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The Hereford Brand
Vol. 10
HERITORO, TEXAS, MARCH tf. 19IO
OVER $60,000.00 IN STOCK SUBSCRIBED FORR. R
TIE KELSO COUNTRY
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Letter of General Information About
Wtatorn Part of Deaf
Smith County.
The Brand :-
Will you kindly allow me to ans-
wer the many letters and questions
that I have received since giving the ;
vrite up of the progress of the Kelso j
country, through the columns of
your paper as it would be quite a
task to answer otherwise. I want to
say in the beginning that I am going !
to give the plain facts as far as I!
know them. While this may not |
• correspond exactly with some other I
reports you have heard the truth is J
best when known.
A number have written to knowj
about the depth of water. 1 will be- i
gin at Hereford which is about 25 j
miles southeast or to be exact by
section lines, 20 miles east and 7
south. The water at Hereford is |
p0 to 60 feet and the water gradual- j
: )y gets deeper as you go N. W. Ten
miles out it is from 90 to 100 feet;1
fifteen miles, ISO to 170. The next j
few miles brings us to a depth from j
260 to 300 feet and this is the depth |
of the wells around Kelso. The well
at Kelso is 250 feet. One mile west
at Mr. Palmer's the well is 300 b :
deep. This depth will continue v. .-st
of Kelso about 8 miles where we
have what we term the "dry belt."
This is a strip about 7 miles wide on
the Texas side and continues on into
New Mexico for some distance. In
this strip, we strike a red clay at a
depth of from 100 to 140 feet. If
we don't get water when we hit the
clay, we call it a '-dry hole" and
move a ways and begin a new hole.
We have drilled as many as four
holes on a section before we got wat-
er. This clay is from three to four
hundred feet thick with no water in
it, and under the clay is salt water.
This clay lies in strips, mounds or
ridges and when we hit where it
dips down as much as 175 feet we
usually get water. Now this is
about the true situation of the water
as I have found it, and I own an in-
interest in a well machine and speak
from actual experience.
As to the actual cost of improve- ...
u —j ! comes, are we going to wait and let
ments on a quarter section it will I _ , ^ _n ^ u„__
cost about as follows :
400 Posts at 16c $64.00
100 pounds Barb Wire 61.20
Building two miles of fence. 30.00
These prices are at the railroad.
The expense of hauling depends up-
on the distance. ,
The Kelso tract is one of the best j ^P11"-
bodies of lyd in the county but has I want to recite an instance. In
made lesk settlement than any part this same county that is farther from
for the reason that it was bought al- j the R. R. than we are that has been
most exclusively by speculators. j settled up by Germans, who have
I get scores of letters asking about j improved their land, made a good
the country. How much the land! living and have advanced the price
ha# advanced in price, if it is settl-' of the first cost from $10 to $35 per
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shows he thinks the country is good
enough for him.
As to the price of land, As I
stated before there is one way to ad-
vance the price of your land and
that is by having it improved, as in
the case of Mr. Saeger who paid
$10.00 per acre for his land, put up
a 3 room house, broke out 80 acres,
fenced the 1-2 section and sold it for
$20.00 per acre.
I know a number of people who
want to come to this country but are
afraid they can't produce crops
here. Of course, we need a great
deal of experimenting here on many
different kinds of crops, while we
have a few crops past the experi-
mental stage. Now the question
a few do all the experimenting, bear
all the cost and suffer all the priva-
tions of settling a new country. If
so, it will take years, but if we would
all take hold and help, we could in
two or three years bring results that
otherwise would take years to ac-
ing up, what the population of Kelao.
Kelso has and the population is ex-
actly nine people, myself, my wife
and our seven children. There are
10 buildings except what the com-
pany put here. My other letter
gave most all the names of the set-
tlers but I failed to mention two or
three among who are R. W. Saeger
who improved a place 10 miles north
west of Kelso and was the second
man to build on the Kelso tract,
from Hull, Iowa. Mr. Saeger has
sold the first place he improved and
has bought raw land again which
acre. Now I have thought some cf
a proposition like this: Say we
form a stock company and establish
an experimental farm. Take wheat
for instance and work it along the
lines of the Campbell System of
scientific farming. I have been
making a close study of Mr. Camp-
bell's ideas and believe it the cor-
rect method fot this country. Of
course, I don't think any set of
rules would exactly apply to all
countries. We oould rent fifty or
one hundred acres of land for which
we could pay the customary rent
tends to thoroughly organise the
farmers of this section and Mr. El-
liott will have charge of a series of
special institutes to be held.
Main Building T. C. U. Bunts.
The main building of Texas Chris-
tian University was completely des-
troyed by fire Tuesday evening at
7 o'clock. The cause of the fire is
supposed to be defective wiring.
