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Title: Book of Texas
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Benedict, Harry Yandell, 1869-1937 Lomax, John A. (John Avery), 1867-1948
Subjects: Texas Texas -- Economic conditions
Publisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page
Contributing Library: Houston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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Hauling Wool to Kerrville Galveston CausewayCost over two million dollars; partly washed away in the storm of 1915 Oil and Lumber Going Out at Port Arthur TRANSPORTATION 243 times the present average railroad rate. The richest coun-ties in early days were those near water routes and the chieftowns were ports. In 1839 Dr. Anson Jones, afterwardPresident of Texas, congratulated the Galvestonians upontheir large city, which, like Venice the bride of the Adriatic,has arisen as if by enchantment from the waters. . . .Your population, which already amounts to near threethousand, is rapidly and constantly increasing. Jefferson, on the Red River, in 1870, had 12,000 people,as many as San Antonio, not many less than Galveston,and more than Houston. Fort Worth was then unknown,and Dallas had 500 people. But the railroads passed Jef-ferson by, and in 1880 the population had decreased one-half, sinking later to 2,000. It has been only recentlythat Jefferson has begun to repair her shattered fortu

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