Amarillo Sunday News-Globe (Amarillo, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 33, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 14, 1938 Page: 10 of 264
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PAGE TWENTY - P. IX
AMARILLO SUNDAY NEWS AND GLOBE, AMARILLO. TEXAS.
GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY EDITION, 11)38.
Startling Beauty
By VINCENT LOCKHART
8tartllne beauty as breathless as
starlit night and as colorful as
the late afternoon rainbow lay
dormant for centuries in the Plains
region, in the upper reaches of the
Red River.
Split by some upheaval and ac-
cented by the torrential stream that
cut its way through the depths in
the seasons of heavy rains, the val-
ley now known as Palo Duro Canyon
was first a simple haven for wild-
life, then a winter home for wan-
dering tribes of Indians.
To the Indians It represented
shelter, with food, from the howling
blizzards of the Plains. To the Span-
ish Conquistadores it represented an
nlmost unsurmoun table task in their
passage to Quivira.
To Col. Charles Goodnight and
later cowmen, it was a winter pas-
ture unexcelled.
To a modern, tourist-minded
America, it is the scene of unrivaled
beauty—the Grand Canyon oi Texas.
The particular prea in which Palo
Diiro State Park now stands, 15,500
acres of the roughest land in Texas,
was hundreds of millions ol years
ago a favorite ground of the animals
of the Triassic Period—the slither-
in? phytosaurs, kinsman of the dino-
saur.
Centuries and centuries later, the
giant mastodon roamed the wastes
at the time of the Glacial Period—
the age of conversion of the area
from sea to land, the period just
prior to ths upheaval and the most
recent geologic age in the Plains.
With the tormation of the canyons
came the Indians, doubtless Co-
Americail
Foodi
manches, Kiowas — and Apaches.
The Apaches tell of trading with
the Plains Indians, and flint of the
Plains type Is found in the New
Mexico haunts of the Apache tribe.
That the tribes settled there for
long periods of time is borne out
by the depth of the metates, holes
in the semi-soft rock where corn
was ground. Pictographs, as yet
untranslated, tell the stories of In-
dian exploits.
Some say it was near the Palo
Duro that Coronado and his band
came, seeKIng the fabulous wealth
that lay at the end of the rainbow
for him.
Possibly the first white man to
see the canyons and undoubtedly the
first man to use that portion now
known as the Palo Duro State Park,
was the intrepid Col. Charles Good-
night, then a newly married, hope-
ful, cattleman.
The grav-bearried cowman told
Cleo Hubbard, his foster child, of
his first entrance into the canyons:
"Our first entrance into the Palo
Duro Canyon was in November,
1876. We then made our entrance
by way of the old Comanche trail
between the junction of the Canyon
Cito Blanco and the main Palo
Duro Canyon."
The Colonel tells of the half day
required to work the cattle down
the rugged slopes, then of disman-
tling his wagon and carrying it down
piece by piece on the mules.
The herd consisted of 1,600 head
and was driven before the men, who
cleared the canyon of buffalo as they
went. Naturally, as they got to the
lower reaches of the canyons, the
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number of buffalo gathered was tre-
mendous. The Colonel, Leigh R.
Dyer and an Englishman named
Hughes (son of "The Great Hughes
of England," Col. Goodnight said)
were the buffalo drivers.
• • •
Describing the scene, Goodnight
said: "Such a sight was probably
never seen before and certainly will
never be seen again. The red dust
arose In clouds, while the tramp of
the buffalo made a great noise. The
tremendous echo of the canyon, the
uprooting and crashing of the scrub
cedars, made one of the mast in-
teresting sights I have ever seen.
"If the buffalo did not come
down off the mountainsides that
were near us, we simply sent a
sharpshooter ball among them. A
nearby shot would cause an instant
stampede, making kindling wood of
the small cedars as they came."
The tremendous herd of buffalo
was moved down the canyon about
15 miles, Col. Goodnight said, and
a herd line was established to keep
them back, and the cattle above, at
the mouth of Turkey Creek. The line
was kept for a year, after which
slaughter by the buffalo hunters
left it unnecessary.
