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In the meantime, enjoy some of the
early history of Colorado City, TX.
. A Brief History of Colorado City, Texas
Colorado City, the county seat of
Mitchell County, is on the Colorado River, Lone Wolf
Creek, U.S. Highway 20/80, State highways 208 and 163, and
the Missouri Pacific Railroad, thirty-eight miles east of
Big Spring and twenty-three miles south of Snyder in the
north central part of the county. It has been called the
"Mother City of West Texas" for its early origin as a
ranger camp in 1877 and for its prominence as a
cattlemen's center. In 1881 the town was chosen county
seat and acquired a station on the new Texas and Pacific
Railway. Local ranchers hauled in tons of buffalo bones (see
BONE BUSINESS) for shipment to the East and loaded their
empty wagons with provisions purchased from pioneer
merchant William H. "Uncle Pete" Snyderqv
and others. When the town was granted a post office in
1881 Prince A. Hazzard became the first postmaster. Water
was hauled to town from Seven Wells and elsewhere and sold
at fifty cents a barrel. The first school, conducted in a
dugoutqv in 1881, was
moved to a building the next year, and soon a new building
was built.
By that time the town had between 200 and
300 residents and was a cattle-shipping center. Ranchers
drove their cattle to Colorado City from as far north as
Amarillo, from as far south as San Angelo, and from eastern
New Mexico. Great herds were held until rail cars were
available. After shipment, cowboys were free to enjoy the
town's amenities. Between 1881 and 1884 its five saloons
multiplied to twenty-eight, and other businesses showed the
same growth. The population was estimated as high as 6,000
in 1884-85. The boom slowed after the 1885-86 drought,
however, and the 1890 population was 2,500.
In May 1881 W. P. Patterson, a prominent
rancher, was shot down by Texas Rangers.qv Citizens blamed
the shooting on the rangers' feud with cattlemen, and the
ranger camp was moved from town to Hackberry Springs, twenty
miles southwest. When Amarillo developed with the arrival of
the Fort Worth and Denver Railway in 1887 and when the Santa
Fe Railroad reached San Angelo a year later, business in
Colorado City declined sharply. During the 1890s salt mining
was important to the local economy, but salt declined in
importance after 1900.
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