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VOL. I.
TEXAS
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Area of Texas, 274,356 Square Miles,
or 170,099,200 Acres.
Wealth of Texas is
A $520,000,000.
The Population of Texas is nearly
2,500,000.
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Texas Expended $3 200,000 for Maintain
ing Free Public Schools in
the year 1806.
Texas has Millions of Acres of fine Farm
ing Lands at $1.50 to $3.00 per acre.
Texas has 46,302.500 Acres of Timber
Land, with 6r, 508,500,000 Feet
of Standing Timber.
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t Texas has 400,000 Acres in Wheat,
1 yielding 4,173,700 Bushels.
Texas has 3,000,000 Acres in Corn,
yielding 63,416,300 Bushels.
Texas has 375,000 Acres in Oats, ’|
yielding 9,239,600 Bushels.
Texas has 3;000,000 Acres in Cotton,
yielding 1,500,000 Bales
Texas has 1,305,000 Head of Horses
and Mules, Valued at $36 000,000.
Texas has 5,500,000 Head of Cattle,
Valued at $137,000,000.
Texas has 7,000,000 Head of Sheep
and Goats, Valued at $17,500,000.
Texas has 2,000,000 Head of Hogs,
Valued at $7,000000.
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CITIES AND TOWNS IN TEXAS.
*Their Business and Social Advantages, Popula
tion, Manufactures and Industries, Agri
cultural Surroundings. Transpor
tation Facilities, Etc., Etc.
CLASSIFIED IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
Continued from last number.
I
FROM THE GALVESTON NEWS.
SULPHUR SPRINGS.
Although it has not yet gone regularly into the
sanitarium business, Sulphur Springs, as its name
indicates, is a place of healing waters. One of the
mineral wells in which the locality abounds has
been analyzed and found to contain sulphates of
ferric oxide, alumina, magnesia, lime, soda potash,
besides reaction acid, chloride sodium, carbonate of
lime, phosphate of lime, scilicic acid, free sulphuric
acid, nitrous acid and organic matter in reasonable
ATLANTA, GA., NOVEMBER, 1887
DESCRIPTION.—The building is to be a flre-proof structure, classic in design. Its form approximates a Greek Cross, with projecting center and flanks;
rotunda and dome at the intersection of the main corridors. It is 5«6 feet, 6 inches long, inclusive of porticos, and 288 feet, 10 inches, at its greatest width; it
is 311 feet in height from grade line to top of statue on dome. Besides the basement and dome elevation it is three full stories in height; comprising business
and storage apartments, offices, vaults, etc., for the entire Executive, Judicial and Legislative Departments of the State Government, including arrangements and
apparatus for lighting the building by electricity, steam heating, ventilating, plumbing, drainage, sewerage, hydraulic elevators, and all other appliances and
conveniences of a complete modern State Capitol, and will be the largest Capitol building of any State in the Union. It is only second in siae to the Capitol at
Washington, and is the seventh largest building in the world.
STATE CAPITOL, AUSTIN, TEXAS.
proportions. That the health of the place is above
par may be taken for granted, Tntre is also abun
dance of free-stone water, and nearly every resident
owns a cistern. Judicious advertising and the intel
ligent expenditure of money for a large sanitarium
and hotel will make Sulphur Springs one of the
most frequented resorts for health seekers in the
Southwest. The town of Sulphur Springs is built
on an eminence of moderate height and ample ex
panse. It contains 3,000 inhabitants and lies on the
east line of the Missouri Pacific Railway, 60 miles
from McKinney and 93 from Jefferson. Last July
a syndicate of the citizens got together and entered
into a contract with representatives of the St. Louis,
Arkansas and Texas Railroad, by which they agreed
to cede that company right of way and depot grounds
and to bear the expense of constructing the roadbed
from Mount Pleasant, thirty-nine miles distant, the
Sft. Louis, Arkansas and Texas bargaining to lay
the cross ties and rails as rapidly as the other condi
tions of construction were complied with. This
branch of the road will run via Sulphur Springs to
Sherman, and give the former place two additional
outlets to the norih and west and two to the South.
The contract calls for the completion of the road by
PRICE. TEN CENTS.
January 1, 1887,Krom Mount Pleasant to Sulphur
Springs. It will be completed to Sherman by Aug.
1, 1887. Distance from Sulphur Springs to Sher
man, 74 miles. The next step will be to throw out
a branch of the same road from Sulphur Springs to
the city of Dallas byway of Loneoak and Rock
wall, which will place Sulphur Springs within 80
miles of the great railway center of the Southwest.
The business portion of the town is built around a
hollow square, which serves as a plaz i for farmers
to unload their produce and receive their merchan
dise. On one side of this square is the court house
of Hopkins County, a brick building of the regula
tion size and architecture. The town has also a
substantial jail and a handsome opera house. Two
weekly papers supply the citizens with political
pabulum, neighborhood news and local-'’•"‘erature,
while 7 churches, two of them for r <?lks,
afford the populace ample opportune ( ,receive
every Sunday various and sundry hints
about the most practibable methods of sky farming.
.Sulphur Springs possesses rare educa ionaT-Kdj
vantages. It is the seat of Central College, a
ous institution of learning, with a fine faculty of
teachers, and with a handsome building of large
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