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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1900
Page
12
Alpine page reports marriages in Pecos and Marathon areas including George Howard and Emma Clausewitz wed in Marfa and Judge Frazer tying the knot in Pecos. Citizens travel, ranch business continues, mining prospects near Terlingua noted, and local officials change posts as reporters state elections talk and county matters unfold.
The article notes a vast Quicksilver belt in the county now measured at least six miles wide and 15 to 20 miles long with ongoing discoveries. Developments are quiet but capitalists are expected to invest soon. A musicale by Miss Una Helps of Austin and Mrs Howard of Del Rio at Alpine courthouse tomorrow evening invites attendance.
Dispatch from Uvalde to the El Paso Herald reports unprecedented flooding from the Nueces River. Towns once beyond reach were surrounded by floodwaters, farms lost stock, watercourses washed away, wind mills and tanks destroyed, and apiaries swept downstream. Names Paul Rogers Ellie Floyf Allison appear in the account.
Express correspondent reports Kansas City Orient Gulf surveyors, twenty five men, will arrive from Chihuahua around Sept 24. Citizens plan a big picnic with free beer ice water and refreshments as Presidio backs the railroad. The town foresees 5000 residents within five years and the line will cross the Rio Grande about a mile from present town site.
Davis and companions on a fishing excursion are missing as floodwaters rise. J.T Shannon and Henry Korns near the riverfront lose all possessions while their homes flood. hay balers and hay fields along the river are destroyed, forcing families to escape with only what they can save.
The heaviest rain of the year fell Wednesday night near midnight with heavy showers north of town reaching seven miles away. Splendid rains soaked different parts of the county over the past week.
Miss Phelps will sing beautful ballads and popular negro melodies at the court house musicale with Mrs Howard providing instrumental selections. The event starts at 8 30 pm with admission 50 cents for adults and 25 cents for children. J G Erickson Co jewelers announce AL Latta Jr a skilled watchmaker joins their service for watch clock and jewelry repairs.
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