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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1909
Page
1
Depositors like to feel their business helps build the bank and the community. The bank invites new accounts and promises mutual profit. It stresses usefulness in all finance matters and invites customers to grow with them.
The report lists a 111 degree Dallas temperature, Ed Miller's near fatal horse fall at Brady, swelling Mexican political tensions, mosquitoes impacting commerce along Louisiana and Texas coasts, and plans for two 26 000 ton battleships. It notes Del Rio population figures, a Chicago railway hub project, Mustang Island land sale, Walter Wellman North Pole pursuit, Arkansas insurer lawsuit, US airship land talks, El Paso police height note, a decomposed body near San Angelo, Judge John M Dean death in Chicago, a San Antonio cowboys reunion, Brewster County committee appointment, and a San Antonio Fair program hint.
The Kansas City Mexico and Orient Railroad plans to reach San Angelo Texas by October 1 linking to Topolobampo on the West Pacific Coast and to Eagle Pass for a connection with Mexico City. About 51 miles of the 77 between Sweetwater and San Angelo are done with several bridges planned and overall system length nearing 1650 miles with 500 miles already in operation in the United States.
The Dry Farming Congress at Alpine on September 1 and 2 invites Arthur E. Stiles, Texas State hydrographer and civil engineer, to speak on irrigation for arid land reclamation. Stiles would share expertise on damming arroyos, running streams, and well systems to capture rainfall and develop soil in the Southwest Big Bend region.
The Chamber of Commerce directors urged Secretary Carrington to attend the Dry Farming Congress set for September 1 and 2 in Alpine, as reported by the San Antonio Express.
The Avalanche will print Thursday evening next week to permit the office force to join Alpine's celebration and greet visitors on September 1st and 2nd. Patrons are asked to submit notices early.
The Kansas City Mexico and Orient plans to list preferred and common stock in New York London and Amsterdam. The project funds total 75 million with 37 million in preferred stock. International and Union Construction Co contractors seek 1.5 million first mortgage gold bonds and subsidies from Mexico and states. Nearly 900 miles of track likely by September with 760 miles remaining.
Captain Charles Goodnight plans to move his 875000 acre buffalo ranch in Old Mexico along the Rio Grande opposite Del Rio and part of Gen Lorenzo G Trevino's two million acre holdings. He owns the state’s only herd of buffaloes and reflects on vanished vast herds and shifting frontier meat markets.
Prof. E. J. Iddings of the International Dry Farm congress travels by El Paso & Southwestern railroad to inspect Cucumcari Santa Rosa Carrizozo and other NM sites. He will report to John T. Burns and may extend the tour along the G H1 railroad to Alpine and Midland inspecting soil culture efforts for best yields with minimal rainfall.
The Dry Farming congress plans thorough field studies by experts to assess soil culture needs for crop production. Prof Iddings was dispatched through New Mexico and west Texas to gather findings. Upon return to Denver his report will be issued by the congress and published in The Herald as part of its scientific soil culture department.
Pretty Alpine ribbon badges will be sold for a convention display at five cents each. Available at the Avg lanche office and other designated locations for attendees and participants.
A telegram from John T Burns secretary of the Dry Farmers Congress asks Congressman Slayden to attend the congress in Billings. Governor Norris of Montana urges attendance and proposes delaying to October 19 to 21 with governors accompanying the Presidential party from St Louis. The note asks if Texas will participate in the shift.
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