The Crosbyton Review. (Crosbyton, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 28, 1909 Page: 1 of 10
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VOL. 1.
CROSBYTON, CROSBY COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28,1909.
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An Interesting Meeting-Many
Present-Good Speaking,
And Highly Appreciated
Big Six came in accompanied
with seven other cars, loaded to
the brim, containing the railroad
party that it left to bring back
. some two days before. They ar-
rived in Crosbyton at six o'clock
Tuesday evening. The railroad
party consisted of the following
named gentlemen:
J. J. Jermyh, President, R. C.
McGargle, Charman, of the Gen-
eral Board, Vice-president Ben
B. Cain, Secy.-Treas. Frank
Knox, of the Gulf, Texas & Wes-
tern Railway Company. These
men were accompanied by B. M.
Burger, of Dallas, who is inter-
ested in the welfare of Crosby
County, and who owns more
., th^a JiKHLacrefl of. Crosby. dirt. .
At 8:00 o'clock, in the Crosby-
ton Hall the citizens of Crosby-
ton met and the house was well
tilled, to hear what these men
had to say. Mr. Cain was the
spokesman for the railroad mag-
nates,L_and rjL(tCT._.b®ing.„intr^.
(luced by Hon. J. W. Burton, he
made us a beautiful and instruc-
tive speech on general conditions,
and the value of railroads to
a county like ours. Mr. Cain is
one of Texas' most popular cap-
italist, and a man that does
things, and he often referred to
the past, and to the future o£
the State. Mr. Cain Said:
"I. aims sure of the fact as
can be that this line of railroad
Tvilt be built, I have no proposi-
tion to make your people, and
not in arty position to accept any
proposition from you, but if we
live long enough we will see this
road running through your"coun-
try, if not through your town.
I am as sure of that as can be.
The road is now- in operation
from Dallas. Texas, to Olney,
and will be in operation as far as
Seymour within sixty days.
We are now putting down a mile
of steel a day" and are "building
as straight to your town
and country as can be. Our line
is one of the best! in the state
and wj& will, when it is complet-
ed, be able to put your live stock
to the best markets within twen-
ty-four hours. You will have
the best outlet of any part of
Texas. This line will run from
New Orleans, or Port Arthur, to
this couatry and then will turrji
westward^ into New Mexico. It
can be seeh that this will give
line will run through the best
pine fgrests in the United States
lm3 then it will inter the best
fruit belts, and then on to the
black land belts, or the finest
cotton country in the world, and
then up into this teritory where
we can safely say, is the gaitfen
spot of the world. Here you
have the finest praric there is on
happiest homes to be found are
being built. . Now what do you
earth-; where the best wheats,
the best grain, Where the' Kaffir,
rftflA «iln nuiiwn g owa wild Bft tn
speak, and I belive, the finest
seen, where the land is smothe
and level; where the eUn shines
and spreads its splendid * rays
Tike? It must be railroads. We
have in tlie past,, courted north-
ern and eastern capitalist to do
these things, and today when,
the home man takes the matter
of building up lets stand to him
and do our part.
There are some people who al-
ways stand in the way of prog-
ress—and I cannot better explain
than to take you. back over my
trip today and will show you
Who is to blame—I say blame;
not exactly to blame; but who is
holding pack the progress of the
country. The cattle men; that
sounds naturnl to hear the cattle
man spoke of, in this country,
and I will tell you that if these
cattle, and ranch men were as
enterprising as the Crosbyton
people you would soon have
railroads. Today I came through
one pasture that contains 220,000
acres of fine lands, and through
another that I am told is sixty-
five miles long, and then through
another that. ^ontftinsp^r'3 than
430,000 acres and then still an-
100,000 acres. Will these people
do the# 'part?' they
would ybu could soon develope
this vast couptry.
You people here are building
well and it will certainly pay
you in the long run. I will say
that if all the people in the west
were as enterprising as you, this
would be one of the greatest em-
pires on earth in a few years."
We will add that it is a pleas-
ure to have all those -who come
our way sit up and ; take notice
of whatt we are doing. It will
do lis good in the long run.
It matters not, great or small,
old or young, rich-or poor, they
always say, "Crosbyton does
things right.
