New Britain herald., 1922-08-12
WEST IS NOT WILD,
 TEXAS MAN SAYS
Earl Bentley, Absent From Town
 for 10 Years, Here on Visit
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 MT. and Mrs. Earl Bentley and children, Margaret and George. are visiting at the home Of Mr. Bentley's father, George Bentley, of Canal street.
 Ten years have passed since Earl Bentley left Plainville 10 locate in business with his brother, Perry Bentley, also native of this town, and who is now one of the leading engineers in the city of Dallas, Texas. The company in which the two Bent ley brothers are engaged is now doing a large amount of street paving and report very active business Earl will be remembered by many | because of his ability as ball player. He was one of the towns best when he left here 10 years ago but base ball has been out of his line since he took up his new business activity in earnest.
 When he left this town. the local man expected to find Texas a wild and woody country with the ma jority of men toting guns and clothed in the favorite COW punchers' attire which is supposedly characteristic of the men of the extreme south. His expectations were shattered, he says, when he alghted from the train in a city as modern as those of the 1 north and with large population | with the same customs and ideas as , those in the north. Dallas is a city as large as Hartford, and it's business activities, while less marked in the ! line of manufacturing, are neverthe- 1 less on a scale much the same as 1 those in New England, Bentley says.
 He has learned the engineering game and with it the special feature of road construction in which he is employed. Hundreds of miles of con- crete and amesite pavement have been laid by the company in all parts of the Lone Star state and the local man has had opportunity to journey into | most portions of the territory. | Speaking of the oil boom in Texas, a Mir Bentley casually remarked that many people have gone broke by in- vesting in the commodity which is
 
 over night. Men with little capital | have tried to break into the oil fields 1 and as result have lost much of | the money they invested.
 |. takes a small fortune to start oil drilling, for the shafts have to be | sunk to a depth of several thousand
 feet, all of which takes much time 1 and money. Sometimes the we'll pro- 1 duces in abundance but more often ] there is only small spouting of the precious iquid and the investors money has been spent on a proposi- ton which has failed.
 Real estate in Dallas and other DOT ton of Texas has seen advances sim liar to those which affected the north during the period of the war and inn medaitely following when prices jumped thousands of dollars in value. Property in Dallas is today worth tens of thousands of dollars whereas a few years ago if could be counted in the smaller thousands.
 Dallas, because of it's location. is an automobile distribution point, and every make manufactured in the country can be round In the auto- mobile quarter, which comprises large section in the business district of the city. Fords, Dodges and Bucks prevail as the most popular cars but there are also the usual number of cars of better make and higher cost.
 The general impression that Texas is wild and woody is a big mistake, according to Mir, Bentley, who finds life as peaceful and quiet there as il this staid old New England town. The cowboys and Indians are no more, at least in the portion of the state where he lives, although occasionally a man wearing a big sembrero does remind one of the stories of the type which is supposed to predominata down there.