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Texas Industrial Notes Highlight Texas Projects and Ventures
Forty-five hundred bags of rice were shipped from Beaumont to Rotterdam aboard the steamship Logilan. Beaumont bonds totaling 200000 dollars were approved for street, school, and public works in Waco. Paris opens one of the state’s largest ice cream factories with electric freezers and a strong workforce. Garrison forms a 25000 dollar work company to promote mineral water interests. New cotton gin rises in Stowell, Chambers county ready for harvest. Lockney area builds a 11 500 dollar gin by Beaumont Cotton Building Company, and a llama plan to house a new school near the season. Mineola plans a canning plant. Cameron readies to hold bonds for roads in Milam. Quanah area votes for an added district project. Mount Pleasant to spend 5000 on Sabine Lake canal and 25000 for road improvements. Abilene fosters road work in multiple directions. Wichita Falls prepares a candy company, with plans for a large building in early fall. July accounts note efforts to please.