. Southern and western Texas guide for 1878 . me from its people. The climate is salubrious and healthy, thesprings and streams abundant, and a comfortable, happy home is the promiseand the reward of industry. The thriftless and the indolent have no home inany place or clime, because they never secure one; while those who labor withan honest purpose, fill their homes with comforts, and enjoy them. Come andsee ! SHERMAN. The city of Sherman is one of the oldest settled towns in Northern Texas,and its present population numbers about 8,000. Its situation is in the centralportion of Grayson count
. Southern and western Texas guide for 1878 . me from its people. The climate is salubrious and healthy, thesprings and streams abundant, and a comfortable, happy home is the promiseand the reward of industry. The thriftless and the indolent have no home inany place or clime, because they never secure one; while those who labor withan honest purpose, fill their homes with comforts, and enjoy them. Come andsee ! SHERMAN. The city of Sherman is one of the oldest settled towns in Northern Texas,and its present population numbers about 8,000. Its situation is in the centralportion of Grayson county, nine miles south of Denison, and at the intersectionof the Transcontinental branch of the Texas & Pacific and the H. & T. C. Rail-ways. These advantages alone would make that town one of prominence, butwhen we take into consideration the surrounding country, which is fertile andabundantly productive, the real cause of its present growth and expansion iseasily understood. Its situation is upon the verge of a vast prairie country on. Court House, Sherman. .176 SOtTTHERN AND WESTERN TEXAS GUIDE. the south, and fringed upon the north by an extensive timber belt. Its geograph-ical position necessarily stimulates its numerous industries, and makes it theleading distributing point for agricultural implements in that section of theState. It contains flouring mills, carriage and wagon manufactories, three lum-ber yards, three hotels, among them the Binkley House, one of the best andmost elegant in the Southwest; excellent public schools and one high school,eight elegant church edifices, and all of the smaller industries that are necessa-rily associated with a growing city. Its stores are mostly constructed of stone,and add a substantial appearance and credit to the town. The water supply ismostly from wells, but an excellent system of water works which will furnishany needed supply, is now under constriction and will soon be completed. Thedwellings are chiefly of wood, and being surr
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