Texas state gazetteer and business directory 1914-1915, Pt.1, Part 7

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Any master in the historieal schoolfabandoned. Its permanent partial oceu-[hold the horses ridden by the Indians. that has developed since Guizot wrote pation was induced by fear of encroach- Their insolence knew no bounds, was to know the geographical location, top- iana. The efforts of Authony Crozat to without opposition.

his "History of Civilization" needs only meuts by the French settlers in Louis- given free rein and was submitted to ography, climate, extent and character establish an overland trade with the of waterways and soils of a country to Spanish settlements on and beyond the Times were ripe for a change. It came with the D'Onis treaty, by which announee with almost mathematical cer- Rio Grande was the moving cause of tainty whether it is to support a meager this fear. His agent, St. Denis, went surrendered its claiui to Texas. This the United States bought Florida and population confined to a limited number over to the Spaniards and advised them diplomatic aet was followed by Moses of pursuits and have a restricted com- to establish missions and presidios in merce, or whether it is to be densely East Texas along the paths of entrance

Austin being granted the right to intro- duce iminigrants. Texas became fully inhabited and be a mighty industrial and that the French would, otherwise, be commercial empire and be the seat of likely to follow. This was done. intelligenee, prosperity, happiness and a alive and set its fcet in the path of progress for the first time when Stephen In 1718 Alarcon established the pre- high and ever-expanding civilization. sidio of San Antonio de Bexar and Mis- F. Austin conducted to the lower Brazos his first party of Anglo-American colon- Though the land bas never been trod- sion of San Antonio de Valero, to wbich ists in October, 1821. den by human foot, he beholds in these was added in 1731 the civil settlement known as the villa of San Fernando. From thesc grew up the city of Bexar, things the germ core, upon which he can predict not merely what might happen, but that which is sure to happen. If a An outcome of the Mexican revolution of 1821 was the granting of contracts to a minber of empresarios and the be- for San Antonio, the struggle between giuning of the rapid settlement ef man of this training and knowledge had the two uames finally resulting in favor surveyed Texas four centuries ago, of the latter. In 1731 the East Texas when Indians alone had ever skirted its missions were transferred to San An- Texas. Soon, however, friction occur- red between the Mexican authorities and the liberty-loving settlers, and men bays, viewed its rivers, traveled across tonio. The missions were seeularized

of discernment in the United States per- its prairies and gazed from its hilltops in 1764.

ceived that it was only a question of and mountain heights upon its beautiful There were but three centers of Span- time when there would be a revolution.

landscapes and seen its rich flora and ish population between the Sabine and President Jackson sent General Houston fauna, he would not have hesitated to the Rio Grande-Nacogdoches, San An- to view and report upon the country, say: "In this region, at some time, tonio and La Bahia (Goliad).

After traveling as far as San Antonio, there will rise and flourish a wonder- In 1778 the old stone fort was built Houston informed the president that the fully opulent and mighty state. In lands, in what later became Nacogdoches. It country lying between that place and in waters, in minerals, in climate and was erected to protect the pueblo of the eastern bondary was not surpassed and marvelous combination, the funda- the Trinity. by any. and was capable of supporting a population of 10,000,000 people.

in position, there exist here, in strong Bucarelli, which was moved there from mentals for such a state."

La Bahia was established by Aguayo The incidents of 1832, 1833 and 1835 The Spanish navigators who sailed subsequent to 1722. and the campaign of 1836, that ended soon after Cortez's conquest of the City in the United States early appreciated of Mexico dreamed of none of these the desirability of obtaining Texas or

along and mapped the Texas shore line Thoughtful and scheming individuals with the victory at San Jacinto, that established Texas independence are familiar to all persons having any knowledge of Texas history and need not be recounted here.

things, nor did the shipwrecked Cabeza an assured foothold in it. Nolan's ex- de Vaca, who, as the first white man to pedition, 1799-1801, was designed to gain make the journey, crossed Texas in 1535 knowledge of and report conditions and

Stephen F. Austin, by means of

supply a partial map of the country. pamphlets, newspaper articles, letters Tbe Spaniards slowly pressed forward His death and the capture and imprison- and representations of his agents, thor- their line of occupation northward from ment of his companions defeated its oughly advertised the advantages and

the Valley of Mexico to the Panuco river, while Coronado in 1540, Mescoso

objeets. opportunities of Texas and set in mo-

Aaron Burr knew what Texas was, tion a strong stream of capital and de- . in 1543, Espejo, Sosa, Onate, Mendoza and probably included its conquest in sirable immigration to the country.

