. City of Houston . nseed, meal and cake, and 44« tons ofcotton oil, 560 tons of steel rail, 2,970 tonsof coal, 720 tons of cast iron water pipe,considerable lumber, and about 91,000tons total of freights. J J. Atkinson, agent of the MorganLine at Galveston, is president of thisbarge line. A. C. Hutchinson, presidentof the Morgan Line, is president also ofthe Texas Transportation Company. The Morgan Line provides Houstonwith a water route to New York and thecities of the Eastern seaboard; .and also .to the cities of the Texas and MexicanGulf coast, the seat already of a thrivingcommerce, in wh
. City of Houston . nseed, meal and cake, and 44« tons ofcotton oil, 560 tons of steel rail, 2,970 tonsof coal, 720 tons of cast iron water pipe,considerable lumber, and about 91,000tons total of freights. J J. Atkinson, agent of the MorganLine at Galveston, is president of thisbarge line. A. C. Hutchinson, presidentof the Morgan Line, is president also ofthe Texas Transportation Company. The Morgan Line provides Houstonwith a water route to New York and thecities of the Eastern seaboard; .and also .to the cities of the Texas and MexicanGulf coast, the seat already of a thrivingcommerce, in which it is thus enabled to•participate. Houstons railroad connec-tion with Galveston, and the water passage, affords it also the service of the MalloryLine steamers to New York, and ofsteamers and sailing vessels bound for allparts of the world. And as the govern-ment work on the ship channel proceeds,the benefit, accruing by it to Houston,steadily increases. Which benefit we shalldiscuss further herein, later WILLIAM D. CLEVELAND & BLOCK, HOUSTON. HOUSTON AS A FINANCIAL CENTER.
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