Amarillo Daily News (Amarillo, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 133, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 6, 1913 Page: 5 of 10
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AMARILLO DAILY NEWS, SUNDAY, APRIL 7, 1913.
STEADY STRIDES
FOR PLAINVIEW
MARVELOUS ADVANCE TO-
WARD CITYHOOD IN
SEVEN YEARS
PLAINVIEW, Texas, April 5.—
During the past seven years Plain- I
view has made an extraordinary
stride in population addition; pub.
11c and private construction; civic ।
equipment: church and school ex-
pansion; and general business devel-
opment.
-. The Magic Figure Seven.
In the ancient days of mystic lore
the figure seven was always a magic
• number and, in the light of her sev-
en great years of progress and pros-
perity, Plainview stands forth as a
vivid modern exposition of the proph-
ecies and fullfillments of the famous
old figure. )
In the seven years since the com-
ing of the Santa Fe railroad Plain-
view has grown—with annual leaps |
and bounds, from a ragged cluster
of raggeder sharks to a handsomely
built and notably equipped city of
seven thousand people; or an aver-
age population increase of one thou-
sand per year.
She has two great denominational
colleges; the Seth Ward Methodist
and the Wayland Baptist; three pub-
lic school buildings with an aggre-
gate construction cost exceeding fif-
ty thousand dollars; an eighty thou-
sand dollar court house; sixteen re-
ligious denominations with fourteen
churches whose erection represents
a combined expenditure of about
ninety thousand dollars; expensive
and efficient electric light systems;
a notable fire department and fine
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GRAIN FIELD NEAR PLAINVIEW
arth
planting on the company’s 640 acre I
demonstration farm near Plainview
is already in progress—this - farm
having three large well pumpase 1
plants.
The No. 2 well of the company
lately tested out from eighteen hun-
dred to two thousand gallons per
minute. This is the largest well of
the South Plains country.
The company’s park Is located
near the Santa Fe depot and its Ir-
rigation development will be an at-
traction and profitable lesson to the
tourist and travelers from less for-
tunate or progressive regions. Talk-
ing of irrigation, H. T. Tanner, a
concerned expert of the Santa Fe
railroad agricultural department.
lately visited the 32 horse power en-
gine and fifteen hundred gallon per
minute well of 3. H. Slaton near
Plainview and said the well would
with a 40 horse power engine dis-
charge seventeen hundred gallons
per minute. Mr. Slaton is irrigating
this year, 140 acres which in not the
wells full capacity.
A modern five room house on i
lot at 1808 Buchanan streetuw 1
newly papered and painted and
the price.
This place is especially well local
some Santa Fe employe who reports
yard office. Price only $2,250.00
Bud" Williams will shortly begin the
erection of a ten thousand dollar
business brick to be ready for oc-
cupancy this fall, while several oth-
er similar, structures are already
planned for this year.
Bonus Nearly Raised
Plainview has already raised over
one hundred thousand dollars of the
one hundred and fifty thousand dol-
lar bonus demanded by the Quanah,
Acme and Pacific railroad to bring
that road to the city, while the bal-
ance will be secured doubtlessly in
a short time. President Lazarus, of
the Quanah road has notified Plain-
view that on the raising of the en-
tire bonus he will come to Plain-
view and “talk business."
Active and Progressive Ladies
The members of the "Ladies Civic
League” are breaking all precedents
in their activities and progressive
city hall; commodious opera house;, ,
three big banks; large grain eleva- work in behalf of * cleanly
and
be especial corkers. Baseball files
will be knocked out and fly caps
will be barred.
Heavy Shipments
Year before last Plainview station
shipped all told thirty five hundred
cars of general products—including
stock, while last year four thousand
similar cars were marketed.
Year before last about 7 Mi per
cent of the Plainview region was cul-
tivated; last year about 11 per cent;
while this year there will probably
be 15 per cent, which means that,
with the usual crop growing condi-
tions. Plainview will ship this fall
and winter between fifty five hun-
dred and six thousand general pro-
duct cars.
In the Plainview region some-
thing like five thousand head of
beef steers and a large number of
hogs are now being export market
fattened, chiefly on milo maize and
In well pumpage irrigation direc-
tion the Texas Land & Development
Co., an English moneyed syndicate
with Plainview headquarters, has
purchased sixty thousand acres of
land in the city vicinities for an ag-
gregate of one and one half molllion
dollars which it will farm develop
with four hundred well pumpage
plants with water discharges, per
plant of one thuosand or twelve
hundred gallons of water per min-
ute, with an equipment and improve-
NOTICE
L. N. Pittman at 110 East Fourth
street examines eyes and fits glasses
in special shape lenses and special
mountings which restores sight to
the nearest normal perfection pos-
sible.