The above party was met over
near Benjamin by Hon. J. W.
Burton and two cars from Lub-
bock, and at the cap rock, at the
county line, by four or five
other cars from Emma. The
party spent Tuesday night in
Crosby ton, stopping at the fa-
mous Crosbyton Inn,J and left
soon yesterday morning for Em-
ma,Lubt^ocR, ari(! ^6T?rer points.
The following Emma people
was over to see the party fr$m
the cap rock to Crosbyton:
J. C. Woody, Will F. Ezell, A.
D. Myers, Judge Pink L. Parish,
Dr. E. Hi Enmon, - R. L. Travis,
R. R. Travis, Dr. Car^r, R. M.
Shell, Stanley Carter, Edgar
Allan, W. E. - McLauflin, Mes-
serrs. Bedingfield and others.
We appreciate their visit and
done our best to have them spend
the night as our guests. If
Crosby wilf puTT we wilT TaricT a
road, or an areoplane line, which
ever we pull for.
Are we together? < ,
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Where is Crosby County? That
is the question we answer hun-
dreds of times daily by showing,
the inquirers on the map. They
know if we tell them it is east of
Lubbock, or south of Floyd, or
corners with Hale, but there are
people here from as near as
Mitchell who have never heard
well for us in Crosby to know
this, and knowing remedy it.
There are none too many of us in
Crosby for everyone to do a share,
or at least do something.
Before this Fair is over ten
love and the good of the cause.-
You should-mppt. Bill with.a brass
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band when he gets back home,
and fest assured he is the man
to speak for you at the Fair.
Theweather^t^usfj^hfta been
fine and the attendance good;
rather warm for us from the
Plains, but Dallas and her peo-
ple are great. The town i3 piled
up full, and when the Southern
gets down to paper napkins you
may know it is doing business.
What is going on here is too large
a subject for your, committee to
report and those interested in
details must look to the daily or
local papers.
To return tq the subjects of
most importance to us; after the
county is located to the satisfac-
tion of inquirers, the next qiies-
tion asked is- th thprp a_ral
in the county? And
doubt but that we cannot be in
the first class until we have a
railroad. In connection with
that feature J. C. Woody, Dr.
Carter -and McLaughlin were
More Demonstrators
Needed puttie Plains
The Best Way in The World to
Show people Is to <Ad-
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(By Don H. Bigger*, Field Editor.)
The Plains is a great country.
In so far as advantages, natural
resources and possibilities are
concerned it is equ£C~
superior, to- any part of the
world. We who live liere and
are familiar with the country
know this. We know it is a
great country, and that it
possesses the three greatest, es^
sentials to the highest possible
development, these being, fertile
1, a delightful climate and an
iierg"TftursdayTo'jmeef represen-
tatives l of the (iulf, Texas &
Western Railwav Co., who are
seeking information in regard to
a route between Seymour and
Lubbock. The people, including
eastern parties of reputed res-
thousand.persons will have worn ponsibility, are arranging to
there is no I inexhaustible supply of the very
finest water. We know further-
fore that it is not a droughty
country, and that it i3 not cursed
with the numerous drawbacks
that have long.; been charged
'rosby County badge and know
of its "New Baby," that is put-
ting up its hands and voice to
make Crosby known among the
counties on the Plains. " A large
percentagex>f these have seen its
soil, five feet in depth, cutout,
cased and displayed here just as
it lay on the -N— land at Cros-
byton. The only disDlay here of
that character and largely ac-
knowledged one of the most in-
teresting specimens at the Fair.
CrOsby has nothing but an hon-
est, truthful exhibit of its own
products; this is not the case with
all counties, and those guilty
know it must." we think, feel
ashamed to thus be parties to a
against it.
But what have we been doing
to convince the world beyond
our own confines that it is really
a great country? We have been
talking and [preaching and send-
ing out literature, and .in these
look over the ground very short-
ly, crossing Crosby County if
they can find roads their' autos
can travel. If the route looks
attractive and not too expensive a
railroad proposition may result
that will be worth investigating;
and if the people and their terms
are satisfactory it will be a se-
rious mistake of Crosby County,
if to a man effort is not made to
promote the road.
