
There was observed in west Texas
short time ago r. unique ceremony
which attested one of the triumphs OF
national manufacture and national ad.
vertisins
Post City. Tex, had its first fall
festival last fall, and laid the founda-
tons of an annual west Texas expo,
ston. There were present and pr.
ticipating all the $500 inhabitants of
Post City, and the farmers of the
fruitful country surrounding. They
celebrated the fact that they have
one OF the best and most modern cot
ton mills in the United States; city
with all the modern conyenie nces."
and q country whose richness in agri-
cultural resources Is fully established
1t was the tenth anniversary of the
bogi &c thinys.
T.i yea ) 40 Post ca was n
o. q. 'cattl4 saaeo and M a. J.
rock o. tie Tex ~ pl r. 10, J
down on Wilderness hrohen ci,iy oy
an occasional ranch house and wind.
min tower
There has been worked out in west
Texas the fulfillment OF dream Of
Dcme-making, which was a dominating
purpose in the life OF the late c. w
Post, manufacturer of cereal foods.
Reads Like a Romance.
There is u strong element of 70
nance in the business story Of Mr..
Post, in that he built his greet fu tune
iter middle age, whea his lie had
been despaired OF by the hest iude-
meht of physicians, ANA when flnan.
ciai reverses had cG@bnod With fail
ing health to add to the eau es Of dis
coural merit.
His frs sure returns from bus sess
were dew led TO The easypaymen; plan
OF home.Gcyelopmcnt in Battle Creek,
where his young industry was located,
and the moment success was assured
him he turned to the plains OF west
Texas, where he had gone TO sec
health in the out 0f-doors a few years
before. There he began the develop
ment of his dream.
Our national need" he said. lis in.
dividualis.a az contrasted to social.
ism. Tho, who are strong enough to
do so ghculd aid others TO stand on
their own resources, TO maintain their
own homes, and to I've their own lives
as becomes indepCndert American cit.
liens. Thus far, and no further,
should the influence CT the power of
one be excrted over The life OF an
other"
Mr. Post purchased O total Of 213..
GOO acres IN what is now Garza county,
Tex, the tia,t being carved out of
the holdings OF sever Of the great
cattle ranches of the region. Fort
Worth is some 225 miles to the east.
The first efforts in agriculture were
scoffed by the ranchers, who protested
the interference with the natural
growth OF buffalo graes-to which,
they insisted, destiny had dedicated
the plains country--for the purpose
OF carrying On experiments which they
held to be foreordained to failure.
Nine Years Hard Work.
The beginnings of Post City were
laid nine years ago in materials haul.
ed nearly 10G miles overland by mule
trains from Big Springs, the nearest
railroad point. In the heart of the
wilderness general store, hotel,
court house, a school, and attractive
residences we're built. Streets were
laid out with broad parkings for their
borders. Then the surrounding coun.
try was plated into farms on which
any man who answered to the proper
tests as to home.making Intentions
and ability might locate, and call his
own. All the required equipment of
house, barns, wells and fencing were
furnished and the buildings were
planned with the view to the estab
lishment Of home which should meet