. Texas ... an illustrated description of present conditions in the Lone Star state, with comparative tables showing the marvelous growth and exceptional advantages offered to the prospective investor or homeseeker . eceipts reaching 312,000 bales. It is the largest wholesale grocery market in the South. It has 95 manufacturing enterprises, which pay over one milliondollars annually to labor. Is equipped with street railways and other essentials of munici-pal life. It has a large number of fine business blocks, a magnificentcourt house, a handsome post office building, many handsome homesand c
. Texas ... an illustrated description of present conditions in the Lone Star state, with comparative tables showing the marvelous growth and exceptional advantages offered to the prospective investor or homeseeker . eceipts reaching 312,000 bales. It is the largest wholesale grocery market in the South. It has 95 manufacturing enterprises, which pay over one milliondollars annually to labor. Is equipped with street railways and other essentials of munici-pal life. It has a large number of fine business blocks, a magnificentcourt house, a handsome post office building, many handsome homesand costly churches, the best educational advantages, with a finesystem of public schools, colleges and private schools. During 1901 over a half million dollars was expended for newbuildings, and a like sum for paved streets. Shreveport is the southeastern terminus of the Missouri, Kan-sas & Texas Railway, and one of the principal gateways betweenTexas and the Southeast. The country tributary to Shreveport is a rich farming country,in the Red River Valley. Cotton and corn yield abundantly; duringthe past few years alfalfa has been grown extensively, producingfrom 10 to 12 tons per acre, worth $5 to $7 per
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