. The geography of Texas, physical and political. Fig. 130. City Hall, El PasoFrom tlie El Paso Album, by permission. Copyright, ; imports received here, especially ores and bullion, are verylarge. Among other articles of import are hides, cattle,and tropical fruits. The exports, on the other hand, arelargely manufactured goods, chiefly machinery. The commercial prosperity of El Paso is for the mostpart due to the mineral wealth tributary to the city. Thesmelting works, three miles west of town, are among the 190 THE GEOGRAPHY OF TEXAS largest in the world, employing from 1200 to 1500 m
. The geography of Texas, physical and political. Fig. 130. City Hall, El PasoFrom tlie El Paso Album, by permission. Copyright, ; imports received here, especially ores and bullion, are verylarge. Among other articles of import are hides, cattle,and tropical fruits. The exports, on the other hand, arelargely manufactured goods, chiefly machinery. The commercial prosperity of El Paso is for the mostpart due to the mineral wealth tributary to the city. Thesmelting works, three miles west of town, are among the 190 THE GEOGRAPHY OF TEXAS largest in the world, employing from 1200 to 1500 are shipj)ed to these works from various parts ofMexico, New Mexico, and Arizona. East of town thereis a smaller smelter belonging to the Federal CopperCompany. The city has three national banks, one private bank,gas, water, and electric-light plants, a sewer system, fifteen. Fk;. 181. An El Paso the El Paso Album, by permission. Copyright, 190;> miles of electric street railway, a number of large whole-sale and jobbing houses, two foundries and machine shops,three harness and saddlery factories, a carriage and wagonfactory, two ice factories, two refrigerator plants, cigarfactories, and stock yards. The public schools are among the best in the state. Inthem provision is made for American, INIexican, and negro THE PRINCIPAL CITIES OF TEXAS 191 pupils. The high school has a new and thoroughly modernbuilding and is well furnished and equipped. Hotel Dieuis an excellent hospital under the management of theSisters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul. El Paso has eight railroads. The Galveston, Harrisburgand San Antonio Railroad from the east and the SouthernPacific from the west, links in the transcontinental ^ Sun-set Route, join here. This city is the western terminusof the Texas and Pacific Railway and the northern terminusof the iNlexican C
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