. The geography of Texas, physical and political. has three national banks and a trust company,a Federal Building, a cotton compress, a flouring mill,two cotton-seed-oil mills, a planing mill, an ice fac-tory, waterworks, gas works, electric lights, and electricstreet-car service. It has also a very efficient system ofpublic schools and is the seat of Mary Connor FemaleCollege. 145. (14) Corsicana (9313), fifty-five miles northeast ofWaco, is the county seat of Navarro county. Since thediscovery of oil in 1896 it has become a place of consider-able importance. The oil wells here are not gusher
. The geography of Texas, physical and political. has three national banks and a trust company,a Federal Building, a cotton compress, a flouring mill,two cotton-seed-oil mills, a planing mill, an ice fac-tory, waterworks, gas works, electric lights, and electricstreet-car service. It has also a very efficient system ofpublic schools and is the seat of Mary Connor FemaleCollege. 145. (14) Corsicana (9313), fifty-five miles northeast ofWaco, is the county seat of Navarro county. Since thediscovery of oil in 1896 it has become a place of consider-able importance. The oil wells here are not gushers,as were those of the Beaumont field, but pumpers. 196 CITIES AND TOAVXS OF TEXAS 197 Many have been put down on city lots and yield theirowners a handsome income. Corsicana has four banks, three national and one most important industry is an oil refinery. Among itsother industries are a cotton compress, two cotton-ginningestablishments, two cotton-seed-oil mills, a cotton millmanufacturing both bagging and sheeting, an ice ElG. 132. VlE\V IN THE CoKSK ANA OlL FlKLD A producing well iu the front yard or back lot of a dwellingis not uncommon a cold-storage plant, and a planing mill. The St-ateOrphans Home and the Odd Fellows Orphans Home areboth located here. The town is situated at the crossing of the Houstonand Texas Central and the Saint Louis Southwestern( Cotton Belt ) railways. It has seven public schools,fifteen churches, an electric-light plant, and an electricstreet railroad. 198 THE GEOGRAniY OF TEXAS 146. (15) Palestine (8297), the county seat of Andersoncounty, is a prosperous town on the International andGreat Northern Railroad, at the junction of its lines fromLaredo on the Mexican frontier and Galveston on theGulf. It has three banks, two national and one private,a fine Young Mens Christian Association building, a com-press, a cotton-seed-oil mill, waterworks, and electric general offices, shops, and hospital of the railroad arelo
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