. History of Texas; Fort Worth and the Texas northwest edition. anhandle. Fruits also grow in abundance inLynn, Floyd, Lubbock, Hale and Deaf Smith counties, and of coursein other counties, which have not yet realized so well the advantagesof publicity. 588 FORT WoklJI AM) llll. I NORTHWEST ( >vcr .500,000 people inhabit this territory. Few of them are poor,is is often the case with rural people living in other sections of TexasThe large majority of the farmers own their land, and many of themare in the well-to-do class. This population is at about the rate ofeight persons to the squ
. History of Texas; Fort Worth and the Texas northwest edition. anhandle. Fruits also grow in abundance inLynn, Floyd, Lubbock, Hale and Deaf Smith counties, and of coursein other counties, which have not yet realized so well the advantagesof publicity. 588 FORT WoklJI AM) llll. I NORTHWEST ( >vcr .500,000 people inhabit this territory. Few of them are poor,is is often the case with rural people living in other sections of TexasThe large majority of the farmers own their land, and many of themare in the well-to-do class. This population is at about the rate ofeight persons to the square mile. The population has increased fortyper cent in the last decade. All wealth of the Panhandle is not potential. When figures fortotal bank deposits for the twelve months ending in May are givenout as $61,109,039. it is evident that much of the wealth is actual. Itis evidenced by the fact that few towns in the Panhandle this yearhad enough labor to supply the demands of building only were an unprecedented number of residences erected de-. Corn Field Spite hjgh price- of building materials, but scores of new businesshouses went up. Lubbock County showed an increased population of 167 per centin the last ten years, while the city itself an increase of about147 per cent. Hundreds of homes were 1 milt and thousands of acresput into cultivation by these newcomers. That old saying about there being only a barbed wire fence be-tween Amarillo and the North Pole no longer amuses residents ofthe city. The Panhandle of Texas is the coldest part of the state inthe winter, and it is the coolest in the summer. Comparison oftemperature records for any other city in Texas, and as for that matter, with tlic majority of them anywhere in the United States showsthe mean ben- to be better adapted for human habitation than these oth<towns. The average summer temperature for the most of the Panhandlei- 69 degrees, and the average winter temperature is 43 degrees. The
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