Western Dry Farm Triumphs and Congress News
A Billings telegram notes the Fourth Dry Farming Congress will be held October 26 28 1909 with ten western governors invited and expected attendance. Arizona New Mexico and Texas plan dry farming exhibits for the Exposition alongside the congress. Elko County Nevada shows notable progress as dry farming expands regional cultivation and population estimates suggest a 35 000 000 potential western population.
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Billings
Montana
Oregon
Colorado
Wyoming
Nebraska
Washington
Utah
South
Arizona
New Mexico
Texas
Nevada
Elko County
Storm Devastates Panhandle Towns In Texas Train Wreck
A western Panhandle storm leveled Hamlin and Knox City with heavy damage. A Kansas City Mexico Orient passenger train derailed on the Brazos River bridge between Knox City and Benjamin. One passenger, J. E. Stafford of Crowell, died and seven others were injured. The Orient camp at Deepwater was wiped out.
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Big Springs
Texas
Hamlin
Orient
Here
Knox City
Panhandle Country
Kansas City, Mexico & Orient
Brazos River
Benjamin
J. E. Stafford
Crowell
Orient Section
Deepwater
Taft Too Active, Oklahoma Clubs Decry DOJ Suits
The Associated Commercial Clubs of Oklahoma adopted resolutions condemning the Justice Department policy of filing 25,000 civil and criminal suits against Indian land purchasers. They say the suits discredit the state, harm citizens, and will paralyze business.
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Taft Direct
Associated Commercial Clubs of
Oklahoma
Department of Justice
Brewster County Cinnabar Mines Set for Expanded Development
From Austin reports Brewster county cinnabar mines in the Terlingua district are poised for renewed and larger scale operations on private lands after earlier flooding hampered output. The note highlights mining gains, state land policy losses, and calls Texas mineral potential among the world’s great quicksilver districts.
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Austin
Texas
Brewster County
Cinnabar
Shafter
Juarez Race Track Aims To Rival Monte Carlo
Reports say Juarez across the Rio Grande from El Paso will host a licensed race track with gambling games. The project is led by Matt Winn president of the American Turf Association J J Follansbee manager for Hearst Mexican ranch interests and Alberto Terrazas son of Governor Louis Terrazas.
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Juarez
Mexico
el Paso
Matt J. Winn
American Turf Association
J. J. Follansbee
W. R. Hearst
Alberto Terraza
Louis Terrazas
Chihuahua
Farmer Confesses to Halloween Livestock Graffiti
In Houston area a hunter party found a placid bovine painted with Ox on its side and two mules labeled Mule by the creek. They reported the discovery to the farmer, who admitted the prank saying city hunters shoot stock and he won’t let them mistake his animals again.
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Houston
Landowners urged to list ranch and farm tracts for sale
L D Louratan invites landowners from the East and elsewhere to list their ranch or agricultural land with him, promising to locate buyers. He suggests trying an advertisement in The Avalanche.
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First National
Bank OF Alpine
Alpine
Alpine Hotel
W. A. Cline
Scenic Glen Ranch
Carazonas Ranch
Alpine Drug
R.B. Slight
Alamo Comission
San Antonio and
Fort Worth
Hinason
B. E. Hinson
Propr
Southern Pacific
Johnson & Jordan
Messenger
Albion J. Monagin
Lackey Building
Palace Pharmacy
THE
Bean & Blackburn
F. M. Sessions
Phone 119
S. A. Starr
Edison
Alpine Furniture Co
J. H. Rector
Western Dry Farm Triumphs
Taft
Brewster’s
Vanderbilts
Saltillo
Castro
Venezuela
Secret Service
America
F. C. Fletcher
Irva Alice
San Antonio
Mobile
United Confederate Veterans
Clement A. Evans
Business Men's Club of
Lon C. Hill
Brownsville
Cotulla
Los Angeles
Louis Rose
Turkey Creek
Russell Saye
M. Choucard
Louvre
Paris
France
Madame Boursin
Madame Boursin Immedi
Ately
Porto Rico
Guayaquil
Ecuador
Elmendorf
New Iberia
Martin's Ferry
Ohio
Wheeling Steel and Iron Company
Wharton County
Decatur, Ills
Valparaiso
Chile
Pestilential
Black Hand Society
Nove! Enterprise
Alpine State Bank
Wigfall van Sickle
J.C. Brooke
Court House
John A. Hardy, M
McIintyre & Slight Building
R.R. A. Sargent
Benj. F. Berkeley
M. D
R. E. Taylor
Slight’s Drugstore
Our Lady
Alpine Mercantile Company
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