133-3e
Glasses fitted to anyone that re-
sponds to light by L. N. Pittman,
110 East Fourth street, l33-3c
ANNOUNCEMENT
Dr. Wolcott. Specialist will after
April 1st devote all of his time to
Amarillo practice. Special equip-
ment expenditure of two million
more dollars. Several wells are now ment anl original methods for treat-
in successful operation, with con- Ing all Catarrhal conditions. Ap-
ing all Catarrhal conditions.
tracts let for many more .
Plainview 'is alike the capital of
Hale county and the South Plains,
center of capitalistic investments
and money holding and distribution.
The Texas Land & Development
Company is getting under good in-
itial way with its great Plainview
pointments for time at night, phone
606. Glasses fitted at night as well
as in day time. Local new offices
in the Fuqua building. 127-5c
There is a loan now against the prop
amounting to about $750.00 payable
monthly installments of $16.83. - -
TERMS: $500.00 CASH, purchases to
sume the loan as above and the balance
be carried in three equal annual paymen
tor and storge capacities; three
wholesale grocery establishments;
the only electric power gin on the
Plains or in the Panhandle; an Ice
plant, a modern railroad passenger
depot; costly brick business bouses
with heavy and diversified mercan-
."'file stocks; graded streets and ce-
ment sidewalks; various machine
shops; a twenty thousand dollar Elk
Home; a twenty five thousand Ma-
sonic Temple; a one hundred twenty
thousand dollar hotel; is a double
railroad city—being the junction of
the Amarillo-Sweetwater and the
Plainvview, Lockney, Floydada Santa
Fe lines; and is a famous automo-
bile city. The Wayland and the Seth
Ward colleges represent a combined
investment of three hundred thou-
safe dollars, while thetotal college
and public school attendance is in
excess of fifteen hundred.
Handsome Homes
Plainview is proud of her hand-
some homes, many of which cost
ten thousand and upward, the larg-
est instances in this direction being
the twelve thousand Gidney and the
eleven thousand Anderson homes,
while ten other residences now in
erection process will range from
three thousand to ten thousand in
cost, the leaser priced buildings be-
Piest talering Cualta Spring 1913. Home Farm
, E.H. Try. 6 miles sir. Plainview.
sightly Plainview and, what is more kafir corn, these cattle being near-
they have moved their men folks to ly ready for loading out.
due and effective assistance. The
Ing of bungalow architecture has League is thoroughly imbued with
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streets not allowing the construction .......... ie already n citv and home
of any residence costing less than
twenty five hundred dollars.
In residence connection there is a
nation is already n city and home
In pork production direction. It.
Tudor is making a very successful
experiment in fattening five hundred
hogs with steam cooked kafir corn.
unwritten law.
Plainview recently issued bonds
The city is the practical headquart-
ers and displays points of the Houth
Plains Poultry Association, in con-
nection with which is the progres-
Petition to Legislature
The following petition bearing sig-
natures of several hundred Amarillo
citizens wan forwarded to members
of the State Legislature during the
session just closed. The request
may receive consideration during the
special session.
Need Glasses? Ask la. N. Pittman
the optometrist, 110 East Fourth St.
133-8e
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY
FOR HALE OR TRADE-8-room
modern residence; well, windmill,
ortbuildings; on half block, in most
favorable residence section of most
beautiful school town in the Pan-
handle: value $4,000. Would con-
sider trade for Amarillo property or
land. Jeff Capehart, 403 N. John-
son street. 133-6p
WANTED Hewing by the day or
garment. .407 Van Buren street.
133-6p
FOR RENT — Furnished 5-room
house, 603 Arthur St.: $15.00 per
month. Phone 4 18. See L. G. Run-
yan, the Singer man. 133-tf
W. Latney B
Phone 313 1
Pnc Water
Uds Heaters
Heat the water for the entire
house. Get hot water and all
you want at any time, day or
night.
OSTEOPATHS.
77
DR. K. J. CLEMENTS DR. GERTRUDE CLEMEN
Rooms 2*3-4 Old Eberstadt Building.
range, light and bath.
700 Tyler.
Phone 128.
Phone 453.
Have your eyes fitted with Kryp-
general movement now in progress
for the further ornamentation and
beautifying of home grounds. With-
in the last eighteen months ten new
* brick business buildings and the ma-
- sonic Temple and the Elks Home
have been built at a general average
per building often thousand.
Dr. Grant of Plainview, and Her-
. mann Bluecher of Albuquerque, N.
M., are now erecting in Plainview
a thirty-five thousand dollar brick
mercantile and general offoce build-
ing with all the latest concerned
equipments to- be completed by Sep-
tember 1, W. T. McRae of Plain-
view, contractor and builder. "Uncle
for an aggregate of twenty two thou-
sive fact that the Houth Plains
sand dollars for sewerage extension 'poultry business is heavily increas-
and street improvement, the work to
materialize this summer. - |
The city has two progressive and
prosperous weekly newspapers, the
Herald and News—the latter paper
soon installing a linotype.
