What to see in America . acres of land in or near thePanhandle for the job, which required on the part of thebuilders not much more outlay in dollars than the numberof acres they received. The state believed it had made agood bargain, but the syndicate, by developing the sup-posedly arid land, realized an enormous profit. About a hundred miles west of San Antonio is the city ofUvalde, in a region where beekeeping is so important thatmore honey is shipped from that place than from any otherplace in the United States. North of Uvalde, a few scoremiles, in Kerr County, is Camp Verde, an historic
What to see in America . acres of land in or near thePanhandle for the job, which required on the part of thebuilders not much more outlay in dollars than the numberof acres they received. The state believed it had made agood bargain, but the syndicate, by developing the sup-posedly arid land, realized an enormous profit. About a hundred miles west of San Antonio is the city ofUvalde, in a region where beekeeping is so important thatmore honey is shipped from that place than from any otherplace in the United States. North of Uvalde, a few scoremiles, in Kerr County, is Camp Verde, an historic frontierpost founded in 1855. Here the government tried theexperiment of establishing a camel camp. The camels wereto carry dispatches, and follow Indians in the arid desertcountry of westernTexas. But CampVerde is in a rockysection quite un-suited to the camelssoft feet, and the ex-periment was soonabandoned. El Paso is the onlylarge city in thesouthern part of thecountry between SanAntonio and Los The Capitol at Austin. 306 What ) See in America Angeles. It is one of ^he main gateways of Mexico, andstands at the crossing of several of the oldest highways es-tablished by white men on this continent. The climate ison the whole delightful. Its worst feature is an occasionalalkaline sandstorm which sweeps down over the city. Inthis far western nook of Texas, is El Capitan, 9020 feet high,the loftiest mountain in the state. In descending the Rio Grande from El Paso the first reallyimportant city is Eagle Pass. Some of the scenery on the
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