The Higgins News (Higgins, Tex.), Ed. 1 Friday, August 1, 1975 Page: 6 of 12
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A GOOD COUNTRY TO LOCATE IN
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THE BEST AND MOST PROMISING SECTION OF TUB
GREAT SOUTHWEST, because it adjoins Oklahoma, with
quarter section a home in fine state of cultivation.
this season, while other localities have fallen short.
THE BEST STOCK COUNTRY IN AMERICA. and Phil Ar-
mour, of beef packing fame, endorses this claim.
THE BEST SHIPPING ADVANTAGES; the Texas rate giv-
ing this.
WHERE CROPS IN A SINGLE SEASON will pay for land
at prevailing prices.
THE LOWEST TAXES ON LAND, ninety-five cents on $100,
al out $10 on a section of land.
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abled to pay from four to ten cents a bushel more for grain than is
possible for any Oklahoma shippers to pay, consequently. Oklahoma
farmers, within two to four days’ haul, make Higgins their grain
market. It gives Higgins a marked advantage and prestige over any
other town or city in the Northeastern Panhandle country.
The Northeastern Panhandle country has these claims and fur-
ther information, facts and figures arc given in this book :
THE HEALTHIEST CONTRY IN THE WORLD, and this
is vital and important not only to the family and the home, but to
everything that lives and grows in this section, including all stock
and all land crops..
THE BEST WATER AND PLENTY OF IT. there being
twenty-six running streams of sparkling, pure water in Lipscomb
county, and an inexhaustible supply for domestic purposes of ninety-
five per cent purity.
THE BEST RECORDS IN LAND CROPS, for everything
can be raised that will grow in this zone. There never has been a
crop failure. The wheat in Lipscomb county maintaining its average
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THE BEST SCHOOL LAWS. Texas haying-over $40,000,006
surplus money for school purposes.
WHERE THE DEVELOPMENT ALTHOUGH RAPID is
Northeastern Panhandle Country comprises the counties .4
Lipscomb. Ochiltree. Roberts and Hemphill in Texas, and counties
of Beaver. Woodward, Ellis and Roger Mills. in (klahoma, with the
Texas-Oklahoma boundary line separating the counties of t klahoma
and the counties in Texas, the Texas counties lying in the northeast
corner of Texas, and bounded on two sides by ( klahoma. The Santa
Fe railway . which now is engaged in making its line into the South-
west, a main. or trunk line. from Chicago to the Pacific coast, mak-
ing it one of the best railway lines in the world, traverses the North-
eastern Panhandle country in a northeasterly and southwesterly
direction, giving this section splendid railway accommodations north,
east, south and west. The towns and cities receiving special atten-
tion in this book are Higgins and Lipscomb City, in Lipscomb coun-
ty. Higgins being on the Santa Fe and Lipscomb but twenty miles
inland, the county seat of Lipscomb County Located on the Santa
Fe railway, in Lipscomb county, and in Texas, Higgins draws its
resources from eight counties, four in Oklahoma and four in Texas.
It draws from the Oklahoma counties because Higgins has the ad-
vantage of a Texas shipping rate, whereby Higgins shippers are en-
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