. History of Texas; Fort Worth and the Texas northwest edition. ts under cultivation aresmall, varying from ten to one hundred acres. The only town is Archer 704 FORT WORTH AND THE TEXAS NORTHWEST City, which contains perhaps one hundred inhabitants. Riman is a smallsettlement. At the census of 1880 the population of the county was 596; in 1890,; in 1900. : in 1910, ; in 1920. 5,254. The decreaseis attributable to the removal of tenant farmers occasioned by the pro-tracted drought. A considerable number of German and Austrianpeople have settled in Archer County, and have been ef
. History of Texas; Fort Worth and the Texas northwest edition. ts under cultivation aresmall, varying from ten to one hundred acres. The only town is Archer 704 FORT WORTH AND THE TEXAS NORTHWEST City, which contains perhaps one hundred inhabitants. Riman is a smallsettlement. At the census of 1880 the population of the county was 596; in 1890,; in 1900. : in 1910, ; in 1920. 5,254. The decreaseis attributable to the removal of tenant farmers occasioned by the pro-tracted drought. A considerable number of German and Austrianpeople have settled in Archer County, and have been effective factorsin developing the agricultural resources. Archer Countys early development followed the construction of rail-ways into the Wichita Falls country during the 80s. The first rail-way line in the county was the Wichita Valley, which was built fromWichita Falls to Seymour across the northwestern corner of ArcherCounty in 1890. About 1907 the Wichita Falls & Southern was com-pleted through the county, giving Archer City its first railway communi-. Tiiki sin \. cation. A little later tin- Southwestern road was built from Henriettato Archer City. Within the present decade, the Gulf, Texas & Westernhas crossed the southwestern corner of the count). It is largely dueto these railways and the consequent influx of population that ArcherCounty during the past ten or fifteen years has undergone a rapid evolu-tion from a strictly livestock county to one of farms and diversifiedagriculture. However, much of the county is yet undeveloped and it isclassified more strictly as a part of the Texas cow country rather thanas a farming section. The total area of the county is 558,080 he last census reported acres in farms and ranches, but only80,000 acres as improved land In 1920 the livestock was: ,827, and horses and mules, 6,827. In 1909 the acreage in cottonwas 18,058; in corn, 8,680; in wheat, ; in hay and forage ; in oats, 2,740; and a limi
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