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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1929
Page
8
Local and personal items report visitors and residents in Alpine, Marfa, and Presidio. Teachers, merchants, and officers are cited, including many who traveled to El Paso, San Antonio, and Houston. A school program and a Lions Club meeting are noted with community remarks on local civic activity.
Fragmentary notes show Schreiner attacking Alpine in a Thanksgiving game with Mountaineers, Graves crew, and Kaw recruits among teams eyeing a win. Mentions San Marcos, McMurry, and Sul Ross as others shaping the season as Alpine Teachers face a tough schedule.
Mis Starns presided as chief spokesman at the meeting while Rotary head Owens attended the luncheon and offered congratulations. The report notes the formal program and the President’s remarks during the gathering.
A tentative schedule lists foe lineups from January to February with games against New Mexico State, Daniel Baker, McMurry, Abilene, and Texas Tech at Lubok. Canyon State Teachers and Schreiner or Simmons may appear, as the season closes during the Interscholastic tournament at the host site.
The author recalls Marble Mountain in Brewater County as a potential resource once doubted by locals. Once seen as a difficult, almost inaccessible quarry, it stood with derelict buildings and a decaying derrick. Despite early mockery, persistent effort could transform the mountain into a viable enterprise with a captain of industry emerging.
A narrator explores a marble quarry and adjacent machinery hall on Marble Mountain. He describes a diesel powered belt system, a vast polishing disk, water cooling, and a hot metal shop. Workers, a president, and a western hostess share a plain, orderly cook shack beside the evolving, sparsely developed plant.
A vivid tribute notes John Young's enduring dream and unyielding faith as he battles setbacks, envisaging a transformative industrial future that will outlast centuries, with leadership described as a spiritual industrial captain among the people.
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