The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 5, 1920 Page: 2 of 10
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Where Our Future Lies
The trade territory of Canadian
reaches into many counties of
two states, touches farms, ranch-
es and small towns that comprise
the activities of a great common-
wealth. In this trade territory are
farms that have proven wonder-
fully productive and have given
competence in abundance to their
owners. There are ranches that
have produced hundreds of thous-
ands of head of livestock for the
packing plants. And from the
products of the soil and the
range have come towns that have
prospered and become important
factors in the development of the
Panhandle.
In the old days of mules and
wagon locomotion Canadian drew
trade for a hundred miles in al-
most every direction. People work-
ed for a wage of fifty cents a dya
in many instances, and time was
not valuable like it is now. A
ranch could send a freight team
after a load of supplies and ex-
pect it back in a week. Ten miles
from town was a big drive for a
farmer.
But the day of the automobile
and truck has come. Fifty miles
from market is only a comfortable
day's trip. The automobile natur-
ally turns to the larger towns,
the towns that furnish the best
Stocks of goods and the widest
variety of shopping facilities and
conveniences. A farmer will drive
thirty miles to a good merchant
in preference to driving ten miles
to a limited stock of goods. This
means then that roads will deter-
mine the trade centers of the fu-
ture. The old ranchmen are put-
ting off the time when they will
have to surrender their little em-
pires, their kingdoms, to the
farmer, but the time is coming
when the sections will be divided
and each one hundred sixty acres
of tillable land will be in the
hands of a farmer. When every
section of land that is good farm-
ing land in the Canadian tradfj
territory is in the hands of farm-
ers, actual settlers, you will see
a little city here of five or six
thousand people. And this with-
out any other foundation except
the farmers' trade. Other develop-
ments that come will add to those
figures.
The outstanding feature that
will maintain Canadian's position
in the financial world, develop
the country and build for the
future is the road system. Cana-
dian cannot have too many good
toads and bridges. Roads that
are attractive will induce people
to settle in a community that
would otherwise be objectionable
to them.
Canadian has the nucleus of
great road system. We have the
D-C-D highway, which when com-
pleted and hard-surfaced to the
Lipscomb County line and a
bridge put over the Washita
Creek will be an asset beyond
valuation. We have the road to
Gem and on to Oklahoma. The
Red Deer bridge will open the
West part of the county and the
northern part of Roberts County
to automobile and truck travel.
All of these improvements add to
the foundation which Canadian
Is building for the future. And
now another great highway is
knocking at the door of this
county. The section of the Abo
Pass highway from Miami to
Higgins is virtually demanding
the co-operation of this county
in building our link .of the high-
way.
The Lipscomb County ranchers
Ud farmers want a first class
road built up Dry Creek so they
can come here to trade.
Canadian's future lies in open-
ing up the roads and establishing
rural trading lines like great ar-
teries leading to the headquarters
of a mammoth industry. Establish
the main roads just as rapidly ar
the finances Will warrant and
train the rapidly developing coun-
try to come to Canadian to trade.
With the development of the
North Plains have come other
good towns that will take the ad-
vantage away from Canadian an-
tes we build on a broad and pro
gressive foundation.
To Our Customers
After August 15th we will dis-
continue the delivery of kerosene.
Make your arrangements accord-
ingly. Panhandle Co-Operative
Company.
IS!;
Speaking of high priced regis-
tered livestock, the Amarillo Tri-
bune recently told the story of the
first purchase of high priced bulls
that came into the Panhandle.
Many years ago when Amarillo
was a village Colonel C. C.
Slaughter purchased a bunch of
high priced hulls, among them
* -the.^nl?ri^,which
$10,000. The bulls were
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Authorizing One and One-Half
Per Cent Ad Valorem Tax By
Citieti and Towns of Five
Thousand or Less Population.
Senate Joint Resolution No. 12.
Proposing an amendment tq
Section 4 of Article XI of the
Constitution of the State of Tex-
as, by increasing the total tax
rate that may be levied by cities
and towns having a population of
five thousand or less than one-
fourth of one per cent to not.ex*
ceding one and one-half per cent,
and making appropriation there-
for.
Be it Resolved by the Legislature
of the State of Texas:
Section 1. That Section 4, Ar-
ticle XI of the Constitution be so
amended as hereafter to read as
follows:
Section 4. Citie sand towns hav-
ing a population of five thousand
or less may be chartered alone
by general law. They may levy,
assess and collect such taxes as
may be authorized by law, but no
tax for any purpose shall ever be
lawful for any one year which
shall exceed one and one-half per
cent of the taxable property of
such city; and all taxes shall be
collectible only in current money,
and all licenses and occupation
taxes levied, and all fines, forfeit-
ures and penalties accruing to
said cities anff towns shall be
collectible only in current money.
Sec. 2. The foregoing constitu-
tional amendment shall be sub-
mitted to a vote of the qualified
electors of the State at an elec-
tion to be held throughout the
state on the first Tuesday after
the first Monday in November,
1920, at which election all voters
favoring said proposed amend-
ment shall write or have printed
on their ballots the words, "For
the amendment of section 4, Ar-
ticle XI of the Constitution in-;
creasing the total tax rate that
may be levied by towns and cities
having a population of five thous-
and or less from one-fourth of
one per cent to not exceeding one
and one-half per cent of any one
year," and all voters opposed to
I said amendment shall write or
have printed on their ballots the J
words, "Against the amendment
of Section 4, Article XI of the
Constitution increasing the total
tax rate that may be levied by
towns and cities having a popula-
tion of five thousand or less from
one-fourth of one per cent to not
exceeding one and one-half per
cent of any one year."
