21 Sep 1911
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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1911
Page
1
Reports detail Ft. Davis activities including J W Espy buying 650 cattle for about 30000, and Pecos County Fair exhibit by the Ft. Davis Commercial Club on the 14th and 15th. Local notes cover births, deaths, teaching, moves, and a long piece on silos and road improvements.
Fort Worth based Cattle Raisers Association of Texas approved a 3 million dollar Cattle Raisers Sales Directing Agency to aid producers in securing better cattle prices and markets. Kansas City and St Louis offices will serve as branches with a 1.5 million subscribed by members and the rest from private parties. The agency will loan money, mortgage livestock, and promote cooperation among producers while teaching market procedures and organized pricing. President Lassater announced committee plans to study price disparities and potential nationwide meetings with a focus on relief and a square deal from large corporations. A government bureau to publish monthly price and cost data for producers, packers, retailers and consumers was urged.
A Mexican labor climate grows volatile as locals voice bitter resentment toward foreigners, especially Americans, amid revolutionary talk. Matt Baker, a nine year resident and carpenter, warns of potential danger and note that though some Mexican businessmen share hostile views, most restrain themselves. He recalls favorable earnings but fears violence as election unrest intensifies. The speaker stresses authorities may struggle to curb anti American sentiment.
The United States Geological Survey pursues investigations for developing water power on public land, withdrawals of 31,725 acres cited as paving the way for legislation to maximize development while protecting public interests. The effort targets abundant, valuable power sites without estimating horsepower at this stage.
The piece argues farmers travel twenty miles to Dallas for church and entertainments, enabled by good roads and affordable automobiles. It urges every town to have roads radiating twenty miles, saying better rural access ends isolation and fosters social life and country living.
Kansas health official John Kleinhaus enforces hotel bedding standards, fining a Goffs hotel for using short sheets and ensuring sheets meet length and cleanliness rules. The month of July saw 33 pellagra deaths in Texas with little progress in understanding or curing the disease.
In Austin Texas ex Governor Campbell states to friends he may run for the United States Senate while newspaper reporters hear he has nothing to say. Rumors place F Ramsey of the Supreme Court as a potential governor candidate with Lightfoot stepping aside. If Ramsey does not run for governor he could seek the Supreme Court again.
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