The Stamford News. (Stamford, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, March 8, 1907 Page: 1 of 12
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City thats Going to be but e City that is-
in Sight-Something about the People Who are Responsible for Stamfords Existance, and Who are and
Have been Responsible for all the Great Things that have come to the City of Roses.
ie idealist, the dreamer,
Sen laughed at. But t’is
strange to say, the very
[whieh we scoffed on the
iy, . we adopt today,
i was a dreamer of dreams,
reverence for him is not
that which we have for
der that Stamford has received
• her portion of that wonderful tide
of immegration. Located in the'
heart of a boundless prairie, a
land Of eternal sunshine, where
you may sleep out of doors the
year round without injury. The
settler has found no buffalo to
ilumbuir iis being turned over daily by the
sing stark mad, a dreamer
wildest kind of dreams,
ie lone woman ' belieVed
all the "wise ones of her
id you know the result.
it Edison, and the con*
rhich Cornelius Vender
for a “fool inventor”
Vanderbelt system of
Is thousands of dollars,
install the Westinghaus
>f air brakes. So before
us that we dream.) Read
contained in, th/ lines
lg a ha|f hundred *epre*
re firms, and refu i upon
ley have acoov Jished,
iember the unw ilties of
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the realties c / Inmhr.
gentleman, a / ep resen-
itizen of the J /est, was
on the front
lfordjjnn, st
toward the
le exclaim
irow^ our
ut never
h them,
lem how
key see
tell as
n our
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R. was established in 1900, and
now has a population of five>
thousand people. A city of large
brick and stone buildings of the
most modem type. A oily of
beautiful homes, ........of . noble
ohurches, and of whose schools
and colleges, when those- under
hunt or Indians to fightr—Btrir oourse of construction are com-
plow. , ,
Stamford, at jan elevation of
1,800 feet, in Jones oounty, at
the - terminal . of—the Texas
West to exeell,.and of - which we
devote some space elsewhere;
A oity of electric lights, paved
streets, splendidly equipped-fire
department and water works.
,ofj,nyiown West of Ft. Worth
and possible Ft. Worth itself, be-
ing on the eocepted routing- of highest wages: It is conceded
two or more important railway
system. In 1904 there were -one
hundred and four immegrant
cars unloaded in Stamford, and
e©4t"hus continued—dally, week
iy, hundreds coming into our
midst, who. -became e«*mored J
and:
make a purchase, and *ln time
become Citizen’s. The hotels,
boarding houses, are' over flow -
ing. There’s not a vacant
house in town, and hundred
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An Institution of Higher Education.—Authorized By the Abilene and Colo-
rado Districts of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
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fehing out
stern Ho-
“And to
few short
3d Buffalo
fifth is how
itinuing he
the land
today—and
It is
us city, peo-
dously wondep*
pose, as ' this
; broiling his
Iteak/ n the coals of
fire / had intimated
)mpi| /ns that he be-
lt
would be-a beautiful
the Spot where they
imped, he would have
>ughed at, jeered at, and
a dreamer of dreams,
was we stand upon the
Id of our young like, - and
azeout upon the magni-
Horizon beyond, tell us
i we dream, when wetell
it in the perepective we
lights of a city of an
1 thousand. Tell us not
l>«lahfting wound that ie
to us upon the wind is not
f of an electric car. Try
onvinoe us mat we do not
heaven's black with the
pof. ti hundred mills -and
», t&iis is all possible, in-
t is more than, probable
m consider the con -
; Stamford, it’s people,
rsphical location, and its
(all of the West seem* ft* I
taken a hold upon* tha
L‘he faot that the conception
if /the Stamford Collegiate^In-
titute and the hotly contested
struggle by whioh.it was located
in Stamford are all of recent
date, and known in detail to
many of the people, will not we
think detraot from the readable-
’Inesi of an article recounting the
events from which the institution
eminated and by which it was
brought to us.
The institution had its origin in
confernce, and the contest for
th$ location waa begun,
Stamford entered the contest
rather indifferently at first-sad
was looked upon by other con-
testants as only a name on the
list, and only there by the self
conceit of her people, but after a
little considering and marshaling,
of the forces by F. S. Hastings
Chairman of the Stamford Com-
mercial Club, ~a1l the business-
men of the town together with
mg $100,000.