If it is an actual road within a
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short time all land owners will
profit by it, and it is for them to
divide literally the profits with
whoever will construct and oper-
ate the road. If this opportuni-
ty comes to you do not slight it,
fraud. We had much rather do! for if the people expect to ride to
without the deception than be
guilty of it. As it is we have
seen better stuff brought to Cros-
byton for sale than we have here
on exhibition, but this speaks for
actual condiTfortS awd in which
people who come to investigate
will not be disappointed.
prosperity on roads built by oth-
things it cannot be said that we
have misrepresented. In fact,
we have been more conservative
than the facts warranted, but we
haven't made converts, or at
least we have not secured results
in proportion to the merits and
opportunities of the country.^ It
therefore behooves us to see
where the trouble lies.
We have simply too much neg-
lected the opportunities about
which we talk and know to exist.
We know it is one of the great-
est truck raising, countries in the
world, and that it is adapted to
an innumerable variety of vege-
tables of the best shipping char-
acter aind greatest revenue pro-
ducing kind; that these vegeta-
bles are fresh and green and
ready for the market late in the
Sri
era, it will be a long time be- summef and early in the fall
fore such parasites will have
parasites
roads in Crosby for anyone to
ride.' and your county vmw^e
foundwaybacksittingdowii. "
There is property and enter-
prise enough in Crosby to build a
We have seen from Crosby road if the people will get togeth-
County R. M. Snell, who paid a
short call at the booth Our friend
Mr. Burgher expressed his pleas-
ure at Crosby's .presence and
appearance, and, of course, wears
a Crosby County badge. Dick
Ware, our old time sheriff of
frontier days and Col. Holland of
Farm & Ranch were also callers.
There are many pleasant feat-
ureajn^ondfi&tim^uhjikq9_bz!.8.
With milo maize and kaffir
corn dancing around the $25.00
per ton mark, times are not so
hard on the Plains. Every far-
to has
mer thai weliave~taTked
some to spare and fat hogs
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the ponn 'i a«a
m over the lands and. Mere the a mffl at Croehyton. .'%■«
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constant reception, but the Chair-
man of your Fair Committee is a
great disappointment to himself.
In conjunction with the cold he
brought from home he has had.
too much to say to people here,
resulting in the complete loss of
voice, and for days has been fin-
able to utter a sound above a
whisper. Hard luck at thi* time
wheh there is so much to be safd, _
he has to content himself largp*
lywithshpwingpictures; butt^T
mar is on to ius job "all right and
working overtime, and the truth
ts tenihglwr ^
County would be worth a dollir a
minute if it could not be had for
but Bill is doing it all lor
erT.put up their obligations and
elect a leader with resources to
negotiate it; but until something
of that sort is done it is highly
probable there will be little more
than railroad talk.
Major Watts was twice a caller
at the booth, looking younger
and better, we believe, than we
have seen him in manyl
-finds no gprppanionghip-with him,.
a wonderful man. We hope the
Major is on the way to Crosby
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to promote its interests as far as
possible. Mr. Leathei wood is
here, evidently enjoyjng the
Fair; and John K. Fullingim is
on the ground, taking a rest from
his car wait at Plainview. We
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when the gardens in other sec-
tions have gone to seed orblister-
edT withered "and wilted. We
know that by truck growing and
gardening alone we could produce
thousands of dollars worth.- of-
revenue- cbuld ship out the stuff
and bring in the money. "We 3
also know, and the rest of the
world knows that we have done
nothing of the }rind. That is
against us as $n advertising
proposition, and it is against us
as a business proposition. Our
failure in this one particular, has
permitted thousands and" thous-
of dollars to go to waste.
And while we have prefChed
that which we did not sufficien
ly practice we have
world skeptical. 1
' We know that no county la
the world is equal to this -I
production of kaffir
milo maize,' and we know
they are unexcelled aa
crops. We know tiMttT/iio
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White, F. E. The Crosbyton Review. (Crosbyton, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 28, 1909, newspaper, October 28, 1909; Crosbyton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth242160/m1/1/: accessed May 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Crosby County Public Library.