Flies
A crusade by the city children has
just been started against flies, the
Texas Land and Development Co.,
offering aggregate prizes of $75 for
the best fly killings between now and
the first of July. Naturally deer
files will relatively command more
money, while blue-bottle files will
Ing annually. L
The Plainview electric light and
ice plant has just added to its equip-
ment a three hundred horse power
engine and a steam turbine generator
the latter giving the plant a strong
reserve generating power.
well pumpage irrigation enterprise.
Contract work on the equiping
and adorning of the company’s big
park adjoining Plainview includes
oiled gravel driveways; trees; shrub-
beries, lawns and floral plants; and
the installation of an electric plant
with a twelve, hundred or fifteen
hundred gallon water discharge
per minute, one of whose missions
will be creation of a spacious lake.
The company has lately ordered
for various setting out sixty eight
thousand assorted fruit trees from
Missouri; eight thosand strawberry
plants- from Fresno, California and
one thousand different nut trees
from Battle Creek, Michigan, an-
other incident of company tree
WANTED To buy or borrow, s
good stallion. Write at once. Ad-
dress A-16, care Daily News.. 133-2p
TEXAS SCHOOL LANDS 1.50 to
$5 acre: 1-40th down, balance forty
years. Information and Texas map
free. Journal Pub. Co., Houston.
Texas. 138-1p
RANCH LOANS On large tracts of
pasture land Low rate and liberla
terms. Address J W. Wilson, Atchi-
FOR RENT -One or two large neat-
ly furnished rooms, wodern, plaster-
1 :•:■::< tor h invissible bifocal lenses at L. N. L
Pittman's, IIO East Fourth “‘It
nd house. 801 Lincoln, 133-6P Rheumatism as a result of kidney
-------------------------------trouble, stiff and aching joints, back-
AGENTS WANTED In every town ache, lumbago, and sore kidneys all
community to sell the Imperial Self yield quickly to the healing and cu-
Heating Had Iron. Good .proposition, rative qualities of Foley Kidney Pills
Write for particulars. Western They regulate urinary irregularities,
and restore normal, action. John
Light & Supply Co., Amarillo, Tex.
133-7c
son, Kansas.
1330c
$1000 TO LOAN on improved city
property. Must be first class propo-
sition. Quick service. P. O. Box
No. 435, ‘ 133-3e
FOR RENT— Modern five room
house by April 15, Geo. P. Lambeth
WANTED—Young lady stenqgraph-
er, address S. eare News. aa-se
RANCH—Have some choice ranch-
es at prices ranging from $1.50 per
acre up. Ask for my list If in the
market. Gaut, with Dockray Land
Co. Phone 336, T33-2
Velbert, Foster, t'al., cays: "I suf-,
fered many years with kidney trou-
ble and could never get relief until I
tried Foley Kidney Pills which Affec-
ted a complete cure." Contain no
habit forming drugs. 5 >"
RANDAL DRUG CO.
See L. N. Pittman for your ere
ttoibies, 110 East Fourth street.
133-3e
Well Pumpage Irrigation
PlainView is in the very midst
of the famous shallow water belt
of the. South Plains and can count
on all sides successfully operating
well pumpage irrigation plants with
many more to be installed.
The Texas Land & Development Co.
planting being twenty five miles of
1508 Fillmore street.
1 33-3p
BUDDING TREES IF PLAINSVIEW NUTSEHY
tamaracks._
Well pumpage
FOR RENT—Two or three clean fur-
irrigation andnished rooms for housekeeping. Gas
FOR RENT -Two rooms furnished
for light housekeeping. Gas, lights
and range. Call 302 West Seventh.
S. 133-3p
Beans—Five cents per pound, 406
North Taylor street. Phone 1324.5
REER'S 1,
Annual Spring Sale
Begins, Monday, April 7th
There are two ways of saving money, one is, buy to your advantage, getting the most out of
every dollar you have at your disposal. I he other is not to spend money. I he first way of sav-
ing money is the profitable one. T he latter way is bad from every standpoint. We are presenting
this sale Monday morning, which in several ways is unusual at the season's opening, which gives our
patrons the opportunity to save. It means that the person who buys now is going to get a great
deal more for their money than they really expected to receive. Visit the various departments dur-
ing this sale.
THE STORE THAT GIVES THE VALUES 1
Greer’s Cash Department Stoi
Taylor and 4th Street Amarillo,"Texas" Phone Number |
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Greer, Hilton R. Amarillo Daily News (Amarillo, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 133, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 6, 1913, newspaper, April 6, 1913; Amarillo, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1693926/m1/5/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Library and Archives Commission.