Deep in the heart of Texas : Storm Clouds forming by Charles D Ezell |
For the following months, the railroad was also expanding their enterprise. Building larger cattle holding pens to bringing special made box cars for hauling refrigerated vegetables to eastern markets. We were already acquainted with innovation concerning beef preservation. However, keeping vegetables for weeks at a time would offer challenges.
I had my doubts about farmers who were raising vegetables for eastern markets and often wondered if the product was fresh as when first gathered. The Overseen family no doubt had an answer to this doubt. I watched them often when loading crates of beautiful ears of corn fresh from nature's garden. Sometime crates stacked reaching to the top of the boxcar packed solid as the door closed. This new trend of contracting to eastern buyers brought more revenue to our growth, especially our bank. The question of how long it will last until eastern farms take control and boost our farmers out of business was yet experienced. My Poppa always told us boys, "A little rain will always soften things. It is the storms a person needs to prepare for." I had little doubt with our new community growth and our bank's growth as well would trigger the minds of greed causing the storm clouds we needed to prepare for. I shared this saying with Charlie, my deputy and he agreed saying we needed to hire his brother back just in case of gun play. However, it would depend upon the mayor's approval and if the town could afford him or not. Problems coming
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