This was checked by the incidents pre- aud others down to 1683, penetrated into his purpose to create a new government parts of what is now Texas, and General in the Southwest-a design that Thomas

ceding the revolution and the revolution Otermin establislied the village of Jefferson and his agents brought to itself. Following the battle of San Ja- Ysleta on the Rio Grande in 1682. They |naught.

cinto, a tidal wave of newcomers-many

The Magee-Guiterrez filibustering ex- of them bad characters-poured into the

pedition in 1812 eame near wresting republic, expecting it to be easy not only Texas from Spain, but closed in blood to earn a living but to make their for- There was absolutely nothing

rigines of Old Mexico and might never in 1813, and the country was laid waste tunes. have made a serious effort to occupy to Nacogdoches, and that settlement for them to do and great distress and Texas but for the landing of LaSalle's broken up for a time. Then followed the perpetration of crimes followed. expedition on the sbores of Matagorda the disastrous filibustering expeditions Texas sought in 1836-1837 and was Bay in 1685.

of Long in 1819 and 1821. The struggles denied admission to the United States,

An expedition was sent out under Cap- tain DeLeon by Spanish vice-regal auth- ority, that, April 22, 1689, found Fort Spaniards in Texas. In the closing years St. Louis, that LaSalle had establisbed,

of their rule, the western part of the able values from which to raise revenue and that most of its occupants had been territory was ravaged at will by the by direct levies. The customs revenues murdered, and the rest taken into cap- tivity by the Indians.

Apaches and Comanches; the northwest- amounted to practically nothing at the

ern portion was harassed by adven- start. Under these circumstances Presi- An expedition the following year es- turers of the neutral ground and on the dent Houston exerted himself to placate tablished two missions among the Tejas coast pirates and otber intruders en- the Indian.s by presents and treaties and Indians in East Texas. They were not. tered the country at will or established particularly by urging citizens, on the opening of the land office in 1838. not to The Comanches made it a practice to go into territory claimed by the Indians

supported, and October 25, 1693, Father themselves at places that suited them, Manzanet and the few priests and sol- diers who were with him buried the steal berds of Mexican horses, drive fand locate land. Negleet to follow his swivel guns, bells and other iron imple- them into San Antonio, claim that they advice to holders of headrights and ments of the missions and presidios and had taken them from hostile Indiaus and other claims entitling persons to land, set forth on their return journey to demand and receive rewards. On these aroused the fury of the Indians and soon and other visits they made it a practice the entire frontier was ablaze with hos- Mexico.

From this time until 1715 Texas. was to require soldiers. of the garrison to tilities.

incident to these invasions completely and repeated the cffort some years later exhausted the physical power of the with the same result. There was not a dollar in the Texas treasury and no tax-

attached little value to the vast district east of the Rio Grande and were content to rifle the mines and enslave the abo-

, to Culiacan, on the Gulf of California.

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Sketch of State

Then came Lamar's administration, a multitude of other agencies are adver- any other state. It raises great num. during which the Indian power was com- tising the state in the four quarters of bers of hogs and among sheep-raising pletely broken by various expeditions the world, and into which homeseekers states it is one of the most important. and the capital of Austin was built and and capitalists are trooping and will It raises vast quantities of cotton,

occupled. soon be pouring as into few countries corn, wheat, oats, barley, rye, alfalfa, in the history of the world. sorghum, sugar cane, kathr corn, milo

This was followed by the second ad-

ministration of Houston and by Jones' For some years Texas has occupied maize, rice, sweet and Irish potatoes. administration, in which wealth and first place in the United States in the onions and melons, fruits and berries- population greatly increased and the total annual value of agricultural prod- all of the best quality. It is estimated value of Texas money was raised almost ucts, and this primacy is certain to be- by reliable authorities that not more come more and more pronounced and than 25 per cent of the acreage of the unapproachable, as its development has state suitable for the purpose is now scarcely more than begun. planted in cotton, making proper allow-

to par. President Jones' administration was brought to a close by the annexa- tion of Texas to the Union in 1845, and the Inauguration of General J. Pinekney

The total amount of improved lands ance for diversification in farming. This Henderson as the first governor of the in farms in Texas is 27,360,666 acres. state in February, 1846. The uncultivated arable area is 141.372,-

Texas began statehood with scant means, but its treasury was well filled by the sale of the state's northwestern

The state covers 265,896 square miles The agricultural development in prog- territory to the United States in 1850 -land 263.398 square niilcs, water 3,498 ress in West Texas, Southwest Texas for $10,000. 'There was no advertising square miles. This is equal to about 8.7 of the state, such as was practiced in per cent of the entire area of the United

colonial times, but knowledge of its

merits spread abroad and men and but excluding island possessions. It is six times larger than New York and

money came in in increasing volume. A seven times as large as Ohio and 100,000

general spirit of enterprise and progress took hold of the people. Acts were square miles larger than all of the East-

passed by the legislature to imuprove the ern and Middle States, including Dela-

navigability of streams, to secure better ware and Maryland. Compared to the the northern boundary of the state some roads and to establish toll and other countries of Europe it has 34,000 square distance west of San Antonio) has been bridges and attempts were made to miles more than the Austrian Empire, designated the humid region. where build and operate factories, but the time 62,000 more than the German Empire rainfail is sufficient for raising crops;

had not come for factories, and they

mostly closed their doors.

