. History of Texas; Fort Worth and the Texas northwest edition. in oats, 6,584 acres in hay and forage 13,000 trees were enumerated in orchard fruit. Outside of Wichita Falls the chief towns are Iowa Park, Electraand Burkburnett. At the last census Electra had a population of 640and Iowa Park of 603. The city of Wichita Falls has always been the chief center otpopulation, and in 1910 more than half the inhabitants of the countywere located there. The population in 1890 was ; in 1900, 2,480;in 1910, ; and in 1920, 40,079. It is easily one of the most pro-gressive and prosp
. History of Texas; Fort Worth and the Texas northwest edition. in oats, 6,584 acres in hay and forage 13,000 trees were enumerated in orchard fruit. Outside of Wichita Falls the chief towns are Iowa Park, Electraand Burkburnett. At the last census Electra had a population of 640and Iowa Park of 603. The city of Wichita Falls has always been the chief center otpopulation, and in 1910 more than half the inhabitants of the countywere located there. The population in 1890 was ; in 1900, 2,480;in 1910, ; and in 1920, 40,079. It is easily one of the most pro-gressive and prosperous small cities of the state. Railroads gave it astart, and since then the presence of enterprising citizens and theabundance of such resources as oil and gas have brought about a citywhose prosperity comes from its railway division points and shops, itsextensive retail and wholesale trade, and its varied supply of natural gas, which is piped from the Petrolia field andsold to manufacturers at from four to eight cents a thousand feet, has. /, V. ?/. - f- ir. FORT Wok I II AND THE TEXAS NORTHWEST .S3? brought several important industries from other cities and states toWichita Falls. The city also is benefited by the daily production ofmore than 33,000 barrels of oil. At the beginning of 1914 the Chamber of Commerce enumerated more than forty manufacturing plants,most of which had been established within the last five years. Thesiinclude a factory for the manufacture of auto trucks, a window glassfactory, a bottle factory, a pottery, a fruit jar factory, flour mill, railroad shop, iron foundry, machine shops, ice factories, planing and tile plants, broom factory, cotton compress, oil mills andmany minor enterprises. About ten or twelve years ago some enter-prising capitalists built a dam across Holliday Creek, five miles south-west of Wichita Falls, and thus created Lake Wichita, a body ofwater two miles by seven miles, furnishing water for the irr
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