. City of Houston . construction. It is, however, in the residenceprecincts of the city that thewealth and taste and public spiritof the community are most con-spicuously exhibited. Some ofthe mansions of Houston are, truly, palatial. That of J. cost $40,000, S. $30,000, J. Waldos thesame, and others, scarcely lessimpressive, are those of T. , Chas. House, J. C. Hutch-eson, Judge Masterson, M. and Chas. Dillingham,some of which are also shown inengravings of this work. BUSINESS CONCERNS. The compresses of the city arestationed along the banks of themain, or Buf
. City of Houston . construction. It is, however, in the residenceprecincts of the city that thewealth and taste and public spiritof the community are most con-spicuously exhibited. Some ofthe mansions of Houston are, truly, palatial. That of J. cost $40,000, S. $30,000, J. Waldos thesame, and others, scarcely lessimpressive, are those of T. , Chas. House, J. C. Hutch-eson, Judge Masterson, M. and Chas. Dillingham,some of which are also shown inengravings of this work. BUSINESS CONCERNS. The compresses of the city arestationed along the banks of themain, or Buffalo Bayou, and soare the larger factories, or else in the out-skirts. The cemeteries also front on it,and the Volks-fest grounds. The depots,shops and terminal yards of the variousrailways of the city are likewise on ornear it. The wholesale district of Houston iscompactly built along, and adjacent to,this same bayou. The fifty or morejobbing houses of this quarter, competeactively with those of Galvestoir for HOUSTON COTTON EXCHANGE. THE CITY OF HOUSTON. trade of all Southeastern Texas,more especially for that of twenty-five or thirty neighboring counties,devoted largely to the cultivationof cane and cotton, and near thecity to vegetable and fruit pro-duction, which region, by thecensus last taken, has a popula-tion of 430,000 souls. But by reason of the insularposition of Galveston, which iscut off from the mainland by anarm of the Bay, the people of anunusually large scope of contig-uous country resort to Houston tobuy, and the presence of these,along with the shopmen and yard-men of the various railroads, andthe factory and compress andbarge hands of the city, enlivenmuch its retail trade, so that itsstreets are alive with the bustleand commotion of one perpetual marketday. For the trade of Houston is, be-cause of its railroads, its factories, and
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