.At the time of the first entrance
and first year work, only a few
buffalo and Indian trails existed for
entrances into the canyon for 60
miles.
More supplies were needed and
in 1877 Goodnight brought four
loaded wagons and 100 blooded Dur-
ham bulls from Colorado. This
time he did not enter the canyon
in its upper reaches, but stayed on
the Plains until he reached the edge
opposite the "Old Home Ranch"
some 15 miles below the present
state park.
Here the first road was built,
and was used by wagons until the
coming of civilization.
Forty years after Col. Goodnight
first observed the beauty of the can-
yon, some "dreamers" at Canyon,
13 miles west of the park, saw the
possibilities of a wonderful recrea-
tion area. A few Canyon residents
used the area, particularly the
Lighthouse Canyon, four miles south
and west of the present park, as a
picnic center. Students from what
was then West Texas State Normal
College made frequent pilgrimages
to the sturdy beauty of the area,
included "cliff and crag and can-
yons'' in their "Alma Mater" song.
Ceta Canyon was used by the
Baptists and Methodists in two
separate units as summer encamp-
ments, but they did not include the
depths or the color of the inac-
cessible lower Ceta Canyon, or the
Lighthouse or Palo Duro Canyons.
In 1931 the Canyon Chamber of
Commerce took the lead when it ob-
tained permission to open parts of
the canyon so that people could
drive out and view the beauties of
the countryside. More than 1,500
cars made the first drive.
The demand for the park became
great and the Canyon chamber
agreed to open up the road from
Fred Marshall's home, three miles
east to the canyons. They bought
the right of way and set the fence
: back.
• * •
For several years then the story
of the Palo Duro Canyon is the
story of the untiring efforts of the
Canyon civic body, with the co-
operation of several outstanding
Panhandle citizens from other com-
munities.
The late D. E. Colp, at that time
chairman of the State Parks Board,
furnished a great deal of fire and
enthusiasm for the park, and put
over the idea of state purchase, to
be paid for by the entrance lees and
concessions.
It was Colp and the Canyon
Chamber of Commerce that secured
the largest Civilian Conservation
Corps camp in the United States
for the park, and the results show
today in the fine scenic all-weather
road, the rustic but complete cabins,
the cleverly located picnic units,
and the beginning of Coronado
Lodge.
Difficulties in paying for the land
led to the retirement of the National
Park Service from the park, follow-
ing the removal of the CCC to work
on soil conservation projects—urg-
ently needed in the battle against
the "black dusters."
W. T. Taylor, manager of the park
concessions and vice president of
the Palo Duro Corporation, which
holds the concession contract, has
been responsible for the park com-
pletely for nearly a year.
His untiring efforts and whole-
hearted belief in the canyon have
resulted in thus summer being one
of the banner summers in the his-
tory of the canyons.
Such events as the Palo Duro Art
Colony are making the park more
and more widely known Tourists
stop to see the "Grand Canyon of
Texas" and marvel at this tremen-
dous gorge dropping in the heart of
the Llano Estacado.
Today, cars from over the entire
nation can be noted almost any day.
Tourists make the canyons their
stopping point for a night's rest in
the calm of the real West. They see
Founder
Instrumental in bringing civiliza-
tion to the high Plains was the late
W. H. Hopkins, who has been called
"the founder of Hemphill County."
Hopkins first came to the Panhandle
in 1878.
The first county elections of
Hemphill were held at the old Hop-
kins ranch house, 25 miles east of
the present site of Canadian. An
election box has remained there
ever since.
Hopkins was born near Bloom-
field, la., in March, 1856. He resid-
ed there until 1877 when his family
moved to South Dakota. Young
Hopkins wanted to enter the cattle
business, so he parted ways with his
family. They went north: he went
southwest—first to Colorado and
thence to the Panhandle.
He first joined with the old Horse-
shoe outfit and was soon made fore-
man of the ranch. When the Texas
Land and Cattle Company bought
the ranch from J. V. Andrews. Hop-
kins was macle superintendent.
