Awww... Sunup in West Texas. I traveled to a West town called Sterling City. The well is out on the very large Horwood River Ranch. You can see for miles and everything you see belongs to the Horwood family. The first picture shows what the sun looks like, while making it's appearance. The ranch is very productive. They have cattle, sheep, goats, wheat, cotton, deer hunters, oil wells and windmills. A very diversified corporation.They lease hunting rights each year and are members of the deer management association. DMA. They will take 300 deer this year. Income is around $85,000 per year.
They have about 800 wind turbines on the ranch. The rancher has not told me about the profit on these, but did say that it changed their lives.
As you can see, there are many wind mills on the Horwood ranch. 800 of them. There's one thing that West Texas has, WIND. It blows everyday, all day long. They are of course popping up all over the country where there is enough wind to turn the turbine.
If you look real hard you can see one of the windmill turbines on the horizon above the road. Even with the "wind fall" Sterling City is still is creeping toward becoming a ghost town. Actually, I have wondered how this town got it's name. I have yet to find anything sterling about it. So, my guess is that it was named after Mr. Sterling, whoever he was.
Wish you were here............
