. Review of reviews and world's work. t when the deepening of thechannel through Aransas Pass is finished, andPort Lavaca, where they can cove oysters andsometimes use Baltimore labels, will have deepwater in the near future. But Galveston is the natural port of Texas,and always will be. The great transcontinentalrailroads enter there, and the big passenger andfreight steamers from New York and trans-oceanic ports now find their moorings in her baysafe and ample. The Southern Pacific companyalone has spent millions of dollars for docks,elevators, and approaches. In that companysyards I saw a l
. Review of reviews and world's work. t when the deepening of thechannel through Aransas Pass is finished, andPort Lavaca, where they can cove oysters andsometimes use Baltimore labels, will have deepwater in the near future. But Galveston is the natural port of Texas,and always will be. The great transcontinentalrailroads enter there, and the big passenger andfreight steamers from New York and trans-oceanic ports now find their moorings in her baysafe and ample. The Southern Pacific companyalone has spent millions of dollars for docks,elevators, and approaches. In that companysyards I saw a long train cf cars loaded withsugar from the Hawaiian Islands bound for NewYork and Europe. This tremendous throughtrade is one of the things which make Galvestongreat as a seaport, but it is not the chief Texas is growing faster and becoming richer,proportionately, than any other section of thiscountry, and practically every pound she shipsby water goes through Galveston. Moreover,such railroads as the Southern Pacific, the. THE NEW ORLEANS COTTON EXCHANGE. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, the Missouri,Kansas & Texas, and the International & GreatNorthern are constant feeders from many direc-tions, and from one thousand to two thousandmiles distant. Galvestons population in 1900 was .37, it is about 32,000. At the time of theflood she was, per cajnta, one of the two or threerichest cities in America, and still ranks veryhigh, millionaires being fairly common for aplace of her size. Property values are now aboutthe same as they were just before the disaster,and there is great activity in the real-estate mar-ket. Many people who went away to live havereturned, and many new residents have comefrom the North and the East. Galveston is notgrowing so fast as she would had the floodnever visited her. There are thousands of per-sons who believe it is not safe even to spend thenight there, and this fear is bound to injure thecitys growth for years to come. Nothing shorto
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