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A TEXAS COTTON MILL.
Always alert to the opportunity,
Texas has the honor of having the first
complete cotton industry in the United
States, i. e., a mill at which the raw
cotton is taken from the farmers’
wagons and turned ouc in finisheu
sheets.
'i here are plenty of mills and bleacn
enes from Maine to Georgia that make
white goods alter we ship them Texas
cotton, but there is only one mill in
the world where they grow the cotton
at one end of the plant, take it in, gin
it, put it through the different pro
cesses of making, bleach it at the other-
end and ship the finished product—
sheets and pillow cases—direct from
factory to dealer.
That mill, a Texas institution pure
and simple, is in Post City, Garza
County, in our own South Plains, and
the goods bear the “Postex” and
“Garza” brands.
So much for a proud Texas fact, but.
how about the idea back of it? That
is an interesting story, particularly for
Texans who believe in their own State
and its wonderful future. It is a story
to stimulate home pride and make a
man think he ought always to sleep
between Postex and Garza sheets and
on Postex and Garza pillow cases.
C. W. Post, the late food manufac
turer, spent years of his early life in
Wes; Texas and the Panhandle. He
knew the country like a plainsman,
loved it, and in his earlier and poorer
days dreamt of the greater Texas of
today.
The wealth that came in later years
never made him forget the great rich
land of his early love and he staked
out a claim of a quarter of a million
acres, paid for it with the gold the
North had furnished him and there
on the edge of the old Llano Estacado,
the land of Spanish and Indian ro
mance, built a shaded city of brick
and iron and timber and cement to
surround a cotton industry that should
be a pride to the State of Texas.
Ample capital was furnished and to
day the Postex mills grow cotton
where it never grew before, wheels
hum and busy hundreds of happy, well
paid people card and spin and weave
the finest of long staple cotton into
sheets and pillow cases that excel
every similar product in the State, and
are approached in quality and worth
by only one or two.
The finished product of the Postex
Mills is sold under two brands, Postex,
the finest of its kind, and Garza, a
medium priced number of real excel
lence, and another thing that appeals
to a Texas merchant is this m ; HT
“freight prepaid” policy. A retailer
can order as few as six pieces of sheet
ing or six dozen sheets and have them
shipped direct from the mill, and laid
down at his door, freight prepaid. Tlrs
means a lot, for 10 per cent of their
value is a fair estimate of railroad tolls
tucked away in the price of any East
ern made line of similar goods.
The Fort Worth Record recently
of all Our fnioe-S.
spoke editorially of the Postex Mills
as follows:
“Garza County does not offer the
only opportunity in Texas. There are
a hundred other counties where the
same thing can be repeated—yes, two
hundred. And if there were two hun
dred other cotton mills in Texas they
would still take but a fraction of the
staple the State produces annually,
and they would put fifty thousand
more people at work and keep some
millions of money in Texas that now
go away.”
It is well and good to indulge in such
philosophy, but let us practice it. Let
Texans show their interest by deed
as well as by word. Here on the
South Plains of our empire is a tre
mendous opportunity to build endur-
ingly, but to do it we must practice
what we preach. Let us call for and
insist on Postex or Garza sheets and
pillow cases, for not only will we get
superlative values, but by making one
project successful, we open the door
for many another and help to build at
home.
The present war is teaching us a lot
—teaching us the very idea of self-
support and containment. As the Na
tion at large becomes commercially
independent by making its own velvets
instead of depending upon Belgium,
its own dye stuffs and chemicals in
stead of depending upon Germany, and
so on ad infinitum, so Texas should
build her own industries strong and
true, and teach each capitalist that
puts a factory within her borders that
he can count on Texas’ preference for
a Texas product.
It is only self-interest after all, for
each dollar spent for a Postex product
comes back in a Texas payroll for
Texas labor, or to Texas farmers for
Texas cotton at a time they sorely
need it.
Let us take care of our own.
Watch my announcements in the
“Bat.” Charlie Nitch.
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Developing every day. Come in
to see us before you have your
next work done
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Bryan, Texas
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FOR SALE.
Stove wood, $5 per cord, delivered.
Good, cut kindling, $5 per cord, de
livered. Phone T. M. Reddell, Feed
ing and Breeding Station, 87-3 rings.
TO TAKE CIVIL SERVICE EXAMS.
The following C. E. Seniors expect
to leave for Waco on February 2 to
take the civil service examination for
junior civil engineers on the following
day: S. C. McCarty, E. O. Francisco,
M. A. Moss, E. F. Hurdle, B. H. Faber.
The following are going to Houston:
W. S. Gillespie, F. W. Cawthon, S. K.
Mason, J. E. Bell.
Among the “bughunters,” C. E. P.
VVisrodt, J. M. Kincheloe and A. E.
Burges will take the civil service ex
amination for scientific assistant in
the United States Department of Agri
culture, which is to be held on April
14. The first two will go to Houston
and the last probably to Waco.
Cadet—Prof. Bittle, why did you
come way down here in Texas?
Prof. Bittle—Well, it was this way.
At the Northern university which I
attended there were several Texas
men. They told me so many lies
about Texas that I decided to come
and see it for myself.
See those new samples at Charlie’s
Tailor Shop.
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