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Abilenes ProsTRIP ACROSS THE MOUNTAINSthe brightest spots along life's pathway.FUWKKS V I! F Ilf NY PLOWINGG \TIIFKI\G Til Fill I ROI’S\\|NewI oaths Springing Ip \|l the Santa Fe Kail roadBusincs* Good.VlopgThrough the kindness of A. H Herring, manager for the Burton-IJngo Lumber company with headquarters in Abilene, I had the pleasure on Wednesday of taking in a goodly imrtion of the country south of the mountains, in hishig Cadillac air splitter. »Uaving lboris eight miles south,there is a noticeable improvement inetops, they having had more rain fhthe mountain district and beyond thanwe have had in (his section. Ben Gra-ham’s plows wore turning the soil for wheat—about 300 acres.iReaching tin top of tie- mountain beyond Coats the eye falls on one of the grandest scenes to be found in any country. .Since the recent rains in that district Tuscola valley, stretching out for miles, hag donned a robe of green, and the hundreds of beautiful homes of the happy farmers, surrounded by post and live oak trees, gives it an air of peace, plenty and prosperity Turning the eye from the verdant fields to the southwest we see nestled at thebase of the Bald Kagle mountain. Ovalo one of the best business towns to befound in all this section of country.Here we turned east one mile am! then south, passing through the old town of Lawn, where I have spent some happy hours in the years goneby. Only one of the old timerH therenow to tell the storj Countv Com-* %rnissioner D. T. Harkrider—of how, one by one, his neighbors pulled up and out for Ovalo. three milis west.Ovalo had weighed in 1.300 bales of cotton up to 3 o’clock yesterday, and j were paying 13:55. One thousand more bales, they think, will wind up the 1910 erop in that district.Our next stopping point was Buffalo Cap, where Mr. Herring had to spend an hour or so looking after the business of his yard there. The walls of Jtiie new double brick building ar*1about completed and the cement, men are at work plastering, putting in side j walks, etc. Of course Buffalo Gap is not expecting the head office of the Santa Fe company to move from New York to that place, but like all other towns springing up between Colemanj and Sw etwater. Tlny'rc expecting .shops, etc. Tims Bros the old reliables who have been in business at tin CapII for several years, are enthusiastic ovei tin good business of the town. Me-isides Tims Bros, in business there arc,1. Smith, duo. i. Scoggin, T. T. Tuat,! Burton-Lingo Co., M. F McElroy, J\Y Wright,.! W. McCormick, Bell Bros.,First National Bunk, and the Live Oak a newspapf r, the life of and boosterfor the town.In conclusion, for years i have beenin love with the country and people across the mountainti and unless oldFate turns the tide differently. I hopeto be dishing out news from Ovalo within the next week and if not that soon within one month, anyway. S,iL. NA whiz of one and a half miles south J tided us in the new town which up to j uesday had been known as “Ned but; ie Postoffice department at washiug-m notified Mr. Freeman, who is theily merchant in the new town and ho had made application for the office iitt the new town should and would belied Liwn. Mr. Herring is putting a ldg lumber yard there, the officeid sheds having been completed and■ is expecting lumber in soon over the inta Fe, by way of Coleman. Ike rown. one of our Old timers, is pro-oter of the now town, and as the ilroad company has liought an inter-t in the townsite, and ICO acres just cst for an immense lake and is now itting up a steel reservoir 24 feet in aineter and 60 feet high it is “sorter’* ought that it is there the rounduse and hmehine shops will be loea-d. One thing about it that looks hhI, there are twenty-five sections of rich land lying south and east that ill soon be on the market, and when ttled il ought to be good businessV II.saving Lawn, we traveled north-st to Ovalo, about six miles; where stopped and enjoyed a splendid din-i with twro of our Abilene Children 11 and Mrs. Anderson, both of them\ing been born and reared in Abi-ic and away back in our early days ien the latter, then “Uttle Lena aulding,” was a tot in the Baptist nday school 1 have given her turn'd* of good lesson and reward cards,d of course a visit to her home.nbined with a splendidly cooked ner, will remain with me us one of
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Abilene Semi Weekly Farm Reporter
Abilene, Texas, US
Fri, Oct 07, 1910
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