. Book of Texas . o £? 0) £ -a o b* c ;r f a 0 o a b. 3 c a o £ a c ^« * H 3 u rr W 0) Oi --> -M c O >> c g3 c 3c* ^ - CO «rj CU « — o g X, «r) r/l PU| -C a ^3 £. TRANSPORTATION 259 maintain free wharves in return for the United Stateskeeping the channel open. Large plants are now clusteringas thickly along the ship channel as flies around a streak ofmolasses. May they be built of concrete so that no bubonicrat may find a place therein. Speaking of the Panama Canal reminds us of the factthat, varying inversely as the distance from the coast,Texans are prone to exaggerate its importanc
. Book of Texas . o £? 0) £ -a o b* c ;r f a 0 o a b. 3 c a o £ a c ^« * H 3 u rr W 0) Oi --> -M c O >> c g3 c 3c* ^ - CO «rj CU « — o g X, «r) r/l PU| -C a ^3 £. TRANSPORTATION 259 maintain free wharves in return for the United Stateskeeping the channel open. Large plants are now clusteringas thickly along the ship channel as flies around a streak ofmolasses. May they be built of concrete so that no bubonicrat may find a place therein. Speaking of the Panama Canal reminds us of the factthat, varying inversely as the distance from the coast,Texans are prone to exaggerate its importance, importantto Texas as it doubtless is to be. Maps of the United Statesare drawn showing a hundred railroad lines convergingfrom Salt Lake and Chicago to the Texas coast. Sometimesa funnel is pictured sucking all the Middle West throughthe Houston-Galveston nozzle, from which steamship linesdiverge to every point known to geographers, each pointnearer by 300 miles to Texas than it is to New York. Allthis is very fine, and many prospects will be realized, butnot all of them. When a distinguished gentleman fromSpain was invited to lecture at the Rice Institute at Ho
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