and nearly 70,000 square miles minore and the western half, known as the than France. seini-arid region. where crops cannot be

A special feature of Governor Pease's It is located in the extreme southwest- grown without irrigation. The really administration was encouragement to ern part of the United States, between semi-arid and arid region is constantly railroad building. He was elected main- the 26th and 30th parallels of north lati- shrinking as actual farming is engaged ly on that issue and set that important tude and the 94th and 106th meridian in. Furthermore, immense irrigation undertaking in motion. Texas had just of longitude.

enterprises have been inaugurated that

begun to set a clipping pace on the high-

The topography of the state, like are converting thousands of acres there

way of development, when the war be-

varying elevations. The general appear- nia. Irrigation is also practiced on a

auce of the country may be described large scale in the Texas Rice Belt,

and Davis regime. When the people re- as high elevated plateaus, low ranges of where there is abundance of rainfall gained control of the state government hills, broad level prairies and level val- for ordinary purposes, but where irriga- tion is needed to flood the land. Irri- they had other work to do than to sing leys with, in the trans-Pecos region. the praises of Texas abroad and make

mountains that are southern spurs of gation is. likewise, being more and more

is employed elsewhere in the humid re- an effort to secure the incoming capital the Rockies. The mean elevation

and immigration. The inefficiency and

about 850 feet above the sea level, tlie gion as an aid to agriculture.

· alleged waste of appropriations by the extremes ranging from a few feet to one Texas has immense timber and min- eral resources.

Bureau of Immigration, established un- peak as high as 9.500 feet. The soil

der the constitution of 1869, led the peo- varies greatly in richness and fertility. The waters of the Gulf of Mexico ple to insert in the constitution of 1876 It is of various qualities, but usually a along the Texas coast teein with fine a provision prohibiting the Legislature rich loam covers the valleys and plains. edible fish, and the oysters grown there - The black waxy, black sandy, sandy have no superior. The oyster and fish from ever making an appropriation for Consequently, loam and alluvial soils are each to be business is assuming large proportions. immigration purposes. when the Centennial Exposition of 1876

found in the state. Game is multiplying under proper

Texas has an equable climate. In a game and fish laws, rigidly enforced.

general way the state slopes down from The packing houses at Fort Worth.

wholly unrepresented. A party of northwest to southeast, like the gently Houston, San Antonio, Waco and Ama-

distinguished Texans were present, slanting root of a house, and is swept rillo afford home inarkets for many

times the beeves, sheep and hogs which amongst them Governor R. B. Hubbard, by breezes from the Gulf of Mexico,

who delivered an address that was which dispense life to vegetation and Texas ranchmen and farmers are 110w The long able to supply and are powerfully stimu-

printed and widely circulated and healthi to the inhabitants.

caused thousands of immigrants to come

to Texas, though the great bulk of set- tlers were turned elsewhere.

summers characteristic of this latitude lating live stock production. Arrange-

are by them rendered not only endur- ments are being made to put in pack- able but enjoyable. So marked is theferies at other points in the State. Great Then, after a slight pause, hegan a influence of the gulf winds on the cli- interest is being manifested in the dairy industry in the State. The indications phenomenal era of railroad building in mate of the state that the average tem-

Texas and an influx of new citizens that perature along the Gulf Coast, and forjare that in a few years Texas will move

near to the head of the column in this has continued to the present time. The many miles in the interior is much establishment of the Texas Railroad lower during the summer months than industry and finally take the lead. The interest is no less marked in poultry Commission and the passage of the rail- it is in the higher latitudes of the north.

road stock and bond law during Gov- ernor James S. Hogg's administration of winter and makes the winters of the Figs are raised and marketed on a big put an end to wild-catting in railroading southern and southwestern parts of the commercial scale. The raising of citrus and rendered it possible for jobbing cen- state mild and most delightful. fruits is a promising industry.