W. H. Symonds, architect of
New York oity drew the plans
that were accepted.— Mr. P.
Moodie, who has built many pub-
lic buildings in Texas took
the oontract for the construction
of the main. building. and at
present has the work well under
way. The building will be con-
structed of stone and three stories
and basement.
Dr.. Jerome Duncan was elected
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buffifing; CorpehttSir,mechanics
ami laborers of all kinds are in, *
great demand, and are paid the
by authorities that the develop-
ment of every piece of land in
America is ineviatiable, vBdT~r~
that the development of every_________
piece of West Texas land is and
assured fact, none will doubt.
eideration-that the high-~p*iee of
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wool has drove the manufacturer
into useing ootfon in a hundred,
different ways in whioh he for-
merly used wool, and the further
fact that-in the mercerized cloths
manufaotered alone, means aT
wonderful consumption of eottop.
Facts of themselves which for-
over precludes the possibility of
five cents cotton, and when its
further considered and under-
located in the center of the .finest
cotton country r in the world
believed by many experienced
farmers to be absolutely beyond,
owing to the high dry olimate,
the incroachments of the boll
weevil, and with the passing of
the ranch-with its thousands of
acres, and the substitution of
eighty and a hundred and sixty
ocre farms which is surely being
gradually accomplished, aa an
illustration, we mention the fact
that t’was only last week, we'
chronicled the purchase by
Messrs Swenson BrOs., of some
half millions acres of land whioh
will be opened into farms and
disposed of in small tracts, all of
which means to the observant
one, that the city of Stamford
will beoome in a few short years
the trading point, and the cotton
market of thousands and thous-
of these small farmers, who have,
and who ^are today buying up
and settleing upon these lands.-
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Prospective View of the College Building
the minds of some or the leaders
of the Methodist Churoh and was
formally presented to a preachers
meeting at Abilene by Presiding
Elder, J* R. Morris, From there
the matter was taken to the dis-
trict Conferences of Abilene and
Colorado districts, sc agreement
bavin!/been entered in to -between
liberality of eoi
the coferencea to establish the
school and to locate it at the
place ottering the greatest in-
ducement. The necessary
the local pastors of the different
churches, at once threw them-
selves into the movement with a
force and nnlty.nf *rtlnn, AnH
simply knocked the bi
of the other contestants. Messrs
Swenson Bros, were oqe with the
people in the contest and they
Pros., of the institution, and has
so far secured a faculty that will
be seoond to non* in institutions
liW^ to.win. When Che count
was taken it was found that Stam
ford had doubled in, hjr of-
oooHfsr that of aay 0thar pTaS|7jt&t
mittees were appointed by the] total aihount offered approxhnat- very reasonable prioes.
of this elaas. Rev. R. B. Evans
that was elected buaiaeas manager,
out The sohool will /be Opened in
the early part of Sept, for the fall
term. To those who are seeking
a place toeduoate their ohildren
this institution -offers the very
best advantages and the College
addition now on the market offers
an opportunity to seoure a lot *t
C. F. Vallint/
Among those gentleman wh^
have enjoyed apd incidentally
have added to the general pros-
perity of Stamford* we know of
none more appreciative and de-
serving than our fellow townsman
C. F, Va 1 lint. The splendid suc-
cess that has attended the busi-
ness venture of this gentleman is
not to be wondered at when yon
enter his store.
The best to be had in the con-
fectionery line. Soda and oold
drinks are served in . a manner
benefitting the plaoe,
While this busiuess house is
but seven moritoff^Id'ybt it) that
brief time Mf. X^alllant ha^ hy 1ilk^
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devotion to the slightest call of,
the public taste, has indeed built
up a profitable business of wl^ich
ho may well be proud
A gentleman of Mr. ValUant't
sterling qualities is a credit ta the
City ahdthe News predicts, for
him a long successful, business
career in otir..midst* . -
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Gay, S. The Stamford News. (Stamford, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, March 8, 1907, newspaper, March 8, 1907; Stamford, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth912165/m1/1/?q=wichita+falls: accessed June 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Stamford Carnegie Library.