Image: Book of Texas (1916) (14770397571)

Description: Texas and Pacific Railway yard in Fort Worth, Texas. Identifier: bookoftexa00bene (find matches) 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 View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: the towns that enjoyed water transportationprimitive roads scattered in various directions. The Re-public of Texas made a few feeble efforts to build roads,but the chief thing that was done was to pass a law thatthe stumps in the roads should not be over twelve incheshigh. Stages carried passengers, ox wagons hauled freight.When railroads began to be built, their interior terminalsbecame centres of radiating overland traffic. By 1860 therewere thirty stage lines, including one from San Antonioto San Diego, California, and one from Sherman to St.Louis. Freighting, mainly with ox wagons, became thepermanent occupation of some and the incidental amuse-ment of whole neighborhoods who went to Jefferson orHouston with cotton, to come back loaded with other nec-essaries. For a long time the fertile Black Prairie country,whose dirt roads are so unpassable when wet, was left un-developed agriculturally because of the lack of transporta-tion. Freight cost 20 cents per mile per ton, just twenty Text Appearing After Image: «O H< M u « Ho M o Q < < X!H H oi—i H KOPh Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Title: Book of Texas (1916) (14770397571)
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Author: Benedict, Harry Yandell, 1869-1937; Lomax, John A. (John Avery), 1867-1948
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