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THE RANDALL COUNTY NEWS. DECEMBER 18. 1908.
THE PANHANDLE OF TEXAS.
"It Offers Greater Opportunities Today Than
Any Other Place on American Continent"
Says Prominent Newspaperman.
Kansas City, Mo., Dec. lGth.
(Special) J. 13. Dickerson, edit
or of The Southwestern News
Syndicate, and one of the best
known newspaper and magazine
writers in the Southwest, was
shown an item which apjx'ared
in The Carthage Press under
date of Dec. Sth. While lie did
not care to criticise the author
of the erronous and slanderous
statement published, said it was
a pity that such misleading
stories were given publicity. He
said an investigation by an im
partial judge would disprove
many of the statements, and if
Chas. II. Smith owns land in
Jasper county, Missouri he de
sires to sell, he should give this
as a reason for "knocking"
against the Panhandle.
After reading the Smith "Spe
cial correspondence to the Press"
dated Amarillo, Texas, Nov. 30th,
Mr. Dickerson says:
"Practically every positive
statement made by Mr. Smith
can be disproved by men who
neither have lands for sale in the
Panhandle or eJsevhore,but men
who only desire justice. I spent
three months in the Panhandle'
not long ago in the interest of a
syndicate of leading newspapers
and magazines who wanted the
truth and nothing but the truth
about that country. I gathered
data from every source, much of
which was more or less unreli
able, it is true, but any sane man
can distinguish between the two
when the facts are before him.
In the first place Mr.Smith goes
out of his way to falsify against
thav, country, when he says:
" Sixteen years ago this coun
try had a bigger boom than that
now on. Farm land ran up in
price-along the railroads. Far
more settlers were drawn here
then than now. Everything
bloomed as the rose. Then came
the great drought. It lasted
nearly six years. Farmers lost
nearly everything they had.
Many walked out while on every
road were covered wagons drawn
by lean horse;, taking the once
prosperous families back to
"God's Country." Quoting fur
ther he says.
"Hut the whole Panhandle
country is something different
when it fails to rain. Then all
crops fail, the grass dries up, I
cattle perish, fruit trees wither,
and die and gloom and despair
is everywhere extant throughout
the region."
Mr. Dickerson further states:
"To reply to Mr. Smith in de
tail would require more space
than the average newspaper
could spare, but enough can be
said that would convince any fair
minded man he is either a chron
ic "Kicker" or else has an ulter
ior motive in "Knocking" on the
fairest land in the South, The
Texas Panhandle.
"The Government weather
bureau at A ma rill was establish
ed nearly ." years ago, and since
that time the average annual
rainfall has been about 24 inches.
Ten years ago, or in Hit 7, it was
ID. Id, the lowest any year since
the station was established. Mr.
Smith evidently rekoned without
his host when he bewailed and
mooned over the terrible fate of
the alleged drouth of six years
ago wlncli never came. Six
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Buy and Sell Panhandle
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Investigate Panhandle
Keiser Brothers
years ago, according to the offi
cial report in Amarillo, the rain
fall was 23 1-2 inches,and strange
to relate, it came during the
growing, or crop season. It
rained U inches in May, 2 in
June, 1 1-2 in July, 2 1-2 inches
in August,and nearly one inch in
Sept. Certainly this could not
have been the "terrible drouth
Mr. Smith speaks of?
This erudite gentleman with
the small Hammer" also men
tions "Dry river beds" in the
Panhandle, and attempts to de
cry the fate of "Suckers" who
might be lured into that country
by "Land Grafters" and others,
Etc. The truth is that only one
stream crosses the great Plains
country, the Canadian river, and
that runs across the extreme
Northern edge of what is known
as the Plains proper. His refer
ence to the Prairie Dog Fork of
Ked Kiver, the Palo Duro Can
yon, is a slander on the people of
the Panhandle and shows how
totally ignorant he is on the sub-
ject he attempts to deal with,
The Palo Duro Canyon will, ere
long, become a National Park
and Game Preserve. It is the
most wonderful gorge on the
American continent, and will be
come a famous rendesvous for
scientests and men who seek
rare natural treasure in art and
the handiwork of God. It con
tains numerous never failing
springs and through its center
runs a beauitiful clear stream of
water. It has not been dry since
100, according to Capt. Chas.
Goodnight, the oldest settler
along that romaf c wonderland.