A short time after it purchased
the land, the company broke up, and
Hopkins acquired a portion of the
old ranch for his private use. The
county was organized in 1882, and
his brother J. H. Hopkins served as
the first county clerk of Hemphill
County.
The following year, Hopkins met
and married Miss Hannah Nations
of Mobcetie, sister-in-law of the
famous lawyer, W. H. Woodman.
Mrs. Hopkins now lives in Amarillo,
although the family still retains a
portion of the old Horseshoe ranch.
Mrs. Hopkins remembers the in-
cident which prompted her to come
to the Panhandle. Her sister, Mrs.
Woodman, was alone at Mobcetie
as Mr. Woodman was out following
the court.
"Young lady, T want you to go to
Mobeetie to your sister," her father
told her.
"In a few minutes I was packing,
and it was not long until we were
on our way west," she said.
"I remember that we used a com-
pass to steer to Mobeetie. We never
had a road in those days," she re-
collected.
We went as far as Buffalo Gap,
near Abilene, on the railroad. That
was as far as the line extended in
those days," Mrs. Hopkins said,
Mr. Hopkins bought the Laurel
Leaf brand when the old Laurel
Leaf Ranch in south Texas closed
out. He had wintered the cattle
from that ranch for several years
before he finally bought up the
brand.
Mrs. Hopkins was raised in a cat-
tle country, and always was accus-
tomed to ranch life. "I didn't know
we were making history." she said.
"But what gets me is that they
the glorious panorama of color,
changing rapidly as the western sun
lends its paintbrush to the scene
They thrill to the sight of the
graceful deer, bounding off among
the brush and trees, hear the whirr
of the -wings of the frightened quail,
and. retiring, hear the yap of the
coyote and the hoot of the owl as
the only disturbance for a night of
peaceful slumber and quiet dreams.
NOW no
0®La Hum!
make out the old Panhandle as such
a rough place. Why the cowboys
were just as much gentlemen as any
man I've met since."
"Even these western pictures al-
ways play up a lot of shooting, and
killing. I lived in the Panhandle
ranch country a very long time, and
I saw very little wild living."
"I was never lonely, and I never
had any hard timies. This stuff
about the hard life of a pioneer is
so much nonsense," she said.
The highlight of Mrs. Hopkin's
early life were her yearly trips to
some particular point of interest, or
her shopping trips to Kansas City.
"Travel was something, then. I
remember one time Mrs. Lord, wife
of one of the partners of the Finch,
Lord, and Nelson outfit, were the
only passengers of the train going
from the Panhandle to Kansas City.
We had our children with us, of
course."
"Well, the next morning, Mr. Lord
and I wanted to get some breakfast,
and at the same time didn't want
to take the children off the train.
So the conductor just locked the car
from the outside, and off we went."
"I remember several times when
the train would get ahead of sched-
ule, so it would stop, and we would
all get off and gather flowers," she
laughed.
The House of Wonders
Necessity may be the mother of
invention, but it also is the moti-
vating influence behind establish-
ment of the House of Wonders,
where used articles are the main
item in trade.
The House of Wonders, located
at 1713 West Sixth, was started in
| 1932 by Noel Cooper, who had gradu-
| ated from school and found that
graduates were a dime a dozen on
! the industrial and economic marts
of the country.
He had to earn a living, so he
started his present business out
of sheer necessity—and the House
of Wonders has showed steady
growth.
Cooper started on the consign-
ment basis. People would bring
| things in to him, and he'd sell or
trade them on a percentage basis.
! That first business was started in
a little shop at 113 East Tenth
! Street. It stayed there six months,
| but its growth finally demanded
' a bigger place, so Cooper moved
I his headquarters and stock, now
j greatly augmented, to 304 East
; Tenth Street.
Four years in that location and
a' new spot was indicated, so Cooper
j bought a huge sheet metal build-
! ing and set up business on his
present location.
The House of Wonders handles a
i complete line of used goods.
