. History of Texas; Fort Worth and the Texas northwest edition. g city of 100,000 ormore people in the Panhandle within ten years. Two wells drillingwithin four miles of Amarillo are daily expected to bring in bi<,rgassers, which would eliminate expensive piping. Oil showings have been found in several of the wells drilling inthe Panhandle, and members of the oil fraternity confidently expectproducers to be brought in within thirty days. Hence, it can bereadily seen that the potential wealth in oil and gas is is a safe assumption, however, that the high price of coal will no
. History of Texas; Fort Worth and the Texas northwest edition. g city of 100,000 ormore people in the Panhandle within ten years. Two wells drillingwithin four miles of Amarillo are daily expected to bring in bi<,rgassers, which would eliminate expensive piping. Oil showings have been found in several of the wells drilling inthe Panhandle, and members of the oil fraternity confidently expectproducers to be brought in within thirty days. Hence, it can bereadily seen that the potential wealth in oil and gas is is a safe assumption, however, that the high price of coal will notbother Amarillo and other nearby towns for vears to come. CHAPTER XLIVPUBLIC INSTRUCTION When Texas was admitted to the Union the treaty of annexation pro-vided that the Public Domain should remain the property of the state This provided the foundation for the most splendid educational fundof any state in the Union. The Fathers of the Republic and the framers of the first constitutionof the state very wisely provided that a large portion of the public domain. Matn Buildin Colleck should be set aside for public free schools, institutions of higher educationand the eleemosynary institutions, and the legislature was directed toapportion these lands according to the needs of the several constitutional convention of 1875 retained, and made still more ob-ligatory, these provisions. When the state donated public lands to encourage the constructionof railroads in the state it was ordained that the railway companies shouldsurvey the public lands, and alternate sections were set aside for thepublic schools of the state. Kach county was accorded a league and laborof land, about 4,400 acres, for the public schools of the counties. 591 592 FORT WORTH AND THE TEXAS NORTHWEST The school lands were subsequently sold and leased, proceeds of thesale was devoted to the permanent school fund, and the interest on suchlands as were sold on time and the money derived from leases to
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