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The Hereford Brand, Friday, January 22,1909
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WINDMILLS
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NEW fARM
How the Work Begins in the Pan-
handle—No Stump Pullers
Needed.
As compared with some sections
of the state and with many other
states, opening a farm in the Pan-
handle is a wonder. Instead of the
slow process of cutting out the under
brush, felling the big trees, grubbing
out the smaller roots and later burn-
ing and pulling the big stumps, tak-
ing a year to clear some 10 or 20
acres and then working and planting
among the stumps for half a dozen
years, it is all different on the Plains.
As a witness to the opening of a new
farm, the Brand reporter went out
last Saturday afternoon] late and
watched the; process. It was on
Judge L. Gough's ranch two miles
south of town. When the party ar-
rived on the scene, there stood a big
40 H-P engine, steamed up to the
popping eff point
moist and worked up in good con-
I dition. The outfit will turn and pre-
| pare about 30 acres per day. It re-
quires two men to run and fire the
engine, one to haul water and coal
and one to drive the team with the
harrew.
Thus instead of spending a year
to open a farm of 20 acres and then
have the stumps, in the Panhandle,
a farm of 640 acres can be made
ready in 20 days. Judge. Gough,
who is an ardent Campbell method
man and who has made an emminent
success with the methods on his farm,
intenes to place this farm under a
high state of cultivation and to dem-
onstrate what can be done on the
Plains with the proper tillage of the
land.
Cotton Seed, Meal and Cake.
Ask us for prices delivered any
railroad station. We are also in
the market for KAFFIR CORN,
CANE, and MILLET SEED.
Early Grain & Hay Co.,
40-tf Amarillo, Texas.
A Pullman Car Beggar.
It is not often that a beggar rides
FOUNDATION LAYING
Work Began this week Making Ex-
cavations for New Buildings in
Burned District.
the Lake Addition, building them up
to grade. Messrs. Dunlap and
Brittain will let the contract at once
for the erection of a modern store
building.
A large force of men went to work
on Monday and Tuesday of this
week making excavations for the
erection of three buildings to occupy
the ground of the ones that were re-
cently burned. F. H. Brittain's
building next to the opera house,
will be erected at once. Material
was placed on the ground Tuesday
for the foundation. This is to be
occupied by Powelson & Son's har-
ness and saddle shop. Eli Dunlap
and F. H. Brittain are together in-
terested in erecting another building
50-foot front by 100 deep on the
grounds recently covered. A base-
ment 6 feet deep under the entire
builning is being dug. The dirt re-
moved is being placed on the lots in
New Nursery.
We have on hand a first-class
nursery stock which we would like to
have anyone investigate who aims
to set out any trees this spring.
Apples, peaches, plums, grapes,
cherries, pears, apricots, berries of
all kinds, hedge plants of all kinds;
shade trees, roses and running vines.
Let me help you adorn your prem-
i ises. Dimmitt Nursery.
50-2tp
Young Woman Dies.
Miss Ruth Barnetson, a young
woman only 19 years of age, died at
the home of her father, B. Barnet-
son, near Summerfield, on Tuesday
of this week. Interment was made
at Dimmitt. The Brand with the
friends of the family extend sympa-
thy to the bereaved members.
Will PAY UP
IN HARD SILVER
Three Box Cars Required to Haul
the Great Amount of Hard
Cash to Austin.
From Daily Panhandle.
Austin Jan. 20.— According to the
Waters-Pierce Company's represen-
tatives here and its attorneys, the
judgment obtained by the state
through the federal supreme court
will be paid in silver and delivered
at the state treasury.
The award and interest call for
nearly 82,000,000. The counting
will require the labor of six extra
clerks.
The counting of the fine in silver
dollars would take one expert clerk
at feast sixty days, eight hours per
day, to complete. It will take three
box cars to haul the amount.
in a Pullman as far as the public
The land to be ' knows, but this seems to be the latest
plowed was practically level across method adopted by certain indrgnent
the long field. There was not a persons visiting the Panhandle,
tree or bush, the ground was covered This week when the train pulled in
by a short grass, except where it
had been burned off. One of the
men was sent h-ilf way down the
field ta serve as a "sight." The
engine was turned into line. Three
big sets of gan< turning plows op-
erated bv steam were lowered into
from the East, a neatly dressed wo
man accompained by a small invalid
child was assisted from the train by
the Pullman porter The porterj
carried the rubber-tired baby buggy
up to the waiting room whi*e the
woman carried the child. From the
the sod. cutting some 16 feet at a J depot, the woman pushing the buggy
time. Following these and attached proceeded to work the town for
to the same frame, two Campbell
subsoil packers, which cut and pack-
ed the turned sod. After these drawn
by four good horses, two double
harrows were used to put a finish-
ing surface on the land The outfit
donations. Many gave her money
and the child was given sacks of
danties by the merchants. The
woman looked care worn and begged
by referring to the child's condition.
While this may have been a case of
owned by Mr. Mul'enhour had just j nenuine need, promiscuous giving to
finished one "land" as they call it beggars creates a feeling of depen-'
and no better work has been seen ' dence on the part of the receiver thatk
anywhere. While there has I een saps the very life of industry. As
but little rain or snow this winter, far as Hereford is concerned, she is
the sod when turned w.s found to be willing to take care of her own in-
digents. A committee from the j
churches has on hand ample funds
for the purpose and when any deserv-
ing person is in need, if the case is
reported to the committee, they will
see to it that relief is given. The
woman who was here this week, no
doubt, wa: an object of charity, but
her own people or her own town
should have first attended to her
wants before allowing her to travel i
about as a beggar.
RELIAB
X|g|piiZ a
We offer special inducements in
quarter and bait section tracks close
in to actual settlers. We have some
on easy payments. Hereford is in
the shallow water belt. Write us tor
particulars. Address
BASKIN LAUD COMPANY
Hereford, Texas
Get my prices on lum-
ber before you buy. It's
to your advantage. Q. R.
Jowell. 44-tf
Only nine more short dayi to buy
furniture at our Great Unload
Sale. Irwin & Matthews. It
We are now in the Gass Building at the back of
Curtsinger's Grocery Store. We are a little crowd-
ed but will wait on all customers with a relish.
If we have merited you confidence let us still have
your trade. To new people in the country, when
you want anything in the HARDWARE line
—LET7 US SHOW YOU—™
DON'T
FORGET
A NEW BUILDING, Larger and better than be-
fore will be ready for us IN A SHORT WHILE
reford Hardware Co.
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Elliot, A. C. The Hereford Brand, Vol. 8, No. 50, Ed. 1 Friday, January 22, 1909, newspaper, January 22, 1909; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth253485/m1/2/: accessed April 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Deaf Smith County Library.