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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1950
Page
5
Smith Garrison of Garrison City announces a major upgrade as the town plans a new cotton gin facility. The project includes low rent housing units in the Shafter area and aims to boost local growth with improved agricultural infrastructure.
Since 1947 the Smith Garrison Gin area has expanded to about 60 migrant cabins serving 75 to 100 families. New housing for gin personnel, improved utilities, and a modern trailer fleet support cotton production with planned future land development and ongoing paint and repair work scheduled next week.
Ditch diggers begin trench work for a large pipeline project amid thousands of acres awaiting development. Supervising the operation is Ted Shafter with a focus on concrete pipe and Watt as a key factor in progress.
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For 30 years Smith Garrison, a noted cottonman, has farmed most of his life and engaged in the ginning business. He bought the D. O. Moore Gin and later constructed the Garrison City Gin, adding gins at Earlimart and Tipton. His sons, Thomas and Garrison Jr., are active partners.
The article chronicles a three year surge of development around Garrison City near Shafter as 10 000 acres of sagebrush desert become a cotton and potato growing hub. Smith Garrison, builder, signals a new town rising west of Shafter with land divided into farms and a growing community tomorrow.
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