Description: GRAPHIC 1906 STATE OF TEXAS COTTLE COUNTY LETTERHEAD COUNTY SEAT PADUCAH. COTTLE COUNTY IS A LARGE BUT DENSLY POPULATED COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS. IN 1905, THIS WOULD HAVE STILL BEEN A PRETTY UNSETTLED AREA. ORIGINAL. GREAT VIGNETTE J W WOODLEY, COUNTY JUDGE (SIGNED BY) J M ARRON: SHERIFF & TAX COLLECTOR A DUMONT: TREASURER JAMES WHATLEY: COUNTY ATTORNEY WRITTEN TO RH NORRIS HARDWARE CHILDRESS TEXAS: The area that is now Cottle County was occupied by Apache Indians until about 1700, when Comanches moved into the region. Comanches of the Wanderers-Who-Make-Bad-Camps band controlled the area until the 1870s, when they were driven away by the United States Army. The buffalo herds that once roamed the area were exterminated by intensive hunting during the mid-1870s. The Texas legislature established Cottle County in 1876 and attached it for administrative purposes to Fannin County until 1887, when it became attached to Childress County.In the fifteen years between the county's inception and its formal organization, it remained largely a grazing area. Some cattle were apparently brought in from New Mexico, and ranches such as the OX, SMS, and Matador established their headquarters in the area. The census of 1880 showed only twenty-four persons living in Cottle County. Between that year and 1890 the pace of growth quickened with the arrival of such settlers as J. J. McAdams, who had his headquarters at the site of present Paducah, and J. H. Cansler, who had a dogout on Buck Creek. In 1886 a post office was established at Otta Springs, near the present site of Paducah. The census counted fifty farms and ranches in Cottle County in 1890, when the population was 240 and growing. SEE MY STORE: VINTAGE HARDWARE STORE COLLECTIBLES ORIGINAL, LETTERHEADS, BILLHEAD, BILLHEADS, HARDWARE.
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