Vast Railroad Earnings and Texas Projections Report
A Houston and Texas Central Railroad Bureau summary details total U S railroad earnings for the year ending June 30 1901 at 3 178 164 205 with freight 1 114 740 170 and passenger 426 909 210. It notes earnings per mile 8 211 and Texas potential around 82 110 000 while expenditures total 1 023 1566 281 and per mile 5 324 Texas net revenue about 2 888 per mile, much consumed by debt and purchases. The piece also warns earnings are concentrated in the East, tempering Texas figures. A medical ad cites August Flower for dyspepsia and liver complaints with Dr L J Sneeden offering it at 75 cents.
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United States
Texas
Houston and
Texas Central Railroad
L. J. Sneeden
Open Letter to Sears Roebuck from Alpine Resident
J M Carnes denounces mail order houses as inferior and urges Sears Roebuck to support local churches schools charities cemeteries and public needs in Alpine. He requests donations for church buildings pastors salaries a new school and a cemetery windmill and credit or loans for families, promising to publish the exchange.
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Sears Roebuck & Co
Chicago
Mnet
Alpine
J. M. Carnes
Annual Summer School of the University of Texas Catalogue
The fifth annual catalogue announces a June 12 start and July 25 close for UT Summer School. It notes a nineteen-member faculty including UT heads, Prof Ritchie of Baylor and President Pritchett of Sam Houston Normal. Six weeks at the State Capital promise substantial intellectual growth for teachers.
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University of Texas
Ritchie
Baylor University
Pritchett
Sam Houston Normal
Rich mineral finds in western Texas reported to state
The New York Sun notes new mineral discoveries across Jeff Davis Reeves and Brewster counties in western Texas copper coal and lead. Coal near Terlingua Brewster County is seen as valuable for cinnabar development. Prospectors advance as state withdraws lands and a geological survey headed by Prof Phillips plans field work reaching Toyah Reeves County before March.
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Texas
Jeff Davis
Reeves
Brewster
Brewster County
Reeves County
State Department
Public Lands
School Fund
State Geological Survey Bureau
Prof. Phillips
B. F. Hill
Deep Water Canal to Spark National Growth, Beaumont Prospects
The article argues for Congress to appropriate funds for a proposed deep water canal citing Beaumont Texas and the region’s oil, lumber, rice, and sugar outputs as proof of potential. It notes Russian oil field development and project oil refineries as context and mentions local developments near Beaumont and railroad progress north of Sweetwater. It also covers a Senate scuffle in Washington, Brewster County activity, and legal notice on a mineral lease requiring spousal signature.
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Congresss
Beaumont
Tex
Baku
Russia
Feches
Congress
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Roflof
Hamilton Brown
H. Larkin
Garnett
W. S&s
Dunbar
Paul Jones
W. S. Blevins
Louisville
Louis Ille KY
Southern Pacific
C. Box
Ves
Arsibus
Aswington Chicgo
Cincinnti
Gerth
Walf Staaro
J. Anderson
Mmti
Bobins
The
New York Sun
South Carolina
Washington
United States Senate
Ort Worth Tex
Hord
Orient Railroad
Sweetwater
Austin
Stillwell
Kensas City
Europe
Red River
Rio Grande
Orient
California
Arizona
New Mexico
Civil Court of Appeals At
Dallas
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