State Fair
In 1888, many miles from Amaril-
lo, a small Institution was struggling
along. That year marked Its third
attempt to set forth the advantages
of a great empire.
A trip to that part of the State
from Amarillo was somewhat of a
venture in itself for it took days
and not many persons even thought
of attending the State Fair of Texas.
In 1888 the State Fair of Texas
entertained the huge crowd of 30,-
487 people in its 10 days.
The speed of today has eliminated
distances and today Amarillo and
the State Fair of Texas are neigh-
bors. Many visitors from the Pan-
handle pay homage to "The Show
Window of Texas" each year. This
year, the fair resumes its active
stage in new buildings, enlarged
grounds and enlarged shows and
many new features.
This great exposition is no longer
of purely lqcal or state interest. Its
influence has spread into adjoining
states, and while the old name is
retained, it is. in reality, a South-
western Fair and Exposition.
The last State Fair of Texas was
held in 1934. The grounds were
taken over by the Texas Centennial
in 1935 in order to adequately pre-
pare for the Exposition in 1936. The
Pan-American Exposition occupied
the grounds and buildings in 1937.
During these three years President
Otto Herold, backed by a wide-
awake board of directors, planned
and studied ways and means of
making the 1938 Golden Jubilee
j more than just an ordinary fair.
More than $25,000,000 were ex-
| pended by the two expositions in
new buildings, remodeling, paving,
| landscaping, lagoons, r e f 1 ecting
basins and lighting systems. Twenty-
eight acres were added to the park.
Some of these buildings have been
removed, but more than $15,000,000
{worth of permanent and modern
structures have now become a part
I of the Slate Fair equipment.
The 1938 State Fail- of Texas will
have agriculture, livestock and poul-
try. and those industries associated
with them, as the foundation of
the exposition. No finer arrange-
| ment of modernly constructed and
equipped buildings for agriculture,
i livestock, poultry and food can be
found in America.
The agricultural show has been
i thrown wide open. As a matter of
fact, the fair association will pay
$125 to every county in Texas that
places an acceptable exhibit Ex-
! elusive of county exhibits, whK'i
may be grouped in regional display,
; if desired, will be the exhibits of
individuals and of 4-H Club boys
and girls, and vocational agricul-
ture students.
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Beginning to-day and all thru Wednesday there will be an
abundance of food, equipment, and employees fo take care
of everyone s wants. No one will be turned away. Large
purchases of Linen, Silver, China, Glassware, have been de-
livered and extra employees are ready to serve out of town
visitors.
Our Regular Sunday Specials
50C and 75C
Chicken and Steak Dinners
Will Be Served as Usual.
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LIBRARY FILE
It's possible nowadays to walk into
the Potter County Library and find
something besides Mr. Carnegie's
pamphlet on the formation of
friendly ties and the usual store of
past and current literature. Mrs. J.
M. Delzell and her staff of trained
library workers have Just completed
a 50,000-card index file of the news-
papers of the Panhandle of Texas.
The file system, modeled along
the lines of the famous New York
Times index, is one of the most
complete newspaper clipping files
in the country and the only one
in the state of Texas. It Is cross-
indexed and carries information re-
garding: names, events, highways,
schools, churches, chamber of com-
merce activity, oil, early history,
music, railroads and ranches. The
file carries information on thou-
sands of topics.
The library has in reference every
Panhandle newspaper published up
until 1930. The reference broadens
out after 1930. Many of the old
newspapers were donated by the
museum at Canyon. A bound vol-
ume of the index will soon be pub-
lished and distributed to interested
parties. ,
The valuable store house of pro-
vincial literature, however, is sub-
ject to fire hazards and library of-
ficials have expressed the hope of
obtaining adequate fireproof facil-
ities for housing the work. The re-
search and filing system was not
sponsored out of the annual library
budget but from contributions by
patrons of the district.
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Amarillo Sunday News-Globe (Amarillo, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 33, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 14, 1938, newspaper, August 14, 1938; Amarillo, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299921/m1/10/: accessed April 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hutchinson County Library, Borger Branch.