. History of Texas; Fort Worth and the Texas northwest edition. ture for the most of the Panhandlei- 69 degrees, and the average winter temperature is 43 degrees. The mean temperature in Amarillo for July during the past twentj FORT WORTH AND THE TEXAS NORTHWEST 589 five years is 76 degrees. Those Panhandle winds still blow, it is true,but they become quieter each year, as the country becomes morethickly populated. Thirty years ago, according to pioneers here, the wind sometimesblew seventy-five miles an hour, and one occasion is recalled by Jus-tice C. G. Landis when it blew at the rate of ei
. History of Texas; Fort Worth and the Texas northwest edition. ture for the most of the Panhandlei- 69 degrees, and the average winter temperature is 43 degrees. The mean temperature in Amarillo for July during the past twentj FORT WORTH AND THE TEXAS NORTHWEST 589 five years is 76 degrees. Those Panhandle winds still blow, it is true,but they become quieter each year, as the country becomes morethickly populated. Thirty years ago, according to pioneers here, the wind sometimesblew seventy-five miles an hour, and one occasion is recalled by Jus-tice C. G. Landis when it blew at the rate of eighty-seven miles anhour. There was so much static electricity in the air that housewives were sometimes unable to use cookstoves for twelve hours orlonger at the time. The change in weather conditions during thesethirty years is amazing to Justice Landis, he says. Mammoth ranches in the Panhandle still furnish many train loadsof beeves for the northern markets. Nearly all of the feed used israised on the ranches or on adjoining farms, if, indeed it becomes at. Potter County Court House, Amarillo all necessary to feed the cattle on more than pasture grass. Theestimated wealth for a year in cattle of the Panhandle is above mostsections. Hereford is the home of some of the finest Hereford herdsin the world. Cattle from that section are taken every year to north-ern fairs, and so often as they are taken do they win prizes. But the days of the cattle baron are waning even this far ranches are being cut into farms. Ranchers are beginning tobreak up their pastures for wheat planting. More than 100,000acres of ranch lands were put on the markets during the past twomonths. Agricultural and stock raising possibilities of the Panhandle wereproved long ago, and these sources of wealth are now great unproved source of wealth is the mammoth gas field thirtymiles north of Amarillo. Since this field was admitted to be thegreatest gas field in the world, it has been ext
Size: 2133px × 1171px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthorlewispub, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1920, bookyear1922
