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.yon City VOL XI. CANYON CITY, RANDALL CO., TEXAS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4. 1907. NO. 28 News Copyright 1007 The House A K pj-r ' CV - - WE CORDIALLY INVITE YOU TO CALL AND try on a Kuppenheimer Suit or Overcoat. It will be a pleasure, indeed, to take up every detail of these superior garments and prove to you beyond question, that they are worthy of your preference. PRICE S16.50 TO $35. Canyon Mercantile I Hardware Co. CITY PHARMACY J. L Prichard Proprietor HEADQUARTERS FOR Pure Drugs and Chemicals, Paints, Oils, Brushes, Toilet Articles, Stationery, Cold Drinks, Ice Cream and AH other things kept in a First Class Dru? Store. PRESCRIPTIONS A SPECIALITY. West Side of the Square. Phone 32 WW V V V V V V V V V V V V V V V V V V V A THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK STATE DEPOSITARY CAPITAL & SURPLUS, - -SIIAK1MIOLDHRS LI Alt I LIT Y, $135,000. 100,000. U:t5ooo. OFFICERS: L. T. LEST K 15, President D. A. PARK. Cashier .IOIIN 1IUTS0N, Vice-President TRAVIS SIIAW. Asst. CiihIi. .1. FRANK SMITH, Vice-President DIRECTORS: L. T. Lester, John Ihitsoii, R. G. Oldham. .1. Frank Sniitli, 1 M. Lester, We invite you to open an account wit h is. Wo fiunrantee ,,s liberal accommodations uh are warranted by the account and pru dent baukiiiR. J". L. IIvell, D. A Park. f 7T T A Few Curs of Genuine j J j JLj MAINTLANl) just in GRAIN AND HIDES WANTED! Highest Cash Price Paid for Hides, Hay, Maize, Kallir Heads, etc. We are a Strictly Home Concern and desire your patronage. Canyon Coal Company JOHN BEGRIM CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER ESTIMATES CHEERFULLY FURNISH' ED ON BRICK AND CEMENT WORK SO YEARS EXPERIENCE IN THE BUSINESS PANHANDLE CABBAGE. There is no use to dodge the issue the Panhandle country contains the virgin soil of the world. There are many things that the soil will produce most abundantly, but it appears that cabbage surprises even t he oldest truck farmers. The Brand here relates two stories of the produc tion of this succulent plant on the Plains. G. C. Major, who lives 0 miles east of Hereford, has been grow ing cabbage for the market. This year he has kept an accurate ac count of the sales off of a small patch and the results are as fol lows: The patch consisted of only 10 rows ::o yards in length. He and his son used what they need ed for their families, and the rest were marketed, selling the out put for 77.30, besides receiving &.' in cash as prizes at the Fair. A little calculation- will show that this patch is a little less than one-sixteenth of an acre, and on the same count, the production of an acre would have sold for 120; it would have weighed 2"), 000 pounds. Mr. Major in speaking of farm ing and gardening in the Panhan dle, said that he had farmed in many sections of Texas, but that crops were raised in the Panhan dle easier and with less uncer tainty than in any other place he ever lived. lie has lived in the Panhandle 0 years and does not care to hunt a new location. He owns a two-section ranch and raises all general farm stuff with equal success. The other story is quite as good. Tomt Boall, who is well known to several people in Here ford, raised some 200 heads on a small patch of 1-10 of an acre and averaged 22 pounds each. lie was not the only .one in his com munity that did well, but every one who tried, cut a big yield. This crop was raised last year, but for the past seven years, just as good cabbage have been produced. With your pencil, figure out this yield. An acre at the same rate would have, giv en the enormous yield of "0,-100 pounds and at even 51 cents per pound this would give over $2000 per acre gross income. Taking the local market this season, an average of ." cents, the gross in come would give the unheard-of amount of $5,;20 per acre. These two stories might be doubted by those who do not know the Panhandle soil, but the Brand is in possession of the facts and can substantiate every statement. Hereford Brand. Sugar Beets in the Panhandle. Among the many things of promise for the Panhandle, the production of sugar beets looms up in perhaps the brightest col ors in the horizon of the future. Colonel II. T. Groom of Carson county, submitted a sample beet of his own raising at this oltice this morning. He informs us that he has raised sugar beets on his ranch in Carson county nine consecutive years without a failure, that the six different analyses he has had from official experts show 12 1-2 to 17 1-2 per cent of pure sugar. The best Michigan beets contain 12 1-2 to 151 per cent and Colorado's 14 to 10 per cent pure. Mr. Groom says he raised the beets without any irrigation, that it will stand more drouth even than Kaffir and maize, and that after nine years of practical ex periments he is thoroly convinced that the Panhandle is the best sugar beet country on earth. He claims that, one acre will grow, with ordinary cultivation, 20 tons of beets in any year. Colonel Groom, Sr., father of the gentleman who today is a prominent Panhandle advocate, carried on extensive experiments in all lines of agricult ure. on his Carson county ranch. He died while at work, but his son has stepped into his place and is con tinueing the work of the father. There is no question in the minds of those who have tried to raise sugar beets on our fertile Panhandle soil that the rich and remunerative crop will thrive here. The specimen shown by Mr Groom looks fertile ' and thrifty. All that remains to be done now is to get our farmers to raise this beet in supplies large enouge to warrant the es tablishment of a sugar refinery in Amarillo. It is suggested, and well so, that a sugar beet convention be called for Amarillo in January, that we induce the farmers from a hundred miles around us to at tend it, that we have men who can speak authoritatively inform the farmers how to grow the beet, that we offer large cash prizes for the best half acre, second best and so on, thus arousing general interest and get the farmers to raise what promises to be the most remu nerative of all our crops. What success such a movement means to land owners and the entire Panhandle country can" readily be seen. It would mean $100 land inside of two years. The sugar beet question is well worth consideration. -Amarillo Panhandle. ABSOLUTELY FREE This amount is to be given in four prizes$40 first, $20 second, $10 third, $5 fourth, as follows: A ticket will be given with every fifty cent CASH pur chase of anything in our store; this ticket will have two duplicate numbers on it; tear one number off and place in a lock box which we will keep here, the other number for you to keep. On November 1st we will get three men to open this box and place all the tickets in a big box and after mixing them up we will blindfold some little girl and have her draw four tickets from the box, the first ticket to get first prize and the second ticket second prize and so on down same way. e Iff Our stock of Dry Goods, Clothing, Shoes, Hats, and in fact everything carried in an uptodate store is complete, and as for our Grocery Department, our many satisfied customers will testify to that. We have bought the larg est part of our stock at the old prices, so we are able to save our customers money on nearly every purchase. You get the goods at the old prices and stand a chance of get ting a nice prize. If y nil I lill-