SWISHER COUNTY

Swisher County is a highly productive farming and livestock-raising county which has developed rapidly. It is located about the center of the great plains country. It is thirty miles square and is traversed by three small streams, the North, Middle, and South Tule Creeks that cover the extreme eastern portion of the county running into the historical Tule Canyon which is noted far and wide for its scenic beauty.

Swisher County was created in 1876 and organized in 1890 from Bexar Territory. It was named for James Gibbon Swisher, signer of Texas Declaration of Independence, who took part in the storming of San Antonio in 1835. It was in the Tule Canyon in the eastern part of this county and in the adjoining county of Briscoe on the east that Gen. RS. MacKenzie conducted his campaign against the big band of marauding Indians in 1876.

Level surface, fertile soils and an abundant underground water supply have brought to this country in recent years a swift transformation from big scale ranching to intensive, highly industrialized crop growing and livestock raising.

Tulia, the county seat, is the geographic and commercial center of the county. It markets and ships cotton, grain sorghums, w heat, dairy products and alfalfa.

Swisher County is distinguished for a water supply of the "genuine freestone variety" and exists in inexl.1austible quantities at a depth of from 20 to 100 feet, free of alkali, gypsum or