Amarillo Sunday News-Globe (Amarillo, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 33, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 14, 1938 Page: 51 of 264
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Fifty Years' History of...
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|\ AA/\RILLO w<5' known as a good, live town from the very first y^ar if
was established," said Jim England, Optima, Oklahoma, rancher, who in 1887 was
working near Roswell and came to Amarillototakealookatthefinenewtownthey
were building.
He was pleased, amazed «nd sold! He drove the first stage-line out of Ama •
ri 11 o to Pla inview and in late 1937 declared Amarillo was adding to its fifty-year
old rpputation except the word city was being substituted for town.
First it was vast herds of buffalo, then the greatest cattle shipping point in the
world, then the metropolis of the Panhandle, the Queen City of the Plains, then the
marketing center for the greatest wheat producing area in existence, then the head-
quarters location for the greatest oil and g as fields in the world, the location of the
largest and now only helium producing region in the nation. Superlatives have al-
ways been necessary in describing Amarillo and its wonderful wholesale area, tha
Panhandle High--Plains empire. That briefly has been the history of fifty years of
Panhandle resources.
Back of Amarillo are three important factors which help to make this the great-
est little city of its size in the nation. These are:
L Big, worthwhile forward-seeing men and (inns planning
and building.
2. A territory unrivaled in rieh resources, natural wealth,
opportunities and possibilities.
3. Ideal climate, location and transportation facilities.
Add these to the cattle, the wheat and other grains, cotton, the oil, gas and
helium and many, many other products and a world of rich, fertile land, Its re-
sources barely touched and you have the beginning of an explanation for Amarillo's
fifty years of greatness and its undreamed of opportunities in the fifty years ahead.
Throughout most of its history groups of public spirited business and profes-
sional men have worked as the Chamber of Commerce, giving unselfishly of their
time and money to help Amarillo achieve its present greatness. The history of the
organization and these men is one in which the community can well take pride.
AMARILLO
CHAMBER
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COMMERCE
300 Polk Street
AMARILLO, TEXAS
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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/m1/51/: accessed April 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hutchinson County Library, Borger Branch.