. History of Texas; Fort Worth and the Texas northwest edition. ultitude of oil derricks are overshadowed by great sky-scrapers inthis new citadel of fortune. Banking Wichita Falls has the largest hank in West Texas, the City of Commerce, with resources of more than $20,000,000. The sixbanks of Wichita Falls had deposits at the last call of approximately$,000. Wichita Falls is fifth among the cities of Texas in bankdeposits and eighth in population, Wichita Falls paid more income taxto tin 1tnicd States Government than am othei >it\ in Texas, FORT WORTH AND THE TEXAS N
. History of Texas; Fort Worth and the Texas northwest edition. ultitude of oil derricks are overshadowed by great sky-scrapers inthis new citadel of fortune. Banking Wichita Falls has the largest hank in West Texas, the City of Commerce, with resources of more than $20,000,000. The sixbanks of Wichita Falls had deposits at the last call of approximately$,000. Wichita Falls is fifth among the cities of Texas in bankdeposits and eighth in population, Wichita Falls paid more income taxto tin 1tnicd States Government than am othei >it\ in Texas, FORT WORTH AND THE TEXAS NORTHWEST 857 New Buildings Wichita Falls has more newly completed buildings than any minicity of twice its size in the Southwest. The list includes the twelve-story City National Rank of Commerce Building, twelve-story AmericanNational Bank Building, eight-story Bob Waggoner Building and eight-story Kemp Hotel, newly opened and representing an investment of$1,500,000. There is not a more elegantly appointed hotel in the South-west than the Kemp, of this An Oil Scene Oil Money Stays in Wichita Falls It is a source of gratification to the leaders of Wichita Falls thata very large proportion of the money made by operators in this fieldhas stayed in Wichita Falls in the form of permanent investments inmagnificent residences, tall office buildings and in fertile farms in thiscounty. The custom of investing in country home; adjacent to the new$5,000,000 irrigation project is growing in favor. The fertile lands ofthe valley of the Wichita River are to be irrigated by a project now beingstarted. The bonds have alreadv been voted and work on constructingthe dam will be begun early in 1921. This project will make Wichita 858 FORT WORTH AND THE TEXAS NORTHWEST Fall;- the center of a thickly populated agricultural section in which thetwenty-acre, intensively cultivated, one-family farm will he typical. Roaps $3,000,000 is being spent for the construction of a system of forty-mx mile
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