"Mr. Smith asks: What do
you want to leave Jasper County
for? You will appreciate your
blessings there, perhaps, if you
CANYON CITY, TEXAS,
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npHE COUNTRY of good crops, fine climate,
00 I plenty of water, moral, prosperous and
happy people, great advantages, cheap and
productive lands. Lands are cheaper now than
they will ever be again.
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get where they are denied you
and that is the only reason I
would suggest for you to try a
change. Be satisfied and you'll
be happy."
Now, dear reader, what do you
think of a man who would lam-
bast a country, pick every flaw
imaginable, wilfully misrepre
sent actual conditions, and then
wind up a long, rambling des
cription by saying: "And this is
the only reason I would suggest
for you to try a change. Be
satisfied and you'll be happy."
Would 'nt this put your cork
a-bobbing? Mr. Smith is one of
those weaklings who get away
from home and when "Home
sickness" comes over him, be
gins to dish out free advice by
the hand full, let it be right or
wrong, it makes no difference.
Personally I am not interest
ed in the Panhandle country, but
lam willing to go on record that
it offers greater opportunities to
day for the man with ordinary
means and is not afraid to work,
of any place on the American
Continent. Farm lands in the
Plains can be bought today at
from $15.00 to $20.00 per acre,
on easy terms, and where else
on earth can one beat this? The
Panhandle country is not a land
of Milk and Honey," as many
might suppose, but it is a land of
great opportunities and possibil
ities .already partially developed.
The country is not an arid waste,
with dry river beds and frequent
disasterous drouths-and "Booms
that catch sucke;s," as Mr.
Smith would have one believe.
This "Knocker" is only one of
those misguided, misinformed
and malicious homesick farmers
who hopes to farm the farmer
rather than buckle down to real
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home-making, and looks through
smoked glasses. His "Hammer
is entirely top light to do much
harm, however." .
The Wisdom of Dealing at Home.
A well known Chicago mail
order house has been indicted at
Des Moines, Iowa, on three
counts charging fraud by the
use of the United Statee mail.
It is charged that the firm sold
paint which it represented to
contain white lead, which was
false; that it sold a ring repre
sented to contain four pearls and
four sapphires, which was false;
that it sold another ring repre
sented to contain twelve pearls
and two rubies, which was false.
The firm may be convicted and
required to pay a fine, but the
dupes who bought the spurious
goods still have the bag to hold.
They have parted with their
money and can never get it back.
But the mail order house, though
it may have to pay a fine and
costs, will recoup itself with
more chalk paint and colored
glass stones. The moral is to
buy goods at home and thus re
fuse to help these Chicago cor
morant pay tines and costs. It
is one of the second seven won-1
ders why iieoplo will send cash
in advance to these mail order
houses and risk being swindled
when they can buy goods just as
cheap at home and on credit be
sides. Goods purchased at
home can be taken back if they
prove defective or unsatisfactory,
while the mail order stuff has to
be kept, good or bad. Or if it
could be sent back the purchaser
would have to pay transportation
charges both ways, which would
be as much a loosing game as
Phillips
Lands.
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Lands.
Phillips
keeping it.
Leaving out all considerations
of duty to patronize your neigh
bor first it is always a money
making deal to buy at home.
Prices on goods are governed
very largely by quality, and
cheap price means cheap quality.
Henrietta Independent.
A tower boomer gets off this:
"Tell me not in mournful num
bers, that the town is full of
gloom, for the man's a crank
that slumbers in these bust
ling days of boom. Life is
real, life is earnest, and tho
grave is not its goal; every dol
lar that thou turnest helps to
make the old town roll. But en
joyment and not sorrow is our
destined end or way; if j'ou have
no money, borrow buy a corner
ot each day. Lives of great men
all remind us we can win im
mortal fame. Let us leave the
chumps behind us and we'll get
there just the same." Ex.
Up in the Panhandle country
and throughout Central West
Texas they are breaking the land
with steam plows. That's meet
ing the intensive demands of de
velopment. Outside capital is
the steam plow demanded by in-
side opportunities for enterprise
and commerce. The one-mule
power turning plow and the dime
invested in the grouch are not
heavy enough for the firing lino
in Texas today. We need the
wonderful energy and power of
the investment dollar. Progres
sive sentiment has retired the
dime. Let Texas grow. Fort
Worth Star.
O. B. Cotton thoroughly un
derstands cleaning and pressing.
Let him do your work.
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