A Brief History or a Statement of Facts of Mineral Wells, Texas Page: 16 of 22
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-utblic schools were taught in this building until 1891
when Prof. John W. McCracken came here and erectcd
othr frame buldinrzs and established the Mineral
We!'s College, he taught here about nine years. A
regular public school sister was then inaugurated and
has -een conducted in regular order up to this time.
The West Ward school building was erected in 1902.
he EL st Sido Wa:rd school building was erected in
I',);, thc KRildwell [Teight School Building was erected
t l)1()0, th.
Hi h School Buildinz in 1914, the Bar;{r
Scho (l PF: 'kiing in 1920. The United States census
." ..... tt,, :'ll"latio,' iside of the corporate
iin'its at 7890, thert are enough of individuals living
'a: ad:i'tiolas o t -i-Ie if the? cl-ror: e limiits to mak,
t!r po-u'-itinn (of MTineral Wells :;4,cout ten thousand.
Mineral Wel's had to depend on drilled wells for a
wa'^er str * ly t;i I'^I 1: he
)I1r. Cicero : Sminith arnd
Mr. Di .m-u'e e-e'tFd a ldam from one mountain to
t'e other. across Pollards creek north west of town
which ha ' i'u::hcd a sufficient am o.%:t )f water for
the town up to 1921. I will have something to say
; bnut the water. After stating that the town kent imi
movingg by erecting more hotels and boardinr houses.
bath houses and buiiless houses rrostly stone or
'r'ck, the v-si[o-4 to Mineral Wells as shown by the
ticket. at tkb drlot are now from one hundred and
fTf;r to t-wo he'ndred thousand durinmr each year. I
will now co back to 1886 and speak of the drouth of
h+ ra;,'iq 27 "' -edern Texas counties, which ini-,d( 1: ' MVer t: ,
was not any thincr raised that
year cr, the far-w, in these counties. All kinds of
s'nck -woud not sell at any pirce. is there was no
2racs and no feed. a go-'d crop was raised in 1885.
'ut by AurLust 1886 thin was all consumed, some of
the people Of Mineral 'We1s cut Cedar Posts and
hauled them east and sold them at low prices for
bread, donations were made by lodges. by individualsP
and sent here and distributed among the
reorle in th same way as is done in an army of sol_}R
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Berry, H. M. A Brief History or a Statement of Facts of Mineral Wells, Texas, book, September 24, 1921; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth21923/m1/16/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Boyce Ditto Public Library.