. City of Houston . is above the average. 18 THE CITY OF HOUSTON. It is in direct receipt of coal by thewater route to Houston from Alabama,Philadelphia and Baltimore, and by railfrom Colorado and Indian Territory, andin the coke business has no competitorhere. All the retail fuel dealers ofHouston get their supply of coke from it,and many their coal also. It is a dealeralso in tar, fire brick and fire clay. The stock company that owns theseworks has a capitalization of $200, least that much is invested in its W. House, banker and cotton factor, IMPROVEMENTS, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE.
. City of Houston . is above the average. 18 THE CITY OF HOUSTON. It is in direct receipt of coal by thewater route to Houston from Alabama,Philadelphia and Baltimore, and by railfrom Colorado and Indian Territory, andin the coke business has no competitorhere. All the retail fuel dealers ofHouston get their supply of coke from it,and many their coal also. It is a dealeralso in tar, fire brick and fire clay. The stock company that owns theseworks has a capitalization of $200, least that much is invested in its W. House, banker and cotton factor, IMPROVEMENTS, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE. Extensive public and private improve-ments, embracing street paving andsewering, street railroad building andextension, boulevarding and park making,lately undertaken or completed, signalizethe recent progress of Houston. During the last year or two, $250,000has been expended for paving and otherstreet work in the central district of thecity, and $150,000 for a general sewersystem devised by a competent RESIDENCE OF H. H. DOOLEY, REAL ESTATE AGENT. plantation owner and capitalist, is itspresident; T. H. Scanlan, a wealthy resi-dent, who is president of the HoustonWater Works Company, vice-president;G. R. Vaughan, secretary, treasurer, andgeneral manager. The directors areMessrs. House and Scanlan, B. A. Shep-herd president of the First National bankof Houston, Henry S. Fox president ofthe Houston National bank, and J. president of the Magnolia Park &Belt Railway of Houston which is herein-after described on page 21 of this work. The outlay upon the streets for new worknow averages $150,000 a year. Altogether eight miles length of thestreets have been paved with either stone,wooden block, plank or gravel, and fourmiles more were under way at lastaccounts ; and along with this twenty-eightmiles of curb and gutter. There are nowfifty-four blocks of bois darc pave-ment laid and twenty-one blocks ofmacadam. Twenty miles length of sewers was justabout finished in
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