Through storyland to sunset seas : what four people saw on a journey through the Southwest to the Pacific coast . e station-houses bits ofgarden brighten the landscape, and the sunset symbol of the company isconspicuously wrought in stone to diversify some otherwise waste place. It was near Crosby, eighty-four miles west of the Louisiana line, that thebattle of San Jacinto was fought April 12, 1836, and the independence ofTexas practically secured. 55 66 THROUGH STORVLAND TO SUNSET SEAS. We all know that Texas is a big state. We have heard that since we toddled to school in early infancy. But
Through storyland to sunset seas : what four people saw on a journey through the Southwest to the Pacific coast . e station-houses bits ofgarden brighten the landscape, and the sunset symbol of the company isconspicuously wrought in stone to diversify some otherwise waste place. It was near Crosby, eighty-four miles west of the Louisiana line, that thebattle of San Jacinto was fought April 12, 1836, and the independence ofTexas practically secured. 55 66 THROUGH STORVLAND TO SUNSET SEAS. We all know that Texas is a big state. We have heard that since we toddled to school in early infancy. But we are apt to forget just how great an empire it is. Even when we recall that it is 800 miles from east to west, Just to give you and 750 north and south, it does not give us so clear an idea as to remember a faint idea of , . , ^ , .. , . , . _- the size of that either of these distances is almost equivalent to a journey from New Texas. York to Chicago, or fromOrleans, or fromto Salt Lake City,times as large asNew York. Itis two hundredand eleven Chicago to New San Francisco Texas is eleven the State of. Ul HOUSE, HOUSTON. times the size of Rhode Island. It has four hundred and eleven miles ofcoast line ; its navigable rivers equal those of any other five states, andwithin the 265,780 square miles of its domain are 9,500 miles of value of its agricultural and manufactured products reach the sum of$185,000,000, and it has a permanent school fund of $100,000,000. Wethink of it as an agricultural state, but it has vast deposits of coal, iron,copper, gypsum, rock salt, asphaltum, mica, granite and petroleum. Theresources of its great forests are almost as inexhaustible as those of its richsoil, which affords the greatest diversity of crops in abundant reward tothe farmer. When our party reached Houston we all got out at the big and bustling FROM THE TEXAS BORDER TO THE CITY OF THE ALAMO. 57 Station to look at the beautitul park and get a momentary msight mto the Houst
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