The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1922-08-25
LUBBOCK COUNTY BUSINESS MEN
CONFIDENCE IN PLAINS
THEY REALIZE THAT THERE Is SOMETHING TO THE
PLANs-ExPREssINC CONFIDENCE IN COUNTRY
LUBBOCK COUNTY FARMS ARE NOT RUINED
Large Enough Make Total Production Greater
Than Last Year-Some Feed Already Made-Cood Rain
Would Improve Prospects Greatly

II there is anything the matter
with the plains it is all in us folks
who populate this section.
Lubbock County's prospects for a
bumper crop are somewhat reduced
by the dry weather, but building in
Lubbock and about the county con-
tinues 70 60 on in spite Of the fact
that there are some people who
think this country is doomed insofar
as financial conditions are concern
ed.
The writer took an automobile
trip over a section Of the county n
few days ago, that being our first
one for several days, and we were
astonished TO see the cotton and a
great deal Of the feed standing up
so well under the continued drouth.
There are farms about over the
county that are greatly damaged by
the continued drouth, while there
are others which have splendid
chances to make good yields, and
still others that are practically al
ready made. This condition is not
any indication that the plains are
not alright. We believe in Lubbock
county just as faithfully as we did
in the early spring when it looked
ike q bale Of cotton to the acre
and an over-production Of all kinds
of feed stuff was inevitable.
We believe that the farmers win
wind up their business this fall with
a good profit on the right side Of
the ledger, as though the cotton
may have detoriated 10 some extent,
the increased acreage viii place the
total number Of bales far above last
falls total, and after all, though
cost Of production is a little heav-
er than last year, that is pretty
good as compared with conditions
elsewhere.
II has never failed TO rain on the
plains some twenty-four hours be-
fore il was too late, and we are
confident that it never will We
believe that the man in Lubbock
county who is spending more time
worrying about conditions than .ry-
ing 20 improve them is a pikcr II
there is any such animal in exist
ence, and viii advise the poor Great
ure that that method Of getting by
will never work, or az least as far
as we know it never has, and we
don't care If II never does.
Anyone may know that business
man is going 90 survev his sur
roundings in every conceivable man
nrr before dahhing down with a big
Investment in the way of putting
mp q new brick buildin- or imnrov-
ing and rcmodeling the older ones.
az least all If thpn we know any,
thing about do. vet we have not
heard Of a single man in Lubbock
or Lubbock county canceling his
building contracts because IL DIDN'T
come a three-inch rain last week.
Those fellows who are doing the
building have been here so long
that they know the plains. They
know Lubbock, and they know Lub~
book county They realize that a
few weeks down in the mouthedness
will not buy anything. and that the
genuineness Of this country is not
70 be doubted
They know that Lubbock county
is going 90 make a showing when
the harvest records can be shown,
and they know that there is another
year coming when things viii in all
probability be even better than now.
That's why they are building, re-
modelling and Keeping 1t up
Down 70 brass tacks and facts
that are worth considerir~ y0u and
are about the luckiest fellows on
earth that we are living in Lub-
bock-the Hub Of the Plains.
Cheer up.