. City of Houston . OUSTON, Harris County, Texas, is notable amongAmerican cities, as the greatest railroad center of theSouthwest, as the largest inland cotton market of thecountry, as the market place for the Sugar Bowlof Texas, and for the pineries of the East Texas andWest Louisiana line (the most extensive body of stand-ing timber in the land), and as a general jobbing andmanufacturing place. It is a city, also, of elegant mansions and otherassuming examples of architecture; of electric street rail-ways and public projects of modern character; of schools andsocial institutions; of theater
. City of Houston . OUSTON, Harris County, Texas, is notable amongAmerican cities, as the greatest railroad center of theSouthwest, as the largest inland cotton market of thecountry, as the market place for the Sugar Bowlof Texas, and for the pineries of the East Texas andWest Louisiana line (the most extensive body of stand-ing timber in the land), and as a general jobbing andmanufacturing place. It is a city, also, of elegant mansions and otherassuming examples of architecture; of electric street rail-ways and public projects of modern character; of schools andsocial institutions; of theaters and places of resort. Makingtherewith considerable show already of metropolitan dignityand state. And evincing therein a strong spirit of emulation and local pride.! Figuratively speaking, after the fashion of its public men and press,Houston is the Hub City, the Bayou City, and the City of Magnolias—Hub City by reason of its railroads, Bayou City because of its position on[navigable water, Magnolia City for itscityofhouston00morr
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