The same influence neutralizes the cold raising.

ters to be established in Texas and for Texas is essentially an agricultural In East Texas are the largest peach factories to be operated at a profit. and stock-raising state. It ranks first orchards in the world. At various places Other legislation that has since been among The states in the number of cattle in the State are raised as fine apples as enacted has removed every impediment raised. It contains about one-eighth offare produced anywhere in the United to Texas' growth in every direction. the catlle and more than one-third of States. Grapes, berries, plums and all The result is the splendid Texas of the goats in the Union. while in the the choicest frults known to the tem- .. today, in which railroads, the press and number of horses and mnules it outranksiperate zone are raised In Texas in com-

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and the Panhandle country is a marvel- ous revelation to the people of this

States and Territories including Alaska, state who a few years ago thought that there was not sufficient rainfall for any- thing to be raised there except native grasses for cattie to feed upon. To this time the eastern half of Texas (the dividing line being run from the Gulf to

means that, whenever there is need. Texas can raise more cotton than the 060 acres, about 100,000,000 acres of entire world crop of 1912-13, and then which is prime farming land.

have cotton acreage to spare.

was held at Philadelphia Texas had no exhibit there. But the state was not

many other characteristics, is hard to'into lands as productive as those of the tween the states brought it abruptly to describe, owing to its immense size and irrigated districts of Southern Califor- an end. The war was followed by the stagnation of the reconstruction period

State Executive Dept.

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Sketch of State

mercial quantities. The promological At Denton also is located the State Col- branches this year, with results that possibilities of the State are such that lege of Industrial Arts.

it may eventually distance even Califor- nia in fruit production. Texas is a truck grower's paradise and puts on the northi- ern markets the earliest and best vege. tables they receive. The Bermuda onion has made the regions about Laredo, Eagle Pass and Cotulla famous, aud, in- cidentally the fortuues of enterprising growers. They are also grown profit- ably elsewhere in the State.

tobacco in Texas is conclusive evidence that it is destined to become an import- ant industry in this State. It has passed the experimental stage and the tobacco grown in Texas counties has been pro- nounced quite equal in aroma to the Cuban product.

The University of Texas and State

rank among the best in the United and owing to this fact, it never heats States in scholarships, buildings, equip- while being transported across the ocean. ment, size of student body and achieve- ments of alumni in nearly every field of the world's work. Texas bas five superb State Normal Schools that have elegant and well appointed huildings; beautiful, commodious and healthful sites and every necessary equipment. They are: Sam Houston Normal Institute, Hunts- many largely attended county fairs are beld. ville; North Texas State Normal School, Denton; Southwest Texas Corporations organized to hold agri-

Normal School, San Marcos; West Texas Nor- mal School, Canyon City; and Prairie pursuits, are exempt from taxation. View State Normal and Industrial Col- lege, Prairie View. The first four named are for white students, while that at

Texas tillers of the soil to apply scien- Prairie View is for colored youtbs only. tific farming to the utmost in all|

cannot fail to prove of tremendous econ- omic value.

The cattle Interests of the State are safeguarded by the State Live Stock Sanitary Commission and Texas Cattle- men's Association.

fortune. The homestead is exempt from forced sale, save for purchase money, Improvements or taxes, and cannot be alienated without the consent of the

wife; certain household furniture and implements and live stock, in the hands of the farmer, are exempt from forced sale for debt, except for purchase mon-

Texas leads the world in the produc- Pecos. Besides these, there are stations tion of pecans. It has natural pecan established by the United States Bureau home and farm are exempt from taxa- groves more than fifty miles in length of Plant Industry and numerous agen-

tion. Protection of the homestead ap- by from one to two miles in width. cies of the United States Department plies to people living in town as well as Attention is now being actively devoted to ralsing improved pecans by budding, to those residing in the country. grafting and top-working.

grown in Texas. The long summers in Agricultural and Mechanical College this State permit corn to fully ripen,

There is no legal or other impedi-

ment to conducting successfully legiti- mate pursuits in this State; on the con- trary, every encouragement and protec- tion is afforded them by constitution, statutes and public sentiment.

In situation, size, climate, products, material possibilitics, and free cominon

Great State fairs and expositions and school, high school, normal school, uni- versity and other facilities, laws and range of opportunities, Texas stands casily at the front in the splendid galaxy

cultural fairs, or encourage agricultural of commonwealths that compose the Federal Union and to the homesecker

Very large prizes, offered by the and capitalist offers unexampled advan- Texas Industrial Congress, are inducing tages.

ED. R. KONE,

Commissioner of Agriculture.

STATE EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT

Capitol Building, Austin.

EXECUTIVE.

The State Officers. ELECTIVE.

Governor-Oscar B. Colquitt. Salary, $4,000.

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Texas state gazetteer and business directory 1914-1915, Pt.1, Part 7

Author: R.L. Polk & Co. cn Publication date: Publisher: St. Louis, Mo. : R.L. Polk & Co. Number of Pages: 766

Author: R.L. Polk & Co. cn
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Publisher: St. Louis, Mo. : R.L. Polk & Co.
Number of Pages: 766