Sec. 3. The Governor of the
State is hereby directed to issue
the necessary proclamation for
said election and to have the same
published as required by the Con-
stitution and existing laws of the
' Strfte.
j Sec. 4. That the sum of five
, thousand dollars, or so much
I thereof as may be necessary, is
hereby appropriated out of any
| funds in the Treasury of the State
of Texas not otherwise appro-
priated to pay the expenses of
such publication and election.
C. D. MIMS,
Secretary of State.
(Attest—A True Copy.)
Published in the Canadian Rec-
ord July 22, 29, August 5 and 12,
1920.
Ves, Our Advertisers Invite You
IT IS EASY TO BE SURE
of vour motor doing what you want it to
do if you clean it. Come to the oil station
and put in new and better oil. See your
car or truck take new life.
We have highest test gas and water white
kerosene and all kinds of best quality
lube oils and greases. Prices that will at-
tract you. This is not a quit business sale
but just an honest to goodness live and
let live price. Oil orders filled promptly.
Phone 156.
! (Signed) J. O. WOOTEN " M
Independent Oil House
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OVER CONTINENT, CAR IS RELAY-
ED FROM DRIVER TO DRIVER
A few weeks ago down in Arizona
an Overland dealer suggested an en-
tirely new kind of trip for a motor
car. He said "Let's have the distribut-
ers and dealers clear across the con-
tinent relay a stock Overland automo-
bile from driver to driver on a con-'
tinuous trip, and see what the car
will do."
At first the idea was scoffed at, as
every man who knows automobiles
knows that under such handling no
car can be reasonably expected to per-
form even up to its normal require-
ments, but on second thot, it was de-
cided that a trip like this would be
the best kind of test that could possi-
bly be given, as it would show not the
best that a car could perform, but the
best that could be expected under the
most adverse conditions.
RUNNING AT TIMES AT 40 MILES
AN HOUR
So an Overland stock car started
from New York at midnight on July
18th. The roads were rough. Not a
single driver had ever sat in the car
before. In many cases the road was
misBed, and the distance had to be
covered back until the right 'road or
the detour was found. |
"Let's try to average 20 miles an
hour clear across," was the suggestion
of the Overland dealers. "But that
means driving 35 to 40 miles an hour
part of the time," was the objection,
"and you can't get gasoline economy
at that speed." But 20 miles an hour
was decided upon.
25 DIFFERENT MEN SIT AT THE
WHEEL
A motor car trip across the conti-
nent in a week's time, in a car weigh-
ing less than 2,000 pounds. That was
the ptaa;"|jn \fl -ft t§. ' V |
Mile after mile clipped off on sched-
ule time. Distributors met the car at
appointed locations. Change of the 25
drivers was made some times in less
than two or three minutes. Once a
windshield was broken which had to
be fixed. Here and there a nut had to
be tightened. But the car pounded ot\
thru rain and dust and heat, over
mountains and plains. i
At Kearney, Nebraska, the half-way
mark, the average stood 25 miles per
gallon over a distance of 1,600 miles.
And the car was running so perfectly
that every driver expressed the utmost
enthusiasm over its'performance.
system and U. S. L. batteries were
used. The car was a standard car with
absolutely no re-inforcements thruout.
MAYOR HYLAN OF NEW YORK
INDORSES ECONOMY
ADVANTAGES
Finally, after covering the almost
impassable roads across the Nevada
desert, the wonderful little Overland,
protected thruout by Triplex springs,
rolled gaily down the paved highways
of California into San Francisco, de-
livering to Mayor Rolph a letter from
Mayor Hylan of New York, which
read:
My Dear Mayor Rolph:
Again, Greeting to you. This time
my letter is to be carried by an Over-
land Touring Car, which is to cross the
continent from this city to yours in the
interest of an economy test in respect
AS STANDARD
AS THE
CAR YOU
BUT
One of the remarkable things about
the trip was the low oil consumption.
And the car went across, not on cord
tires, such as are commonly used for
this kind of trip, but on standard Fisk
fabric tires.
The standard Tillotson carburetor,
and the standard Auto-Lite generator
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Touring $985; Roadster $$85; Coupe $1525; Sedan $1575 <
Prices f. o. b. Toledo, subject to change without notice
GEORGE B. OWENS
ROOM 3, STUDER BUILDING ON KINGMAN STREET
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REMARKABLE CROSS-CONTINENT RECORD
< Think of difffercnt public stations, driv-
|||^^25 different drivers who never saw the car before, smashed all trans-conti-
nental records in? a day and night run from New York to San Francisco. 3,442
miles of incessant driving in 179 hours; tlie cju} punished by unfamiliar driving-
reckless or conservative, according to ||e:: j|||er—yet the carY inherent economy
Overland javeraged 1^2 miles tolthe gallon. How was this I
remarkable cross-continental record made?
to gasoline consumption and tire wear.
I have no doubt any experiment in
search of economy in these days will
appeal as much to you as it does to
me. I wish the car, its promoters and
operators, every success, and I trust
this will find you and Mrs. Rolph en-
joying the best of health.
Sincerely yours,
(Signed) John F. Hylan,
Mayor.
27.2 MILES TO GALLON—THAT IS
ECONOMY!
The average gasoline mileage for the
entire trip was 27.2 miles to the gallon.
A record which under similar condi-
tions has never before been equaled.
No attempt was made at a speed rec-
ord. But that record, too, stands as a
remarkable achievement for a car of
this size and weight.
This wonderfi^^^^*|^^p||i^^p|^^i emphasizes in
|a truly dramatic and remarkable way the wonderful
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If you don't know this car ,and its remarkable achieve-
ments come in and look it over.^^^p|||^||ou to find out
whatja great automobile you caiubuy for a small sum ||
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Loomis, L. P. The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 5, 1920, newspaper, August 5, 1920; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth125460/m1/2/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hemphill County Library.