Cochran County Texas Archives News.....Cochran County March 21, 1923 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/tx/txfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Mary Helen McKnight helenmcknight79@gmail.com May 12, 2014, 2:18 pm Dallas Morning News March 21, 1923 In 1920 Cochran County had 67 people and 10,000 cattle. It has undoubtedly gained in both since then. One evidence of it is that Cochran County is now an organized county with a County Judge, Sheriff and County Clerk. Another evidence of increase in population is that the partial returns on the official balloting which determined that Morton should be the county seat instead of Minnie Veal came to 53. Manifestly it would take a population in excess of 67 to furnish an active electorate of 53. Cochran County is coming on in the world. Stepping out in the domain of government in this fashion, Cochran County can be pardoned for feeling its new position a little. Without exactly knowing it, it is now engaged in accumulating the traditions which a century hence will be noted with pride and a bit of wonder as they are recorded in a newspaper not yet born and printed in a city not yet established. Cochran County doesn't seem to have chosen a County Attorney or a Commissioners' Court There are all sorts of frills and complications which will have to be added before the organization is complete. It could easily turn out that in the case of a genuine shooting there wouldn't be enough eligible jurors in the county to try the case. But if Cochran County lacks attorneys, the law schools will soon be supplying young gentlemen who mill make up in ambition and energy what they lack in legal experience. And the prospective jurors will come to Cochran County just a few weeks behind the real estate man and the automobile mechanic. Presently a hungry-looking newspaper man with a wornout wife and a youngster old enough to pi the cases will show up with a thirty-five dollar equity in a two hundred-dollar printing plant, and will forthwith proceed to sing the salubrity of Cochran County atmosphere and fructifying warmth of the Cochran County sun. From that time on Cochran County can have no doubts of her future. And if the hungry-looking newspaper man gains neither leisure nor great wealth, he will at least have the satisfaction of living among a free-hearted, courageous and resourceful people, and of contributing something to the community which he helps to form. And when he is old he will be pointed out as a pioneer. But in Cochran County pioneers will probably be called, not pioneers, but old settlers. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/tx/cochran/newspapers/cochranc181gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/txfiles/ File size: 2.9 Kb