The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1921-12-30
SIXTEEN YEARS have BROUGHT
MANY CHANGES IN LUBBOCK
FROM A VILLAGE OF A FEW DOZEN HOUSES WE HAVE
DEVELOPED INTO A REAL CITY
AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT KEEPS STEP
And From Barren Bomdess Pasture II Has Become a Rich
Agricultural Part of the State With Great Possibilities
and Thousands of Homes Dot the Plains.

BY the time this issue of tho
Avalanche reaches most Of our read
ers the Avalanche editor win have
been in Lubbock sixteen years.
Several Of the citizens have been
mere longer than that They came
mere years before, and were here
before there was any thought of
Lubbock, and were here before but
few Of the counties Of this great
South Plains were organized. This
country then, even at the time we
came, was largely in the hands
Of the ranchmen, with their big
herds and their almost boundless
pastures, and farming had not
been tested out very thoroughly at
that time, but was Just in the be
ginning. The development has been
rapid, and during the sixteen years
that we cast our minds back over.
years in which we hG.e actually
experienced the many drawbacks
from living away from railroad IA
cilities, the changes have come in
quick succession, and today we find
that Lubbock has grown from a vii
lage, with probably twenty-five or
NaAtA ~ ANai1tHAf MOunta 70 THAT OF
real little city Of substantial build
ings, Of fine homes and large bust
ness houses with stately municipal
plants and located on the trunk line
of one of the greatest railway sys-
tens in the United States, and at
the point where numerous automo-
bile highways intersect, and at the
point where the coming big city Of
the Plains, and we dare say the
Panhandle win in a few short years
be built.
The agricultural developments
have been none the less no
ticeable, and the rural districts
present an entirely different ap-
pearance now to what they did then.
Where the big pastures and the
lonely windmills dotted the prairie,
with the thousands Of cattle which
constituted the greater part OF the
Of the range. there are
now hundreds of frm homes, and
Thousands Of acres Of land under the
plow that promise each year splen-
did yield. bringing before the world
the greatness Of this section from
an agricultural and stock farming
view point very vividly. and in
way that is attracting people from
al points Of the compass. who tir-
ing Of the arduous task Of trying
10 farm in sections where the soil
Is thin, and the infestation Of many
II the enemies 20 the farmer pre-
dominate, are seeking relief by com
ng 20 this rich section Of the State,
and becoming established early in
he development Of this country.
We are sure that the next six-
teen years viii show even more
wonderful development as the facili-
les are here for the more quickly
bringing into reality the PROPOSE
ions that are presented, hence we
jelieve that in less time that the
yreat changes Of the past have re-
Iuired the South Plains viii be
iensely populated. and the city Of
Lubbock will have TO large extent
the dream and the pro-
,hecy OF the optimistic fronteers-
nan who believed they could see IN
he future great city and a rich
farming country, TO take the place
II the little village and the sparse
y settled plains land that was 10
noticeable sixteen years ago.