Hereford Reporter (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, May 31, 1901 Page: 1 of 8
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VOL. I. NO. 15
HEREFORD, DEAF SMITH COUNTY, TEXAS, MAY 31, 1901
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HEREFORD AS A CATTLE
SHIPPING POINT.
What A. B. Robertson of Colorado Says in
Regard to our Progressive Little City
in the West Texas Stockman.
Mr. A. B. Robertson has returned
from a trip to several points on the
Pecos Valley railway where he
went to superintend the delivery of
a large number of cattle. Knowing
that Mr. Robertson is a man who
keeps an eye on the indicator and is
well posted as to conditions gener-
ally, a representative of this paper
met the gentleman and asked him
about conditions up there and if he
had delivered the cattle contracted
some time ago.
"Yes, both lots of the cattle
which I contracted in March to
Messrs. Cowden & Pemberton ar-
rived at their respective points in
due time, and I experienced no diffi-
culty in getting then shipped out.
"Yes, I left here on the west
bound train on the 15th instant,
boarded the Pecos Valley & North-
eastern at Pecos, stopped off one
day at Carlsbad. That town and
the country about there presented a
prosperous appearance, and the
only complaint I heard while there
was that no steer buyers have as yet
visited that section of the country
this season. It occurs to me that
any buyer desiring to purchase one
and two-year-old steers should visit
Carlsbad, as the quality and con-
dition of the cattle in that vicinity
is very good, and I was assured that
they could be had worth the money
asked.
"My next stop was at Portales,
from which place I shipped the Hat
steers. Portales is as yet a small
town, but as expansion seems to be
the order of the day, it may yet as-
sume huge proportions. If it does
not grow larger it will not be from
lack of space. The country con-
tiguous to Portales has been blessed
with copious rains, and the grass in
that section is excellent. I was
surprised to find that in reality Por-
tales was not the shipping point that
I had been led to expect. The
shipping pens are good enough, but
the water as supplied by the rail-
road company is insufficient for
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large herds. At least, it had that
appearance to me. Apart from that
feature of the situation, the country
adjacent thereto is nearly all en-
closed in small pastures, embracing
about 100 acres and very narrow
lanes dividing each tract, thus ren-
dering it exceedingly difficult to
reach the pens with cattle for ship-
ment.
"I delivered the other herd at
Hereford, one of the best little towns
on the Pecos Valley & Northeastern
railway. As a place from which to
ship livestock this little town is sec-
ond to none other. The arrange-
ments of the town, the stockyards
and nearby pastures were certainly
made with the view of making Here-
ford an ideal place to drive stock
for sale or immediate shipment.
Hereford is one of the most orderly
little towns I ever visited, and its
business interests would be a credit
to a much more pretentious place.
They have two splendid hotels, a
first-class restaurant, an excellent
national bank, a most creditable
newspaper, and some mercantile
establishments that would reflect
lustre upon any town in the west.
The people are progressive and ac-
commodating, and constitute just
such a class as is required to build
up and develop waste places."—
West Texas Stockman.
As is a well known fact Mr. Rob-
ertson is identified with some of the
largest cattle sales and shipments,
and his words, appearing as they do
in such a reliable and widely circu-
lated stock paper, cannot help but
put Hereford to the front as a cattle
selling, buying and shipping point.
These shippers, coming as they do
from all points of the country, will
talk about Hereford as a business
center and the surrounding country
as an excellent location for the
stock farmer, on account of the fer-
tile soil and the copious rains with
which this section of the country is
blessed, and we predict that in a
year's time the surrounding country
Stringfellow-Hume Hardware Co.
(incorporated)
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN
Bain and Mitchell Wagons, Barbed
Wire, Hardware, Water Supplies,
Implements and Windmills.
STORES AT
Amarillo, Canyon City and Hereford, Texas.
Jack Harwell
PROPRIETOR OF
The^Herefordeát Saloon
....SPECIALTIES....
fine wines, whiskeys
and cigars
will be thickly settled with prosperous
farmers. Mr. Robertson might have
added, however, that Hereford en-
joys the same cattle shipping rate to
all market or feeding points as does
Amarillo, which is nearly fifty miles
northeast of her.
PRETTY HOME WEDDING.
J. C. Newman and Mi3s Olive
Ochletree Married at
Glen wood, Ind.
One of the prettiest and most im-
pressive wedding ceremonies which
has taken place at Glenwood, Ind.,
was that of J. C. Newman of Here-
ford and Miss Olive Ochletree of
the former place, which occurred on
Wednesday of last week in the pres-
ence of the immediate friends and
relatives of the happy couple at the
beautiful home of the bride's par-
ents, the Rev. S. J. Welker, pastor
of the Glenwood M. E. church of-
ficiating.
The bride is the charming daugh-
ter of James Ochletree, a prominent
and highly esteemed manufac-
turer of Glenwood. Her pleasant
smile and winning ways gained for
her the friendsdip of all who were
honored by her acquaintance, who,
while deeply regretting her depar-
ture, will wish for her many years
of happiness in her new Southwestern
home.
The groom is one of Hereford's
most popular and successful young
business men, being the manager of
the Hereford Lumber Company'3 ex-
tensive yards at this place, and who
has a host of friends who will join
with the Reporter in wishing for
him an 1 his fair bride a long, hap^y
and u eful voyage on the mat !mon-
ial sea in that good and noble ..hip—
State of Matrimony.
The ceremony was performed at
4 o'clock, p. m., after which an ex-
quisite wedding supper was served,
the happy couple leaving cn the 6 :30
train for this place, arriving cn Mon-
day morning. They immediately
repaired to the new and commodious
residence which the groom had re-
cently built and furnished for his
bride, where they will be at home
to their many triends.
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Hereford Reporter (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, May 31, 1901, newspaper, May 31, 1901; Hereford, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth142249/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Deaf Smith County Library.