The building was valued at $150,000
with only $40,000 insurance. The
school will continue in improvised
rooms around the campus. The
girls dormitory, music and dining
j were nQt damaged. The Chris-
Planting More Trees. j t-an brotherhood have sustained a
The ladies of the Mothers' Club severe loss. T. E. Shirley president
had another tree planting yesterday ; of the board is a citizen of Hereford
afternoon and "worked" some oil Easter FlowTr Garden,
the candidates again, the big sheriff; Thls beautiful entertainment
and have it worked in a thorough
scientific way and divide the net pro-
ceeds if there be any among the
stock holders. By this means, we
could demonstrate what could be
done then people could move here
with a knowledge of what they could
do. I would be glad to hear from
anyone on a proposition of this kind,
especially fromG. P. Wilson of Des-
moins, la. I would be glad to hear
from any one who contemplates mov-
ing here.
Sincerely yours,
John Gregory.
IRRIGATION fX
PUT MAY COME
Writes Litter Making Prsposil
to Bereferd Farmers About
Future Visit.
was
given at the College Chapel Sunday
night by the members of the Junior
and Intermediate Endeavor Societies.
Children from all the churches as-
sisted. Misses Bulah Wright and
Mate Hunt deserve credit for the
splendid work. While a chorus was
aroood which will b. planted flower I beiBg ^ four girU ptutd tbrouih
bed.. The intermodule ipacet wiU lbe audience and ln o( $n
be fraued. The city ha« extended, waf made for the orphanage work,
a lateral op Maio Srreet to the park ! Prieod, who
were interested sent in
and the big candidate for city mar-
shall working at the wheel. The
ladies have laid out a park which
when completed will b e a real
"beauty spot." Three walks bord-
ered by trees leading from the three
corners to the center at a fountain
so that water in abundance is at
hand.
After the tree planting, the ladies
served ice cream and cake on the
curb, where all the men and ladies
enjoyed a half hour most pleasantly.
Organizer Appointed.
Robt Elliott has been appointed by
Commissioner of Agriculture, Hon.
Ed R. Cone, as organizer of farmers
institutes in the Panhandle and South
Plains. His special work will be to
give lectures on farm adjuncts such
as dairying and swine breeding etc.
He will announce soon the course of
more the next morning. Mrs. R. N.
Mounts being one who contributed
$1 00 each of her two girls.
Get Ready.
Oh, citizens, be ready when the
Hereford people get ready to sell
you some railroad stock — they
mean business, and will submit a
proposition to us as soon as they
can get matters under headway from
Hereford to Adrain It is no joke,
but a new charter will be applied
for in a short time, and the road
will be built by home people, nd
will be paid for by home people,
work to be done and will give pref-j not bought with a bonus, but each
erence to places where invitations i citizen will have a chance to get his
are extended. The department in- [ money back — The Plainsman.
Orlando, Pis., March 17, 1910.
Mr. J. S. Wyche,
Hereford, Texas.
Dear Sir:—
I am in receipt of a letter from
Hon. John H. Stephens, M. C., re-
questing me to mail you data regard-
ing subirrigation from flowing wells.
Our bulliten upon sub-irrigation is
not ss yet out of the press but I will
be pleased to take up the subject by
correspondence, should you decide
to make some experiments along
these lines.
A few general statements can he
made but it would be much better to
know your conditions for irrigation
before discussing the subject to any
extent.
The field where sub-irrigation has
developed most exiensivety is in the
truck districts of Florida. A study
of Florida conditions where sub-ir-
rigation is successful brings out the
following general points.
There must be present a sub-
stratum of impervious material to
form a bottom which will hold the
irrigation water up against the sur-
face soil.
That the surface soil must permit
o f rapid lateral percolation and
possess high capillarity powers
which will cause the water to travel
thru the soil and come to the surface
to supply the roots with moisture.
That open tile joints cannot be
used with deep rooting crops.
That one cannot tske too much oare
in the design of the system and be
too earful in getting the pipe lints
layed at the proper grades.
Should you care to co-operate
with this office in your irrigation ex-
periments, exchanging the results
you gain for engineering assistance
it may be possible for me to make
the arrangement.
Kindly address me in care of the
U. S. Deprrtment of Agriculture, Ir-
rigation Investigation, Washington,
D. C.
Yours very truly,
Milo B Williams.
S. B. Carr Won.
The Preliminary Oratorical Con-
test of the Academy, which was held
in the opera hall last Friday night,
was a very pleasant affair and was
attended by a very interested aud-
ience. The program was well ren-
dered and the contestants, S. B.
Carr and L. L. Hughes, did great
credit to themselves and the institu-
tion they represented, showing that
much study and preparation were
not lacking with either of these
young geotlemen. The decision of
the judges was a very close tie but
finally resulted that S. B. Carr was
winner. He will represent the Can-
adian Academy in the Panhandle
Oratorical Contest that is to be held
in Hereford, April 15, 1910.
Will Make Irrigation Tile.
J. L. Johnson, the cement block
factory man is preparing to manu-
facture tiling for 3ub-irrigation
plants. Mr Johnson has invented
a machine to turn out 2-foot tile. It
is an automatic machine with high
capacity. Orders for tile are al-
ready coming in.
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Elliot, A. C. The Hereford Brand, Vol. 10, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, March 25, 1910, newspaper, March 25, 1910; Hereford, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth253546/m1/1/: accessed March 29, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Deaf Smith County Library.